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My Favorite Re-Enactor
Continue ReadingThere was something special about Katie. She was impersonating an 18th century woman on the Ohio frontier. I fastened on her emerald green eyes, whose pupils were surrounded by yellow/orange coronas —- irregular in shape like solar flares. In our brief encounter her range of facial expression astonished me. She could switch from beautiful […]
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Conversations With Tourists
Continue ReadingI encountered on this day a husband and wife from the British Isles. The man held a camera and looked toward me quizzically, seeming a bit frustrated. Wandering places like this in hot weather I rarely meet anyone, except the occasional taciturn man, often driving a truck lifted absurdly high off the ground. I felt […]
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Mountain Gloom or Mountain Glory?
Continue ReadingWe see what artists have taught us to see. “During the first seventeen centuries of the Christian era, ‘Mountain Gloom’ so clouded human eyes that never for a moment did poets see mountains in the full radiance to which our eyes have become accustomed. Within a century — indeed, within fifty years — all […]
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Palms In Sonoran Heat
Continue ReadingWith outdoor temperatures reaching beyond 110° Fahrenheit, I went to the yard to make a picture. I think palms especially beautiful under intense light with abundant infrared rays in the mix.
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Taking Liberties, Example #2
Continue ReadingHaving fun with a little palmetto — on the ground floor of a forest.
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A Woman With Attitude
Continue ReadingThe lady has edge and attitude — in a warmhearted and humorous way. Blended emotions appear on her face, making her expression hard to unravel; without knowing the prior situation and the conversation preceding our photograph, we can only guess. A feeling of disbelief or feigned shock? Whatever happened it seems she knew it […]
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Our Neighborhood Sharpener of Blades
Continue ReadingNot every place in the world has been gutted, renovated, expressed algorithmically, and made palatable to affluent tastes. Cairo, Egypt is such a zone where you may still see unassimilated humans. This man goes through neighborhoods singing a colloquial song: “I make a knife sharp. I make a knife sharp.” As with other street […]
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Another Zoomorph?
Continue ReadingIn a flow down over boulders on a desert mountain, It is strange to observe a sea mammal emerging from the stream.
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My Own Saint Victoire
Continue ReadingIt is said Paul Cezanne painted Mount Saint Victoire in the Provencal region of France sixty times, watercolors included. He probably made drawings and sketches of this subject as well. Likewise I have returned over and over to this locally famous mountain in Arizona (which has similarities with Saint Victoire), made dozens of photographs […]
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