writers all
December 07, 2020
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In last week's blog, I asked you to share your "six word memoirs", and as expected, there were some six word wonders. Everyone, at one time or another, is a writer, whether by putting pencil and pen to paper or typing, on computer or in text form or just putting words together in your mind. We all do it and have the potential for greatness. Given t...
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Thanksgiving Monday???
November 30, 2020
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Where did Thanksgiving Monday go? In my case, it went to a great deal of procurement, given the fact that we had not shopped for groceries in three weeks. Then, naturally, one has to bring said food items into the house and give them a thorough washing, as well as isolate edibles in hard packaging for a week or so, wash hands perhaps twenty times o...
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thankful
November 23, 2020
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On 26 November 2020, Thanksgiving will be celebrated in the United States of America. Despite and perhaps because of the widening pandemic, some have felt the desperate need to travel and visit friends and family by airplane, automobile, train, or bus. Many will make telephone calls, or use Skype, Zoom or other formats, as well as social media, to...
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fashion statement
November 16, 2020
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Our governor placed another (and much needed, in my opinion) stay at home order for New Mexico, effective today, as she desperately tries to convince people that wearing masks, keeping social distance, and mostly staying at home are the best methods of remediating the explosion of COVID-19 in our midst. It became more profound on Sunday when a frie...
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a week of light and shadow
November 09, 2020
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We have yet to know exactly how history will remember this week in the year 2020. It was filled with darkness and light, light and shadow, and all the tension those conditions hold. It reminded me of Shadow and Light Magazine, a publication for which photographer Steve Immel is shooting photographs and penning great rocks of wisdom. It is worth inv...
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masked and armed with camera
November 02, 2020
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In the low afternoon light with watercolor clouds styling the sky, I was privileged to do a wedding engagement shoot along the Santa Fe River yesterday. As is the case every single time I remove my cameras from their cases and start shooting, I learned a number of things. Mask, long lens, and both the Nikon D800 and D5200 in hand, I anticipated a f...
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closing salvo
October 26, 2020
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This year's autumn in northern New Mexico has been beautiful and dramatic, and was extended by warmer than usual weather. But a strong storm currently ripping across the landscape from west to east is firing a closing salvo at the season with high winds and graupel/groppel in our neighborhood. Left in its wake is a gentle hush on the land, lovingly...
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another bag of autumn
October 19, 2020
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It is truly a shame that much of the west is in an epic drought because the conditions continue to provide the most stunning luscious days and cool nights. Walk anywhere and people will say "Isn't the weather gorgeous?" and "I would like the weather to be like this all year." Of course it can't and won't and should not, given the fact that moisture...
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autumn photography grab bag
October 12, 2020
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Autumn presents a multitude of photographic opportunities, and the weather this week made that photography an absolute delight. While some parts of the country and the world are receiving much more rain than necessary, it is extremely dry here but equally gorgeous.
The season would be incomplete without at least one drive into the mountains. Altho...
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dogs in the hood
October 05, 2020
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It has been quite some time since I have photographed dogs or canines, including coyotes, so starting again around the neighborhood is a new and interesting challenge. Almost like human environmental portraiture, photographing the dogs, perhaps along with their owners in our new neighborhood, may become an ongoing project.
To begin, here is a coyo...
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National Electric Drive Week
September 28, 2020
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With the compression of time, the pandemic, and all the other strangeness that continue to mark the year 2020, my recall of specific years and time is less than stellar. Given that, some three to four years ago, Fred and I had finished our workout at the GCCC (Genoveva Chavez Community Center) in Santa Fe, and outside in the parking lot was a mini-...
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fading to fall
September 21, 2020
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Despite day time temperatures in the high 70 to low 80 degree range in the southern Rocky Mountains, there are fewer hours of daylight. Change is in the air. The birds feel it. Humans feel it. The autumnal equinox is upon us tomorrow. Flowers show their final beauty by fading into fall. Buds are still appearing on rose bushes around town, although...
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what do you do?
September 14, 2020
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I have asked myself so many times this week "What can I do" and "what should I do" in reference to the climate crisis evidenced by unprecedented fires in the west, and hurricanes on the east and Gulf Coasts, not to mention the ongoing pandemic. Years ago when we held fantasies of going to the Florida Keys and Cayman Islands to snorkel, the water te...
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once a solar geek...
September 07, 2020
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...always a solar geek, I suppose. I have always wondered what goes into a human being - genetics or outside influences (nature vs. nurture) or both - and why some people become almost obsessed with one or more subjects or things. I do know that this week, all of the teachers, professors, family, and friends who are or were ever fascinated with ene...
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gift of roses
August 31, 2020
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For this photographer, gifts are wonderful for two different reasons. The first is the experience of pleasure, beauty, and sometimes fun, funk, and smiles they provide. The second is the package of photographic and written possibilities accompanying them.
I truly cannot remember seeing roses as gorgeous as the ones we were given last week, in all...
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