Peter J. Crowley

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Back on Amtrak Heading South in California

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A moment in the shade for the workers as ghosts from the past race round my mind.

In Albuquerque a cause to fight for bike paths less polution.

Well I’m back on the train and back to the 19th of August despite starting the last post with it being the 20th. The nineteenth was perhaps the longest day of the trip. Five fifty five am didn’t happen often on this trip. In Sacramento I met Webster a PHD student on his way to Univ. of New Mexico we sleep walked to are next leg and met again in LA. Over the course of the day I watched and time traveled through the Ca. farms. My mind drifted back to the 60s/70s and Ceasar Chavez organizing United Farm Workers Union, yes “the times they are a changing.” But rambling through those fields my mind drifted to those troubled decades, and how wonderful it was to have a cause, hell many causes. From Prague to The Sorbonne, to Columbia and Berkeley to the fields where the migrant farm workers toiled in the sun for sub [prime] standard wages and living conditions a solidarity sprouted and grew wild like a weed. One voice singing as a chorus, in Bethel NY Richie Havens wailed “Freedom Freedom” and 500,000 people sang along. [including me] In my long life so much has changed so fast, but in the life of the planet it has all been a blink of the eye. Let the planet survive “To every thing, turn, turn, turn,There is a season, turn, turn, turn, And a time to every purpose under heaven” [Book of Ecclesiastes/Pete Seeger] as sung by The Byrds and everyone listening, sing along the words are easy “Freedom Freedom” Then it was the Dawn of Aquarius. What is dawning today?
Make it Peace and Equality. enjoy pjc

Layers of Life
Layered Life

Boarding in Albuquerque on The Southwest Chief

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This way to board. Reflecting on Albuquerque, stepping away from faces for this edition. This is from my Layered Life series. Some of the non portrait images can be found on this months Prints for People specials.

August Fifteenth and Sixteenth rolling towards Washington I meet Dane a poet on her way to read in Seattle with Jack McCarthy. The coincidence’s and community develop Dane’s good friend is a Quaker who I will meet at my daughters wedding, for the entire westward trip we have no internet except for a couple minutes just after I meet Dane. She shoots an email to her friend to see if she is going to Kirsten’s wedding? Two days later I get the answer as her friends father speaks at the wedding of how small the world is and how I met his daughters friend on the train. Dane introduces me to Jack’s poetry and my first I-Pod experience. I find it fitting that my first time is listening to poetry. Upon finding his website to link here I realize that I most likely photographed him at the 1997 National Poetry Slam Championship, “Voices from the Edge” held in Middletown Ct. Both of these poets are worth a listen for “Poetry like Bread” is for everyone [from the poem “Like You” by Roque Dalton,] published by Curbstone Press. So I’ve rambled here and I’ve rambled there introducing more of the characters from either side of the tracks, past and present.
enjoy pjc

Prints for the People

New London Sail Fest July 13th 2008

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A quiet moment at the Bean and Leaf yet still wired or wireless.

After the Road Race


Amtrak and the water slide

Sails from the past

Layered commerce


The Capt of Bank St


Just one beautiful eye looks on as a mural is painted on Golden St.


A smiling Stidfole at The Hygienic


Tuning his hand made Harpsichord inside the Hygienic Gallery

So now almost two weeks later I have put this together these images, film not instant gratification. Choices made by the photographer not the technology, pondered for a while five hours 40 images my images made without a plastic fantastic lover.
Statements made with light by a passionate observer.
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