Starting the New Year with Dignity

Honoring the Dignity of Native American Culture

One of the most beautiful sights on our November South Dakota road trip was this statue:

Dignity of the Earth & Sky, honoring the Indigenous Peoples of South Dakota:

As we look forward to the New Year, let's try to have more Respect for All Peoples......2017 was a rough year.  Make 2018 Better!

52 Rolls Week 42:52

A Tour of Long House @ Mesa Verde:

Ute Mountain Tribal Park: Porcupine Canyon

I've only posted a couple of images from Porcupine Canyon....So here are a few More:

52 Rolls Week 41:52

Check out the film results from Lion's Canyon:

Step House @ Mesa Verde

First the Ruins of the Steps that this Cliff Dwelling is named for:

Kiva @ Step House:

Ladder @ Step House:

These are B&W conversions of digital images.  I've optimized them for Printing (in case they seem a bit dark).  These are candidates for my Personal Vision Project........Comments Appreciated.

Pipe Shrine House @ Mesa Verde

We made a recent trip to Mesa Verde with our Photography Club (UWPC).  Lot's of time to think on the road out there and back.  So I've decided to keep this Blog as my photo diary, and post my Personal Vision Journey on Word Press.

The Marade #2: A Little Irony?

The grave markers in Remembrance of those killed by the Police Across America in 2015.  A not so ironic juxtaposition of these markers with the statue honoring all the Native Tribes forcibly removed from Colorado.

Amache: A National Historic Site

We'll leave Amache as we wait for the B&W images to be processed. Also check out our other Blog, Longs Peak Journal, to see some Views of Picketwire Canyon......

By the Way, do any of you know who Amache was?

Saturdays Online: Clyde Butcher Comments on "Life in the Digital Fast Lane"

Ah, some of us can relate.  I am about to go on a field trip to photograph Colorado Ghost Towns.  And I can already see that the Itinerary and Time Lines are much to fast to really do much.  So we are planning an additional day to revisit places that need time to be "seen" completely.

Clyde Butcher, one of my photo influences, commented on a recent trip to Antelope Canyon.  A place, as he says "YOU could spend a lifetime photographing".

A Redux of our trip to Antelope Canyon

Take as much time as you need to compose the photo image AKA take time to smell the roses.  Two good images are worth more than 100 quick shots with your digital camera (And remember you still have to sort through those 100 shots to find the really good ones).  Digital doesn't demand quick shooting unless you are a photo journalist.  But people seem to think it does.

Red Rocks Sunday: Fun with Photomerge

Photomerge of two Mamiya 6X6 Images

Red Rocks Sundays: Classic View Redux

Compare the difference between optics/camera quality for the Mamiya 6X6 version of last week's image:

 

and Below Last Week's 35mm version (so you don't have to search for it):

Red Rocks Sundays: The Classic View

How many times have you seen this view in a John Ford movie?

Red Rocks Sundays: Monument Valley & Self Protrait

We did a drive by of Monument Valley during our Christmas Trek....We'll spend the next few Sundays there:

Can you see the "self portrait"?

Faith on Film: Pecos Pueblo VI

Mission Church and Gardens viewed from the East

Faith on Film: Pecos Pueblo V

A Kiva for Good Friday:

Faith on Film: Pecos Pueblo IV

Door on the West side of the Altar area.

Faith on Film: Pecos Pueblo III

Kivas and traditional Religion coexisted with the later Mission re-established in 1693.

Faith On Film: Pecos Pueblo II

Ruins of the 1621 Church looking towards the Altar area.  The Church was destroyed in the 1689 Pueblo Revolt.

Faith on Film: Pecos Pueblo

We'll spend Holy Week touring the Pecos Pueblo Ruins.

Perhaps best in Color.  But it was an overcast day, and I did what I could.  Here we are looking out from the Sanctuary through a side door.  These are all Mamiya 6 photos.