I was photographing my family while a Cardinal flew by…
Cherokee belief states that cardinals are Daughters of the Sun.
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The cardinal makes a fantastic animal totem. It reminds us to hold ourselves with pride - not ego pride. Rather, the cardinal asks us to stand a little taller, be a bit more regal, step into our natural confidence as if we were born to lead with grace and nobility. This shock of red, especially against the stark backdrop of winter snow, is a magnificent sight. The male cardinal reminds us passion, warmth and vibrancy is available to us - even in under the cloak of winter’s grey clouds.
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“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
― Henry Miller
Route 1 - Big Sur Coast Highway, California.
Crashing waves, rolling fog, sheer rocky cliffs, and pleasant bends and curves make a trip down Big Sur Coast Highway an unforgettable experience….
Highway I-15… From L.A. to las Vegas…
Vivian Maier © Untitled, Self Portrait.
A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
A person who fit the stereotypical European sensibilities of an independent liberated woman, accent and all, yet born in New York City. In her leisure Vivian would shoot photos that she zealously hid from the eyes of others. Taking snapshots into the late 1990′s, Maier would leave behind a body of work comprising over 100,000 negatives.
Maier’s massive body of work would come to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago’s Northwest Side. From there, it would eventually impact the world over and change the life of the man who championed her work and brought it to the public eye, John Maloof.
“Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror?
To the lonely themselves it wears a mask.
The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.”
-Joseph Conrad
“When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting, he or she may begin with a plan, but that plan is soon surrendered to the painting’s own plan. This is often expressed as ‘The brush takes the next stroke.’ In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express”
Yosemite Valley from the Tunnel Lookout. Yosemite Park, California
Crissy Field, San Francisco California.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Job
5845a by Todd Hido
“Hido’s photographs reveal isolation and anonymity in contemporary suburbia. Eerily lit rooms and suddenly abandoned homes increase the effect of loneliness and loss.”
I feel the necessity to look at his work once in a while as a source of inspiration
I can get lost for minutes or sometimes for hours wandering from photograph to photograph
Simply lost in his emptiness…
Gracias Madre,por darme alas para volar.
Por tu luz, por tu amor y tu amistad
The negative
