Monday, April 27, 2009

I've Never Really Been a Landscape Photographer...





Last year, learning a new Nikon DSLR, I began to photograph my environment. Not just the usual, but the landscape. I'd always felt completely defeated attempting to capture landscapes, especially here. I am not a landscape photographer, a mantra I repeated often. 

Then I just decided to let myself off the hook, and instead of saying what I wasn't, began to shoot. Of course the clouds we have here during certain times a year really help. :)  And then there's the light ...

The adobe and umbrellas was shot on Museum Hill, during the Folk Art Market last July. I was eating lunch in the alfresco food court, looked up through my enchiladas, and spied this.



For those of you who have arrived here via the Santa Fe Workshops catalog, welcome. There will soon be a link to my newly-designed website, where you can catch a glimpse of some of the books I've worked on, as well as some of my own personal photo projects that have morphed into books——sojourns sandwiched in pages. 

You can view my Obamanos work here, which is turning into a sojournal book for Blurb.com. 

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Earth Day is Every Day


Parlez is vigilant, keeping his patch of earth as well tended as possible. 
It's about 5 acres, so that's quite a bit for a little one not quite 9 lbs.

He invites you all to stop for a moment each day and smell the flowers, 
or watch a caterpillar . . .



Saturday, April 18, 2009

The Soul: Everything You Are


"The mind is the last part of yourself to listen to. 
It thinks of everything you can lose. 
The heart thinks of everything you can give, 
and the soul thinks of everything you are."   
—Neale Donald Walsch

Friday, April 10, 2009

Pole Dancing With a Difference

I am so blessed to have such amazing friends who send me such wondrous goodies I can share. You know, of course, anything to do with dancing and/or animals will get a stellar spot on the blog. Turn up the sound, in-joy and keep dancin'!



Saturday, April 4, 2009

In My Own Backyard...

Real photographers must be able to make compelling pictures in their own backyard.  —Annie Griffiths Belt