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Photography by Lance Shields

  • Projects
    • Eighty-Sixed in LA
    • Following the Coast
    • Nothing with a Name
    • A Walk in Point Reyes
    • Soul of America
    • Oregon Coast
    • San Francisco Up Close
    • Return to Tokyo
    • Painted in Kyoto Light
    • Ojai Garden
    • Martian Invasion of LA
    • Framed by a City
    • New York City
    • Things in the Street
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Author: Lance Shields

Eighty-Sixed in LA

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“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” Frank Lloyd Wright The underbelly of Los Angeles is a complex and multi-faceted aspect of

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Following the Coast

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“This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.” Edward Weston “Happiness consists in realising it is all a great strange

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Nothing with a Name

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“What makes anything worthy or unworthy of being photographed? For now, one of my mantras is: If it has an obvious name, don’t photograph it.” Mike Slack, quote from Photo

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A Walk in Point Reyes

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“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.” Henry David Thoreau I

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Soul of America

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“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?” Jack Kerouac Night is falling on the city streets. Shadows grow in the corners. Stores are shuttered and the

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Oregon Coast

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“Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state’s beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of

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San Francisco Up Close

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By accident, you put / Your money in my / Machine (#4) / By accident, I put / My money in another / Machine (#6) / On purpose, I put

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Return to Tokyo

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“I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. I guess every girl goes through a photography phase. You know, horses … taking pictures of your feet.” Charlotte, from movie

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Painted in Kyoto Light

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I hadn’t been to Kyoto, my favorite city, for several years. Most of all I missed the light of Kyoto that paints the river, trees, temples, and streets with a

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Ojai Garden

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I recently spent a wonderful long Easter weekend at a friend’s house in Ojai, CA which has the most amazing garden. I prefer not to shoot the sort of nature

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