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 […]
Smoke Dance
Mervin McDougall
vision
Mervin McDougall
The Cowgirl Cometh
Mervin McDougall
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 […]
Portrait of a Cowgirl
Mervin McDougall
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 […]
Patient Little Cowgirl
Mervin McDougall
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 […]
Boots and Spurs
Mervin McDougall
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 […]
Finger Lakes Sunset
Mervin McDougall
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 […]
Hawk Eye
Mervin McDougall
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 […]
Guard Duty
Mervin McDougall
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 […]
Boots of Valor
Mervin McDougall
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 […]
When vision is tantamount
Mervin McDougall
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 […]