SJ Rozan

Chinatown, NYC: New Year’s Flower Market.  A cool customer.

Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC: Christmas lights.

Bronx Botanical Gardens, NYC: Winter shrubs.

Long Island, New York: Fourth of July Parade.

Unalaska (Aleutian Islands), Alaska: downtown.

Unalaska (Aleutian Islands), Alaska: SJ Rozan on the tundra.

Unalaska (Aleutian Islands), Alaska: Fishing nets.

Unalaska (Aleutian Islands), Alaska: The bridge I’m standing on connects the two islands that make up the town, and is called — no matter where you are — The Bridge to the Other Side.

I snuck behind the chain at an exhibit at a TV station tower and my Japanese traveling buddy, though horrified by my bad behavior, snapped this.

Nine a.m., but barely dawn. Oct. 2009. I was in Unalaska, in the center of the Aleutian chain, to teach some writing workshops in the schools. (One elementary school, one high school.) These nets were piled outside my hotel — the only hotel in town — in the morning.