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nickbaxtertattoos
Mar 25, 20162 min read
On The Road 11: New England Plein Air
At the beginning of this month I travelled back to my homeland of Connecticut, hoping for late winter weather mild enough to endure some...
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nickbaxtertattoos
Sep 15, 20155 min read
On The Road 10: Peruvian Plein Air
Earlier this month I traveled to Peru, where I trekked to majestic Machu Picchu for the first time, documenting the epic Andes landscape...
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nickbaxtertattoos
Jun 28, 20151 min read
On The Road 9: Detroit
Detroit is a city where the environment itself takes center stage and needs no actors, a scene and setting so ghostly unnerving that one...
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nickbaxtertattoos
Jan 25, 20151 min read
On The Road 8: Bolivian adventures and a Diablada Mask
Here’s a poster commission I completed last year that got lost in the shuffle and forgotten about: I attempted to utilize a much looser...
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nickbaxtertattoos
Sep 20, 20131 min read
On The Road 7
In honor of an upcoming journey back to the chaos and adventure that is South America, here are some medium format film shots from my...
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nickbaxtertattoos
Jun 13, 20131 min read
On The Road 6
In my last few On The Road installments, I posted lots of iPhone photos from a trip across the Pacific early this year. During my stops...
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nickbaxtertattoos
May 1, 20133 min read
Shenpa (Towards Healing)
My newest completed painting originated out of the photo shoots I conducted for my 2010 series Rebuilding. The image of extracted hook...
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nickbaxtertattoos
Mar 7, 20131 min read
On The Road 5.5
Adventure photos from my recent trek across the great Pacific. All images created with my iPhone 4s. I (Hawai’i) II (New Zealand)
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nickbaxtertattoos
Mar 2, 20131 min read
On The Road 5
On a recent adventure in New Zealand I had the good fortune of staying at Solscape Eco Retreat in the hills above Raglan, overlooking the...
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nickbaxtertattoos
Nov 13, 20121 min read
On The Road 4
A few weeks ago I spent two quick but relaxing days in the Middle Of Nowhere, rediscovering my medium format camera with some...
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nickbaxtertattoos
Aug 23, 20121 min read
On The Road 2
I (Canon EOS 30D, with 100mm f/2.8 macro & 50mm f/1.8 standard Photoshop) II (Canon EOS 30D with Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC macro OS HSM,...
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nickbaxtertattoos
Jan 10, 20122 min read
On The Road
“Live without dead time!” One of the slogans, courtesy of the Situationists, that I try to live by. To me it means making productive,...
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