Category Archives: Photography
Grandma
11/12/1921 – 03/03/2011
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Drawing
Drawing, painting, and photography.
Without one or the other my visual art would have no depth.
True story.
I learned how to expose a frame in a camera.
I learned how to expose a print in the dark room.
Black and white is easy for me.
Contrast.
Contrast and the zone system helped me learn how to draw conceptually.
To take negative space and draw in a positive space.
To take a positive space and draw in a negative space.
To take a brush and float and be free.
As free as a fleeting moment in the camera.
As you look through the lens.
Through your looking glass.
What do you see?
Buffalo Dreams
I have nine totem animals. The Buffalo is my South totem animal. The animal in the south protects the child within and reminds me when to be humble and when to trust, so that innocence will be balanced in my personality. I have waited to post these photos of the buffalo I have met. I see buffalo in my dreams. I see buffalo in my life.
Rancho Luna
Pala Indian Reservation
Pala, California
Buffalo…
You bring us,
The gifts of life,
Hear our prayers,
Smoke rising,
Like Phoenix.
We are reborn,
Within the sacred words.
Buffalo was the major source of sustenance for the Plains Indians. It gave meat for food, hides for clothing, warm and soft buffalo robes for long winters, and hooves for glue. The medicine of Buffalo is prayer, gratitude and praise for that which has been received. Buffalo medicine is also knowing that abundance is present when all relations are honored as sacred and when gratitude is expressed to every living part of creation.
- David Carson
Eternity
To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. – William Blake
Peekaboo
This one was a surprise. I aimed and the flower wanted to hide. Either that or the wind shoved him No matter, he’s still pretty.
Cotton Candy
This is the color version of Garden Gnomes & Faerie Flowers. The setting sun casts a warm glow on cotton candy petals which also serve as fair rides for the faerie folk.
Pink Bouquet & Purple Bouquet
I was walking around the Vintage Car Show in Burbank on August 22, 2009 photographing tiny wisps of another kind of purple flowers, when these caught my eye. I became entranced with what wonders these could possess. I really don’t know what the names of these flowers are. I wish there was a Google Search where you can enter photos instead of words to find out more information about things you see but have no idea what their names are. I suppose that is what people did do when there weren’t any names to things; they gave them names.
Southern Skies
This is the window of my previous bedroom. It faces South. The chariot of the Moon raced through the night sky while I slept beneath this shaded palace. The cool air would kick up from the swiftness but I would sleep peacefully in this southern direction.
In Native American spirituality, South is the place of the child, where life begins. The animal in the South protects the child within and reminds us to be humble and when to trust so that innocence will be balanced in our personality (David Carson)