Lone Terrace Farmer
Taken from the fantastic staircase that leads to the mountaintop village of Longji, China, this photo depicts a lone terrace farmer tending to his rice. I stopped to snap the picture, and my traveling companions continued onward without me. Alone, I honored his toils by capturing the image, and alone, he tended the plants.
Bishop Castle
Bishop Castle, a throwback to the Middle Ages and a testament to human endurance, sprawls in unapologetic splendor across an expanse of gradually sloping terrain. Every stone and every inch of mortar seem to have been hurled into a conflation of ordered chaos on a massive scale by a man who has never once used a blueprint or floor plan, only his sheer force of will and self-described “God-given genius.”
Christopher Ryan Parent Photography
Christopher Ryan Parent was a native of Woodland Park, Colorado. He was the oldest of two sons born to parents who are both teachers. In high school, he ran cross country, played clarinet in the jazz band, and was a state forensics champion two years in a row as an extemporaneous speaker. After graduation, he entered the U.S. Navy’s nuclear power school where he graduated at the top of his class
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