the next adventure
June 11, 2018
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How to begin this morning's blog? To say that food is the subject matter would be simply wrong and fall short of explanation because of the extraordinary spirit that has been rattling around in my head since the news broke. Anthony Bourdain, renowned chef, renegade, traveler, adventurer, and consumer of all life, took his own in France this week. H...
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black and white, color, and in between
June 04, 2018
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Nothing like a three+ hour meeting with a photographer and a couple to be photographed to get the creative juices flowing. That is what happened Saturday with photography friend Steve Immel, and a truly lovely couple who will be getting married in August. Since I have the privilege of being another photographer at the wedding, it was great to meet...
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for each
May 28, 2018
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It is Memorial Day. Throughout the weekend, a steady stream of motorcycles, trucks, campers, boats and assorted vehicles have moved over American highways, driven by people seemingly in a hurry to get somewhere. There will be barbecues, furniture sales, yard sales. This three day weekend is considered the beginning of the summer travel season but t...
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Fiber Crawl
May 21, 2018
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As our friend, Victoria says "get a cup of coffee and a snack." Today's blog is a full one!
This weekend was the New Mexico Fiber Crawl, courtesy of the wonderful people at EVFAC, otherwise known at the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center. evac.org. Artisans and shops from south of Albuquerque to the Colorado border participated in the crawl. Fred h...
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fiber, fiber everywhere
May 14, 2018
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May signals not only the opening of summer, but the art and studio tour season. The New Mexico Fiber Crawl begins this Friday 18 May and runs through Sunday, 20 May 2018, at a wide variety of locations around northern New Mexico. Organizers of the Crawl have creatively divided participating artists and businesses into "threads" - Albuquerque, Españ...
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ode to the common
May 07, 2018
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On this spring morning in the northern hemisphere, one thing is certain: somewhere, probably everywhere there isn't snow on the ground, dandelions are in bloom. When I searched them online this morning, subject headings and websites mostly lead the reader to sites with directions for destroying these native plants. To be fair, there are quite a few...
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children of spring
April 30, 2018
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Whether or not one believes that the year, season during that year, and time of day of birth influence the personality of child, it is apparent to me that those children born in spring - in addition to having the wild and wooly weather incorporated into their being, seem to be creative and passionate about life, and are capable of great empathy and...
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field trip
April 22, 2018
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This is the time of year when lumbering, yellow school buses dot the highways, filled with pumped children who don't have to sit in a classroom that day, on their way to a museum, game, or park. Field trips were always exciting events that happened toward the end of the school year, when both teachers and students are at wits end and holding their...
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cloud "tells"
April 16, 2018
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Written media, including books, magazines, and newspapers in addition to movies and television, frequently feature gambling scenes. From James Bond playing baccarat in the original Casino Royale (and almost all the other Bond films) to those scenes in many other movie and television series of people playing poker, and Texas hold'em, we have had an...
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people and portraits
April 09, 2018
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If you read my blog regularly, you know that one of my favorite photographic subject areas is environmental portraiture. Always different, always stimulating, and sometimes challenging, this kind of "people photography" leaves a lot more to chance then studio portraiture. The photographer has to be strong and firm with her or his own vision, but fr...
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structure in nature
April 02, 2018
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An episode of NOVA that aired this week on math spurred my thinking on today's blog. A good chunk of time was spent on the Fibonacci sequence (according to Wikipedia "...every number after the first two is the sum of the two preceding ones"), and how they appear in nature. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc. And that lead me to structure and how even appare...
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petal pusher
March 25, 2018
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As far as I am concerned, there is nothing like a gift of flowers to get the creative juices flowing. They also make me ponder color, how they reflect the surroundings in which I place them, and how different hues photograph.
In Sacred Emily, written in 1913, Gertrude Stein penned the now famous phrase "A rose is a rose is a rose". I might add, pe...
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organization
March 19, 2018
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Nothing like revisiting photographs that are hither and yon to bring home the concept of organizing your photographic work, and placing value on each and every image you keep.
It was that kind of weekend, and yesterday in particular, when the wind was howling and waves of grey-purple clouds were moving across the mesa that yielded snow, graupel, a...
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of winters past
March 11, 2018
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Thanks to all of you who read and comment so regularly on this blog. It is great to receive your input. Which is one of the reasons why today's edition is a bit of a nod to winters past. TTT wrote saying she was absolutely not ready for spring, and that she wanted to see some winter before things start emerging from the ground. By request, here are...
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the two springs
March 05, 2018
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Because I tend to think that spring arrives on the vernal or spring equinox, I did not give much thought to the 1st of March this week, except for changing the calendar. But the people at NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, use temperature data to define seasons, in this case, meteorological spring. Which began on Thursday....
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