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Joel - Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 9:01:02 PM
I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm an absolute fanatic when it comes to liminal spaces. But I do have to admit there's something very interesting (and even beckoning, in a strange way) about these little tiny locations in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, that I think very often goes unnoticed. I don't think more than one or two people who visit this credit union would ever think twice about sitting on the benches just on the other side of these plants, and looking around to see this little space beneath the stairwell. It's almost this little patch of beauty forgotten by time. Maybe that's what makes it feel so special.
Joel - Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 8:57:34 PM
Everyone has a place they go to get away from the difficulties of life, and often there are multiple places one can do so. But at the end of the day, returning back into the normal world can be a real letdown. As I left this place one night, I found a rainstorm had come out of nowhere and was pouring hard all around. And being the person who I am, I was very pleased to see it, and the two of us ran out into the rain laughing on the way to our car. Sometimes, you learn to dance and laugh through the storms!
Joel - Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 8:54:25 PM
If you've never summited a mountain before and have the ability to do so, I would highly encourage it. There are few settings as amazing and even sacred as the summit of a high mountain peak. I had a special and unusual opportunity, employed where I am, to not only summit this mountain, but to reach the top of the towers you see before you. Six words: not for the faint of heart. But what a fantastic and amazing feeling it is, to be at the literal top of the world in a sense of speaking. In fact, you might think looking down from there is the most bewildering and dizzying idea you can imagine, and you'd be wrong- it's looking up that gets your brain spinning.
Joel - Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 8:51:15 PM
I find that inspiration in my life often comes in places I don't really expect to find it. Some weeks prior to taking this photo, I had moved a vanity dresser in my house upstairs, but in the process, accidentally dropped the mirro and a small piece of it shattered off, and it then became a lost cause. I left it in my carport until I could decide what to properly do with it. Fast forward some weeks or months, and here I was one day, just coming home from work, when the neighborhood cat came up to greet me. I just happened to notice this odd perspective as I leaned over to pet him.
Joel - Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 8:47:58 PM
During times of turbulence in one's life, sometimes there are small, quiet moments that often get overlooked, but hold an eternity of peace in them. This was one of those. During a time when I was going through some abuse and bullying at my workplace, these were a few days that were almost an accident- we hadn't planned to go where we went on this trip, but plans changed and we found ourselves camping out late in August, just me and my wife. This campsite you see here is actually often quite bustling and busy during the season, but this was just the right time of year when everyone had gone back to school, and the entire town felt more like a ghost town than the usual tourist attraction it is. As I stood here in the road and watched the sunset, I took a moment to stop, look around, and realize that, in spite of my troubles and my anxieties, this was a good moment of peace and beauty- a gift to cherish in the moment it was given. Every time I look back at this and a few other photos in this same place, I feel that sense of peace amidst the turbulence. It's often the small things, right?
Joel - Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 8:42:44 PM
I used to travel the region in my job at an MSP, and on rare occasion, the need arose to do some work during irregular hours. I spent one long day at a school installing a new server and network setup, and as it drew to a close, I snapped this picture. The schoolhouse, an old converted church, was quite the old and decrepit place, to be sure. And yet, for as foreboding as it comes across (and perhaps is), you have to admit that there's something fun and very spirited about the scene.
manningjo1 - Sunday, April 9, 2023 at 12:34:54 AM
I took this at about 11:15 PM at night, after I was about to retire to bed, wondering why it still seemed 'not dark' outside.