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California, U.S.A. 2012: A Monarch Butterfly samples the nectar of a Bottlebrush plant. I recently bought a new camera. One with enough megapixels for the advertisers to boast that it is a replacement for a medium format camera. Medium format cameras … Continue reading
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This is the kind of shot I strove for during my first year of studying photography. The teacher was keen on the great photographers, Stieglitz, Strand, Cartier-Bresson and others. I enjoyed the lectures where he gave slide shows of famous … Continue reading
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All American Cowboy Let’s celebrate our wonderful country and as Benjamin Franklin said, “pray that we can keep it”.
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Barrel racing is a timed rodeo contest that requires the horse to move at top speed in a clover leaf pattern, rounding the barrels as closely as possible to save time. The rider urges the horse to maintain a flat-out … Continue reading
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Grandfather and Granddaughter compete in team roping at a California Rodeo. After exploding out of the chute, the horses catch up with the young steer and the rider who is the ‘header’ (in this case, the Grandfather) ropes the calf’s … Continue reading
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Drayton Hall is unrestored and is the the best example of Colonial architecture in America. In its heyday, it was a rice plantation and required African slaves to work and harvest the crop. Africans from Senegal and other rice growing … Continue reading
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Can’t you just feel the glittering sun beating down? There were horses with gleaming coats grazing in the pasture. Now and then they would swish away the flies with a flick of their long tails. They cropped steadily, their chewing jaws making a hollow, … Continue reading
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Near the railroad tracks. Deserted now, but at one time, when I was a girl, these were thriving businesses. Families had only one car then and the man of the house ususlly took it to work. It was easy to walk to the store … Continue reading
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This is a Snap Art 3 digital painting of people at the Ventura County Fair last August. Snap Art 3 brings it all together for me. It takes enough reality out of the photo and adds enough fantasy to make it … Continue reading
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Amish Brothers This is one of my favorite photographs. The Amish at the horse sale did not want their photos taken, so I concentrated on the horses. They were my prime interest and I wandered about looking for shots. Suddenly, these two boys … Continue reading
