pure gold
October 12, 2019
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Call it intuition or slow knowledge combined with the weather forecast, but I suspected a trip to the mountains for an aspen photo session was necessary this week. Given the fact that the low temperature here the last two mornings was 16 F, I am glad. When temperatures are that cold, the leaves sometimes just turn brown, and many of them fall. My m...
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if you cannot beat them...
October 06, 2019
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...join them. That was my approach this week while photographing aspen leaves. I was able to catch a few before the breeze or wind began, but much of the time, when I wanted to photograph close-ups, the wind would be blowing, because during the autumn months in New Mexico, that is normal. So I took a different tack to the wind and experimented with...
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shapes and colors
September 30, 2019
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Although it feels as if the harvest season has just begun, in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, the harvest has reached its apex and growers are starting to share the last of their fruits and veggies with the world beyond their fields and gardens. With the news that parts of Montana had over three feet of snow this weekend, we know the sea...
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time of change
September 23, 2019
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Unless the sky is obscured on a regular basis where you live in the northern hemisphere, you have probably noticed that there are a few minutes less daylight each day. And those minutes become hours. Instead of darkness arriving at 9 p.m., suddenly it seems the light disappears from the sky closer to 7:00 p.m. It is a time of change, as crops are h...
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feathers and petals
September 15, 2019
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Each photographer works in her or his own way. Unless I am photographing a wedding, doing an environmental portraiture session, working on an article about a specific place or part of nature, or a book, I never really know where the camera lens will lead me. This week was a good example. Heading out to photograph the beautiful purple asters that do...
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visitors at dawn
September 07, 2019
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Odd things happen and new visitors arrive on the mesa when there is a period of dry weather. Birds bathe in the water dishes almost non-stop, the lapping of coyotes is a frequent sound, and occasionally, we are lucky enough to see mule deer, mostly at dawn or dusk, literally sucking the bird baths dry. It is truly amazing how much a thirsty deer ca...
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beauty in the beast mural
September 02, 2019
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As a photographer, I often ponder the Russell brothers' statement in the Sierra Club book On the Loose, "After the first artist, only the copyist." What we do as photographers is look at something from a slightly different angle, through a different lens, with altered effects, and present the new "copy" of something that already exists. That is why...
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anniversaries
August 26, 2019
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Since this blog will (in theory) arrive in your email boxes on 26 August, I thought it appropriate to photographically celebrate August anniversaries. A majority of weddings I have photographed happened in August, followed, in number, by July, June, May, and October. One thing I realized from going through my images is how many technological transi...
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seasonal joys
August 18, 2019
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One of the myriad interesting things about the Rocky Mountain west part of the United States is the seasonal changes. Sometimes the changes are drastic and quick, other times, they are slow and subtle. Every year, I say this, and every year - sometimes in July, sometimes in August, there will be a day that feels like autumn is knocking at the door.
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August skies
August 12, 2019
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After nourishing rains over the weekend, a deep and broad fog rolled in, covering the land. I saw a patch of brown to the south that normally wasn't there, and I waited for it to move, suspecting an elk was grazing. It was a buck mule deer with antlers taking a morning stroll through the sagebrush. All of nature seemed pleased with the rain. Anyone...
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in your face gold
August 05, 2019
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August is a great month in the southern Rocky Mountains. The monsoons rains have arrived to moisturize the landscape, and the color of wildflowers expands to include yellow and gold, along with the purples, blues, and browns. The wild sunflowers that dot the highways come into their own, but the ones that are cultivated in the rich bottomland are a...
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it's all about the wings
July 26, 2019
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Given the fact that the first men landed on the moon on 20 July of 1969 as part of the Apollo 11 mission, I thought flight might be an appropriate topic for this week's blog. It was a Sunday, and I was a counselor at Rancho del Chaparral Girl Scout Camp in the New Mexico mountains. Usually, there would be a hike or arts and crafts activity schedule...
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gifts of elevation
July 20, 2019
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This blog finds life in the northern hemisphere just a month beyond the summer solstice, and adjustments are being made throughout the natural world. Many of the migratory birds living here during the summer have already had chicks that have fledged and gone on their way. Others are in the process of creating another brood. The color in the garden...
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intersection of art and climate change
July 14, 2019
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Currently standing tall in the Railyard Park in Santa Fe is the Longview Polar Bear. Made of steel and recycled sheet metal by artist Don Kennell, it is one of those art pieces that, from afar, makes a huge statement. You know it is a polar bear. Close-up it gives the onlooker a very clear idea of the vision needed to put it together. Although inco...
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anniversary month
July 07, 2019
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During July of 2010, I began putting together a blog on blogspot.com., as recommended to me by several photographers and web designers who had been using it. I chose Photo Bucket as the home for photographs I planned to use in each blog, and began work on the layout, background, and other formatting elements. My inaugural blog was published on 30 A...
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