I thought I’d hid that cape. We didn’t need another episode. But Leo appeared out of nowhere last night with headlamp, suspenders and a gold cape ready to zoom through the night in a rush of spring fever.
Just a few days earlier, his pal, cape securely fastened, made a leap from the top bunk with visions of soaring. He had been coaxed into doing it, the story goes. They’d spread a few
Tim LaBarge is a freelance photographer in Portland, Oregon.
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Back when I was studying literature and drama, I stumbled on this line from Tennessee Williams: “Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.” I wrote it down and haven’t really thought about it in years. Thinking about it now, I guess it reflects how I feel about taking pictures.
Drop by now and then to see more photographs posted from current assignments, travels, the archive, weddings or fun pictures from living with two funny little boys.
Do call or write if you have an assignment here in the Northwest: timlabarge -at- comcast.net or call 971.235.4446.