following the blooms
July 09, 2023
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Since I have been immersed during the last month in flower photography, specifically photographing peonies, it seemed appropriate to follow the peony blooms for one more week. The blooms are long gone from the garden and the vase, but they remain visually alive, courtesy of cameras and technology.
Nearly every photo shoot I do involves some sort o...
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time sensitive
July 03, 2023
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There are many eminently photographable things that are more or less static - mountains, meadows, trees, buildings, sculpture - and others that are not. I would call those "time sensitive". In other words, as a photographer, one needs to make the photograph relatively quickly or the subject changes. Time sensitive things include plants with showy b...
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mountain refractions
June 25, 2023
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From certain points in the city of Santa Fe, one can look up and see the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. In that first glance, the season becomes evident. Gold and red in autumn, snow in winter, bare stone in early spring, and then shades of green begin to creep up the slopes as the aspen come into leaf. The draw of the mountains is clear, and we must...
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fiber abounds
June 18, 2023
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Artists of any ilk know there is much more involved in creating a piece than the end product. It is the culmination of concept, materials procurement, resources, communication, production, and advertising. That was the essence of this week in Fred's weaving business. Not only was he able to make new contacts with people in the Navajo-Churro wool bu...
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paper or poppy
June 11, 2023
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At the risk of becoming known exclusively as a flower/plant/garden photographer, which is not the case, I, nonetheless, venture again this week into the world of flowers. Some extraordinary poppies in a neighbor's yard captured my attention. Fully three to four feet tall in all their glory, they were hard to resist. The saturated salmon color of th...
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equal time
June 04, 2023
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On 14 March 1927, House Bill # 371 officially declared the yucca (Yucca glauca) the New Mexico state flower. I am the first to admit my time photographing the impressive flower stalks is limited. But after spending a good chunk of time photographing columbines, the Colorado state flower, I thought it was appropriate to give our state flower equal t...
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we remember
May 28, 2023
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It is Memorial Day in the United States of America, a day designated by Congress on 11 May 1950, to honor U. S. military members who died while in service.
"In honor and recognition of all of our fallen service members, the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 11, 1950, as amended (36 U.S.C. 116), has requested that the President issue a p...
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inside, out, and all around
May 21, 2023
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In between the most delicious and welcome rain showers this week, my camera and I were photographing numerous columbines. The state flower of Colorado, the columbine is complicated and photogenic, and there are abundant species. Here is an image I took years ago of a Rocky Mountain Columbine Aquilegia caerulea, along the Winsor Trail in the Santa F...
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red dirt
May 14, 2023
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The human brain is an extremely complicated entity. And each human brain, although basically structured the same way, is different. It dictates how we learn and how we remember. Driving around the Jemez Mountains during the last couple of weeks has brought back memories but has also made me realize how our memories are heavily based on a person's a...
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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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