Eleanor
2009 • 11 • 02
Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Eleanor Nicholson. She is the principal of the Erie Elementary Charter School in Chicago. Eleanor is an outstanding woman who was traveling through México amongst a group of researches that were studying the economic and educational needs of small communities with the intention of helping to create better infrastructures.
-L
BrookMan
2009 • 10 • 28
San Miguel De Allende: the donkey leads
2009 • 10 • 25
I am currently in San Miguel de Allende working with the Santa Fe Photo Workshops. I arrived last week, and the first workshop started today. San Miguel is a beautiful, historic city in the mountains of central Mexico.
While wandering through the town’s center I came across a wedding procession lead by a donkey. Yes, that’s right, and not an ordinary one either… this fine ass sported a sombrero and toted around the booze for the whole party. Wherever he lead, the 10 person mariachi band and entire procession followed: dancing, drinking, singing, and strolling through various locations.
Before long, the reception expanded to include locals, tourists and rowdy teenagers. At one point the bride and groom stepped to the side and just watched as the community carried on with the fiesta.
Mexico sure knows how to celebrate!
-L
Jessica K. Helbush
2009 • 10 • 12
Hank, Rebecca and Daughter
2009 • 10 • 08
Adorning the Sunflower
2009 • 10 • 05
…. and Bailey
On the I-40
These photos were taken with my camera phone on my drive to Santa Fe. The middle pic shows the plant that I’ve taken back and forth with me between CA and NM. Shooting with my camera phone is kinda like photographing on timer mode. It takes about 7 seconds for the shutter to release, which becomes part of the fun. Driving, timing, and shooting… makes for an entertaining drive.
-L
Tea House Surprise
2009 • 06 •04
While Settled on my computer in the backyard/orchard setting of the Tea House on Canyon Rd, a girl ran up and snapped my photo with her mom’s camera phone. I learned that for the last month the young girl had been photographing everything and everyone she could. After she was done, I asked to take her picture and thus our mini photo session began. We had a lot of fun.
Sebastião Salgado in San Francisco
2009 • 06 • 01
“You relate the picture with your history,
and you organize the picture with your life”- S. Salgado
Wow, what a charming man Sebastião Salgado is! I think I have a crush… Ha! It was such an inspiring opportunity to see Salgado speak at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. And at the same time I got to help Fotovision, the nonprofit that produced the event, by working with their volunteers in selling Salgado’s books (the first image shows Salgado rapidly signing hundreds of books just minutes before the opening).
The house was packed and books flew off the table. It didn’t take long before every book was sold out and I was kicking myself for not holding onto one!
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Places with Water
2009 • 05 • 21
Thoughts about these images:
This post is really separated into three different titles (The Car Wash, The Ocean, and The Backyard Pool) that have merged together into one. All of these images were taken within a few days of each other and all represent places I’ve been in water. We start with the first image at the drive through carwash, which looks a bit like the following oceanscape. And then we head to the backyard pool where I threw in some caution cones for fun.
The Car wash:
I’ve always loved these since I was a kid. What you see is the spinning brush as it’s decending upon my water sprayed windshield. The garage door is overexposed so detail is purposely lost.
The Ocean:
Playing at Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz. I over exposed the first image of two, beacuse I wanted a graphic feel, and to see the hoizon as if it’s a detail floating between the ocean and sky. The landscape in the background is the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
The Backyard Pool:
At first I set up a tripod underwater and attempted to shoot myself swimming through the cones. This worked once. All the other times, my camera kept returning itself to singe shot, and I ended up with a bunch of cone pics. After that, I got lucky enough to have a real person to shoot – Yea!
These images make me feel like I’ve discovered a new world. I love how light becomes so prominent and full of surprises underwater; how water refracts, distorts, creates patterns, and then eliminates light as well. I’m dazzled by the light in the foreground and left with my imagination to fill in the blackness.
-LD
