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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Olympic prowess
February 26, 2018
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I love the Olympic games - both summer and winter - and cannot conceive of the practice and development of strength, endurance, and skill it takes to compete. The games also put my mind to work about games and how the origins of many of the sports came from sheer practicality and need, such as cross country skiing, biathlon, and downhill skiing. Hu...
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"Whose woods these are..."
February 19, 2018
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Robert Frost wrote a poem in 1922 titled "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening". For some reason, while going through thousands of my photographs this week - old and new - and despite the fact that snow has been basically on a leave of absence this winter season in the high mesa country, the poem has been wandering around in my head the last couple...
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a traditional wedding photograph
February 11, 2018
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Friend and fellow photographer, Steve Immel and I are meeting on this "blog" Monday to discuss weddings. As you know from following me online, I really enjoy wedding photography. However, each wedding is a "once in a lifetime experience" which means the photographer has one chance to get it right. Since I have a need to control as much of my part i...
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the eyes have it
February 05, 2018
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Thrushes or the Muscicapidae family apparently have had a very good year. There are hundreds of robins, bluebirds, and solitaires coming to our water dishes to bathe and drink in this winter of little moisture. These birds got me thinking about eyes and their significance in both the bird and human world.
Solitaires and robins have eye rings that...
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it is the sky
January 29, 2018
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Besides photography that is scheduled within any given week in the life of a photographer, ideas for blogs seem to come from the most interesting places. This week, while having a conversation with a neighbor, she looked up at the sky and said "This is why I am here. Look at that." And how true her words were. New Mexico's sky has attracted many, p...
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jewels of winter
January 22, 2018
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The first real winter arrived late Saturday evening and early Sunday morning in the southern Rocky Mountains. Although we had just an inch of snow on the ground here, ten inches fell in many of the mountain areas, and the variation in temperatures yielded beautiful crystalline ice in many places. The sagebrush seed pods turned colors as the clouds...
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