Category: family
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This weekend I went to Atlanta to visit an old friend. While I was there I discovered, by chance, that there was an Annie Leibovitz exhibit at the High Museum of Art. For a brief moment, I thought maybe I didn’t need to go, because I saw her talk last fall in Berkeley, California, and…
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every year we say “this will probably be the last year” the last year of putt-putt (miniature golf) with the dilapidated safari animals and smurf-blue water. the last year of standing outside restaurants waiting hours for really bad fried seafood, which no one orders anyway since the majority of our group does not eat seafood…
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So I have been trying to use Matteo’s medium format camera…..for many reasons (including: I like the slower more thoughtful portraits and the waist level view finder)……but I am not sure I am getting results that are good enough, and at first I was frustrated and disappointed in my washed-out, flared results, but then I…
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Linda Fultz is the most wonderful human on the planet. Her positive, creative, giving and loving spirit draws you in and makes you feel lucky just to know her. So it is not surprising that her house is full every Sunday as everyone, who is lucky to be invited, eagerly comes to recharge their souls…
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My mom says it is because they are not mine…..I say I am glad they are not mine and I was more than happy to return to my four-legged, shedding babies after a day at River Falls Park in Greenville, with Ann and Chrissy and their little people. Today proved to me that I am…
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Welcome to strip malls and chain stores. Welcome to anywhere USA. But what are families supposed to do, when there aren’t many other options, and time and money are not disposable? For young working families, it has to be cheap, fast and convenient. This is life for millions of Americans…. Susie learns about helium, as…
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The biggest challenge of them all….photographing a 3 yr old’s birthday party with a camera made in the 50’s…..I looked cool doing it, but my photos are hit or miss….these are some of my favorites. The photo actually includes Darren’s feet but the place where I have the negs scanned goofed on a few of…
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Being back in the South, where I grew up, means visiting friends from my childhood… and their children. So I am also using them as models for my look into the American way of life for middle class families. Ann and Susie are my favorite models… and we go everywhere together. It is good practice…
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aka: mom This is my mom. She is a bit of a rarity in her neighborhood….I would even guess some of her neighbors might call her a bohemian because of her unconventional unruly yard….and if her neighbors knew about her technique to get rid of the Japanese Beetles that eat the flowers on her crape…
somewhere between a handshake and two kisses 