fall fiber fiesta
November 25, 2019
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The car is still packed with wool and rug racks this morning as we enter the post-Fall Fiber Fiesta phase. The fiesta took place this weekend in Santa Fe, and despite Friday's snow, a great group of people were in and out of the Scottish Right Temple all weekend to admire the work of massively talented artists and craftspeople, and to do a little h...
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winter guests
November 16, 2019
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Every season on the mesa is different, and each season varies from year to year, depending on the weather and other environmental conditions. As it happens, a dry month has given us a number of early winter guests, all of them very thirsty. At night, we occasionally hear the elk rummaging around our water catchment stock tank (which is empty right...
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11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
November 11, 2019
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Two blog Mondays are predictable with me - Memorial Day and Veterans Day - because I feel that credit and respect should be given to women and men in uniform, at the very least, on these days. Many people say to veterans "Thank you for your service", "thanks to the families of those who made the ultimate sacrifice" but in this day and age it can ri...
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Rug 335 in progress
November 03, 2019
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When I photograph people in their work environment, sometimes it seems more appropriate to photograph hands, arms, and feet involved in the process of doing their work or art. My husband, Fred, is a weaver, using Navajo-Churro wool dyed by Connie Taylor to make rugs of many colors and styles - contemporary, architectural, and traditional Southweste...
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just for creeps
October 26, 2019
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I really got an education reading about Halloween, All Hallow's Eve, and Dia de los Muertos, and who celebrates, who doesn't and why. Much more complicated that I expected. Photographically, today's blog is an assemblage of things many kids think of when they hear "Halloween", besides costumes and candy, of course. Creepy crawlies, spiders, webs, s...
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remnants after the wind
October 21, 2019
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Two different cold fronts dipped south into northern New Mexico this week, leaving a dusting of snow on mountain peaks, and leaves, small branches, and other detritus in abundance. Although many people find this time of year distressing, especially because of the wind, there is still much for photographers to discover.
The brilliance of aspen that...
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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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