Warm from a shot of Jack, I am doing my business in the men’s room of the Loose Moose Saloon when a bottle rocket flies under the door and explodes beneath my boot. After completing the task, I emerge low to see contrails of incendiary devices…in the bar. Of course, I grab my camera and start to work the best angles…which were the worst possible angles to stay out of harm’s way. The first hit my thigh all the way across the room, the second in my back at much closer range, it felt like I was hit at point blank range with a slingshot. After a third blew a hole in the pocket of my Carhartt’s and exploded near my iPhone, I ran for cover, thank you iPhone!

This is Somerset, Colorado, a coal mine with a town of 75 people in it. It will be my near-home Kodachrome Project. In the early 80′s photographer Richard Avedon spent time in Somerset while photographing for “In The American West”.

Moose owner Garry Hogenbrik has given me the go ahead to do a slideshow at the watering hole this Sunday at 5, come one, come all…

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