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Portraits of Place
This collection of photographs is about natural places, especially those where the place itself carries an implication of stillness. If I am successful the photographs 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. The feeling of the place.
"All of my pictures are optically very accurate–I use pretty good lenses–but they are quite unrealistic in terms of values. A more realistic simple snapshot captures the image but misses everything else. I want a picture to reflect not only the forms but what I had seen and felt at the moment of exposure."
—Ansel Adams
I'm a T-shirt winning amateur 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.
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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