Author: Allan G. Smorra

In 2014 I retired after 46 years in the Electrical Trade. I spent my last 15 years working on the Golden Gate Bridge. Join me in this next phase of life as I write about, and photograph, the world around me.

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate

Freedom is just Chaos with better lighting.
—Alan Dean Foster

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for

I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from—or fight—its enemies is lunch.
—Michael Friedman

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
—Joseph Heller, Catch 22, 1961

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