Dmitry Word Photography

08/20/2022

08/17/2022

The birthday of Silver Falls State Park is 1931, when the first piece of land
was set aside by the Oregon State Highway Commission: But the park
"grew up" beginning in 1935, when 200 workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps arrived.
The CCC workers were assisted by the more skilled men of the Works Projects
Administration, or WPA. Together they laid the foundations of the park,
constructing its buildings, trails, rock walls, and bridges. They even planted
trees to replace those destroyed by fire and logging.

As you walk the Trail of Ten Falls, you can see geologic history in the making. The exposed rock you see in the waterfalls and creek beds are layers of rock laid down over the course of 26 million years.

About 15-17 million years ago, great flows of lava poured out of fissures in the earth's crust, covering thousands of square miles of what is now Oregon and
Washington. One flow after another spread across the land, then cooled and hardened into a dense rock called basalt. Geologists think that as many as eight major eruptions covered this area, making a stack of lava flows
that runs some 600 feet thick.

Silver Falls State Park

09/11/2020

Another successful trip of this Summer.
It couldn't be a better reason than to celebrate a friend's birthday.
I did not sleep for a long time due to this trip, but I was feeling that rush I haven't felt in a long while taking photos late at night, all by myself and seeing the screen light up with the results and blow my mind with each shot.

The first photo takes the cake.

(Sorry if you keep seeing this popping up, new Facebook album upload tool is broken and I keep reporting it, and they still haven't fixed it, so I keep having to find ways around it)

Another successful trip of this Summer.
It couldn't be a better reason than to celebrate a friend's birthday.
I did not sleep for a long time due to this trip, but I was feeling that rush I haven't felt in a long while taking photos late at night, all by myself and seeing the screen light up with the results and blow my mind with each shot.

The first photo takes the cake.

08/26/2020

I have been photographing Burning Man for the past 5 years, and just because its not happening this year i am not going to stop.

These photos were all taken through a VR headset at Black Rock City VR.

I admire the work of artists and BM-ORG for putting SO MUCH effort into creating a life scale city with so much new and old art that i get to experience from the comfort of my home.

These are just a few works of art, i couldnt have visited and photographed every project, but there are SOOOO many more!

‼️I will continue adding photos to this album through the Burn Week as I come about more art that I enjoy! ‼️

I have been photographing Burning Man for the past 5 years, and just because its not happening this year i am not going to stop.

The photos were all taken through a VR headset at Black Rock City VR.

I admire the work of artists and BM-ORG for putting SO MUCH effort into creating a life scale city with so much new and old art that i get to experience from the comfort of my home.

These are just a few works of art, i couldnt have visited and photographed every project, but there are SOOOO many more!

08/21/2020

I realized that i havent shared albums of my National Park visits (only few photos on Instagram), and i have been to over 13 parks over the years, and as many of my friends havent had a chance to visit these parks, i figured i might as well share this beauty and inspire you to explore, and bring some beauty to your screens in these challenging times.

08/19/2020

It took us 40 minutes of standing in line to cross a suspension bridge.

It was a real test of our patience; the heat, people with no masks who looked like they are definitely at the most risk if they got sick, and just realization of how ridiculous it is to wait in line at a National Park.

But it was very much worth it. We spent about another 40 minutes at the loop, and our exit was much faster. However we saw people who stood in line for 40 minutes with us and left after about 10 minutes there.

My lesson from this experience is to appreciate the moment, and if you spent a lot of time doing anything, enjoy the fruits of your time and work. @ Grove Of The Patriarchs, Mt. Rainier National Park

08/02/2020

I guess life update is due.

I have stopped posting to my instagram for quite a while. And it took me a very long time to return to my older posts and actually do some “house cleaning” to understand why I even started this account and what this whole thing is about.

I realize that I have a rather large audience that i hope enjoys my creative eye, but also reads into my writing. (Thank you for sticking it out with me through a few years of bare minimum on my part.)

And the writing part, (actually it was re-reading my own posts) is what made me decide to come back to this and to tell a story, after all, it is a “Word (story)_on_Adventure.

From the inception, this account was a way of coping with a difficult break up.

The idea was to continue doing what I did well, and felt the most happiest doing (adventuring and photographing). Always searching for connection through my photos and things I wrote under them.

A lot of my posts conveyed a message of being lonely and struggling. Eventually I hit a point at which I no longer wanted to adventure alone (without a parter), and I stopped doing so, replacing my free time with partying and working.

It took years of justifying to myself, my family, and friends, why I am no longer taking photos, why I am not going on 5 hour one way road trips to photograph ONE thing I had in my mind, why I am not inspiring people to be creative and see the beauty in this world.

So, what changed?

I have made a decision after returning from Burning Man 2018 to move back to Seattle and be closer to my family.

The transition was difficult. I hated my new job. So after 6 months working in it, I took 2 months of Leave of Absence and ended up quitting after.

I had no real plan what I would do but I needed rest.

I did get some rest and for the first time in a while felt ALIVE (Spring 2019).

But I also could not allow myself not to have a job and not have a plan, so I looked up a position to what I though would be an ideal career with my knowledge, and I ended up finding a local company who hired me within a week of me applying (and I LOVE it there).

Shortly after I turned 30 years old. And almost as if by some predetermined gesture, I happened to meet Callie, and we quickly ended up in a relationship.

I always struggled with relationships before, because I treated them as a tool for understanding myself. Very few women had the patience to allow me to articulate all of my thoughts to them, in order for me to hear myself say it, process and grow upon.

Callie turned out to be the perfect parter, who learned and adapted to me, and through that, allowed me to grow, and after that help her and others grow.

All of these things were difficult to see in the process. But when I took a pause and saw my life a front of me (the “shift” started happening at Palouse Waterfalls), i clearly saw that I have been really lonely and depressed all these years without someone to love and someone to love me. So, finding that person, and living in it for a few months really woke me up to be alive and happy
..I guess I am going to start posting more photos and writings again, with a different (less begging for love and attention) message 😊

07/31/2020

Few weeks ago we got an impromptu opportunity to go on a helicopter ride.
I have wanted to photograph Seattle and its surroundings from bird's eye view for a while, and with strict restrictions of drone photography I couldn't be happier to have a friend who flies helicopters to offer to take us for a flight.

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