Tag: San Gabriel Mountains

Pancakes

Post author By Darin
Post date September 16, 2022

The runner slows to a walk each time the trail pitches up. He walks rather slowly, perhaps winded from the running. I nearly catch him, but just before I do he glances back and sets off again at a jog. Under the leaden sky we yo-yo like this for about 20 minutes as the trail […]

Musings

Preservation, Nostalgia, Loss

Post author By Darin
Post date September 21, 2020

Photography seems always to imagine a different world. Photographers don’t record the reality they see, they consecrate a reality they wish to see. In this way, photographs are always about a world that no longer exists. The lure of dilapidated buildings, of abandoned places, and of weed-choked roads testify to the photographer’s urge to record […]