Up From Siera Vista

From Reddington Pass

Actually, this was shot in March but it's part of the epiphany of discovering that Ansel Adams didn't shoot landscapes. What he DID shoot was meteorology - the atmosphere. My object this summer is to shoot the atmosphere and learn more about shooting effective landscapes.

Clouds Over the Catalinas

A Real Personality

Palm Shadows / Botanical Gradens, Tucson, AZ

Tohono Chul

Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ

Peek-a-boo, I See You

We went shooting in the Tohono Chul Park on the Northwest side of Tucson today. Candy is feeling much better but certainly isn't operating at 100% yet. It's frustrating. I feel like I have about 20 years left, 10 of which are good. I need to do everythihng I want to do in those 10 years or those things will never happen. This period of inactivity is giving me cabin fever.

For what it's worth, the restaurant at the park is worth writing home about ...

Springtime in the Desert

Mariachi

Mariachi

Mariachi music (I know very little about it, actually) strikes me as being Mexican country western in 3/4 time. I know that "La Paloma" and "Cielito Lindo" have been on the Mariachi Top 10 for more than 75 years.

This weekend brought a huge Mariachi Convension to town. The Mariachi musicians occupied two stages at Ried Park. The thing that I found most striking was that the quality of music and musicianship was orders of magnitude better than either the blues concert or NAM Jam, held in the same venue.

Ride Me

Ride Me - A metaphor of Life

We spent a couple of hours at the Pima County Fair. Everything seemed to be within six inches of where it was last year. It was almost like walking into a time warp.

I found this angle on a rolli-coaster and punched up the saturation a bit .. well, actually a little more than a bit. I think it needs to be a large format print. I have just the place for it in my office - though, for the place, I wish it weren't so green!

Pima County Fair, 2005

Carnival

I have a face, ya know

The Art of the Midway

Midway Art

Ocatillo

Pima Air and Space Airshow

Japanese Torpedo Bomber (c. 1941) One of the planes that participated in the re-enactment of the bombing of Pearl harbor, December 7, 1941.

One word describes the Pima Air Show and Davis-Monthan AFB. That word is "Huge".