Picture This Life » A collection of photos and stories by Aaron Atkinson

10 Aug

Deported

Have to make nice with the guys who have the power to deport us foreigners.

08 Aug

I remember running around the meadows and creek banks. Topless and shoeless, toes squishing through the black muck.

06 Aug

And in the end, it’s perfect.

04 Aug

And strangely, for about five minutes the searing sun of the Kansas summer isn’t hot.

02 Aug

A trio of pheasants, two hens and a rooster, scoot into the grassy fencerow.

31 Jul

It would be almost impossible to cram in anymore summertime…

29 Jul

A gentle, cooling breeze is blowing from right to left across the field.

27 Jul

I was halfway through the best cob of butter-kissed sweetcorn I’ve eaten all season when it happened.

25 Jul

Tim and I can wait no longer and we make our way out onto the dock.

23 Jul

The first snapshot I ever took was of my parents and sister.

21 Jul

It’s been a while since I’ve had a leaky tire.

19 Jul

So this evening I mixed up a couple tubes of JB Weld and put the puzzle back together.

17 Jul

They are an ugly, slimy, whiskery slug of a fish with beady eyes and a trio of sharp spines.

15 Jul

From time to time folks ask Laura and I how we met. As it is with every story, there are two sides…