tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62429962011-07-30T03:13:17.926-04:00A woman artist/activist/writer's creative responses to world events, disability and life.Patricia Lay-Dorseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15043429707977383577noreply@blogger.comBlogger12911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242996.post-46863509955355075122009-03-11T17:53:00.002-04:002009-03-11T17:58:55.739-04:00

If anyone still comes to this long-out-of-date blog, I can tell you where to find me now. Two places:1) My brand new photography website athttp://www.patricialaydorsey.com2) My brand new photography-related blog athttp://patricialaydorsey.blogspot.com

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I invite you to join me over at pbase.com where I now keep my daily photo blog. The URL ishttp://www.pbase.com/windchimewalker/photoaday1_08To see all my photo galleries simply click onhttp://www.pbase.com/windchimewalkerSee you there!

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To start this New Year, I'd like to reprint the lead editorial in The New York Times, America's most important newspaper. It was their summation of the year as it came to its end.December 31, 2007EDITORIALLooking at AmericaThere are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. Sunday was one of them, as we read the account in The Times of how men in some of the most trusted

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Better late than never...The link to my December photo blog on pbase.com ishttp://www.pbase.com/windchimewalker/photoaday12To go to my pbase.com home page where you can access all of my galleries, click on;http://www.pbase.com/windchimewalker

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Sorry, friends, I'm a bit late putting up a link to my November Photo Blog on Pbase.com It is:http://www.pbase.com/windchimewalker/photoaday11That's where I now post my daily photos and written blog entries. To see all my PBase photo galleries, go tohttp://www.pbase.com/windchimewalkerBy the way, you can leave comments there if you'd like. I always appreciate hearing from you.

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Friends, the URL for my PBase.com photo blog changes every month. The October photo blog can be found if you click here. Come visit. I update it every day. And if you're interested in seeing my photo galleries, simply click here.

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Friends, I encourage you to start going to a photo blog I've just created on PBase.com. Click here to see it, and be sure to bookmark it for future reference. I'll be updating it daily.

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The waning days of summerAs the Labor Day weekend gets underway here in the U.S., every moment of warm sun, green grass and leaves, flowers in bloom--even those on their last legs like the ones shown here--becomes precious. I scoot down our neighborhood streets with heightened appreciation for the gift of summer, my favorite season. Already I see the occasional red leaf, but I don't want to

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baby Elizabeth and her proud daddy, Don

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Reuters article published Thursday, August 30, 2007Iran Atom Work at Slow Pace and Not Significant: IAEAThu Aug 30, 2007 10:07 AM ETBy Mark HeinrichVIENNA (Reuters) - Iran's uranium enrichment program is operating well below capacity and is far from producing nuclear fuel in significant amounts, according to a confidential U.N. nuclear watchdog report obtained by Reuters.A senior Iranian nuclear

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Photoshop compositeIt had been SO long since I'd used Photoshop for anything but editing that I'd almost forgotten how to play! But, like riding a bike, it came back quickly enough. Such fun!

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A European study has been released to The Raw Story in which the Bush administration's plans for "massive attacks" on Iran are laid out more clearly than ever before. Who can stop them now???Study: US preparing 'massive' military attack against Iranby Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel KanePublished: Tuesday August 28, 2007The United States has the capacity for and may be prepared to launch without

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Her labor has begunLast week I was privileged to watch a cow giving birth to a bull calf at the Michigan State Fair. I've just put up a gallery with photos showing the entire process. Click here to see my "A Calf Is Born" photo gallery.

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Turned Into Water and Fled Away - 19I am a wandering gypsy vulnerable to all beauties These beauties attempt to throw a net over me. Afraid that some nameless season of flowers might trap me, I never stray into the garden alone. I lay eggs in volumes of books, I hatch my eggs in corners of pages, I am the cock that crows before sunrise. I do not flee from loneliness anywhere. Remaining in the

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We all see the same moon...

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Sunday at Starbucks

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Another self portraitThis is one of three photos I added today to my Facing Up to My Face at 65 photo gallery. I think/hope they will fill in some gaps in the story. The response to that gallery has left me speechless. When I created it, I wasn't even thinking of PBase. It was originally a Powerpoint presentation I made to share with the folks at the writing retreat that had triggered this whole

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Reclaiming its own

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Any mail?

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at the Michigan State Fair

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Bull calf aged 30 minutesI watched this bull calf being born today. His mother and I had been relating for about 45 minutes when I saw the first ripples of contractions run down her back. She had a rather lengthy labor for a cow, almost two hours. But all went well and mother and calf are doing fine. For a city girl like me, this was an amazing experience. How grateful I am to my husband Ed for

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Vstar's tattooPerhaps the most amazing part of taking photos of women's tattoos at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival was hearing the stories of what their tattoos meant to the women, who had inked them, and what tattoos they were hoping to get in the future. For instance, I was deeply moved when Vstar told me that her tattoo was intentionally inked over her cancer port scar.I've just begun to

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Life is to be lived FULL OUT!Bob Rein at 92 seemed more full of life than any of the youngsters having lunch today at the Subway across from the high school. He still works full time as an accountant, and had airline tickets to Jamaica on Monday when Hurricane Dean cancelled all flights. He and his young lady friend will be rescheduling their trip just as soon as that battered island can recover

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Jo savors the last drop of her fudgesicleThis is the final photo that completes my Michigan Womyn's Music Festival 2007 gallery. Now I can start working with the hundreds of photos I took there of women's tattoos!

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Facing up to my face at 65I have just posted a gallery of self portraits called "Facing up to my face at 65". I invite you to visit and comment if you feel so inclined.

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A preview of coming attractionsTerrie's tattoo is a teaser to keep you tuned in while I go away for a four-day writers' workshop. I have pix of more tattoos than you can imagine. And I'll be starting to post these photos just as soon as I get back home again. The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival is a veritable gallery of body art, especially tattoos. And when you see what these women choose to put

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A music festival means lots of music!This is a photo of Teri Catlin, a performer at this year's Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. She was accompanying the campers' One World Inspirational Choir at their Saturday rehearsal. She also joined them onstage during Sunday's performance at the Acoustic Stage. Festival is like that: everyone comes together to share their gifts and talents. Just the way

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Our young womynOne of the best parts of this year at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival was the presence of so many young women on the Land. Their energy is amazing! I've got to hand to Lisa Vogel, the festival owner/director, for her foresight in bringing in performers who would appeal to this next generation. There for awhile the majority of women at festival were pushing middle-age, but at my

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Sunday at festBy Sunday at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, just about everyone is on a continuum from weary to exhausted...especially the workers, many of whom have been on the Land for weeks. In this photo you see Scorcher who was sound asleep in the hammock until we had to wake her for her 6 p.m. shift as Triangle Traffic coordinator. Now, coordinating traffic at Triangle is a huge job.

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Feeding 3000 women & childrenThe Michigan Womyn's Music Festival has had 32 years to get things right...and, believe me, they have! For one week a year, these 650 acres are the most heavily-populated "city" in Oceana County in western Michigan. We have food, health care, garbage collection, recycling, childcare, a girls' camp & a boy's camp, recovery support, mass transist via

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Mommy's pregnant!Lucia seemed delighted with her mother's pregnancy, as were the two mommies, Nikki and Christian. I've just returned from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival with hundreds of photos but, more importantly, with countless memories of heart connections, humor, beauty, playfulness and unconditional love. I'll be putting up galleries of photos in the coming days, but wanted to start

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music to work on photos byI'm putting up Friday's PaD early because I hope to be on the road by 5 a.m. tomorrow morning. This will be my 13th Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, but I'm doing it differently this time. Instead of camping for a week with anywhere from 3-10,000 women on 650 acres of "women's land" in western Michigan, I am only going for the weekend (Friday through Sunday) and will be

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Well, this isn't exactly "abstracting reality," but it does reflect a heightened awareness of what is around me. Every day I wake up with a hunger to see things with new eyes. Sometimes that translates into an abstract image, but more often not. That's OK. Changing one's habitual ways of seeing the world takes time. And time is what I intend to devote to this study of Phil Douglis's teachings on

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hidden self portrat at the gym

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Waking up to a lovely rainy morningFor me the hardest part of this new focus on expressive photography, especially abstracting reality, is allowing less to be more. I'm so used to working with brilliant colors, dramatic effects and imaginative subjects that going back to something as simple as my bunched-up quilt and an open bedroom window is a real stretch. But somehow I know this is exactly

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To see, to save, to connectI'm on a new path, my friends, and I invite you to companion me as I explore its mysteries. Late Friday night/early Saturday morning I discovered Phil Douglis's galleries on PBase. Many of you might already know of, or even have worked with, this teacher of what he calls "Expressive Travel Photography." After spending hours that night studying and responding to twelve

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Biker KenThis composite shows my friend Ken Rowell on his Harley Classic. Of course I had to play with it a bit to get the feeling I wanted, but I doubt if Ken, or any biker for that matter, would object to the finished product. There's something so dramatic about a Classic.

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palm fruit compositeWe've been in the midst of a heat wave here in Detroit. Do you think that's why I'm suddenly so attracted to the color red?

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Inspired by HeleneThis composite was inspired by a gallery by h2m called urban_colours. Isn't it marvelous how we encourage our sister and brother PBase photographers to experiment simply by going there first? My deepest thanks to Helene for daring to be different.

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Nine lives would work!As I worked with Carol's obituary photos today, it occurred to me that cats shouldn't be the only ones to have nine lives: people like Carol should have them too. So I made it happen! Hey, Photoshop can do anything.

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To live each moment as if it were my last...I first met Carol at Patricia and Michael's wedding celebration party last Saturday night. I had taken the photos at their ceremony at the Belle Isle Conservatory in February, but on that day only six persons were present: the bridal couple, two witnesses, the judge and me. Saturday was a time for family and friends to gather and celebrate this dear

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for JessicaI just received a message from my PBase friend Jessica who said that today the temperature where she lives in China is 40C (104F)!!! I dedicate this composite image to her in hopes that they will soon experience relief from the heat.

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Protect the children!It is always the children who suffer in wars. And it pains me greatly that my own country is causing such suffering to so many innocent children and adults in Iraq. I have placed a handpainted (by me) hamsa hand in this composite to help ward off the evil eye. This symbol is one that cultures in the Middle East and elsewhere have used since ancient times. May it protect them

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Shadows of a summer's day...yet another Photoshop composite

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The unsung heroes of musicAt last night's jazz concert by the James Carter Quintet, I sat beside Stephen McLallen who was working the sound board. Yes, James on sax, Gerard Gibbs on keyboards, Dwight Adams on trumpet, Randy Armstrong on bass and Leonard King on drums were brilliant, but so was Stephen on sound. And if it hadn't been for him, we wouldn't have heard anything. Because, according to

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Tattoo artMy tattoo artist, Caryl Cunningham of Eternal Tattoos, is among the best IMHO. Yesterday I experienced her artistry from the inside and the outside. It was time to freshen up my one year-old earth armband, so Caryl took care of that (three new photos on my Inbox), but then she tackled the much more complex task of covering up an old tattoo with a new design. You can see that process by

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Even flowers can get stretched out of shape

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Tagumpay Filipino Dance Ensemble compositeI created this composite using two photos I took of the Tagumpay Filipino Dance Ensemble during their performance at Detroit's Concert of Colors on Sunday, July 22.

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our interwoven destinies

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community drumming at the Concert of ColorsYesterday I traveled around the world without ever leaving Detroit. That's what the Concert of Colors is all about. That and bringing together all the peoples of our region of different ethnic, national, racial and religious backgrounds, not to mention different ages. New Detroit, ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Soocial Services), the Arab

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Come to Mommy!This is Kirsten with our great-niece Betty in her lap and nephew John holding little Katie's hand. We had a wonderful time with family this weekend as everyone gathered to celebrate my husband's brother's 80th birthday. His surprise party was even a surprise!

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Detroit's Concert of ColorsYes, it's another free music festival weekend here in Detroit! This one--the Concert of Colors--celebrates our diversity and connection to all the peoples of the world. It is one of my favorite weekends of the entire festival season.This photo--NOT a composite for once!--shows us dancing to the final act of the evening, the Basiks, a reggae/ska/motown band that really

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art fair compositeThis is a composite I made using two of the photos I took at the Ann Arbor Art Fair on Wednesday. You can see those two and 32 other photos from that day by visiting my newest gallery called--drum roll please!--the Ann Arbor Art Fair 2007 gallery. By the way, I followed this little girl and her mother for blocks, hoping they'd stop so I could take a picture. Her hair was like

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sunset dreaming

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She's not herself these daysNothing is more of a threat to creativity than success. Not that I've ever known great success, but even hints of it can throw me off track. I lose that edginess that creativity requires. I start thinking more about how my art will be received than how it feels to make it. It happened last night. I cannot tell a lie: I felt pretty darn good about yesterday's

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city moon composite

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Who's that hiding in the bushes?You might have guessed I was going to have some Photoshop fun with my images from northern Michigan! It feels SO GOOD to back in my creative mode again!!!

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A frog and its spirit-partner, PanI have PBase photographer Giselle Borgwardt to thank for this title. She posted a comment about this photo on my now-completed Northern Michigan gallery and it felt so right. From Michigan to the Canary Islands, I send my thanks to you, Giselle.This frog lives with three companions in the garden of my former art professor Peggy Midener whom I visited on my last

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At the turn onto County Rd. 48I guess it's becoming pretty obvious that this city girl couldn't get enough views of barns and fields during my week in Northern Michigan. While most vacationers either stay in resort towns close to Lake Michigan or rent cabins beside one of the countless smaller lakes nearby, I was fortunate to be with friends who live out in the country. I was also fortunate to be

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the fog rolls in...I've just put up the first part of my "Northern Michigan photo gallery." Click here to view it. There is more to come...

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Sweet peaI paid dearly for this shot. It was shortly after a rainstorm that I ventured out onto Casey and Jeanne's land to take some photos. But I wasn't the only one out there; the black flies were there too. Yipes! They love to dig into your hair and nip you on the scalp. I was scratching my poor head for hours.By the way, I'm using this as my Thursday photo-a-day since today my camera was

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Outside of Elk Rapids, MichiganAfter two days of much-needed rain, the land was again showing herself to be green and lush. On Wednesday I drove the 80 miles from Casey and Jeanne's home near Honor to my former art professor's home in East Jordan. I'd not seen Peggy Midener in twelve years and was delighted to find her as warm and lovely, and her work as uniquely imaginative, as ever. I'll be

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Casey the happy farmerCasey says all she ever wanted to be was a farmer, but she had to wait 60+ years for her dream to come true. And now it has. No one could be happier than Casey when she's up on her red tractor mowing the meadow or the area around her truck garden. She and Jeanne made me feel so at home and did everything they could to make sure my visit with our beloved friend, Mary White,

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Skipping stones on Lake MichiganWhile adults sat on the beach waiting for the sun to set--a daily activity for local and vacationing folks alike--the kids had their priorities and it wasn't the sunset: it was skipping stones on the water. Interestingly enough, the champion stone-skipper was also one of the youngest. The boy you see kneeling down to pick up a stone could get as many as eight skips

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My piece of Juneberry pieBefore my visit to Northern Michigan, I'd never even heard of Juneberries much less eaten them. But after just one bite of this pie that Jeanne served at my first dinner on Sunday, I can say that Juneberries are one of the world's most perfect foods! Of course the fact that Jeanne and Casey had picked the berries the morning we ate them didn't hurt. Nor did it hurt that

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Mixed metaphorsI know the statue seems either Italian or Greek while the background has an African feel, but hey, that's the joy of creating composites, you can mix methaphors to your heart's content. To tell the truth, the background isn't African at all: it's patterns I created using shadows cast by a chaise longue on the cement surrounding our community pool! This will be my last photo-a-day

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Beach ball

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Celebrating our one-year anniversary togetherJuly 5, 2006 I bought my Canon Rebel XT and set off on this marvelous adventure into the land of SLR photography. At that time I didn't know an ISO from an aperture, even though I'd spent the last six years taking hundreds of thousands of photos for my blogs with my Fugi Finepix point-and-shoot digital camera. In fact, I didn't start setting my own

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Above the lawWhile Americans celebrate the 4th of July with fireworks and parades, our President and Vice-President continue to grind their heels into the fabric of what our founding fathers sewed together in 1776. American Democracy was to be a lived ideal where everyone—leaders and peoples alike—was to be equal under the law. In many ways the experiment has failed—consider persons of color and

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Emily at her grandfather's burial

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FireworksThis image is from a new gallery I just put up called--guess what!--Fireworks. The effects I ended up with were not intentional, just one of those happy accidents that resulted from lots of luck and a bit of ignorance. But that's OK. Photography's like that sometimes!By the way, this and all my fireworks photos are uncropped and unmanipulated except for the usual editing.

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Waves of soundWhen listening to music, do you ever feel like a surfer poised on the crest of the wave? I do. Other times it's like I'm bouncing along as gently as when I rode my one and only mosh pit. Sound can enrapture, energize, soothe, disturb and heal. I wonder how the vibrations of sound felt to my mother's parents, both of whom were deaf. My grandmother was a gifted hymn singer in sign.

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Detroit at duskLast night I attended yet another free music concert, this one at the riverfront plaza under what natives still call the Renaissance Center but is now officially the GM (General Motors) Headquarters. The band playing was the 70s rock icon, Grand Funk Railroad. The dancing was great and the evening couldn't have been more lovely. A good time was had by all...especially me!

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UntitledPhotoshop is such a teaser. Things are rarely what they seem. For instance, what appears to be fabric in the background of today's photo is really a sidewalk grate superimposed upon a collage of wooden planks that were nailed to the side of that abandoned warehouse you saw in yesterday's PAD. And the lines running across it? Bicycle spokes, of course!

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The family jewelsThis image was inspired by the news that the CIA had at long last declassified 700 pages of internal reports from the 1950s through the 1970s, documents they’d feared would be so damaging to the Agency’s reputation that they were known in house as the "family jewels." In 1992 a brief was filed under the Freedom of Information Act regarding these files, but the CIA managed to

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The way we're meant to beAfter yesterday's painful reminder of who we can become when fear grips us, I needed to put up this composite photo that shows who we are in our core and the delight we are meant to experience. Yes, I started the day by standing--or sitting, in my case--with other concerned individuals out on the streets on behalf of those who cannot do so for themselves, but then I put

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In the shadowsGuantanamo Bay. Abu Ghraib. Bagram. Secret CIA prisons across the globe. The highest incarceration rate per capita of any country in the world. Habeas Corpus--the law of the land since its founding--abolished by Congress and the President last October. Since September 11, 2001, the country of my birth has crawled under the rock of fear and become a shadowy reflection of its former

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UntitledThis is another abstract composite that I'd prefer not to name. I'd rather you see it unencumbered by my perceptions.

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Street scene in Ann Arbor, MichiganYou know, I've walked past--and sat under--these murals for over 20 years, but it wasn't until yesterday that I REALLY saw them...and that was because I had my camera's lens in front of my eyes. That is one of my favorite parts of being a photographer: it opens my eyes to wonders that I would not have noticed before.Now I see that the mural was painted in 1984

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Life is the art of the possibleI have a 36 year old mobile phone factory manager from South Wales to thank for inspiring this image. Have you heard of--or more accurately HEARD--Paul Potts singing Nessun Dorma in the Britains Got Talent competition? If not, please give youself a treat and check it out on YouTube. This young man shows that we never know what treasures lie hidden behind seemingly

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Summer arrives on the wings of color

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A hint of color

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UntitledI'm leaving this untitled because I don't want to influence your perceptions of what is now an abstract image. The photos I used to create it were far from abstract, but that's the wonder of Photoshop.By the way, you might want to check out my latest gallery. I call it "Digging for treasure" because it contains thumbnails and links to some of the wonderful galleries I've unearthed here on

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Ellie in budYouth is a time of possibilities. What we adults often forget is that youth is also a time of hard realities. Like the thorns on a rose, coming into full bloom can hurt. Just ask any 13 year-old.

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Block PartyTonight was our first block party in two decades. A good time was had by all!

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A perfect birthdayWhat could be more perfect than waking to your dear husband singing "Happy birthday" and giving you wonderful gifts, then picking up your best friend and going to the Arab International Festival where you see children you know from school having the time of their lives on carnival rides. After enjoying a chilled fresh fruit drink on this very hot day, you go back to your

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My 65th birthday collageYes, that's me scooter-dancing up on top of the cliff! I have my friend Illich to thank for finding the photo online of me dancing at Movement 07: Detroit Electronic Music Festival a few weeks ago. It was taken by Stephen Boyle and posted on www.residentadvisor.net. To see this photo collage in a larger format click here.

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An individual fishflyFor many Michiganders--and other persons around the world--fishflies or mayflies are simply a nuisance. Every year they arrive here on the shores of Lake St. Clair for a few weeks in late June and early July. Trillions of them. Their only job is to mate, which they do in mid-air. Since their digestive tract is nonfunctional, they only live for a matter of hours, or in some

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A day in JuneToday I took my macro lens out with me on my scoot down to Kinko's, and on the way we communed with several flowers and plants. When I downloaded the photos I couldn't choose which I liked best, so I put them all up. The new gallery is called A day in June.

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School's out for the summer!This was the last kid to come down the stairs after the bell rang signaling the end of school for the year. Remember that feeling? Nothing quite like it!

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Emerson Matabele, photographerThis is a photo I took on Saturday of a man who is usually behind the camera not in front of it. Emerson Matabele's photos look into the souls of people because he is a clear channel for love. Sorry if that sounds a bit "new-agey" but it's true. Check out his web site and see for yourself.

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Sunday at Detroit Festival of the ArtsI saw many smiles over the past three days but none could match the radiant smile of Idrissa 'Malam' Bangura, bass guitar player with Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars. You could not look at him without smiling back. And, as is so often the case, the horrors he and his brother and sister musicians have survived could have ended any hope for joy if they had let

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Saturday at Detroit Festival of the ArtsPetra of Osadia creates her magic on a volunteer from the audience. This performance artist duo from Barcelona, Spain has been appearing at the Detroit Festival of the Arts for four years now and they're still WOWING us with their outrageous imaginations!

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Friday night at Detroit Festival of the ArtsThe Close-Act Theatre of the Netherlands brought "Sau'rus" onto the streets of Detroit and delighted the crowds with their antics. One of them even tried twice to eat my hair! Ed says they probably thought it was white cotton candy ;=)I've just popped photos from last night into a gallery called Detroit Festival of the Arts. And now I'm on my way back

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My Faberge eggWhile the original Faberge eggs created between 1885 and 1917 for the Russian Tsars Alexander III and his son Nicholas II, were crafted using enameled precious metals and jewels, my egg found its genesis in flowers, green plants splattered with raindrops, a wooden picket fence, and liberal use of my favorite artistic medium, Adobe Photoshop CS2.Today is the start of another of

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Earth, air, fire and waterI create this image on the day my Canadian and American sisters--100 of them--are in a Boston sound studio recording "My Heart is Moved," a CD of songs based on the words of The Earth Charter. The music for these songs was composed by Norma Luccock of Vancouver,BC, Nancy Nordlie of the Great Lakes Basin, and Carolyn McDade--visionary songwriter, spiritual feminist and

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Snatched from the jaws of my imaginationTo give credit where credit is due, the silhouette of a woman is from a photo I took of Giacomo Manzu's sculpture, Passo di Danza. In terms of process, all the elements in this image came from my photographs. I used Photoshop to get the effects I wanted. There is no digital painting although it might look that way.

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Self portraitThe photographer’s eye sees the world not as it wishes it were, but as it is: truth that takes no sides and has nofavorites.

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My final Grade 4 art projectExcept for the Grade 5 commencement on Wednesday, June 13, today was my last day at school for the year. And this was my final art project. I worked VERY hard on it and think I deserve an "A," at least for effort! The assignment was to choose a photo of a zoo animal, draw the contour in pencil, with imaginative designs inside the animal. We were then to paint it using

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Where I spent this rainy SundaySince I spent the entire day in front of my computer, it seemed appropriate to photograph it for today's PAD. The task I'd set myself was to go through the 187 photos I'd downloaded last Sunday. After editing my favorites, I planned to post two new galleries: the first called Sunday at Detroit's Electronic Music Festival, and the second, Dancin' at Detroit's

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