per chance to photograph
January 23, 2023
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Each season presents itself to the observer or photographer in its on way. It is up to us to look for those wedges of space and time that make themselves available. During winter, storms here frequently come from the west, heralded into the picture by wind in fits and starts. Then, suddenly, huge, nearly blinding flakes of snow fall from the sky wi...
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basic black and white
January 15, 2023
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A fresh, new year, and time to enter Shadow and Light Magazine 's Black and White 2023 photo competition. Actually, I entered in December and already know that the cover winner was a photograph by Heidi Egerman, but a number of slots for 6-8 runners up and finalists remain. Still, I wanted to present a selection here for you to see. The drama of cl...
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music of the loom
January 09, 2023
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One doesn't need to look far in our offices to see fiber - whether it is a random piece that has floated onto the floor, joining other pieces of wool fuzz in a corner - or a full-blown rug. One of the nice things about doing art as your passion and business is that it is not dictated by holidays. Fred and I both work at what we do every day. The rh...
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new year, new lens
January 01, 2023
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It is a new year. And this first blog features my recent practice with a new lens, the Fujinon aspherical lens, 30 mm macro, 1:2.8. The smaller the number on the lens after the 1, the bigger the aperture or opening, and greater amount of light the lens allows in. This is important in a close-up or macro lens because often, the smaller the subject m...
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flickers and projections
December 25, 2022
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The sun is streaming through the window onto my hands as I write on this Christmas morning. A rotation of seasonal music is playing, including that of pianist George Winston, the Chieftains, and the soundtrack of A Charlie Brown Christmas, written and performed by renowned jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi, along with Fred Marshal and Monty Ludwig on dou...
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into the light
December 19, 2022
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This week is one of wonder and light. Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, began last night. Wednesday is the Winter Solstice, and Sunday is Christmas. In many ways, when you think about it, the time has been celebrated for millennia by people on Earth as a transition from the darkness into light.
Most in the northern hemisphere have noticed that the...
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baubles and balls
December 12, 2022
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When a person walks or runs every day, particularly if the route is similar or the same, you tend to pick up little hints about others who walk daily. You meet the dogs and learn their names before you learn the names of their owners, or people with whom you have casual conversations. It was at least a year before we learned the name of a man we sa...
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technical and beautiful
December 05, 2022
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This week in photography here in Santa Fe was more utilitarian than art, but as every photographer, writer, artist, or tradesperson knows, both the technical and the beautiful are involved in every production. Photographers and videographers of all stripes will recognize and perhaps cringe at some of the photographs, while some of you will laugh, r...
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gift bag of black and white
November 28, 2022
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Two photography gifts landed in my lap this week. The first was a compact digital scanner that my sister was kind enough to give me as a Christmas gift. Not being one to delay opening a box, I opened the first box and then realized what it was. So why not get into it? I began scanning some color slides as test subjects, learning how to use a very n...
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abundance and more
November 21, 2022
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In the days of yore, those ancient times when I was growing up in Albuquerque, the food we savored on a day-to-day basis was seasonal. Since our state has never been the agricultural powerhouse that California was and is, the fresh food we consumed was dictated by items, truth be told, that were able to survive the shipping process. Now called non-...
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all the rage
November 13, 2022
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Hardly a day goes by when I don't see a mention online or in print about pickleball. The game has been around since its "invention" in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Joel Pritchard, Barney McCallum, and Bill Bell are credited with devising the game (ostensibly after not being able to locate a badminton shuttlecock), challenging their childr...
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a tree for all seasons
November 07, 2022
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Beauty surrounds us every day, but it tends to be a little more vocal in the autumn months. Following the first snowfall of the season and subsequent wind, many deciduous trees, including the aspen and cottonwoods, shed their leaves, leaving them to dry, crunching delightfully underfoot. One tree in our neighborhood remains full of leaves, ablaze i...
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riparian mystery
October 31, 2022
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The human body is comprised largely of water. Depending on body fat and fitness, our bodies house between 60-75% water. It is no wonder that most, if not all humans, have an attraction to, if not physical and emotional need, to be near water and feel its afterglow.
Santa Fe actually does have a river running through it, albeit diminutive much of t...
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a work in progress
October 23, 2022
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A friend steered me in the direction of part of the Rail Trail in Santa Fe this week, where he frequently bicycles, taking in a variety of views of the city. Between Siringo Road and St. Michael's Drive along the trail is a work in progress. Not a painted mural but one that is being lovingly made of mosaic tiles, along with other ceramic elements,...
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autumn leaves as backdrop
October 16, 2022
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Nature provides the most enticing backdrops, and among some of them are autumn leaves. The ash tree leaves are turning yellow at a very fast pace, and following the recent wind and rain, they are almost all on the ground. You have seen odd pairings of objects and backdrops in my blogs before, so it is not terribly surprising that my mind went to a...
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