The Sencas, Oneidas, Onondagas, Iroquois, etc have many ceremonial dances in common. One of them happens to be the smoke dance. The smoke dance is one of the more energetic and colourful of the ceremonial dances which I have seen that both men and women participate in. Its energy is displayed in a flurry of… Read more »
Posts Tagged: vision
The Cowgirl Cometh
The title – “The Cowgirl Cometh” – seems composed of a lot of unrelated words. Here I am mixing a 16th Centry term – “cometh” – which was used a lot in plays of Shakespeare with a 19th century term – “cowgirl”. But, I think it is aptly suited given what the photo represented. The… Read more »
Portrait of a Cowgirl
She was poised, alert and was unmistakably a cowgirl. While she ready herself for a competition in the warm-up pen outside of the NY State Fair Coliseum, I caught this portrait of a cowgirl looking off into the distance. Well it was more like looking onward at her approaching competition. Besides her proud stance in… Read more »
Patient Little Cowgirl
I have agonized over this photo – “Patient Little Cowgirl” – for days. Not because the photo was difficult to develop, I saw something in the development which I knew was going to draw me a lot of unwarranted heat for taking the shot that way. I was so caught up in getting a shot… Read more »
Boots and Spurs
I took another spontaneous departure from my usual supplement of fine art nature photography to again have a look at the equestrian events going on at the NY Sate Fair as I did in my previous photograph, “Three-Sixty“. What i came up with, “Boots and Spurs”, can be considered as more a play of colour… Read more »
Finger Lakes Sunset
Having completed a visit a to the New York Hope Mills, my companion photographers and myself decided to make our way back through the Finger Lakes Region to Syracuse. On travelling through the twisty roads that cut through the farm lands, we started noticing the sun setting. We paused at various points along the trip… Read more »
Hawk Eye
I hate to talk of things in the past tense. But, I have taken so many pictures this year and have simply sat on them because I was either too lazy to develop them at the time or too caught up in the business of life to make the time to do so. However, slowly… Read more »
Guard Duty
As one friend told me, this is a perfect example of a slice of life photograph. I am not sure if, during the Civil War, whether any of the persons who were involved in the war had the opportunity to sleep so comfortably on the battlefield. But, it certainly romanticizes the moment and the era…. Read more »
Boots of Valor
America’s Civil War pitted the Confederate Army from most southern states against the Federal Army from the nothern states. Besides being a war of ideology and interpretation of the Constitution it also placed families, friends and allies against each other – a social upheaval. That is just a synopsis, and as much as I could… Read more »
When vision is tantamount
It is pretty easy to get wrapped up in the hype of a new lens – oohhh the wide aperture, and ohhh imagine the depth of field. In fact, there are some persons who get so wrapped up in the capabilities of a lens that they purchase it for one purpose and once that purpose… Read more »