Controlling Motion

“I’ve been skating for over nine years now,” said Daniel Kelmis, a life-long Bellingham local. Kelmis also said that he just recently celebrated his twenty-first birthday. Kelmis enjoys skating every day with his friend David Poletta, age 22, who just recently was permitted to leave Washington after being caught with cocaine and other hard drugs nearly 4 years ago. Kelmis and Poletta will soon part ways when Poletta moves to San Francisco. “I’m ready to go skate San Francisco” Poletta said. 

Paul Spring, a 46-year-old second grade teacher at Acme Elementary School in Bellingham, plays games with his son Raphael, age nine, at Mallard ice cream shop before going to karate class together every Tuesday night.

Environmental Portrait: capturing people in their most natural environments

“I rarely come home anymore so I don’t have time to ride. Which is why we need to find new homes for some of our horses,” 19-year-old Makenzie Peterson admitted somberly while spending time with her 8 horses in her family’s barn during her Oregon school’s midwinter break.