Steve Skafte Portfolio
60 photos
All those shadows you're running from, I'm rushing toward.
moving pictures
450 videos
sometimes it takes a little sound and fury to get you by
a boy at his volcano ► 17
161 photos
Year 17 of my daily journal: November 2023 – November 2024
a boy at his volcano ► 16
360 photos, 5 videos
Year 16 of my daily journal: November 2022 – November 2023
a boy at his volcano ► 15
359 photos, 4 videos
Year 15 of my daily journal: November 2021 – November 2022
a boy at his volcano ► 14
364 photos, 1 video
Year 14 of my daily journal: November 2020 – November 2021
a boy at his volcano ► 13
350 photos, 13 videos
Year 13 of my daily journal: November 2019 – November 2020
a boy at his volcano ► 12
356 photos, 9 videos
Year Twelve of my daily journal:
November 2018 - November 2019
a boy at his volcano ► 11
350 photos, 14 videos
Year Eleven of my daily journal:
November 2017 - November 2018
a boy at his volcano ► 10
340 photos, 25 videos
Year Ten of my daily journal:
November 2016 - November 2017
a boy at his volcano ► 9
354 photos, 4 videos
Year Nine of my daily journal:
November 2015 - November 2016
a boy at his volcano ► 8
346 photos, 8 videos
The 8th year of my daily journal: November 2014 - November 2015
a boy at his volcano ► 7
333 photos, 17 videos
The 7th year of my daily journal: November 2013 - November 2014
a boy at his volcano ► 6
342 photos, 4 videos
The 6th year of my daily journal: November 2012 - November 2013
a boy at his volcano ► 5
330 photos, 14 videos
The 5h year of my daily journal: November 2011 - November 2012
a boy at his volcano ► 4
320 photos, 14 videos
The 4th year of my daily journal: November 2010 - November 2011
a boy at his volcano ► 3
306 photos, 5 videos
The 3rd year of my daily journal: November 2009 - November 2010
a boy at his volcano ► 2
334 photos
The 2nd year of my daily journal: November 2008 - November 2009
a boy at his volcano ► 1
324 photos
The 1st year of my daily journal: November 2007 - November 2008
There's a lot of photos here that I don't much like, but this was a huge learning process for me. This project is what made the shift...
Cape Breton / Nova Scotia 2023
60 photos
Some time with Susy on the island and then on to the mainland.
Portugal / Chicago 2022
64 photos, 1 video
Illinois 2021
63 photos
Thanksgiving time in Illinois (and a little of eastern Iowa).
Chicago 2019
65 photos
Christmas with the Cubans
Maritimes 2019
45 photos
A few days in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick with Susy.
Chicago 2018
59 photos, 1 video
Christmas with the Cubans
Greece / Chicago 2018
79 photos, 3 videos
Two weeks of adventure, in Athens, Mykonos, and Santorini (and Chicago).
Prince Edward Island 2017
13 photos
A few days on the island with Susy.
Chicago 2015
81 photos
Here I am again, in the arms of Susy in the land of Chicago. Christmas with the Cubans, and a wandering with the one that I love, my wife. This was her last year of school.
Chicago 2014
83 photos, 3 videos
So here we are again. Over the hundreds of miles by air, I fall from the sky to Susy in Chicago. It was a connecting and conflicting thrill, as it always is. My love and I, together for the brief and...
Chicago 2013
76 photos, 8 videos
This is where weightlessness begins. Off to the west to see Susy, my love. Too much time apart healed by gentle days together. We left Chicago for northern Michigan over July 4th.
Chicago 2012
100 photos, 11 videos
Two weeks and two days together with my love. it's always hard to be away, it always feels good to return.
Chicago 2011
117 photos, 13 videos
A welcome return after three months away. This was the best two weeks of my life up to that point.
Chicago 2010
114 photos, 10 videos
Two weeks in Chicago over Christmas and New Years, visiting Susy.
Halifax 2010
12 photos, 1 video
with my parents in the city
Halifax 2009
24 photos, 1 video
Went to visit my friend Justin and had the misfortune of meeting his girlfriend. Haven't seen them since, and I don't much care to.
USA 2008
80 photos
journey down to Lakeland, Florida with stops in Moravian Falls, North Carolina
Ontario 2007
31 photos
vacation with my parents in Ontario
August and September, 2007
Maine 2007
51 photos
my bicycle travels from Saint John, New Brunswick to Gorham, New Hampshire.
August 2007
home is where the stars are
218 photos
seeing stars
Unearthly Glow
266 photos
getting drunk on moonshine
the lower powers
226 photos
it's a dark day for electricity
instax daydreaming
224 photos
images with the Instax 210 camera
the ocean
1317 photos, 53 videos
deep skin
24 photos
drive-by shooting
151 photos, 5 videos
things feel better when they're moving fast
shoot first, ask questions later
735 photos, 84 videos
stealth photography
Cabin Fever
69 photos
Secret Cellars
59 photos
Any Old Iron
99 photos, 2 videos
Rusty steel truss bridges of Nova Scotia, road and rail.
house portraits
207 photos
close enough to touch
105 photos, 3 videos
Macro images, close enough to blind you. Taken with Vivitar close-up filters.
hunter, hunter
56 photos
Instinct and Obedience to God
239 photos, 21 videos
darkness on the face of the earth
168 photos, 3 videos
children shouldn't play with dead things
Wild Divine
331 photos
mushroom soup for the soul
148 photos, 1 video
I, for one, welcome our new fungal overlords.
exactly how light it is
289 photos, 2 videos
We worship the sun god, the god of the sun. We stare into her one unblinking eye, and know that it is good.
white noise
62 photos
bright sun on snow
pure light on white
fear of not flying
70 photos, 1 video
into the mystic
684 photos, 4 videos
fog softens the ugly and brightens the beautiful
primal
17 photos
my mother's eyes
93 photos
My mother's photography, my inspiration, and why I started taking pictures. My ultimate goal is to attain the magic of these images. 1975-2000.
a girl at her volcano
116 photos, 2 videos
Sri Arunachala Ramana Mandiram
91 photos, 1 video
the building and surrounding land
find out more
Grace Farm
32 photos
Anderson Home
30 photos
a neighborhood home
34 photos
the woods & the stream
553 photos, 14 videos
behind my house
my childhood playground
Skafte home
53 photos
kitchen window
49 photos
in the bedroom
188 photos, 5 videos
anywhere I've slept more than two nights...
Messenger Road overpass
58 photos, 3 videos
A quiet country road that passes over Highway 101 in Nova Scotia.
St. Croix Cove Falls
54 photos
the bench
23 photos, 1 video
Valley View Park
442 photos, 1 video
on the North Mountain, overlooking Bridgetown
Blomidon Lookoff
26 photos
The Tree of Life
22 photos
she calls me back, to every now and every then
Child Graves of Nova Scotia
324 photos
Rumsey Cemetery
76 photos
a burial ground down my road
Ricketson Cemetery
35 photos
Abandoned Vehicles
404 photos, 2 videos
Siberia House
122 photos, 1 video
on the bay shore
Century Farm
97 photos, 2 videos
This home once stood on Port Lorne Road – Mount Rose, Nova Scotia
The Five-Sided House
85 photos, 1 video
The haunt of novelist Spider Robinson, and others. I called it The Acid House.
Porcupine Paradise
61 photos
The Nomad
76 photos, 3 videos
The Friendly Church
65 photos, 2 videos
Splitsville
64 photos, 2 videos
Total Anarchy
59 photos
up the hill from The Five-Sided House
Crooked Little House
58 photos
on the north shore
The Red Palace
64 photos, 2 videos
Uranian
53 photos
The Mysterium
52 photos
Displaced Nation
54 photos
Sailor's Rest
62 photos
Gehue Home
54 photos, 1 video
Elastic Factory
42 photos
an abandoned underwear elastic factory
Cryer's Paradise
42 photos, 1 video
Enoch's Shack
45 photos
The Secret Garden
39 photos
down the road from me
Low Estate
38 photos, 1 video
Prairie Home Companion
32 photos
The Glass House
32 photos
on the north shore
Lansdowner
51 photos
The Shrine
37 photos
Stevens Homestead
34 photos
Forestry Division
33 photos
Strange Vacation
29 photos
Harmony House
27 photos
Journey's End
26 photos
fell down, only rubble remains
Round Hill Homestead
22 photos
Evil Twin Sisters
22 photos, 1 video
The German Cottage
21 photos
Riverside Dream
21 photos
House of Trask
19 photos
Marsman House
18 photos, 1 video
Newbery House
19 photos
Condemned Land
18 photos
no longer condemned
in the process of renovation
Harbour House
21 photos, 1 video
The Messenger
17 photos
Farmhand's House
17 photos
No Direction Home
16 photos
finally torn down and taken away
The Watcher
14 photos
the old fire watchtower
House of the White Elephant
13 photos
Moose River Bridge
7 photos
Old railroad bridge in Clementsport, torn down now.
Ann-polis Royal
314 photos
Arl-ngton / Mount R-se
612 photos, 2 videos
Aylesf-rd Mountain
59 photos
B-xter's Harbour
27 photos, 1 video
Beac-nsfield
2424 photos, 6 videos
Bear R-ver
313 photos, 4 videos
Bloom-ngton
135 photos, 2 videos
Br-dgetown
1139 photos, 1 video
C-ledonia
18 photos
C-rleton Corner
132 photos
Cl-rence
693 photos, 1 video
Cl-mentsport / Upper Cl-ments
81 photos, 1 video
Cl-mentsvale / Greenl-nd
189 photos, 1 video
D-laps Cove
153 photos, 2 videos
D-mpsey Corner
54 photos
D-gby
63 photos
D-gby Neck and Islands
451 photos, 1 video
East D-lhousie
66 photos
G-spereau Area
112 photos
Gr-nville / B-lleisle
304 photos, 4 videos
Gr-nville Ferry / Beach
104 photos
Gr-ywood / Milf-rd
141 photos, 1 video
H-lifax
57 photos
H-ll's Harbour
59 photos, 2 videos
H-mpton
1125 photos, 2 videos
Hillsb-rn / Litchfi-ld
134 photos
Ingl-wood
493 photos, 1 video
K-mpt / H-rmony Mills
102 photos
K-ntville
81 photos
Lawr-ncetown
207 photos, 2 videos
M-rgaretsville
187 photos
M-ddleton
156 photos
M-rden
116 photos
M-sher's Corner
118 photos
Mount H-nley
266 photos, 1 video
N-taux
244 photos
Outr-m
277 photos, 8 videos
Par-dise
284 photos
P-rker's Cove
68 photos
P-rotte
95 photos, 1 video
Ph-nney's Cove
315 photos, 1 video
Port G-orge / C-ttage Cove
160 photos
Port L-rne
398 photos, 3 videos
R-und Hill
235 photos, 1 video
Sm-th's Cove
43 photos
Spa Spr-ngs
206 photos
Spr-ngfield / F-lkland Ridge
80 photos
St. Cr-ix Cove
667 photos, 3 videos
T-rbrook / Tr-mont
222 photos, 1 video
Vict-ria Beach
174 photos, 2 videos
V-ctoria Harbour / Og-lvie
95 photos
V-rginia East / Pr-ncedale
40 photos
W-ldeck
67 photos, 1 video
West D-lhousie
139 photos, 2 videos
W-lmot
86 photos
Y-ung's Cove
182 photos, 3 videos
Us
173 photos, 1 video
with Susy, my wife
Susy
534 photos, 51 videos
The most heartwaking whole human I know. My wife, and the closest friend I've ever had.
Mom and Dad
266 photos, 19 videos
Karen and Jack
Grandparents
75 photos, 18 videos
James
16 photos
David
20 photos, 6 videos
my brother
Janet
52 photos, 8 videos
my sister
Susan
63 photos, 2 videos
she's not just another person
Kailey
76 photos
What can I say?
Steff
9 photos
Shelley
17 photos, 6 videos
laughter is the best poison
28 photos
inanimate faces
14 photos
Low Tide Gallery
94 photos, 1 video
A public art gallery that I used to own and run in my hometown.
2009 Honda Civic
39 photos
My first car, driven exactly five years from December 2017 to December 2022.
original poetry
1063 photos, 48 videos
worth one thousand