thoughts • images
a pit stop
fascinations • nuisances
Photographed by Vadim Trunov [website]
[h/t: staceythinx]
How did I not realize that snails are magical and wondrous? Where are my fantasy novels about wide-eyed snail protagonists on quests?
These are the dreamiest photos that ever did dream.
Snails in love…
Here I am talking about my latest book, The Girls of Atomic City. I love these old Ed Westcott photos. Thanks to Touchstone and Simon & Schuster for putting this together.
I have finally delved into SmugMug as a way to share and organize photos online. It is idiot-proof when it comes to customizing and works extremely well with Lightroom. I wish I had done this sooner. If you’re interested, take a peek….
A survivor of the United States’ atomic attack on Hiroshima, still hospitalized two years later, shows the damage to his hands, 1947 by Carl Mydans
(After Hiroshima: Portraits of Survivors)
Hiroshima
At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column.Two planes of the 509th Composite Group, part of the 313th Wing of the 20th Air Force, participated in this mission, one to carry the bomb, the other to act as escort, 08/06/1945
One of my favorite rooms anywhere.Amazing to me that it still, in a sense, looks the same.
Catalogue room, the New York Public Library, c. 1910.
