Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

Thaw

This image captures the runoff from the corrugated metal roof of a garbage and recycling corral. During a snowfall, the metal drops below the freezing point and snow accumulates. When the snow stops, the metal absorbs heat radiated from the ground below and melts the snow accumulation from the bottom up, leaving the top of the snow untouched. The water flows from the edge of the corrugated metal folds, drips over the edge and, in just the right circumstances, freezes back into icicles, creating the effect you see here.

I like to think of this image as a reminder that, under a cold, frozen and bleak landscape, warmth and renewal can be just under the surface

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

Air and Air

Engineering is the shotgun wedding of physics and economics. Outside of the specific world of styling, aesthetics play no role in the decisions that lead to constructions. No one cares what the inside of a blender looks like. And yet, there is symmetry, the interplay of angles, lines and curves, the contrast between surfaces, that carries a beauty all of its own. Humberto Delgado Airport in Lisbon, Portugal

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

Fire Door

Institutions are more than physical objects; they are ideas, concepts. The extent to which they serve us is the extent to which we are committed to carrying out those ideas. Warning signs are manifestations of institutional intentions. This was painted on an interior door in an apartment building in Vancouver. While it is designed to save lives, the effect is more like something out of a horror movie, an establishing visual warning you that the next 90 minutes are going to be terrifying

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

The Haunting of Mt SAC - Chamber

The Haunting of Mt SAC - Chamber

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

The Haunting of Mt. SAC College - Corridor

The haunting continued

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

The Haunting of Mt. SAC - Yard

The Haunting of Mt. SAC - Yard

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

The Haunting of Mt. SAC College - Monolithic

At Mt. SAC College, you will hear rumors of hauntings. Perhaps the location's history as a military hospital serves as the foundation for the stories. When I taught there, I saw no evidence of paranormal activity. The physical structures had a stark, brutal nature, emphasized by the industrial feel of the lighting. They reminded me of something that evoked the pictures of stereotypical Soviet Union architecture in Western minds.

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

Forge Repair

The Port of Vancouver was deepened by dredging, digging out the bottom of the harbor with massive steel buckets. As the buckets wore, they were repaired, and the repairs were repaired. That left the insides of these shells with these organic patterns of reconstruction, deliberate to the metal smiths who worked the materials for function, leaving a particular beauty to their form.

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

Gate and Moon

Abandoned buildings always are unsettling. They are landmarks of failure, where something has gone wrong, someone's idea proven unworkable, a dream gone dark. In better days, these buildings near the center of Lisboa would glow from within. On this night, the light of the moon emphasizes the gloom from the black, lightless windows and the hope that the building actually is empty, because what would be happening within is darker still.

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

Hedges and Sea

The sculpted hedges are a main feature of Passeio Publico, a park built in the 1800s for the noble class of Lisbon. Members of the nobility had a stunning view through the park built for their pleasure, over the center of the city and down to the Tagus River. It is a visible manifestation of something that often tries to hide itself - privilege and the power that flows from it

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

Incision

By now, my wife's journey of recovery from breast cancer has spanned more than a decade. Her cosmetic surgeon allows me to stay in the room with her during the routine procedures she undergoes to manage her reconstruction. Sometimes it takes an image like this from her latest procedure, the carefully arranged set of instruments, the blood stain, to remind me of how I have adapted to the utterly abnormal. Or vice-versa ...

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

Jehan on Royal Enfield

Jehan Izhar runs The Stage Global. She shared a space with my wife, who ran a yoga studio in Pomona. During a publicity shoot, Jehan struck a pose on a motorcycle I was evaluating for a motorcycle magazine, and I was struck by the intensity of her interaction with the camera of the official event photographer. The sheer physicality of her ability is undeniable, but the real energy of this instant is in the look in her eyes.

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year celebration at a Buddhist temple in Surrey, British Columbia.

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

Serpent In The Roots

In places along the Lost Coast, the ground consists of a thin layer of topsoil covering hard, compacted clay. Tree roots are diverted when they hit the hard pack, and they twist and turn on themselves. The exposed roots are an abstract construction, allowing viewers to see what they wish to see. I don't want to think too much about what it says about me that the first thing I saw clearly in this Rorschach test was the serpent ...

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

Sunrise

One of the benefits of road racing motorcycles is that you tend to find yourself awake and out of the van long before the sun comes up, and you tend to be in the middle of nowhere. Looking to the east from Sunrise Corner at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in Central California, the scale of the features in the sky completely dwarf the man-made structures of power.

Morbidelli 17 • September 1 2025

When Frogs Attack

This experimental photo was nearly deleted, but my wife, Sandy, provided a new reason to keep it. She noted that the image evoked the classic style of a 1950s graphic novel, with its themes of terror, invasion, and destruction.

September 1 2025

Sewer Cover

British Columbia acknowledges that it exists on the unceded territories of Indigenous peoples. I appreciate the use of "nation" over "tribe," which gives these civilizations the status they deserve. The local incorporation of indigenous artwork and themes into everyday objects, such as sewer covers, feels more like a homage than an appropriation.

Morbidelli 17 • August 31 2025

Reflection

A shallow pool and sculptures in a park originally built for Portuguese nobility. The looming cloud cover completely inverts the sense one would normally get from such an image. Tranquility and warmth are driven out by a sense of incursion, of threat, and one feels a sudden need for shelter

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Morbidelli 17 • August 31 2025

Gargoyle in Valencia

In 1957, the Turia River flooded, devastating large parts of Valencia. The Spanish government planned to use the old riverbed for highways. Residents objected to the highway plan and the riverbed became one of Spain's largest urban parks. These gargoyles overlook the park today. I like to think they are defending it, whether from natural disaster or from anyone who would destroy the beauty and community that arose from the catastrophe