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Getcha some.

Well, it’s a sad day. Just found out that the only color darkroom in Portland is biting the dust on the 23rd, so I will no longer be hand printing my own work. If you want a custom C-print let me know while I can still make them. There is a darkroom two hours away in Olympia, but printing there would result in much more expensive prints if and when I go that route. So get em cheap while you can: 

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UPDATE: I noticed this just got tagged with the "Artists on Tumblr" tag. If you're interested in keeping up with my work please visit my personal tumblr: eliascarlson.tumblr.com I got to spend an evening photographing National Geographic explorer/marine biologist David Gruber, talking about bioluminscent sea creatures, our mutual love for the BBC, and Steve Zissou. This photo, along with a couple others will be running alongside his underwater photos in Vol 4 of Another Escape. I’d highly recommend picking up a copy, this issue is going to be fantastic. Order here.

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Holly Lynton with some ridiculously good work.

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We found it odd. The way the chipmunk staggered woozily from the brush like the town drunk in a bad Western. Perhaps he’d nibbled his way into some camper’s stash of peyote. Maybe he was just a little dehydrated. But then we noticed the leg. It dragged lifeless behind him as he crossed the pathway and collapsed, tiny rib cage heaving, at the base of a small boulder.

I looked at Joseph, “Oh man, that’s sad. I wonder what happened to him. I hope some jerk camper didn’t slingshot him for fun.”

We took a few steps closer.

“I think maybe that’s a bite mark,” Joseph said, observing a small gash in the chipmunk’s left hindquarter. We watched as a crimson stain seeped through brown fur.

As the light in the little eyes grew dimmer, the ragged gasps for breath shallower, we looked at each other and knew:

“It has to be a rattlesnake.”

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I've released one of my more ambitious blog posts into the wild today. You can read the full post in two different places. Pick your poison. Exposure | orangejuice-etc.com

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Spencer Murphy - Traces

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Carolyn Drake - Two Rivers

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Best thing I've seen all day. Powerful stuff.

Guardians of life: The indigenous women fighting oil exploitation in the Amazon

Felipe Jacome’s set of photos Amazon: Guardians of Life documents the struggles of indigenous women defending the Ecuadoran Amazon through portraits combined with the powerful written testimonies. The words across each photograph are a self-reflection of the lives of women, their culture, history and traditions, and especially about the reasons for fighting oil drilling on their ancestral lands. The color designs framing each portrait use the same natural dyes found in face paint to expand on the symbols and designs that reflect their personalities, courage and struggle. (via)

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A little break from our regularly scheduled program to bring you some pictures from our Wes Anderson Halloween Party. It was entirely too much fun. More on the blog: http://www.orangejuice-etc.com/wes-anderson-halloween/

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Rog Walker makes some utterly gorgeous portraits

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Sasha Arutyunova

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Sarah Bernhard

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Andrew Querner - Watershed

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Jon Tonks - Tristan Da Cunha

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A few shots I managed to grab during a recent trip to the Priest Lake area of Idaho. Elias Carlson website | tumblr

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Ricky Rhodes - Funwall website | tumblr

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John Lusk Hathaway

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Ramon Haindl website | tumblr