Monthly Archives: February 2010

Endless Summer

When I was maybe 4 or 5 years old, I remember a poster my older brother (a teenager at the time) had on his wall.  From the film “The Endless Summer: in search of the perfect wave”.  It was the mid 1960′s, my brother would hitchhike from Modesto to Santa Cruz to surf, then hitchhike...

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Liz + Ruben’s engagement session

This is a couple I couldn’t wait to photograph, even though it took a while to get to this engagement session.  But I’m not talking about physical distance.  I just knew they were meant to be together.  So here’s a sneak peek!

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Spring has arrived

“The poetry of earth is never dead.”   – John Keats Spring reveals itself, reminding me that the unexpected is always upon us.  Walking up to my mother’s house I glanced to the right and there they were, the first blooms on the tulip tree.  While others are only just showing leaf buds. But spring is...

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Film – Keeping it alive

I am a Renaissance girl….and I’ve been missing film.  There I said it.  I’m pretty sure there are plenty of photographers out there who don’t know what I’m talking about.  Missing film? Maybe because they’ve never used it or don’t know how.  (one of my friends calls them fauxtographers, funny.) Film is not dead, not...

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Field Trip

One of the cool things about having kids is that you get to go on field trips. The other day I went with my daughter and about 60 kids to the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park to view the King Tut exhibit.  I knew we wouldn’t be allowed to photograph the artifacts (I...

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Perception

One of my favorite things to do is fly in airplanes (next to riding a really big, really fast rollercoaster).  It’s fun to pull away from the earth’s surface and watch things on the ground get smaller, they start to look like little toys.  And what seem like enormous clouds when they’re above us, appear...

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Winter

“I prefer winter…when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it…something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.”  – Andrew Wyeth There’s a bit of the Andrew Wyeth in me.  He died a year ago in winter.  (my soul was made for winter, although born in summer)  I remember first...

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