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Mark Your Calendars: Water Harvesting Open House

On Saturday, December 1, Tucson’s Watershed Management Group (WMG) will have an open house at the Ward 3 City Council office. The open house will showcase WMG’s latest water harvesting demonstration site. Here are the specifics: Water Harvesting Open House Saturday, December 1 4:30-6:30 p.m. Ward 3 City Council office 1510 East Grant Road, Tucson…

Event Photography: All Souls Procession 2007

Cross Mardi Gras with All Souls Day and what do you get? Tucson’s All Souls Procession, that’s what! This annual event is one of the largest parades in Arizona. It features thousands of costumed marchers who celebrate the universal experience of death. The marchers are preceded by a giant urn (shown above), which gets burned…

Event Photography: Football from the Stands

Alert readers will note that the above photo was not taken at this past Saturday’s Michigan-Ohio State football game in Ann Arbor. We didn’t get any touchdowns in that one, which the Buckeyes won (again) by a score of 14-3. Oh, well. With a new coach and a revitalized team, we may just get ’em…

Event Photography: Make a Difference Day

Event photography can be as predictable as the schedule that the opening ceremony will follow, and as unpredictable as how people will react to your camera. I prefer to do candid shots, but there are times when people simply insist on posing. In these cases, I just let ’em pose and take the photo. Or,…

Identity Design: Science Teaching as a Profession

April 2015 update: The website is no longer online. American students aren’t the only ones dropping out of school. Their teachers are leaving too. Poor working conditions and low pay are the oft-cited reasons. The dropout problem among science teachers is especially critical because they are hard to replace. The Science Teaching as a Profession…

By way of introduction…

Welcome to the Project Update blog!  My name is Martha Retallick, and I’m a graphic designer, photographer, and consultant in Tucson, Arizona. In the graphic arena, I specialize in identity design. This includes at least three of the following elements: Logos Stationery systems (letterhead, business cards, envelopes) Posters, brochures, flyers, and other promotional materials Postcards…

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