Category Archives: Photography

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?

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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


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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)

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Hello Holga, Meet Diana

My Diana had her second outing last month. The first time was in April to Venice Beach and she saw the drum circle and the green ivy man and a bunch of billowy dancing women and men. The second time was on August 14 when she traisped around with Holga in the garden. Here is their interpretation of the same plant & flowers.

Living in the Spirit by Diana +, with FP4 Plus

White Flowers by Holga, with Delta 100

Garden Gnomes & Faerie Flowers by Holga, with Delta 100

We need to keep the people away from our garden.

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The Phoenix and Her Dragons

I woke up this morning to find my prayers were answered for rain… it was minimal, almost misty, and perhaps the result of the smoke from the fires.  Nonetheless, the sky was overcast and you could not see the blue sky. Without regard for the time, I saw sunbeams crawling under my door, and I opened it to see what surprises lay ahead of me. The small window facing the sunrise beckoned me and I walked over to it. Then I ran over to my old room where I used to hang out on the balcony and started taking photos of this miraculous site. The sun had won the battle with the little bit of wind and the tufts of cloud and smoke that was crawling over to cover LA. In 10 minutes time, a Phoenix and a Medieval Dragon came to visit me, to bid me tidings, to give me hope, that the angry fire would leave soon but only when it was done ravaging what it could before the slumber. And on my way walking into work, I saw another dragon in the sky. He was a Chinese Dragon, making drumming sounds and dancing away the bad spirits that were left behind. He cleaned the air somewhat, and brought the message of a hope for rebirth and renewal for from the smoldering ashes of the angry fire rose the beautiful Phoenix.

The Phoenix

The Medieval Dragon

The Chinese Dragon

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Mechelina

This flower is smaller than my thumb nail, maybe even smaller than my pinkie nail! I was watering Herman* one day and the beautiful succulent green plant next to him was flowering. I had no idea it springs flowers. I don’t know what plant it is, but it’s Micki’s. And so I captured the beauty of it for Micki, because she was out that day, and named it after her.

*Herman is my Peace Lily

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