Entries Categorized as 'Life'

ClipFile: Estate Sale

Date June 27, 2008

Who would have guessed that a set of 6 Andy Warhol signed, limited edition silkscreens, and 4 Salvador Dali signed, limited edition prints, would reside in a condo in Abilene, Texas?
Read the rest of the story here.

Anna

Date June 27, 2008

A random shot from a horsemanship clinic I was assigned to shoot earlier this week. I liked the juxtaposition of the rough and hard lines of the boots with the feminine name inscribed on the spurs.

ClipFile: Taking the Reins

Date June 25, 2008

Kordia Miller, 11, prepares to ride “Acorn” at the Texas A&M Horsemanship Clinic on Tuesday at the Taylor Co. Expo Center. Students from A&M have been performing these clinics all over Texas for 36 years. June 2008.
A single that ran in color on the front page of Wednesday’s Abilene Reporter-News, a little local flavor for [...]

ClipFile: A-hiking We Will Go

Date June 23, 2008

Hikers set off on the 8-mile trail around Lake Abilene as part of the Mayor’s Hike Around Lake Abilene on Sunday. More than 50 people participated in this event, the first of it’s kind. June 2008.

Dennis O’Connell of Abilene celebrates at the end of the Mayor’s Hike around Lake Abilene.
This was a busy weekend [...]

INTERVIEW: David DuChemin

Date June 20, 2008

Last year, I was helping a friend prepare a presentation on his experience surviving the 1994 Rwanda genocide. I turned to Flickr to find some images to supplement my own, and while surfing around, I saw this image as a little thumbnail, and thought I recognized someone in it. I went in for a [...]

QUOTE: James Nachtwey on Love

Date June 20, 2008

“Witnessing pain and sadness is an act of love.”
- James Nachtwey, Look3 Festival 2008
(in response to the question “When you see so much pain and so much sadness, do you feel you still have the capacity to love?”)

Petrified Forest Vista

Date June 20, 2008

A scene from the Painted Desert in the Petrified Forest National Park. August 2007.

Water

Date June 20, 2008

Concrete pilings in Puget Sound, Seattle. July 2007
For the VFXY Photo Weekly Theme.

Parking Garage

Date June 19, 2008

On my recent photo safari, I revisited an old parking garage downtown and managed to capture a few different looks.

Wednesday Linkage

Date June 18, 2008

A few links to brighten your dreary Wednesday. However, if you are like me and are living in a parched wasteland featuring triple-digit temperatures, consider these links a cup of cool water to soothe your scorched souls (or soles, as it may be, especially if you walked out to the curb [...]