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Steel and Air and a Mottled Presence

 

"It is so much like a beach after all
Where you stand and think of going no further."

Reflections on a poem bolted to a steel bridge: a photo journey.

The Class that Ruined My Blog Life

Over the years blogging had taken me away from my spiral, hardbound notebooks, my multi-colored pens, my propensity to glue things (like ticket stubs, favorite articles, and paraphernalia found on bar counters, restaurants floors, and airplane seat pockets) into my journal . So, when I saw the Split Rock Arts Program offering the course called “The Visual Journal: Exploring Urban Landscape" taught by artist by Julie Baugnet (an artist featured in Drawing from Life by Jennifer New), I caught the first plane to the Twin Cities. I wasn’t disappointed.

(all photos by shamash)

Frank Lloyd Wright and Phillip’s 66

We are so “Thelma and Louise”, so I will call her Thelma.

She drives a hot, silver-bullet of a car, an Audi TT, that makes you want to drive, drive, drive for days through the winding forest roads of northern Minnesota on a road trip into the unknown.

But, we had to stop to fill up at this gas station designed by the one-and-only Frank Lloyd Wright.

In the Mirror

"Darth Vader Helmet Reflection" by shamash, Devon,

England

, 2005

Click to enlarge this funky photograph, which was accepted into the collection of The Mirror Project.

In my first posting of this New Year, I thought I'd share a few of my experiments on reflective surfaces. Though a few of my photographer friends who are purists beg to disagree, digital photography and the zoom lense and are, IMHO, the best inventions since sliced bread.

Dirty Dishes

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No More Walls

Is_ it too childish of a question to ask,

"Why can't we all get along?"

-image via Banksy's website

The security barrier separating the occupied territories from Israel.

West Bank, Palestine 2005.