☞ An old rundown window had, at one time in the past, a mural painted around it. Although painting around windows is common among muralists, the windows are rarely this dilapidated. View all▼

☞ William Carter as a baby, never expecting the wonderful life he led. View all▼

☞ A gnarly forest surrounded the Gold Creek Salmon Bake. View all▼

☞ Gas meters lined up in a Chinatown alley. They resembled identical robots all being fueled to begin their day. View all▼

☞ An Exit to Street sign led the way down escalators or stairs to the parking lot level. The actual street was beyond the parking lot. The shot was overexposed due to a sticky iris, but the exposure worked for this shot. View all▼

☞ A large cat mask, being worn by a man during the 2009 San Francisco LGBT Parade, gazed up close directly into the camera. ☞ A black cat statue remained at the back of the shelf as other knick-knacks were added over time. A carved wooden giraffe up-staged the cat. And to add insult to injury, a plastic bottle completely blew away any hint of an aesthetic. ☞ A stuffed cat sat on a chair in front of a window. It looked perpetually relaxed sitting there, never moving, never chasing a mouse. Inert yet soft. View all▼

☞ A heavy duty search light was unused near sunset on Christmas Day. It pointed down at the bay waters as if ready to illuminate a piece of flotsam. View all▼

☞ A burned out tree trunk stood beside the Willamette River. The nature of the burn caused the suggestion of a small creature to appear just inside. View all▼

☞ An old wooden elevator was located in the old town area of Sacramento, California. A sign on the elevator suggested one should take the elevator to "River City Tattoo." View all▼

☞ An abandoned coffee cup landed between a pipe and the dock. The vertical pipes formed a fence to prevent people, but not coffee cups, from falling over the edge. View all▼

☞ The view from off axis revealed the hands and vent to be merely painted on a small square board. ☞ Up close, the illusion remained. A pair of small gloved hands grasping a vent from the inside. ☞ A small mural by Blek Le Rat hung on a wall just off the sidewalk. From the distance, it looked like a vent with a pair of small hands holding on from the inside. View all▼

☞ Butterflies appeared to move right to meet the Umbrellas. Combined, together they created an eight sided design. ☞ Umbrellas decorated the parking lot wall on the rightside.. ☞ At the left end, butterflies flew in profile. ☞ Cars blocked the view of the bottom of the mural. ☞ The mural was on a wall just behind the parking lot. It had umbrellas on one the right, and butterflies on the left., ☞ Umbrellas appeared to be moving left to join with butterflies. ☞ There were clouds over the butterflies. They went from one end to the other end. ☞ A row of business offices were on the right of the parking lot. Notice the umbrellas on that side. View all▼

☞ Another muralist named Blek Le Rat painted vents with gloves poking out of them. Here a pair of actual gloves were stuffed into an actual vent, thereby creating a fake Blek Le Rat mural within this mural. ☞ The fish was drawn swimming atop waves and red stones jutting out of water. ☞ The bird had a snake-like tail that occupied the rightmost panel of the building. Another version of this mural (or perhaps and earlier version) instead (in this panel) showed a talon holding a doughnut. ☞ A closer shot of both the fish's eye and the bird's eye. ☞ A closer shot of the tail of the fish. Notice how up close it looks less sharp then it did from far away. View all▼

☞ A water-logged log lay in a tide pool. ☞ Stumps envy metal neighbors. ☞ A classic stump found beside a placid lake. ☞ A tree stump lay sideways near the high water limit of Heceta Beach in Florence, Oregon. ☞ A drowned stump appeared to wave for help. ☞ A stump found by a poolside. ☞ A stuck stump was mired in sand at low tide. ☞ Stumps appeared to escape by crossing a swamp. ☞ A stump appeared to be struggling to re-grow. ☞ Stump so lazy that grass grew on it. View all▼