layers of memories
May 07, 2023
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Today's blog is courtesy of a question asked a month ago by friend and photographer extraordinaire, Steve Immel. In the process of curating photographs of California to select ten of his best for an article, Steve asked how would I do the same when it came to New Mexico. It was truly a brain game that made me look through numerous slides and prints...
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market bubble
April 30, 2023
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I heard a story some time ago about a stock market bubble in the 1600s (1636-1637) is the date given by multiple sources) about tulip speculation, and wondered, as I continued to photograph lovely yellow tulips, if it was true. According to Investopedia, it was indeed the case that "speculation drove the value of tulip bulbs to extremes. At the mar...
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a blog full of buds
April 23, 2023
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The buds are everywhere and in abundance. It is spring, which in New Mexico also means that either the wind or a late frost may diminish their beauty. I figured with both of those things forecast this week, I needed to get out and shoot as much as I could. For the past week, the blossoms have beckoned. Today's blog is heavy with buds from bulbs and...
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all in the cup
April 16, 2023
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Spring really burst forth in this part of the Southwest last week, and with it, many more blooms of assorted types. So in addition to photographing weaving details, I spent a good bit of time in the garden exploring assorted daffodils and flowering fruit trees. In addition to the flowers, it occurred to me that buds are very nearly as beautiful the...
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a nod to spring
April 09, 2023
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After fits and starts from nature, we are having some true spring days in the southern Rocky Mountains. To celebrate, today's blog is a nod to the season from the flower world, specifically daffodils. Although some forsythia bushes are beginning to bloom in the city, there are few plants or trees blooming right now, particularly since a late frost...
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the painted landscape
April 02, 2023
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Before humans (including painter Georgia O'Keefe) arrived on the scene, the earth's geologic forces were at work, and the shaping is ongoing. We are simply unable to see the change in terms of a day, week, month or year, or even decades. The painted landscape in northern New Mexico, west of Abiquiu, could easily be a geology master class, millennia...
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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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