• Capturing the Beauty of Mono Lake

    Last year around this time, I was immersed in a photography workshop in the Eastern Sierras. I’ve written about it in previous posts and tonight, I felt a yearning for something I’ve been missing for a while. I miss being in a consistent state of flow…fully in the moment. This is when I feel most alive. I learned…

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  • Colors

    Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon You come and go, you come and go Loving would be easy if your colors were like my dream Red gold and green, red gold and green Boy George’s dreams have nothing on us. On our final night at the Eastern Sierra Photography Workshop, we hauled our equipment to…

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  • Sunrise, sunrise

    Tick tock, tick tock. It was 4:30 a.m. and the class was ready. Some of us wore watches but for Keith Skelton, he didn’t rely on a wrist watch. In fact, he stopped wearing watches years ago. Keith seems to be driven by an internal machine that guides him to the exact location and also…

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  • Catching Mono (Lake) – Part Two

    “Let’s see if I can do this…Yon, Jenean, Denise, Lynn, Dean, Ro, ER, Ruby.” Keith, our workshop leader took roll call and managed to attach names to the right person. We stood on a raised patio in the parking lot of Murphy’s Motel. The Eastern Sierra Photography Workshop had kicked off under the warm Lee…

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  • Catching Mono (Lake) – Part One

    Three female nurses with a trunk load of snacks, a former-resident of South Africa, an English teacher with an infectious laugh, a quiet man with kind eyes all led through the wilderness by a master photographer. This is not the ensemble cast of a reality TV show: these are people with a love for photography,…

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