Disney Collage - Cultural Swimming Lesson

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Cultural Swimming Lesson #1

The light was incredible at the pool at the disney resort and her face was half under an umbrella.
Light and dark, good and evil and Disney.

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Color Composition #5

Sorry for being absent for a few days. We took a road trip to Texas for college
orientation for our daughter.

The remainder of this week and next I am going to show a series of color compositions I
did while at the local Farmer's Market here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I led a small group from our photo club in experimenting with color and composition and
here are a few of the images I came up with.

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We Saw Beautiful - Colorado Post Card #7

Another in my postcard series, #7 from our Colorado road trip in the summer of 2007. There was a great trail close to the home where we were staying and I took a hike on my own just for the purposes of photography. When I do something like that I often am not looking for a single shot (though I find those of course) but I am looking for pieces, for moments, etc. that will be part of the raw material for a collage. So in that case I am not worrying always about composition or lighting or a complete image. I am finding the essence of a place or a person and recording it.

In this case the trees had the knots in the shapes of eyes everywhere I turned, flowers were abundant and the creeks had the most amazing light playing on them. The final connection came for me when I saw this woman and her wonderful dog running on the path. The dog was protective and turned to scrutinize me, making sure I wasn't a threat. The eyes of the dog were compelling and I loved the juxtaposition between the tree eyes and the real eyes.

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