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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also rans
July 27, 2015
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The week was full of photography, from another mini-workshop on lighting with documentary friend Cristina McCandless, a family reunion shoot with lovely people from various parts of the country gathering in Taos, and readying photographs for the Taos Fall Arts Festival.
The festival, which runs from Friday, September 25 through Sunday, October 4 a...
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a broader view
July 19, 2015
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You have read several times in this blog that Highway 64 between Tres Piedras and Tierra Amarilla bisects some of the most beautiful country in northern New Mexico. Driving this road is never disappointing. Several weeks ago, Fred needed to deliver a rug commission to Tierra Wools in Los Ojos, and Highway 64 is the fastest route. Naturally, the cam...
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variations on a theme of gaillardia
July 13, 2015
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It is high summer. Paintbrush and cacti are giving way to light purple penstemon, along with numerous yellow and white composite or daisy-like flowers. One flower that has always fascinated me is gaillardia. These red and yellow flowers can be found along the roadways in New Mexico, in a seemingly endless variation of designs, and shades of the col...
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Lighting 102
July 06, 2015
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Documentary filmmaker, Cristina McCandless, brought her moveable film setup to the house last Monday. I was deeply humbled by what she has learned and how she has developed her skills in the past decade. Bag upon bag of equipment - tripods, cords, camera, and litepanel - seemed to spring forth and consume the small space in which we proceeded to ph...
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beginning
June 28, 2015
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Much of this photographic week has been spent working with my new Westcott uLite kit, familiarizing myself with its capabilities and technical aspects, and with my cameras and results rendered using the lights. My husband, Fred, was kind enough to act as model while I moved the tripods, raised and lowered them, and changed the angles of the softbox...
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the time of light
June 22, 2015
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As I begin to write this blog, it is summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and the first "official" day of summer. In some northern hemisphere locations, there will be no darkness at all today and for the next few weeks. Those of us who have clear skies are also being treated to the near convergence of the planets Jupiter and Venus, along w...
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