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  • Portfolio
    • Avian
    • Candid Portraits
    • Clouds
    • Coffee Life
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    • Journals and Pens
    • Leaves
    • Sunrises
    • Sunsets
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  • Black and White,  coffee shops,  Documentary/Street,  lifestyles

    This morning

    September 1, 2020
    The new normal at the coffee shops includes the mask

    Feels like fall this morning. Air is crisp. Sunlight seems vibrant. Dew sparkles on the grass. People wearing sweaters and jackets. Students walking to class with backpacks, water bottles, earbuds and wearing the latest fashions in masks. Happy September 1st.

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  • coffee shops,  Documentary/Street,  lifestyles,  sunrises

    a gift received

    August 25, 2020
    Sunbeams and morning coffee at Mugs

    warm sun beams appear 
    offering another new day
    so live it fully

    with camera in hand
    eyes open to the present
    the gift is then received 

    ms

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  • architecture,  lifestyles,  quotes,  shadows

    Words

    January 31, 2020
    Dinning room table shadows

    “Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness……” Jim Rohn. But for me they are so elusive and seem to fall short of understanding and awareness.

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  • Black and White,  coffee shops

    Party Time

    January 21, 2019
    Thought I would share about the upcoming party this week. My sister, Sheree, and I will be flying down to Phoenix today and surprise my dad for his 90th birthday. I’ll call if’in we need bail money. Paarrttyy time!
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  • Black and White,  lifestyles,  quotes,  shadows

    Happy Monday

    January 8, 2018
    Morning Light at my Table
    Morning Light at my Table

    “There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.”

    Black Elk
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  • architecture,  Black and White,  lifestyles,  shadows

    Morning Shadows at the Table

    November 2, 2017
    Morning Sunshine at the Table

    A photograph is not an opinion. Or is it? 

    Susan Sontag

    More lines catching my eye but the first thing to draw me was the light. Love morning light and this was all about the light! The color of the light was lovely but my camera washed out the highlights, nor could I seem to find anything to please me with Lightroom. Finally converted it to black and white in Silver Efex and was then a happy camper. It tickles me and causes a smile. 🙂

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  • Camera Equipment,  Documentary/Street,  fountain pens,  Fujifilm X-T10,  journal,  lifestyles,  Software,  writing/reading

    Another Toy

    August 14, 2017

    Writing time in Old Town square
    Writing time in Old Town square

    I took my youngest daughter to an appointment in Old Town last week then we went to lunch. I sat outside at one of the tables to enjoy a latte and get in some writing. This time I intentionally set the camera to the Toy setting. 🙂

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  • lifestyles,  shadows

    Simply Shadows

    June 28, 2017

    Simply Shadows
    Simply Shadows

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