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Camera-carrying observer of the world and longtime freelance photojournalist, responding to what circumstances present. catchingshadows.substack.com Slideshows & Archival Prints: JamesCook.biz TraditionalSubjects.com

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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 04/10/2026
Nathan Jackson, Tlingit master carver, on his own terms, and his apprentice, Mike Milne. An afternoon at the Saxman carving shed. #NativeAmerican #Tlingit #Indigenous #Alaska
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Master and Apprentice
One totem pole, two carvers, and a tradition being passed on, hand to hand.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 03/10/2026
If you can't win for losing, third place is a great place.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 03/10/2026
The suitcase takes third palce as the butt of the joke. 1941 Plymouth P12 Special Deluxe © James Cook #3rdPlace #BlueSkyArtshow #Humor
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 03/10/2026
For bringing an umbrella to a boat fight, the dinghy takes 1st Place in Optimism, but a solid 3rd Place in Displacement. Kalamazoo River, Saugatuck, Michigan © James Cook #3rdPlace #BlueSkyArtshow #Humor #Edwardian #Steamships
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 03/10/2026
In spite of the widest aperture, 3rd Place in Environmental Intake goes to the bin, the only one no filter. Salzburg, Austria. © James Cook #HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze #StreetPhotography #Travel #Humans #3rdPlace #BlueSkyArtshow #Humor
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 26/09/2026
Very nice
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 26/09/2026
Now that the days are getting shorter, I'm managing to make it in more often again. Just about ready to turn off the #Lights here as the sun pops up.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 26/09/2026
Lighting Votive candles in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna. © James Cook #BlueSkyArtShow #Religion #Vienna #ViennaNow #Austria #Lights
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 26/09/2026
Neon signage for The Whip at Lakeside Amusement Park, Denver, Colorado. The Whip was built in 1914. © James Cook #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 26/09/2026
Tailights on a 1962 Cadillac. © James Cook #Abstract #Design #Graphic #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights #Photography #Kodachrome #Color #Colorful #ClassicCars #Cadillac
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 19/09/2026
I'll need an extra cup this morning. I got up way too early, well ahead of the #Golden hour. At least I'm here.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 19/09/2026
I've long espoused the proportional theory without knowing it "officially" existed beyond my personal thinking. This article leaves me thinking that it does have its role, but there's so much more to it, as with everything.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 19/09/2026
The #Golden ceiling in the Kunsthistorisches Art Museum, Vienna Austria © James Cook #Perspective #SensoryArt #Architecture #Graphic #Travel #Austria #Vienna #ViennaNow #BlueSkyArtShow #Golden
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 19/09/2026
The Rathaus (city hall) of Kufstein, Austria takes on a #Golden hue in the evening sun. © James Cook #Architecture #Austria #Windows #Perspective #SensoryArt #BlueSkyArtshow #Golden
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 19/09/2026
At the exteme of it's reach, the last gasp of a wave laps against the sand and reflects the sunset. Lake Michigan, Oval Beech, Saugatuck, Michigan © James Cook #Abstract #LakeMichigan #Landscapes #Photography #BlueSkyArtShow #Golden
A serene beach scene at Oval Beach with gentle waves lapping against the sand, reflecting a golden glow from the setting sun on the water droplets and grains of sand.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 12/09/2026
#Undulating wave tracks create a 3D optical illusion of shadows, on the beach at Varkasaig beach, Isle of Skye, Scotland © James Cook #Abstract #Landscape #Landscapes #Photography #BlueSkyArtShow #Pattern #Travel #Scotland
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 12/09/2026
The road has quite a history. Due to rock slides, it had just opened the day before I got there, then closed days later. It was open for only about 10 days that summer.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 12/09/2026
The #Undulating rooftop of St. Peter's Cathedral, Vienna © James Cook #BlueSkyArtshow #Architecture #Austria #Travel
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 12/09/2026
If ever a road could be said to be #Undulating, it's the Trollstigen Road (Troll Ladder). It traverses eleven times around hairpin turns. Åndalsnes, Norway © James Cook #BlueSkyArtShow #Landscapes #Travel #Mountains #Norway #Scandinavia #Tourism
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 12/09/2026
Ah, it's been so long unused, my cup is nearly suffering from dry rot. I need to poke my nose in here a bit more often.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 12/09/2026
On a still Summer evening, broad, undulating waves on Lake Michigan were #Alternating between complimentary colors of the sky above and deep water below. As far as the eye could see gulls dotted the water.. © James Cook #LakeMichigan #Michigan #GreatLakes #BlueSkyArtShow #Peaceful #Sunlight
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 03/09/2026
Darlene See was chosen to weave the way the tradition has always chosen its weavers: an elder pointed, and said, "She's the one." I photographed her at Hoonah, Alaska, at work on a robe, thread by thread. #NativeAmerican #Tlingit #Chilkat #Indigenous #Alaska
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She's the One
Reviving the nearly lost art of Chilkat weaving on the Alaska coast.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 03/09/2026
And we know who foots the bill for all of these little projects. Even a chart takes time and attention better invested elsewhere. Well, on second thought, maybe it's just as well that Trump's attention is frequently on trivia.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 26/08/2026
Nothing is sacred under Trump if money can be made. #Trump #Environment #NativeAmerican #IndigeonousPeople #BearEars #ChacoCanyon
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Trump’s Land Grab is the Latest Chapter of Indigenous Cultural Genocide
The assault on Chaco Canyon, Bears Ears, and other sacred lands is a blatant continuation of America’s centuries-long campaign against Native people.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 01/08/2026
With a downtown of 600 buildings, all built within six years, Sundsvall is an architectural treasure trove. A real sleeper on the tourist circuits. #Sweden #Sundsvall #Architecture #Europe #Travel
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Fire and Stone
Sundsvall, Sweden: The City Built from Fire. In 1888, it burned to the ground. Six years later: 600 stone buildings across 51 blocks, and a new city.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 05/07/2026
In 1988, I wrote about Walter Littlemoon for Newsweek's Unsung Heroes feature. This month, a recent letter to him came back — he had died while it was in the mail. He set me on a path 40 years ago I'm still walking. #WoundedKnee #Lakota #NativeAmerican #Newsweek
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An Unsung Hero
They Called Him Uncivilized. Walter Littlemoon set me on a path forty years ago. This is his story, and mine, as we both mark this Fourth of July differently than planned.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 03/07/2026
As we celebrate 250 years of this nation, independence and democracy, we can be proud of many great achievements. It's also important to recognize that it hasn't always been via the high road. We have our blemishes, and they should be acknowledged. #NativeAmerican #IndigenousPeople #250th #History
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AMERICA 250: A step-by-step guide to Indigenous erasure - ICT
The missing and crucial truths not in America’s history books that redefined tribal nations and Native peoples 250 years after the country’s founding
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 11/06/2026
Some doors don't open to force. A new post on photographing at Tesuque Pueblo, where I first arrived empty-handed and left, years later, with portraits I cherish. #NativeAmerican #Pueblo #TraditionalSubjects #Photojournalism
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An Empty-Handed Approach
Some doors don't open to force
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 07/05/2026
Top of the morning to all!
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 05/05/2026
In July 2021, I met 94-year-old Claudia Spicer dancing in competitions at a pow wow. This is the story of the former trapeze artist, opera student, first crowned princess of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe, and an extra in Cecil B. DeMille films. #NativeAmerican #OtoeMissouria #Photojournalism #PowWow
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From the Trapeze to the Pow Wow Arena
A 94-year-old dancer, a circus childhood, and the long survival of the Otoe-Missouria
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 02/05/2026
Reports of My Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated, but I sure have been absent. Time, time, everywhere, but not a moment to spare. But here I am for a quick sip, then back to the shadows
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 02/05/2026
Shadows at Play, Death Valley, California © James Cook #Landscape #Landscapes #Photography #Graphic #BlueMonday #BlueSkyArtShow #ShadowPlay
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 19/04/2026
A nine-hundred-year-old stave church, and still locked up every evening with the same key. An intentional destination, a challenging journey, and an unexpected experience. #Norway #VisitNorway #Sognefjord #StaveChurch #HiddenNorway #Hopperstad
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Off the Map
The journey to a remote, medieval stave church and the caretaker who brought it alive.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 04/04/2026
Nice!
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 04/04/2026
At least I beat closing time though I know you'll be #Opening again in the morning. Happy Saturday to you!
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 04/04/2026
At an abandoned vineyard, a farmhouse window left ajar becomes the opening through which the once-tended grapevines take hold, making themselves the new masters of the house. Fennville, Michigan. © James Cook #Photography #Abandoned #BlueSkyArtShow #Michigan #Openings
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 04/04/2026
Pauper, prince, poet, or priest, the skeletal remains of Parisians past intermingle in the Paris Catacombs. Openings where eyes once welcomed the world now hold only shadow. © James Cook #Photography #Photojournalism #Photojournalist #Abstract #Openings
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 04/04/2026
Holes in Security. Dublin, Ireland © James Cook #Openings #BlueSkyArtShow #Colorful #Abstract #Graphic
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 03/04/2026
For generations, the Skokomish people of Hood Canal were forbidden from speaking their language, practicing their ceremonies, telling their stories. One man decided that ended with him. #NativeAmerican #Skokomish #TraditionalSubjects #Photojournalism
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Subiyay, Not the Last Tree
On the Skokomish Reservation, one man spent a lifetime refusing to let his culture disappear
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 28/03/2026
Good morning. Just grabbing a quick cup as I race to make it to a nearby No Kings rally. I expect the numbers today are going to be more than noteworthy.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 20/03/2026
Mornin'!
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 14/03/2026
Good morning. Trying, as usual, to figure out where the days go. Tomorrow will be next Saturday, right?
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 14/03/2026
Three Sisters of Glencoe, Glencoe National Nature Reserve, Scotland. June 2020 © James Cook #iPhone #Panorama #Environment #Landscape #Photography #Scotland #Highlands #Mountains #BlueSkyArtShow #Horizontal
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 14/03/2026
#BlueSkyArtShow #Horizontal
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 14/03/2026
A golfer lines up his put on the Clearbrook Golf Course, Saugatuck, Michigan © James Cook #Color #Sports #Golf #Green #BlueSkyArtShow #Horizontal
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 14/03/2026
A pre-dawn view across ice ridges on Lake Michigan in January 2010. The lake is an ever changing palette of sky over water: O2/H2O. © James Cook #Michigan #LakeMichigan #Photography #Landscapes #BlueMonday #BlueSkyArtShow #Horizontal
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 12/03/2026
In 1966, as a sixteen-year-old with $100 and a skeptical eye, I drove off a used car lot in a yellow Studebaker. It turned out to be the best lesson I ever bought. #Studebaker #Cars
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But Dad, It’s a Studebaker!
My first car taught me not to worry about fitting in
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 06/03/2026
I especially enjoy your skylines since I have an archive of dawn shots I created from the roof of Cheeseman Tower in the 80's. Your angle seems to match.
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 05/03/2026
Potawatomi and other Anishinaabe peoples have lived in the Great Lakes region since time immemorial. They are still here. #NativeAmerican #Photojournalism #Potawatomi #Anishinaabe #Michigan
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Still Here
Potawatomi and Ojibwe tradition on the shores of Lake Michigan
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James Cook @jamescook.biz · 28/02/2026
👍
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