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Nov.29.2011
We were encouraged to share a particular photo with Redroom for this month. The one I've chosen is not only good photography, but represents my view of winter, and of life. I do all of my own professional photography, both for personal enjoyment and for the covers of my books. My father, Major...
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Nov.25.2011
I have an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, which I traded in for a life in poetry, memoir, and now a novel. Go figure. Most of my recent work (15 years ago) is on www.greenmuseum.org. Otherwise here's a shot from back in the day.
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Nov.25.2011
The egrets were flying. The tree was bending. I happened to be there, camera poised. One click was all it took.
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Nov.23.2011
In 1990 I published a book titled Black Rock: Portraits on the Playa in the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada. People familiar with the playa of the Black Rock Desert know it is the site of Burning Man. I photographed Black Rock: Portraits on the Playa before Burning Man arrived full-force.
The...
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Nov.23.2011
We were driving to Skagway, Alaska, through the Yukon when we passed a lake. I gasped at the perfect view. Clear, blue skies and mountain peaks reflected perfectly into the still waters. A dozen other motorists stopped in awe of the view and took photographs. I've never been more pleased by a...
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Nov.23.2011
I'm not a photographer with a "fancy" camera. While I learned to love shooting film a long time ago in journalism school with a borrowed 35 millimeter SLR, the last few years have seen me celebrate the joy of shooting with a digital camera. And my specifications for a digital camera are only two...
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Nov.18.2011
From photography's invention in the 1830s until Kodak introduced the first Brownie cameras in 1900, only professionals produced photos, and at great expense. More affordable and portable after that, photography began to reflect and shape our lives. This week, please post the best photo you've ever...
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Nov.05.2011
With revolutions in the Middle East and the United States’ current Occupy Wall Street movement dominating media reports throughout 2011, the International Year for People of African Descent as declared by the United Nations has received little attention but that didn’t stop the...
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Oct.18.2011
I love photography. It is a poem, as opposed to film, which is a novel. In his "Treatise on Painting" Leonardo Da Vinci wrote that painting (also a photograph), is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. I couldn't agree more...
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Oct.14.2011
After 3 years of procrastinating I finally went to the homeless shelter in our neighborhood and proposed a documentary video class I've always wanted to do. Met with amazing enthusiasm, the director said they could afford a photography class and so my 'Telling Stories with Pictures" class was born...
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