The 37th Annual La Cienega Artist Studio Tour being held Thanksgiving Weekend, Saturday November 27 and Sunday November 28. New this year, on the web site,www.lacienegastudiotour.com, six of us will be showing our entire exhibit in Sunrise Springs Resort, with a special artists reception on Friday between 5 and 7 pm. In addition, the Flea Market at the Downs is featuring a Thanksgiving Weekend event. More information forthcoming. Thanks for your support.
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Some portraits from November

Collage work

Working hard at my collage course work up to 10 hrs a day makes for ones brain to go bunkers I so wish my transcripts had come in time! they were 3 weeks late and is rather difficult to catch up
Boy oh boy I am tired did 11 hours today

Elky 8X10 Wetplate Alumitype

8X10 Wetplate, Alumitype

Fall is here !

Fall is here ! First snow fall!

Working on my BFA

I started in honest to work on finishing my Bachelors degree this week!
English 102 if the first one to tackle ! I have posted some of what i wrote here as a way to express my self and may be get a comment or two I will post some other essays as i go ! History and Psychology  are on next I am just waiting for the text books to arrive so I can get started I need to be done before the fall semester is over !
I look forward to the history work it encompass classic Greece to the Renaissance !
get to talk about some of my heros, Plato, Demosthenes, Homer and may others I hope I earn a B or better .
:)

Where are we going with the micro economics?

Where are we going with the micro economics?
There was a time not to long ago where we all aspire to be a functional part of society somewhat like ants to the colony and them Micro economics came along.
I remember thinking that I will like to grow up and become a small business owner may be manufacture or services but in today’s world we Americans make nothing, build nothing!
Microeconomics dictates that a smaller workforce maximizes revenue but that leads us to a saturation point I believe we have reach in today’s world! More and more people loose they jobs do to mechanization or automatization then never before, what is it to become of us as a society?
In today’s world greed has lead us down a dangerous road, are we to do nothing and allow corporations to be tread it like humans

? we already do that to a large extent , they have rights , can influence elections and even sadly to my eyes they win court cases in a way people never will if we are to keep going down this road .
I propose that people should make their voices heard! one possible way is to engage the  local and federal governments in the same way the corporations have done nothing like fighting fire with fire .They have manipulated the communication mediums and count on peoples ignorance and lack of concern to gain control and expand microeconomics .

I content that if this continues it is going to be a sad day when our government starts to pay its people for not engaging or becoming a successful and productive part of society. 

Abortion and it is merits! A right wing opinion!

Abortion and it is merits! A right wing opinion!
As a person that can easy be call a socialist I decide to look in to the conservative position on abortion.
As stated by the conservative isle of the congress and other so called good Christians  the role of government or at least part of it is not to interfere with the privacy of their people hence my question .Why will you want government to regulate what one does with one’s body ?

It long has been the position of the right to keep the federal and local governments out of their lives however must of that particular constituency benefits in a disproportional way of subsidies, loans and other programs from childhood to retirement .Jet the sample people have no problem telling the rest of the country what and how to go about their lives as in we will not support legalization of recreational drugs Immigration or abortion .
Why because the believe that the bible prohibits the practice jet they are not scholars of such texts a usual reader not a scholar makes these people do not question the passages in a book that comes from the Jewish tradition witch in turns values the questioning understanding and challenge of such passages for example the right suns abortion but hides the fact that must abortions are by Christians does their interpretation of the bible does not warns against “pre marital sex” and that it may be a sin to engage on such activates ?

In the Jewish tradition sin is a personal matter that one has to content with on a one on one basis and it is not for a person to call another a sinner. So why is it that the right turns a blind eye to one half the issue and tries to condemn others for their choices is it not their Ideal to be fair and honest ? they stand by a clinic and condemn the patients as murderers and unfaithful in fact they are no worst then the peoples of the world that condemn us for being an open society have we gone so down the gutter that we cannot respect the choices of are sisters and brothers ? I see not one protestor offering a viable solution what so ever ,they chant about god and it’s wisdom jet fail to realize that if they themselves are willing to take the so call higher ground without an open dialogue they are no better than a ravenous dog biting the hand that feeds them .

If they indeed are so opposed to abortion may be the should live to the standards they impose on others  be a good parent, educate our children, question the leadership stand and more than any other show composition I am sure not one of the females looking to utilize their freedom are in did people that hope to go through such social and physical  scaring.
I propose that if you have a different position to such a procedure it is within your hands to avoid such a situation but to convict others that have a different outlook while you take what you want 

Workshops

Planing 2 workshops for February 
One on Carbon printing the other on the nude & may be one on wet plate collodion !
here in Santa Fe yes I know it will be winter and a tad cold but the weather also creates some wonderful images to photograph!

Canyon de Chelly

From my Trip to Arizona last week 

 The White House at Canyon de Chelly

Spire rock at Canyon de Chelly

Those people at Face book

Darn it they deleted my account !

From earleir this spring made at Carrizo springs California

just like my day dry and dead

Small church near Santo Domingo

I first saw the little church while looking around with my neighbor Lee!

Here is one for the archive !
yesterday as I looked for images of the Aspens at the Santa Fe sky area so A.H. stopped in front of my no big deal right ?

The un know A.H decides to put his truck in reverse and rams in to me ( nothing happened to old Betsy ) but it sure scared the shi... out of my some drunk or just plain stupid A.H
here is one of the images I made there .

There may be one week left before the color is gone

First week of October

Me my self and I