Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Wrapping Up 2014

2014 is winding up, and I've been reviewing my project 365, a year's worth of photographs. I'm putting together a collection of what I think are my "best" photographs of the year (that will be a future blog post). Not necessarily the photographs that people liked the best, but the work I think is my best.

In doing the review I have one photograph, that while is not one of my "technical" best, it is one of my favorites. I was finally set to go on a jeep tour in New Mexico, something I've wanted to do for years. The owner, and tour leader, Roch Hart was a gracious host and when we came across a small band of wild horses we stopped and got out of the jeep to take photographs.

This image is what happened when we got low to watch the horses, and the curious mares approached us. The magic happened when Roch reached out his hand and one of the mares touched him.

If you are in the New Mexico and want to do a jeep tour, book with New Mexico (private) Jeep Tours, and maybe you'll create some of your own magic. Their website: http://www.nmjeeptours.com/


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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Five Christmas Eves

Christmas Eve 2014. My fifth year of a 365 photography project is winding to a close. The interesting thing about a 365 project is that I have a photographic record for each day of each year.

Easy to recall what I was doing, thinking, feeling when I have a visual record representing the day.

Today I looked back through Christmas Eves past - 2010 through 2014.
 

2010 - Alexandria, Virginia
Paperwhite bulbs, all setup.
I love to have blooming flowers
and green plants to carry me through the winter.





















2011  - Nashville, Tennessee
Visited a cemetery and photographed the beautiful monuments, it was a peaceful, quiet interlude to the day's activities.

















2012 - At home in Alexandria, Virginia. I had the day off so took a drive out into the country and visited the lovely village of Paris, Virginia. It was a cold, foggy day with light snow falling.





















2013 - Nashville, Tennessee. Portrait of Snuggles, a female cocker spaniel, approximately 11 years old. Companion to my brother-in-law.















2014 - Alexandria, Virginia. A candle burning in the night/




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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

To Have Faith

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~ Rumi

In the face of loss and sorrow it is hard to remember grace, to understand the why. Rumi's quote reminds me that while I may not know the why, may never know the why, there is a reason and I must have faith.


Monday, December 15, 2014

An Abandoned Silk Mill and a Steam Engine Train

A couple of weekends ago I made a return trip to the Lonaconing Silk Mill. The mill, also known as the Klotz Throwing Company, was in operation from 1907 to 1957. The mill and all it's equipment and furnishings is largely intact; it was purchased by Herb Crawford in 1978 and for a small fee he allows photographers free reign for shooting.

I rode out to Lonaconing with my friend Marie, and I remember telling her I hadn't shot at the mill two days in a row & that I wasn't sure how two days in the same location would go. Lonaconing is such an intensely rich photographic location that I shouldn't have worried...Lonaconing always delivers.

After four hours, in freezing cold and wet (the mill leaks), we took a break to warm up & grab lunch. Then it was back out to the train station in Cumberland. We were determined to photograph the steam engine coming into the station. The gray cold and rain added to the atmosphere and we were happy to greet the incoming train.









































































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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

These Dreams






































These dreams go on when I close my eyes
Every second of the night I live another life
These dreams that sleep when it's cold outside
Every moment I'm awake the further I'm away
~Heart, "These Dreams"

I woke this morning to a sorrowing sense of loss; my night dreams had been filled with lost 
love restored and a world that felt more real then the world I was waking to. The light of day 
is mistily obscured by the lingering fog of the night's dreams. I wait for the night to come 
again so I may re-enter that other life.


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