Bizkaia

Captured!

Lakabe Commune: Fiesta de San Juan

The bond of brothers

Julen Kai

Our magical baby boy, Julen Kai Albiac Johnson.... total sweetness.

First Light

7:30 A.M April 24th., after a beautiful birth at home. Julen arrived just as the sun was coming up.

What I've been doing........

San Juan de Gaztelugatxe

This tiny island off the Basque coast has a 10th century hermitage on top, reached by a breathtaking hand made stone bridge that rivals China's Great Wall. Remote and sublime...... what I love most about living in Spain.

Cosmic Connection

Nostalgia

I spent last weekend in my partner Fernando's village (Maella,Spain, population 2,000).... where timeless pastimes still flourish.
(*The bottom photo was taken by my 10-year-old niece Andrea of her grandmother talking with the neighbor.... I love the moment it captures, and only damn the lens flare.)

Around Here

Twilight

Shout Out

*****LISA ENXING*****
lisaenxing.com



My dear friend Lisa has been working hard on her website... amazing paintings and photos
(by the way... this is a poloroid of Zola that Lisa took when he was 7 or so... I miss my boy!!!!!)

Luz

Outtake/ Outtake

What do we do with all of those random moments that don't mean anything to anyone but us?

The view from here

I Heart Columbia

I never thought that I'd say it, but it's true- I'm missing Columbia, Missouri like crazy! Feeling nostalgic for the good old days, I've been going through some work from the last year and came across this one from my First Ward "In Our Neighborhood" project that I did for David Rees's Picture Story class. (PS- Amanda Lucier did a retone of this image and she made it really pop. Thanks, Amanda!)

14-year-old MaKayla reaches for her baby cousin Justice while her godmother Taz works on her hair.

The Joy of Family

This time of year always feels quiet and simple in its way, and my favorite thing to do at New Year's is to be somewhere in nature.
Fernando's brother and family came to visit us for a few days and we were blessed with a beautiful sunny day at the beach in San Sebastian- a happy relief from what has been a very drizzly winter here.

Blind

These last few weeks since arriving in Spain I haven't had time to take pictures, or even edit my work from my project. I'm really missing being totally absorbed in photography! For now I'll have to post some of the images that stand out in my mind. Here's one that I took just a day before leaving Nepal that I feel captures something about the extreme circumstances of poverty in many peoples' lives there...

A blind woman on the road near Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu. With social welfare assistance nearly nonexistent in Nepal, disabled persons are often left with little or no choice but to beg in order to survive.

Regard this life...