the war to end all wars
November 08, 2015
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28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918 is a time period that some among the living still remember. For those who fought in World War I, conditions were horrid, and as devastating as much of the new technology that was used. Bone chilling cold, mud, malnutrition, and being thrust into wet trenches with hundreds of other soldiers were just a few of the con...
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when tango and Dia de Los Muertos meet
November 02, 2015
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The Albuquerque Tango Festival, one of the largest in the United States, is held the first weekend in November every year. This year, it happened to coincide with Halloween and Dia de Los Muertos - Day of the Dead - a day intended to honor and remember loved ones who have passed from this world. Below is an image of Paloma Villalobos hanging her al...
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new friends and memories
October 26, 2015
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Given the fact that we spent a lovely day yesterday with Bonnie and Ken, new friends that my sister and I met during the river cruise last year at this time, I thought it appropriate that today's blog reflect some of those memories.
When I saw a man hidden in this building alcove in Vienna, Austria, it was a photographic no brainer. I had to take...
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for the artist in all of us
October 18, 2015
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I have written before about this year's Taos Fall Arts Festival, which began on Friday evening, 25 September and ran through 4 October. For the second year, it was punctuated by The Paseo, a multi-media event staged throughout the downtown Taos area. One of the requirements for artists entering work in the Taos Select portion was that the work must...
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webs of life
October 12, 2015
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Trying my best not to begin this blog like Dashiell Hammett, I will say there was a morning last week when the fog lay over the land like a linen shirt, each block of the weave holding droplets of water that appeared in front of my eyes as the sun tried to make an appearance. Fred was the first one to see a spider web, a cup holding individual drop...
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Highway 64 splash
October 05, 2015
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You can see the veins of gold and yellow in the Rocky Mountains from miles away. Given the fact that today is the 5th of October, it is a bit late for such an abundance of color. Not that I nor anyone else is complaining. It is stunning. Many of the scrub oaks (with one of the shortest growing seasons in New Mexico), have not even begun to turn col...
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Artists' Moon
September 28, 2015
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On Friday evening, the Taos Fall Arts Festival opened in downtown Taos, with the Taos Open section at the Stables Gallery and Coronado Hall at UNM Taos, and the juried Taos Selects at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church gymnasium. At the same time under a nearly full moon, The Paseo, a multi-media event, offered a broad spectrum of innovative presentation...
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harvest jewels
September 21, 2015
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Just after I had photographed the corn featured in last week's blog, I went into the raised bed again to see what other kind of corn cobs were ready for their close-ups, and found some absolute jewels. Nature contains the most incredible color and design combinations. Needless to say, I spent another eight hours or so over a period of three days ph...
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Process
September 14, 2015
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Frequently people ask about the process of developing my blog, writing, and taking photographs. My thoughts always return to the tenets of Journalism 101 - who, what, when, where, why, and (if you have time) how.
I began to blog as a way to require myself to work at the art of photography and writing every day and every week. There really are very...
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Labor Day
September 07, 2015
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Labor Day weekend has very nearly come and gone, as the traffic along the highway signifies the efforts of many to return home after the holiday. But I did not want to let this Monday, set aside more than one hundred years ago for the laborer, escape without saying "Thank You" to everyone for the work you do. Our society as we know it would cease t...
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Lucia
August 31, 2015
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During the seven years I photographed people throughout the state of New Mexico for my book "A Place Like No Other: people of enchanted land", my eye was constantly seeking interesting faces. It was not out of the question for me to ask a stranger if I could photograph him or her. Thus, when I pondered doing a similar project within northern New Me...
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Santa Fe Indian Market
August 23, 2015
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In 1972, my husband and I drifted into Santa Fe on our honeymoon. It was a rainy August afternoon, so we booked a room at the El Rey, and drove to the Plaza. There was a great arts and crafts fair in progress. We were lucky. It was Indian Market weekend, and had it been 2015, we would have been unable to get either a parking space or a hotel room....
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Dancing with the ancestors
August 17, 2015
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About this time last year, my sister and I were close to departure on our river cruise to central and eastern Europe. One of the purposes for making the journey was to see that part of the world from which ancestors on our mother's side originated. Being curious people, both my husband and I had questions about our family histories. There seemed to...
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Why Art?
August 10, 2015
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The circus came to town this week in the form of the Republican Party debate. In my opinion, it met very few traditional debate criteria and was staged more as a mixed martial arts fight, complete with open microphones and the voice of Fox "news" Bret Baier as ring announcer almost shouting "In this corner in the red trunks". Of course, that is not...
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design by plants
August 02, 2015
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The first commercial chile roasting stands are popping up in parking lots all over New Mexico, a sign that the chile harvest has begun in central and southern New Mexico. Although the night-time temperatures are cooler in northern New Mexico, individuals as well as commercial farmers have been eating lettuce and other leafy vegetables for several m...
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