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June Post 2 – Rust and the ERA, uncovering signs of hope!

I love walking among rusting trains and weathered warehouses.  Each detail reveals images that evoke mystical landscapes and the heartbeat of human experiences.   Decades of layered paint begin bubbling, bursting and chipping to create miniature mountain ranges or angelic teardrops.  … Continue reading

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May – Quietness to honking laughter!

If I had been near a volcano, I would have been convinced that the white shapes ascending into the sky were the prelude of a large scale eruption. But I was in the middle of flat, uncultivated farmland. My first … Continue reading

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July – Texts and Textures with Life

Photographing textures allows us to transform an ordinary object into something visually stunning.   I especially love to work with subjects that might not in themselves be considered beautiful, artistic or unique. There’s an advantage in this — textures can be found … Continue reading

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October 1 – Dancing Among the Autumn Aspen Colors

The temperature in San Francisco and all of Northern California these first days of October has felt much more like a mid-western summer than our fall. Although October is often our sunniest and most beautiful time of the year, hitting … Continue reading

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April Week 3 – In the most unsuspecting places

Beauty and form can often be seen in the most unsuspecting places: rusting cars, dilapidated farm equipment, weathered roofs, reflected objects, spilled milk, and countless other overlooked objects. I don’t think of my images as photographs, but rather as ‘art’ … Continue reading

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January weeks 1 – 3: Surf into the New Year

Chris Powers, in Cool Waves, introduces us to the work of some of the best surfing images and their makers.  I can’t compete with them, unwilling as I am to jump into the water, but I still enjoy tracking and … Continue reading

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October – Texture that Jumps Out and Grabs You!

Photographing texture can help you look at bits and pieces of the world in different ways.  First of all, with our eyes we view the world in three dimensions but our photographic interpretations are pretty much flat.  So it is … Continue reading

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