Posted by admin on May 18, 2013 in
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Travel Betty and I are off venturing in the foothills of Northern California on the beginning of another screening tour. One of the things we like best about traveling like this is how we get to see so much of the US that we might not be able to visit otherwise. We get to meet people [...]
Tags: California, digital, film, Fire, foothills, Half Dome, Merced River, Mono Lake, Pentax K1000, photograph, photography, Sonora, tufa, video, Yosemite
Posted by admin on June 22, 2012 in
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Travel Several weeks ago, Betty and I led some intrepid friends on a photo safari to the Camas Prairie area of Camas County, northeast of Boise. Typical late May weather brought wind and fog and rain and snow instead of sunny skies with puffy clouds sailing east to west. It was Memorial Day weekend so we [...]
Tags: art, aspen, Bennett Mountain, Boise, Camas, Camas County, Camas Prairie, Cat Creek Summit, corrals, cranes, curlew, ducks, Fairfield, geese, Geoff Krueger, painting, phalaropes, photography, snipes, Soldier Mountains
Posted by admin on February 24, 2012 in
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Photography Last Saturday Betty and I hung her photography exhibit in Boise at an event titled Art in the Bar V at the Knitting Factory Concert House. It turned out to be a 15-hour event and it took us a few days to recover from that experience. Betty shared booth space with her photographer and writer [...]
Tags: Allan Ansel, Aretha Franklin, Art in the Bar, Betty Rodgers, digital art, El Greco, expressionism, Jefferson Airplane, John Lennon, music, photography, Sheila Robertson, tattoos, The Beatles, Vietnam
Posted by admin on January 20, 2012 in
Travel Four days before Christmas last Betty and I ventured to Socorro, San Antonio and the Bosque del Apache on the Rio Grande River in central New Mexico. We went in search of photography and nature and hot chili. Dodging uncharacteristic assaults of big blizzards, we spent a day and a half seeking and photographing the [...]
Tags: bald eagle, blizzard, Bosque del Apache, Conrad Hilton, coyote, elk, green chili cheesburger, javelina, mule deeer, nature, New Mexico, Owl Cafe, photography, pintail ducks, raptor, road runner, San Antonio, sandhill crane, snow geese, Socorro
Posted by admin on March 4, 2011 in
Musings It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone. Marilyn Monroe Betty ventured off this week on a photography trip and left me behind to toil over movie scripts. I could have gone along if I wished, [...]
Tags: Alone, death, documentary scripts, Existentialsim, fear, ghosts, home., insanity, making documentary movies, Marilyn Monroe, photography, survival strategies, trip, Vietnam War
