Documenting the places, people, and infrastructure that shape our communities.
This is the long-term home for my notes, photographs, films, and observations from a life spent paying attention to place. Roads. Rivers. Small towns. Public meetings. Morning light. The quiet systems that decide how daily life feels.
A quieter record of how places work.
I spent years inside regional planning, learning how transportation projects move from maps and meetings into the real world. The work taught me to look for the systems underneath ordinary life.
Over time, the looking became the point. I began using writing, photography, and film to study the relationship between infrastructure and memory, between public decisions and private routines.
This site is where those observations can gather slowly. Not a portfolio. Not a resume. A field journal.
A section taking shape.
Notes on Place
Future essays and observations on roads, trails, sidewalks, bridges, public meetings, and the systems that shape daily life.
Notes on Making
A place for future writing on photography, documentary work, books, running, and the habits that make attention possible.
Collections instead of uploads.
The photography here is organized around the subjects I already return to: lakes, fall color, landscapes, roads, signs, and wildlife.
It is meant to feel curated, not exhaustive. A slow archive of water, weather, movement, direction, and the quiet things that ask to be looked at twice.
Documentary work in motion.
Current film work, production notes, and visual essays as they become ready to share.
The Faith I Remember
A documentary currently in production. More details, stills, and production notes will be added as the film takes shape.
Our Plan A
An adoption memoir in early research about family, memory, and the life that forms when the expected path changes.
Parker & Vale is where the professional work lives.
Parker & Vale is my planning and infrastructure storytelling practice. It exists for public agencies, communities, and organizations that need complex work explained with clarity and care.
This personal site will not duplicate the business site. It complements it: slower, more observational, and more personal.
A place to return to.
For project work, visit Parker & Vale. For notes, photographs, films, or a conversation that does not fit neatly into a form, you can reach me directly.