Nature and Art Series

Curling Watermelon

Flores de Baja

Night Performances

Night Performances are always a challenge, even with the best equipment. 

There is sporadic light, lots of movement and I'm limited with mobility and angles to shoot from.  However, there is the spontaneous quality and excitement that happens in the moment!   Skill and luck help to make good images happen, so wish me luck!  'Return to the Light' runs through December 19th with performances in Spanish and English.

 Here is a dance performance of a creation story.

Awaking to a new world

Ant leads the way to the corn fields

Dancer in Air

Sometimes I've a hard time deciding if I like an image in color or back and white...

Actually this is a warm toned 'black and white' image, as I almost never do grayscale!

Always looks better to follow a special 'recipe' of color balance and channel paths in digital processing to find just the right balance. 

So happy to be photographing dancers again! It is a special love since in the past I was a dancer myself.  The soul and grace of movement is especially wonderful in photography. Maybe because it all goes by so fast for a viewer to absorb? Perhaps. 

Photography stops a fraction of a second with a lasting image that and looks back at you.

Looking forward to more dance work as the production photographer for a new play begins "Return of the Light".  There is a magic that happens in rehearsal time without the stress of a performance which I like... more playful and fun. Will keep you posted!

                     

Poster for Poets

New Poster Design:

 "100 Thousand Poets for Change"
With Poet Richard Denner and Friends

Full Moonrise, Pagosa Springs, Colorado

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected in water

The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken

Although its light is wide and great

The moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide

The whole moon and the entire sky

Are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

~Dogen

Photography and New Blogs

Epiphyte (air plant)

I enjoy working with like-minded people when doing photography and 

graphic design. Recently have been making posts for my friend Virginia on Permaculture.
 She creates beautiful and wholesome environments in the Todos Santos Oasis (BCS)
following natural methods that nourish the earth and soul.

More to come, but for a 'sneak peak' of some photographs, class schedules
and ideas check out: http://pcfsbaja.blogspot.mx

Rose Geranium - Drying Leaves to be used for Tea or Bath Water

Drying (curing) Braided Onions for storage

Art and Poetry

What lies behind us

and what lies before us

Are tiny matters

compared to what lies

within us.

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Love Overcomes Fear...

Love Overcomes Fear

and 

Presence Overcomes Death