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The Atacama Desert, the Driest in the World
Some while ago I visited Chile on a three week photo tour (including Easter Island). I traveled from the Straits of Megellan, at the most southern tip, all the way to the northern border with Peru. A good deal of the country belongs to the famed Atacama Desert, a strip of dryness stretching nearly 1,000 miles up and down the central part of Chile. Of course I, being an Arizona desert rat,…
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Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Stupidity?
Right now I’m beginning to wonder. You see, I have answered the latest siren call now winding its way through our culture: that of making images that appear to be photos but aren’t, simply by describing to a computer what I want to see. Here, I’ll show you how it works:
I told the AI program “I want a black and white image of a ’20s era woman modeling silk stockings, with a car”. It came back…
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Oz
I've been looking through the archives again! This time it's a trip to Australia - come see!
I continue to re-inspect and scan the oldies but goodies from my vast archives of Kodachrome transparencies (imagine a 20 acre warehouse filled with filing cabinets). This time I’m looking at the continent down under (the warm one).
Australia is a magnificent place, a place that I’ve seen only a wee bit of but yearn to see so much more. It would be fun just to take a few months to explore it…
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#australia#ayers rock#billabong#color#devil&039;s Marbles#geology#kangaroo#karlu karlu#koala#Melville island#photography#Stuart Highway#Tiwi#travel#uluru
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Arizona Rocks
My home state of Arizona is a very good place to see rocks, as well as those places that use to be filled with rocks, and since rocks in their natural habitat don’t move very fast I don’t often get blurred pictures.
What follows is another sampling of recently scanned transparencies from earlier in my career, photos that have now been saved for posterity (yeah, sure, as if digitalization ever…
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#architecture#Arizona#boulders shopping center#canyon de chelly#carefree#Clouds#color#dawn#john ford point#landscapes#monument valley#navajo reservation#petrified wood#photography#scenics#sunrise#sunset#sunsete#superstition mountains#travel
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Engaland Swings Like a Pendulum Do
Stonehenge (24th cent. BC)
As I have mentioned before (the ad nauseum is still pending), I have been scanning my Kodachromes from the olden days. Each time I embark on this effort I am rewarded by a jewel or two that had either escaped my scrutiny or that I had forgotten. (Forgotten” might be the more operative word here.) It is really a joy to find such gems, especially once they are scanned…
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Fiji Is a Good Idea
Fiji Is a Good Idea
Look out your window right now.
Is this what you see?
Me either.
It’s more like this:
Actually, it’s exactly that.
There’s just no way around it, Fiji is just a dang good idea right about now! Why (besides the obvious) am I thinking about such a thing? Well, I’ll tell you.
Lately I’ve been continuing my slog down memory lane by scanning (with a scanner) my way through the rather voluminous…
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#color#culture#Fiji#islands#melanesia#Pacific#people#photography#singatoka#south pacific#suva#travel#viti levu#yasawa
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Avándaro
Avándaro was Mexico’s first, and worst, rock concert.
Officially plugged as Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro or Avándaro Rock and Wheels Festival, it was a major turning point in the culture of modern Mexican youth. It started out to be a combination of race cars with a sideshow of the current rock music scene, but it was the latter that ended up predominating. The anticipation and craving for…
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Rocky
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Old School
I've got a new film scanner so I'm going back through my files to see what I can find. Come see!
Sports photographer Don Morley
That’s what shooting a film camera is called these days: “old school” and it seems that almost everything I do anymore solicits that vaguely patronizing term.) Those of you who have only shot digital cameras know there really was a certain specialness about shooting film, even though we who did it might take it for granted. One huge difference was, of course, with…
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Auld Lang Syne, Part 4
The last of a four part series rounding up the portraits I've taken in my career. This time I trip with magic mushrooms in the mountains of Oaxaca.
As I mentioned in the previous post, there turned out to be a lot of portrait work to show from my early days as a photographer. Some of that upon which I haven’t yet touched came from a pivotal experience I had in the mountains of Oaxaca, and some of it came from, what else, girls. But I’ll get to the latter at some yet to be determined date.
Mazateca shaman Maria Sabina, blessing a handfull of…
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Auld Lang Syne - Part 3
Auld Lang Syne – Part 3
I really, really became a photographer in Mexico City, after having survived some pretty exciting and heady times in my first couple of years there. Shortly after my arrival the whole city was torn up to build the Metro, which was an enormous undertaking that would make the city ready for the hordes of sports fans who would come for the ’68 Olympics. This desmadre (a slang word for chaos – use it…
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Auld Lang Syne Part 2
Auld Lang Syne Part 2
As I mentioned in Part 1, this is a subject (people I have photographed) that merits much more attention than just a few images so bear with me; I’m not finished.
It would be so simple to photograph nothing but faces in India. This handsome man drew my attention because of his pink turban. The color and type of turban an Indian wears often has some significance but for as much as I’ve searched…
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#Boise#brothers#color#daughter#hombres voladores#India#man#mayans#mazateca#mother#people#philippines#photography#sisters#travel#turban#woman
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Auld Lang Syne
I've been looking back at all the people I've met and photographed over my career. Every one of them has a story attached!
I, like anyone else of my vintage, have stacked up a lot of memories, memories that I enjoy, and of course nothing jogs them like a photo. I have taken pictures of thousands of people since I first began shooting and it seems like those are the shots that most coax out those memories. Of course, there are two sides to every portrait: my side of the camera and their side of the camera. When I look…
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In Our Own Image
In Our Own Image
I thought I knew what I was doing when I combed through my vast archives (hidden in a remote Idaho mountain top) to assemble this theme, but now that I try to describe it, I’m not so sure. The three little baby doll heads somewhere below are what got me started and, curiously, they are completely unlike all the rest. Perhaps this is simply a collection of headshots of human-like totems.
The…
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Let's Eat!
You can work up an appetite with this post. Go see now!
Being a vegetarian includes having a unique attitude towards fruit and vegetables. For example, I love to peruse that part of the market where they hang out, prospecting for the primo example of their kind. I even look for those that I don’t have any intention of buying – just wanting to see them! I have seen some bell peppers that seem to be so perfect they make me want to slap the grower on the…
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As we have done before . . .
As we have done before . . .
If you haven’t guessed yet, this post features windows. Not Gatesian metaphorical windows but real ones that you can throw a baseball through.
My fondness for shooting windows almost equals that of shooting doors. (And not because they’re slow and easy to hit.) Whether it be an attractive painted frame holding it in place, fanciful designs on the wall around them, or simply the glass itself,…
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#architecture#Arizona#austria#Boise#bucharest#California#color#croatia#Design#idaho#las vegas#nevada#photography#romania#Tucson#Vienna#windows
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The Surrealistic Photograph
Photo surrealism is a somewhat well defined genre of photography that has been around for about 100 years, and has managed to significantly influence photographers since its beginnings. Serious photographers, and most would like to think of themselves as such, have often worked at producing a photo that would raise eyebrows, shock, bewilder, or somehow broach the wall between the conscious and…
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