wanted to share a project i finished up at the end of 2007. dawn weiss and her family have a compelling story to offer, please visit:
Monday, January 14, 2008
feliz navidad
i finally made it through the holidays and can kick back with my feet up and just relax. i can catch up on this blog, which i just did. i can break any and all new year's resolutions and i can exhale for one more year. oh wait, i just realized valentines day is just around the corner...
six degrees
this was one of the last images from my weekly photo column "six degrees." it essentially was based on the concept that everyone on earth is connected by only six degrees of seperation. this is mr. russell & his story.
“I’ve wanted to live on a ranch since I was eight or nine years old,” said Clarence V. Russell JR before taking a walk across land that comprises his 32 acres of a dream-come-true in Suffolk.
Russell grew up watching westerns, like Bonanza and Ponderosa, on the television. He even wanted three sons, just like the popular Cartwright family of the 1960s western, he ended up with two.
“As a kid I always said I wanted horses. My daddy was a farmer and my daddy’s father was a farmer. They didn’t like horses; they said they were a lot of work.
Growing up in Virginia Beach in the early sixties offered Russell a rural environment. The view from the window of the school bus he rode, to and from school, offered an endless supply of grazing horses to watch. “I remember at the intersection of Kempsville and Indian River Road there was a ranch. I think they boarded horses. The whole corner was nothing but a horse ranch.” Russell also attributes this experience as the start of his dream that came to fruition after 45 years of planning and doing. “There have been several chapters in getting here. It’s been a journey.”
In 1975 Russell was married and told his wife he wanted a ranch. “So we had kids, we grew a family.” After about 20 years they bought the property where the current ranch sits. “We’ve been building since the last six years and we moved in two years ago. I’ve been the architect, builder, contractor, and designer. I even dug the pond with the tractor. It’s been a labor of love.”
“I’ve wanted to live on a ranch since I was eight or nine years old,” said Clarence V. Russell JR before taking a walk across land that comprises his 32 acres of a dream-come-true in Suffolk.
Russell grew up watching westerns, like Bonanza and Ponderosa, on the television. He even wanted three sons, just like the popular Cartwright family of the 1960s western, he ended up with two.
“As a kid I always said I wanted horses. My daddy was a farmer and my daddy’s father was a farmer. They didn’t like horses; they said they were a lot of work.
Growing up in Virginia Beach in the early sixties offered Russell a rural environment. The view from the window of the school bus he rode, to and from school, offered an endless supply of grazing horses to watch. “I remember at the intersection of Kempsville and Indian River Road there was a ranch. I think they boarded horses. The whole corner was nothing but a horse ranch.” Russell also attributes this experience as the start of his dream that came to fruition after 45 years of planning and doing. “There have been several chapters in getting here. It’s been a journey.”
In 1975 Russell was married and told his wife he wanted a ranch. “So we had kids, we grew a family.” After about 20 years they bought the property where the current ranch sits. “We’ve been building since the last six years and we moved in two years ago. I’ve been the architect, builder, contractor, and designer. I even dug the pond with the tractor. It’s been a labor of love.”
daily dose
just a few frames from my daily work here in VA.
this is the moment this five-year-old boy spotted his father on the tamrac as his plane landed. his father's squadron just returned home following a six-month deployment aboard the aircraft carrier uss enterprise. growing up with a father in the military, i used to be in the same shoes as this young boy.
sheriff maj. greg banks is the real life Shaft. he works at the jail in va. on casual friday's he rocks his street gear and is one FRESH gentleman.
this is the moment this five-year-old boy spotted his father on the tamrac as his plane landed. his father's squadron just returned home following a six-month deployment aboard the aircraft carrier uss enterprise. growing up with a father in the military, i used to be in the same shoes as this young boy.
sheriff maj. greg banks is the real life Shaft. he works at the jail in va. on casual friday's he rocks his street gear and is one FRESH gentleman.
siempre
an evening with the wife sick all over my boy's cold bathroom floor. more fast food mexican meals than he'd like to remember. several rides around town in his V8 love affair. one too many tattoo sessions on his days off. years & years & years of bailing me out of trouble & housing me when I was without. JQ is my man.
zene
zene is my homie from back in the desert. she's extremely gifted. her passion runs deep & her love even deeper. my short time at her place yielded a few frames of a now defunct love. zene, be strong.
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