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Paige Green is a documentary and portrait photographer, whose storytelling approach to photography frequently addresses issues involving agriculture, land use, and food. Her work is featured in nine books and has been published in Glamour, National Geographic Traveler, New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, Country Living, House Beautiful, and Culture. Paige lives in Petaluma, CA with a house full of boys.

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  • coco meets the tube

    Coco, the narrow boat, all of the boats have names and it is bad luck to change a name unless you take the boat out of the water first, travels from her home at Three Mills to her new home. Moving day was seen by many of the movers as a good opportunity to bring…

  • peace and quiet

    Rachel and John Fitzgerald drive their boat, Jesse, to their new mooring at Canary Wharf, in the heart of London’s business district. They are excited about being closer to their work and having access to the good grocery stores that service the busy business district but they are sad to loose their privacy and silence,…

  • home sweet

    Dick Vincent at his very tidy and regulated new mooring in Canary Wharf. Dick and four other narrow boats from Three Mills feel small at their new mooring next to the Dutch barges and high-rises. But the new community has warmly welcomed the little boat people. Although they have to keep their belongings clean around…

  • gone

    Plants and other random belongings sit left-behind at Three Mills mooring, until eventually the construction will start and someone will throw them away. In 18 months the boats will come back to a new and improved, continuously floating, mooring.

  • to be continued

  • horses ignoring king george’s house

    once upon a time there was a man who thought he was so important that he built his house on top of a beautiful hill for all the little people to look up at him….so now the people call him king george. these horses three miles away don’t mind looking at king george’s house but….

  • king george’s house

    ….as it turns out not everyone likes king george or looking at his house on the hill…..so some people stole pipes while the house was being built and….

  • king george’s sign

    this is what king george has to say about that. needless to say i did not trespass….but i needed to get higher to fit the house and the sign in the photograph and unfortunately i did not have Matteo’s ladder but i found standing on the roof of the car was good enough for me.

  • fifteen with the talking duck

    kate, better known as boo, holding her prize in the hunting room. she turns 15 this week. her dad, todd, says he will shoot any boy she brings home.

  • this is boo’s father, todd

    every year todd has an easter egg hunt in one of his giant pastures, for all the neighbor ranch kids. this is the pre-hunt egg filling party in todd’s hunting room. todd is the real deal when it comes to ranching…..you can’t get more authentic.