Old Photographs

Image Description: A photograph of the night sky. At the bottom is the black silhouette of a ridge with a tree. The rest of the photograph is a field of stars, with a cosmic dust cloud visible across the majority of it.

Boundaries

Image Description: A black and white photograph of a dam lake in a rocky valley. There are two pump towers visible in the foreground. The water level is low enough that there is a clear line of white rock around the edge of the valley, with darker rock above it.

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Image Description: A large steam engine travelling around a curve in the railroad tracks toward the camera, with a few train cars behind it. There are trees in the background and a blue sky. The steam engine says "Big Boy" on the boiler plate in white chalk, and bears the engine number X4014.

The Steel Mass

Image Description: A large steam engine pulling a train painted in yellow Union Pacific colors. There is an American flag on one train car and on a backup diesel locomotive. It is traveling across a grassy field under a clear blue sky.

Ever Onward, Ever Forward

Image Description: A large steam engine pulling Union Pacific train cars. There is an American flag on one train car and on a backup diesel locomotive. It is traveling across a grassy field under a clear sky.

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Image Description: A black and white photograph of a mountain valley. The botton of the valley is filled with grasses and shrugs with a road and stream running through it. The valley walls are covered in trees. In the distance are snow-covered mountain peaks with white clouds overhead.

What If We Were Kind?

Image Description: A black and white landscape photograph of a valley. A road travels from the bottom left edge through the valley, disappearing around a corner in the center. A winding stream travels alongside the road through the valley. It is sunny with whispy white clouds in the sky. The sky itself is very blue. The bottom of the valley is filled with green grasses, and the sides covered in evergreen trees. In the distance are rocky mountains with snow across their flanks.

A Brief Window of Time

Image Description: A landscape photograph of a valley. A road travels from the bottom left edge through the valley, disappearing around a corner in the center. A winding stream travels alongside the road through the valley. It is sunny with whispy white clouds in the sky. The sky itself is very blue. The bottom of the valley is filled with green grasses, and the sides covered in evergreen trees. In the distance are rocky mountains with snow across their flanks.

Yearnings of Cooler Times

Image Description: A landscape photograph of a valley. A road travels down the center. It is sunny with whispy white clouds in the sky. The sky itself is very blue. The bottom of the valley is filled with green grasses, and the sides covered in evergreen trees. In the distance are rocky mountains with snow across their flanks.

Upon Their Crushed Spines, America

Image Description: A black and white photograph of a large steam locomotive travelling through a ravine. Behind it is another steam engine. On the front of the engine, "Big Boy" is chalked on the locomotive, and the numbner "X4014" is visible at the top. Photographers are visible on the left, on the edge of the ravine.

Sometimes You Have to Climb

Image Description: A photograph of a freight train rounding a corner in a canyon. The train is moving toward the camera. There are two locomotives, and the cars trail around the corner and out of view behind the locomotives. To the locomotive's left is a large rocky wall. Behind it, in the background, a highway is visible. Sheer rock walls rise above that. There are grass and trees covering it. A river is visible in the bottom of the frame stretching around and behind the canyon. A sliver of blue sky with white clouds is visible.

Growing in the Between Places

Image Description: A close-up photograph of black tree bark. It has a heavily cranulated texture. Bright yellow lichen covers the tree bark in streaks and spots across the entire image.

The Light Overcame Us

Image Description: A picture of a landscape at night. The land takes up the bottom third of the photograph. Patchy snow covers the land as it stretches to the snow-covered mountains in the distance. A sign is visible, but not legible, near the right edge. The sky has a few clouds, and hundreds of visible stars. Galactic clouds are somewhat visible. On the left side, on the horizon, the sky glow of a distant town is visible.

God's in His Heaven, All's Right With the World

Image Description: A picture of a night landscape. The bottom quarter of the photograph shows dark, snow-capped mountains. A frozen lake is also vizible, stretching from the bottom left to three-quarters of the way to the right edge. A few building lights are visible at the foot of the mountains in the bottom right. A star-filled sky fills the top three-quarters of the photograph, with several galactic clouds faintly visible. A few clouds are visible in the bottom left of the sky.

Have You Forgiven Yourself Yet?

Image Description: A skinny person is standing in the middle of a snow-covered road, facing away from the camera. The person is wearing an orange jacket, blue jeans, and a white hat. Their arms are in the jacket's pockets. The road stretches out of sight and around a corner. It is lined on both sides by evergreen trees. The sky is perfectly blue.

Bring Me to the Edge of My World, For I Won't Grow Otherwise

Image Description: A photograph of a frozen lake situated in a valley. In the background, green evergreens are visible. Behind those, stretching into a blue sky, are a snow-covered mountain range. The tops of the mountains are bare rock. One mountain on the left has a distinctly triangular shape.

We Wanted to Say Something Profound, But Were Left With Bromides

Image Description: A photograph of a night sky. At the bottom, the silhuoettes of trees are visible. Behind them, part of the galaxy is visible. Hundreds of stars dot the sky. Behind the trees, though, the white haze of a city's light pollution clouds part of the picture.

Positivity Culture Is A Sham

Full Poem: https://medium.com/@wdibble/positivity-culture-is-a-sham-6eeedc61bcd1 Image Description: A black and white photo of a desert-like landscape. The curve of a road can be seen from the far bottom left of the photo to near the bottom right, with another curve going up the middle and disappearing around a rocky ridge. This rock ridge extends from the left side of the photograph to the middle, tapering off. Beyond that in the distance is another rock ridge, extending from the center off to the right of the frame. Beyond that is a flat landscape where a town is visible several miles away. The horizon line is a landscape of mountains with sheer rock cliffs. The shadows of clouds cover these mountains. The sky is filled with dramatic, fluffy clouds that extend to the horizon, with clear sky visible at the very top of the photo.

Cool Story, Bro

Full Poem: https://medium.com/@wdibble/cool-story-bro-840bb3690a31 Image Description: A photograph of two bighorn sheep. One is in the foreground, staring at the camera. He has two small horns and a white snout. The other is behind him, staring off camera to the right. There are green bushes in the background.

When We Smiled, It Was On Stolen Land

Image Description: A photo of a wide panoramic landscape. In the distance are tall mesas and structures made of red and orange rock . In the far distance on the right, the Rocky Mountains are visible. Shrubs and trees dot the mesas, along with the canyons below them. The sky is bright blue and full of fluffy clouds. One cloud on the left is visibly raining.

When We Smiled, It Was On Stolen Land (BW)

Image Description: A black and white photo of a wide panoramic landscape. In the distance are tall rocky mesas and structures. In the far distance on the right, the Rocky Mountains are visible. Shrubs and trees dot the mesas, along with the canyons below them. The sky is full of fluffy clouds. One cloud on the left is visibly raining.

Instagram Loves A Square

Image Description: A large red structure fills the entire frame. In the center is a cone, but from this angle it appears to just be a circle. It is surrounded by 10 blades in a fan formation. They stretch to all edges of the frame. It is a railroad rotary snowplow.

America, Our History is Exceptionalism

Full Poem: https://medium.com/@wdibble/america-our-history-is-exceptionalism-551d2c0a359c Image Description: A close-up of the side of a cattle railroad car. The wood is painted red, but faded almost to pink. It is chipped in many places. There is a small metal pipe from the bottom center to top-right corner. Near the top is a gap in the wood, through which darkness and a blurry bit of light is visible. "KEEP OFF" is stenciled in white lettering on the car.