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Entries from October 2008

Event Photography: Living La Vida Verde

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

This past Saturday, Tucsonans held a huge party for the earth. Thousands came to Downtown to celebrate La Vida Verde. The festivities included tasty solar-cooked meals like this stew…

Our furred and feathered friends also got into the act. Meet Hopi, the career-changing Harris Hawk…

Hopi is a two-year-old male that came into the Forever Wild Animal […]

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Tags: Arizona · Event Photography · Martha Retallick · Tucson

Graphic Design: Solo Butterfly

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Another example of my ongoing quest to design with type and combine the result with photography. This promotional postcard offered a business tip (to hire me for Web and print design) along with a garden tip that plays off the image…

Tip: You can view more graphic design projects in my portfolio.

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Tags: Graphic Design · Nature Photography

Travel Photography: Military Flags

October 14th, 2008 · No Comments

These flags are part of a Southwest Airlines/Chicago Midway Airport effort to honor active duty military serving overseas…

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Tags: Travel Photography

Travel Photography: University of Michigan Diag

October 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Although the University of Michigan campus has grown since my student days, the Diag is still the heart of it all. The Diag consists of two diagonal walkways that intersect outside the Graduate Library. It’s long been a hotbed of activity, including this outdoor yoga class…

The student’s feet are tantalizingly close to the Block M, […]

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Tags: Travel Photography

Event Photography: Ann Arbor Football Saturday

October 7th, 2008 · No Comments

This past weekend, I went to Homecoming at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. A mandatory part of this experience is football Saturday.
Game day preparations start many hours before kickoff. Tailgate partiers arrrive in fully equiped RVs and set up camp near Michigan Stadium. And did I mention that flying the Block M flag […]

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Tags: Event Photography

Event Photography: Economic Forecast Calls for Stormy Weather

October 6th, 2008 · No Comments

You might think that, since this is a design and photography blog, I was an art major in college. And you would be wrong. My college major was economics. (Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1979.)
It was one of those “on a whim” things. I had an good professor for an intro economics course and […]

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Tags: Event Photography