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This collection of photographs is about natural places. My aim with photography is to present suggestions of a quiet importance more than might be recognized at first glance, suggestions of a world outside the frame, perhaps a sense of time which proceeds independently of our own fate.
My photographs are place-based and every photo here began as an idea and a shutter click in a real place although the final images are creative and not intended as documentation. It is my hope that you will enjoy a view and a sense of these places through my eyes.  Any place on Earth can offer up its own character which frames our sense of it and that presents an opportunity to make aesthetic statements. In my case, creative photography is the medium and the statements I attempt are expressions of quietness and reverence for the place, with an implication of stillness in the world within and beyond the image borders.
I'm a T-shirt winning photographer in northern California. The photos here were taken in varied terrain throughout the western part of the USA but most were taken very close to home. They are roughly organized by similarity of place.
Making photographs in and about natural places and sharing them as prints or on-screen is a privilege and I thank you for visiting. 
Charlie Judson
Sebastopol, California
January 2024
In his book, The Memory of Place, author Dylan Trigg suggests there are Places which are fundamental to our sense of self and Non-Places which are not. Places are those with meaning, shaped by our individual history, and could include our home, our parents' home, church, possibly our workplace, and importantly, places we go for inspiration and happiness. Non-Places are the opposite and don't have meaning. They tend to the homogenous and are interchangeable, like airports, supermarkets, the DMV. 
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