Nature Photography: The Rains Return
July 23rd, 2010After a three-month absence, an intermittent visitor has returned to the Southern Arizona desert.
While commonly referred to as "rain," this visitor is also referred to as "relief" and less flattering terms, the most common of which is, "Where in the #$%^& have you been?"
The rain in my back yard was a welcome sight on my sagging prickly pear cactii. The increased moisture means that they'll stand up straight again.
Tip: You can view more nature photography in my portfolio.
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Website Design: Optical Sciences Researcher
July 15th, 2010Robert A. Norwood is a professor in the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences. My website design showcases his research, publishing, teaching, scholarly presentations, and patents.
The home page features a collage of photos that I took of the sculpture, low water use landscaping, and architecture at the college. (If you're interested in water-saving xeriscapes, the College of Optical Sciences offers one of the best examples in all of Tucson.)
Tip: You can view more website design projects in my portfolio.
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Event Photography: Flags and Memories
July 6th, 2010When I was in my early twenties, I set the goal of bicycling through all 50 of the United States. I accomplished this over a 12-year period, and wrote and published two books about my experiences.
My travels also took me into Canada. During a 1987 ride down the Icefields Parkway between Jasper and Banff, Alberta, I met another bicyclist from Quebec.
In heavily accented English, she told me that she didn't really feel like a Canadian until she'd gone out and pedaled around her country. I said that my American bicycle travels had done the same thing for me.
And that's why the Stars and Strips fly outside my house on the 4th of July...
This is my country, and, thanks to the generosity of the people I met on the road, I've seen it, heard it, and felt from Maine to California and from Alaska to Florida. You can see where I went by visiting my bicycle, nature, and travel photography portfolios.
Tip: You can view more event photography in my portfolio and on this blog. I am also available for event photography assignments in Tucson, Arizona, and elsewhere. I specialize in concerts, festivals, parades, political rallies, and sporting events. To check availability and to request a proposal, please e-mail me or call 520-690-1888.
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Bicycle Photography: Going Airborne
June 21st, 2010The diversity of Tucson's cycling scene never ceases to amaze me. In addition to the wide variety of bicyclists, our two-wheelers are used for a lot more than just riding along the terra firma.
Take, for example, the riders from Southern Arizona Freestyle Entertainment. They treat their bikes like aircraft...
This gravity-defying demo was part of this year's first-ever Cyclovia Tucson. The solar panels behind the rider belong to the Brooklyn Pizza Company, which gets up to 40 percent of its electricity from the sun.
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Event Photography: More than Music
June 16th, 2010My previous Tucson Folk Festival 2010 posts have focused on the musical performances at this event.
Well, I'm here to tell you that there's a whole lot more to the Folk Festival than music. There was a wide array of vendors, including this mobile massage therapist...
If you wanted to add to your music collection, you had plenty of festival performer CDs to choose from at the Kitchen Store...
Uh-oh! Looks like there's some un-Arizona-like weather happening. This sudden downpour caused spectators to run for cover and the sound technicians to cover their equipment as best they could...
Tip: You can view more event photography in my portfolio and on this blog. I am also available for event photography assignments in Tucson, Arizona, and elsewhere. I specialize in concerts, festivals, parades, political rallies, and sporting events. To check availability and to request a proposal, please e-mail me or call 520-690-1888.
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Concert Photography: Mid-2010 Retrospective
June 8th, 2010Although I'm usually not a blog post recycler, I'll admit that I got the idea for this entry from last month's Tucson Folk Festival commentary.
That post featured a list of the 36 musical acts that I photographed during the Folk Festival's two-day run. They included ArleneWow! (shown below), who came all the way from Connecticut to play for a very appreciative Tucson crowd...
Since concert photography is turning into one of this blog's most-used categories, I figured that now is a good time for a complete list of all the Tucson bands I've photographed.
Some were performing in concert, and others were included in larger community events like Cyclovia Tucson, the Fourth Avenue Street Fair and Meet Me at Maynards.
Here's the list:
- Batucaxe
- Brothers for Christ
- Calexico
- Can Crushers at 2008 and 2009 4th Avenue Winter Street Fairs
- Carnivaleros
- Mitzi Cowell
- Crawdaddy-o
- CrossCut Saw
- Diamond Jim Hewitt at 2008 and 2009 Tucson Folk Festivals
- Dusty Buskers at 2008 Dillinger Days, 2008 4th Avenue Winter Street Fair, Meet Me at Maynards July 6, 2009 and July 13, 2009
- Fushicho Daiko
- Gertie and the TO Boys
- Jovert
- Leila Lopez
- Lenguas Largas
- Missing Parts
- Neon Prophet
- One Kingdom Image
- Orquestra la Unica
- Kevin Pakulis with Larry Lee Lerma
- Run Boy Run
- Sergio Mendoza y la Orkestra
- Silver Thread Trio
- Spirit Familia
- Tariq Rasool and the Songhai Drummers
- The Determined Luddites
- Vanish Twin
Tip: You can view more event photography in my portfolio and on this blog. I am also available for event photography assignments in Tucson, Arizona, and elsewhere. I specialize in concerts, festivals, parades, political rallies, and sporting events. To check availability and to request a proposal, please e-mail me or call 520-690-1888.
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Event Photography: Close-ups at the Bicycle Swap Meet
May 19th, 2010Last month's Swap Meet was a great place for the buying, selling and trading of anything having to do with bikes and bicycling.
It also presented a wonderful opportunity to engage in the art of bike-tography, which combines bicycling and photography. In addition to getting wide-angle shots of all the action, the Swap Meet was a great venue for close-up work.
I'm not talking about macro close-ups. (After all, the tread wear on used bicycle tires isn't that interesting.) More like "up close and personal" shots.
Take, for example, this look at two guys checking out used bikes...
Or how about the age-old answer of what to lean your bike against if it doesn't have a kickstand. How about a traffic cone?
Tip: You can view more event photography in my portfolio and on this blog. I am also available for event photography assignments in Tucson, Arizona, and elsewhere. I specialize in concerts, festivals, parades, political rallies, and sporting events. To check availability and to request a proposal, please e-mail me or call 520-690-1888.
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Event Photography: Tucson Folk Festival 2010
May 11th, 2010The first weekend of May is generally when summer returns and breathes its fiery breath all over Tucson and southern Arizona.
Not this year. If you didn't bring a sweater and raincoat to this year's Tucson Folk Festival, you wouldn't have been very happy. And that would have been a shame, because the 2010 event was heralded as the best ever.
I'm a little biased about that last point because I was the Folk Festival's official photographer. In two days, I covered three stages and 36 acts. Here are three:
From the Courtyard Stage, the Mas o Menos String Band...
From the Old Town Artisans Stage, Tiffany Jo Allen...
From the Plaza Stage, Saturday evening's headliner, Chris Hillman, formerly of The Byrds...
In order of appearance at the 2010 Tucson Folk Festival, here's a complete list of the performers I photographed:
- Nancy K. Dillon
- Amy Hoyt and Joe White
- Will Edwards (Winner of the 2010 Tucson Folk Festival Songwriting Competition. I photographed Will during his two performances on Saturday, May 1 and one on Sunday, May 2)
- Jimmy Pines
- Cristofer Erin
- Debbie Hawkins
- Arnold/Klingefuss Ensemble
- Wayward Maggie
- 16th Place
- Mas o Menos String Band
- Martin Klabunde
- Titan Valley Warheads
- roth d’lux
- Three-Legged Dog
- Wilson, Bowman & Teague
- Shaun Crowell
- Crystal Ridge
- Andrew Dahl-Bredine
- Chris Hillman and Herb Peterson
- Roman Barten-Sherman
- Wally Lawder and Brandie Thornburg
- Tiffany Jo Allen
- Chavez, Hallowell & Long
- Don Simpson
- Deming Fusiliers (I photographed them leading a stringed instrument workshop and in performance.)
- High Desert
- Emilie and Stefan George
- Cox and Serres
- C. Daniel Boling
- Angel Perez
- ArleneWow!
- The Determined Luddites
- Carnivaleros
- Nancy McCallion
- Diane Van Deurzen and Lisa Otey
- John Coinman
View all 185 of my Tucson Folk Festival 2010 photos.
Tip: You can view more event photography in my portfolio and on this blog. I am also available for event photography assignments in Tucson, Arizona, and elsewhere. I specialize in concerts, festivals, parades, political rallies, and sporting events. To check availability and to request a proposal, please e-mail me or call 520-690-1888.
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Website Design: Anyplace Access for Arizonans
April 29th, 2010Anyplace Access for Arizonans (AA4A) is a University of Arizona-based program that offers online courses in nutrition, health and bioscience.
AA4A courses are directed towards students, non-degree seekers, pre-professionals and professionals in the health-related fields including occupational and physical therapy, nursing, pharmacy, dietetics and radiation therapy.
This was a combination design and photography project:
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Event Photography: Watershed Management Group Earth Month
April 26th, 2010Throughout this month, Tucson's Watershed Management Group has been celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. WMG's Earth Month celebration included a block party, street painting, a bike tour of water harvesting sites, and several workshops.
The last two Earth Month workshops were held in my neighborhood. A nearby neighbor had a culvert cistern installed, while the action in my yard focused on tuning up the earthworks.
After the WMG volunteers enlarged a water harvesting basin in my front yard, it was time to move the hesperaloe, which I had planted in a shady spot.
My bad.
Hesperaloes are xeriscape plants that need full sun. So, let's give it a new home near the driveway. Plenty of sunshine there...
I must say that, as of this morning, the hesperaloe appears to be thriving.
Elsewhere on the front yard xeriscaping project WMG's Matthew Bertrand (right) and Charlie, the go-to guy for any stonemasonry work, measure the slope of the drainage they've built at the edge of the enlarged water harvesting basin...
The drainage will direct excess basin water into the rock garden that Matthew's standing on.
Tip: You can view more event photography in my portfolio and on this blog. I am also available for event photography assignments in Tucson, Arizona, and elsewhere. I specialize in concerts, festivals, parades, political rallies, and sporting events. To check availability and to request a proposal, please e-mail me or call 520-690-1888.
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