the stone of March
March 26, 2023
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Oddly enough, this week's blog began with one of the base leaves of a head of green cabbage, and how it seemed a perfect cup in which to photograph the birthstone of March - aquamarine. A bit like an oyster and its pearl. On the wall calendar I look at everyday while working at the computer, is a rather large number of people who were born in or wh...
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off the loom
March 19, 2023
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Many artists - including weavers and photographers who live in colder climates - use winter as a season for indoor work. Whether it is the art itself, organization, bookkeeping, or public relations, artists continue to work during the darker season.
This is the case for my husband Fred, who weaves six hours a day, using 125 pounds of Navajo-Churro...
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hungry?
March 12, 2023
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Not that I am intentionally trying to make you hungry, but I spent what seemed to be an inordinate amount of time this week reviewing images, and creating and photographing food. It is something I enjoy doing, and this time, it was a contest for the Santa Fe Reporter Food and Restaurant edition that got my creative juices going. When I assembled th...
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splash of spring
March 05, 2023
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Since the 1st of March is the beginning of meteorological spring, and since we saw two honeybees yesterday despite patches of snow here and there, and since the first daffodils are emerging from the ground, it is time to include a splash of spring color in today's blog. Mind you, there will be many frosts, much wind, and probably (hopefully) more s...
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New Mexico encore
February 27, 2023
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When I started blogging in 2010, which seems a lifetime ago, one of my purposes was, basically, to show a week in a photographer's life. As I have written here many times, artist, sculptor, and photographer Sam Taylor once told me that "if you consider yourself an artist, you have to do your art every day." I take that to heart and do just that. Be...
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New Mexico not Fargo
February 20, 2023
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The past week, photographically, has been spent curating photographs for publications in a variety of media sources. Negatives, slides, and digital images are all in the mix. There was a good chunk of time in the late 1970s through roughly 2005 when I was writing and publishing fast and furiously. After that, my focus was on blogging, entering art...
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gaggles and a flotilla
February 12, 2023
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As promised last week, today's blog features snow geese at the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge, south of Socorro, New Mexico. While attempting to capture the sandhill cranes to the sound of bursts from multiple cameras, I noticed a band of white almost directly across the water. It was snow geese that we hand seen earlier from a distance. I suspe...
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for the birds
February 05, 2023
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Given the ten-day forecast and the clear weather predicted, it was time to head to another of New Mexico's jewels - Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, south of Socorro and a short drive from San Antonio. It is one of those places to which nearly as many photographers flock as birds, and it is extraordinary. Fred and I were trying to think...
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a little light lunch
January 30, 2023
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In photography, as is the case with almost everything else is life, the devil is in the details. Viewing the food photography every day in the online New York Times, I take mental notes of how the prepared dish is lit, arranged, in which dish or dishes it is contained, as well as the backdrop. What I noticed most recently in the Times is that the p...
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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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