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Graphic Design: Just a Cog
Leftover bicycle parts and graphic design — a marriage made in heaven!
Event Photography: Police on Bikes
Yesterday was a great day for a ride, and I’m not just referring to bicycles. I pedaled mine down to Fourth Avenue, where the Tucson Law Enforcement Motorcycle Festival and Swap Meet was raising funds for the Special Olympics and Shop with a Cop. As one would expect, there was a lot of highly polished…
Construction Photography: Makeover’s Done!
Last month, I wrote about a Watershed Management Group project that’s transforming a steep slope on a private property west of Downtown Tucson. I’m pleased to report that this project is now done. A small, but mighty band of WMG volunteers applied the finishing touches this past Sunday. Tip: I am available for construction photography…
Graphic Design: Butterfly Fantasy
This collage combines three photos taken at the Desert Botanical Garden back in 2006.
Construction Photography: Creating a Greenlot
This past Saturday, the Watershed Management Group ran a workshop to install earthworks on an undeveloped urban lot in central Tucson. Participants working with an excavator (shown above) to create large broad basins, raised pathways, and swales. The goal is to transform this lot into a green space where wildlife can thrive and people can…
Graphic Design: Flowers and a Birthday
It was almost two years ago when my good friend, Judy Vorfeld, and her brother, David Crook, took me to the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix. They loaned me one of their digital cameras, and thus began the rebirth of my love of photography. One of the DBG images became the basis of a birthday…
Website Design: Law Firm Marketing
March 2019 update: This website is no longer online. Got a call from Dee Schiavelli earlier this week. Dee is a consultant who helps lawyers, accountants and other professional providers develop effective marketing strategies for their practices. I helped Dee build her website last year, and she needed some training in how to update it….
Construction Photography: Hillside Makeover
Spring is in the air, and that means that Tucson’s Watershed Management Group volunteers are back in action. Here, two shovel-wielding volunteers are helping a local family solve a steep problem… Seems that the west side of their property has a steep slope that does a convincing imitation of a waterfall when there’s a heavy…
Event Photography: Fords on Fourth
Yesterday morning, the Mustangs, Thunderbirds, Fairlanes, and T-birds lined up on Tucson’s Fourth Avenue. The occasion was Fords on Fourth, an all-Ford car show… Fords on Fourth offered a veritable banquet of treats for those who like to get under the hood… Or you could see the festivities reflected on this hood… If there’s one…
Travel Photography: More from Ann Arbor
Fountain on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus…
Nature Photography: Springtime in Phoenix
Flowers and agave from the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona…
Website Design: Saluting Feminist Lawyers
September 2015 update: This website is no longer online. When I was a first-grader I had a fabulous teacher. I owe my love of reading to that lady, because she taught me how. Toward the end of the school year, she made an announcement that disappointed the whole class. She said that she wasn’t coming…
Bike-tography 105: Signs Along the Way
Was pedaling over to a Saturday afternoon class, and what should I encounter but the massive Interstate 10 widening project. This construction project is causing all sorts of headaches for the motoring public, and it’s supposed to continue until 2010. I-10’s Downtown Tucson worksite was chock-full of barricades, mud, heavy equipment, and other obstacles that…
Nature Photography: Awaiting Spring in Tucson
It’s raining. Again. Been quite busy pulling weeds, but that’s a good sign. It’s a sign that my yard plants will soon start blooming like this ocotillo, which gets quite motivated after a rainy spell…
Event Photography: Firetruck Tours
I’ve been seeing a lot of the Tucson Fire Department recently. Not that I’ve had any house fires or accidents. It’s just that we keep running into each other at large community events. The above shot is from last Saturday’s Harambee Festival, where the TFD was offering firetruck and ambulance tours.
Event Photography: Harambee 2008
This past Saturday, Tucson Parks and Recreation and the Northwest Neighborhood Center hosted the 24th annual Harambee Festival. Harambee (pronounced "ha-RAM-bay") was a coming together of cultures to celebrate Black History Month. It featured ethnic food, information on community resources, and plenty of local talent, including One Kingdom Image…
Bike-tography 104
This is the fourth in a series of posts on combining bicycling with photography. This one’s about carrying your photographic gear. As mentioned previously, I’ve done a lot of traveling by bike. To put it mildly, this is a lesson in minimalism. You don’t have a lot of space in your bike packs, so a…
Bike-tography 103
This is a tribute to one of my bicycling heroes, Lionel "Lee" Rombach. He died last month at the age of 93. Up until a few years ago, Lee logged thousands of miles per year on a used Univega six-speed. Meanwhile, Ina the Car sat at home, gathering dust. He only drove a few hundred…
Nature Photography: Churchyard Wanderings
Nature photography seems to have this “way far away” cachet to it. As in, you must travel a long, long way to get your nature pictures. Well, sometimes you have to do that. But nature is all around us. Today’s post features photography from a churchyard near the Mississippi Gulf Coast…
Event Photography: Safety Fair
This past Saturday, Tucson’s Northwest Neighborhood Center hosted a safety fair. This event included free Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) etching, courtesy of the Tucson Police Department: The idea behind VIN etching is to make your car a less attractive target to car thieves. (Alas, Arizona has quite a few of those.) Since windows are the…