comfort
November 28, 2021
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The weekly exercise of photography, for me, contains bits and pieces of what I do, see, or reproduce for publication in any given week. Therefore, at the risk of this reading like a "How I spent my Thanksgiving holiday" paper from school, one of today's main blog subjects is the rum ball. I have been constructing these confections every year since...
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thankful
November 22, 2021
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There was a reason other than automobile and mattress sales for the Thanksgiving holiday. Celebrated in America and around the world, it was originally a day set aside to celebrate the bounty of the harvest. I like the idea of Thanksgiving because you do not need to be of a particular religious or cultural background to partake. It is a simple conc...
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complexity, simplicity, and rhythm
November 15, 2021
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Especially at this time of year, when leaves are falling from the trees, revealing everything they shielded, I am in awe, and find myself marveling at nature. Earth is full of complex and yet seemingly simple things that have some level of rhythm. One of the best examples of this is corn. The humble vegetable and staple of many a school lunchroom,...
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the spirit of leaves
November 08, 2021
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Most deciduous trees, by their nature, shed leaves once a year. It is part of their life cycle. And the last hoorah of leaves, as every person in the Rocky Mountains knows, is spectacular. Even as leaves lose their colors and dry, they continue to circle around us, forming eddies in corners, around rocks, and at the base of the tree from which they...
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carbon neutral
October 31, 2021
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For some odd reason, possibly a gift from our respective families, Fred and I are conservatives in the purist sense of the word. Not in the twisted and tortured way that some on the outer edges of the political and religious spectrum use it, but as in "conserving" - money, energy, and material goods - most of our married lives. All four of our pare...
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the produce department
October 23, 2021
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A friend of ours from Arizona wrote that he was going to Safeway to get his COVID booster. He said "I'm pretty sure it is being given by a guy in the produce department." So when Fred was emailed about his own appointment on Saturday at the Santa Fe Artists' Market just north of the Farmers' Market, we thought "Perfect!" He got his jab with an appo...
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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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