this isn't an update about my life—it's just a snapshot... or two. 🎭

these photos aren't anything special, but they appeal to me because they carry more weight to the memory that a single shot can't.

to shoot a double exposure on my camera, you have to take the two photos before you can take another one. what you can overlay on top of the first shot is limited, therefore, by physical proximity and time.

this shot was taken from one position: on a bank of the nooksak river in washington. gordon was taking a timelapse of the river. i looked over and snapped: one shot. i looked up at the trees and centered his body: second shot.

so the subject gets placed in the middle of the environment it sits in. a rose in the middle of a rose garden; a petroglyph hovering over the salish sea; hawsers on the boat before we reached the port of victoria; tide pools on the shores of botanical beach.

maybe i’m drawn to this now because it reminds me of when i used to stitch a design over a transferred image. but it’s a fun practice to situate layers, depth, and surprises to an otherwise standalone image.

of course i had to get my face in with the roses and webs and fuchsia, too 🤪

all this to say: two shots are better than one. ✌🏻