harvest jewels
October 20, 2021
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Autumn's beauty is singularly fleeting, and photographers have to grab it while they can. Little jewels of the season can be seen almost everywhere - from the forests filled with aspens to the river and stream banks covered with cottonwoods, and naturally, farmers' markets. A combination of these is reflected in today's blog.
Farmers' markets are...
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an autumn day
October 10, 2021
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Viewing the Sangre de Cristo mountains from the city, it is sometimes hard to see the stages of aspen color. One day it appears the trees aren't turning color at all, the next, they might show a very light color, and the next might hold a gash of gold. Driving to the Aspen Vista trailhead below the Santa Fe Ski Basin, it was apparent we were not th...
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just the beginning...
October 04, 2021
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Nothing like the first Monday in October in the northern hemisphere, with low temperatures hovering between 40 and 45 to encourage those wonderful fall colors. And this is just the beginning of the parade of color. It has been warmer than normal and tree leaves are taking their time, slowly, methodically making the subtle change from green to gold...
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spontaneity
September 26, 2021
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It all began innocently enough. I walked around the block on Saturday to the home of photographer Richard Khanlian and his wife Ann Alexander, where a swap meet of the photographic sort was taking place under the auspices of the ASMP, the American Society of Media Photographers. Richard was a great photographer who worked for the New York Times fro...
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curating color
September 19, 2021
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Several of you commented last week that in addition to the black and white photographs I curated for a photo competition, that it would be interesting to see what I did with color. Since these images will be for a calendar competition, I thought it would be good to organize them here by month.
January and February
March and April
May and...
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curation week
September 13, 2021
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It has been some time since I considered entering photography competitions. But lists of possibilities were presenting themselves of late, far too many to ignore. In response, I have been in full-bore curation mode this week, pouring over thousands of photographs, stored in different locations, organizing them, and self-editing for their potential.
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Selvedge World Fair
September 05, 2021
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Since Selvedge Magazine is London-based, I thought it would be appropriate to glean the definition of selvedge from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. A selvedge is "an edge produced on woven fabric during manufacture that prevents it from unraveling". Polly Leonard launched Selvedge Magazine in 2004 "to celebrate our cerebral and sensual addic...
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beyond walls
August 29, 2021
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One of the most stunning combinations of human-rendered material and nature is adobe/concrete/plaster and a clean blue sky. I never tire of seeing and exploring how buildings are surrounded by the sky and how the surfaces merge into that backdrop. Although the texture of plastered adobe is lush and visually soft, and concrete is frequently precise...
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back to school
August 22, 2021
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Since many children have returned and others are headed back to school in the coming weeks, I figured it was a good time to do some continuing photographic education of my own. Thanks to B&H Photo and Video in New York City, the "go to" place for photo, video, audio, and computers, I did just that. My lessons were enhanced by their periodic videos...
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a study in fuchsia, coral, lavender, and pink
August 16, 2021
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Given the increased chaos of the news this week, including images from the Kabul, Afghanistan airport of people hanging on the wings and body of a C-19, memories of Saigon in 1975 come blasting through, along with the tragedy. People are fleeing for their lives. I worry particularly about not only the translators who helped Americans in the war aga...
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grateful and humble
August 09, 2021
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The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, released a sobering report today on climate change, calling it a "Code Red for humanity". We are seeing so many examples of the changes and extreme results all over our beautiful planet that it is difficult not to be concerned about it or confused by the relative lack of attenti...
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grand experiment
August 01, 2021
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It all began when I was pulling spent hollyhock flowers from one of the plants in our yard and noticed that an inky purple color was left on my fingers. With dyed wool never far from my mind in Fred's loom room, I wondered if it would work to dye wool with them and what color the dye might be. Having done some dyeing with my sister at home followin...
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New Mexico gold
July 26, 2021
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The Olympic Games began last week, more subdued than normal, with the pandemic and Delta variant looming large. The games had already been postponed a year because of COVID-19. Host country Japan, which had done so well on keeping cases in check, started into a slide or spike, and officials have done the yeoman's work of keeping athletes, journalis...
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curve billed thrasher update
July 19, 2021
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Nature presented yet another stellar opportunity to photograph this week in two of my favorite styles - nature and still life. Both, actually.
One of the most perfect packages, although delicate, is an egg. Anyone who has ever cooked knows how delicate the simple, beautiful egg is. But the shells protect the contents. And they are ideal photograph...
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celebrations abound
July 12, 2021
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Now that most countries around the globe have at least partially opened following what hopefully was the worst of the pandemic, celebrations are in abundance. Every day is something to cheer, which is the way it always should be, but with the busy-ness of life, that doesn't always happen. It is apparent that people are embracing being together and...
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