This tribute by Alan Watts to Carl Jung shortly after his death focuses on a specific and core aspect of Jung’s teaching of the integration of opposites and the ‘shadow’.
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This photo was lit by a strobe in a 27" Westcott soft-box held by Neisha's boyfriend (the soft-box was fixed to a paint pole and held directly in front of Neisha to get it high enough to cast a butterfly lighting pattern on her face with back lighting through smoke provided by a speed light, camera right, held by a friend who was smoking a nasty cigar making the smoke.
Neisha did a great job holding this very heavy Tommy Gun inside the tunnel, main light, camera left, provided by a Quadra Strobe inside a 60" Westcott Umbrella. Again, Neisha's boyfriend did a great job holding the paint pole, with the fixed 26" Westcott soft-box and speed light, way above and behind Neisha to backlight her wig and shoulder.
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Check out the link to learn more about his new music (Space Challenger) as well as his eclectic background.
https://www.osfashland.org/artist-biographies/green-show/meidoko.aspx
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It is my great joy to announce the arrival of my son, Leo Alexander, a healthy baby boy weighing in at 6 lbs 4 oz. and born at home on August 9th, 2014. Leo came remarkably on time, just a day after his due date (much to his mama's chagrin - she had banked on a late arrival, but instead was busy getting the house ready for the homebirth between contractions during labor!). All Hail to doula Bella and midwife Augustine Colebrook and team, who were incredible and held vigil throughout the labor. The birth was amazing and gave Leo's mama infinite respect for all mothers everywhere throughout time. Mama and Baby are doing well, and slowly coming (back) into the world from the realm of childbirth and newborn-ville where time is marked by the number of minutes napped or bites of food one can catch in between nursings, diaper changings, burpings, and the oh-so-delicate process of lulling Baby to sleep. Leo's twelve days old now, and Mama's finally figured out how to type one-handed while nursing in the dark long enough to write to you all!
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So my heart quickens whenever I see two or more horses together ... amen.
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Barbara signed copies of her book, Ashland, Oregon (www.barbaratricarico.com) for guests and portions of the sales went to FOTAS. Serving wine was a wonderful wedding photographer and wine server, Ellen Ahearn, and dropping in for a visit was another great, local photographer, Mary Landberg, who is both a hospice provider and author as well. (Her new photography book focuses on the hands of people in hospice (http://www.hospiceportraits.com)
Of course, the entire event was taken over by Francesca & Josh (owners of BayBerry Inn) dog, Rocky, who loves people and loves to howl in tune.
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And each person got an extra bonus -- their photo taken with stars of the current Two Gentleman of Verona playing now at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival here in Ashland. Anyone donating $10 per individual got their photos taken with Picasso, a former shelter dog, playing Crab along with one of the human stars, the wonderful K.T. Vogt playing Launce or the inimitable Sara, playing Speed.
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My good friend Tedi Tate, Director of Warhorse Alliance, had invited me to photograph while she conducted a session with one of the young men, Javier along with the executive director of Ranch of 2nd Chances, Mark Adams, and his wife, Kathy. The training was based on Egala (Equine Assisted Learning) principles, which I enjoy as I love to watch and photograph the interaction of humans and horses.
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To set the scene, the (poorly posed) question is referring to comments made by former Treasury Security and Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, who suggested that genetic differences could explain why there are fewer girls in science. Yup, he really was Treasury secretary and president of Harvard.
Neil deGrasse Tyson's answer is, um, out of this world. There, I said it. Let me have this one.
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The following photos were taken at the April 6th de-spooking clinic held in the Rogue Valley.
Ever wish you could take your horse through the mounted police academy? Bill Richey, former mounted police officer and POST (Police Officer Standards and Training) certified mounted police instructor, showed horse owners and firefighters last night at the Hope Firehouse in Allentown, NJ just how it's done.
“The class teaches how to take charge of your horse,” explained Richey. “Participants learn how to give the horse a reason to go forward.”
During the demonstration in front of firefighters and horse owners, a volunteer held her horse while Richey set off scary smoke bombs and created a line of flames using a can of gasoline. The horse was successfully lead through the smoke and flames.
Richey’s method implements his working knowledge of techniques used in police training. Richey was instrumental in creating the mounted units for the city of Duluth, also in Forsyth and Gilmer Counties (Georgia) training officers and horses. He also worked with the Atlanta Police Mounted Unit in preparation for the 1996 Olympics and was the chief instructor for Mobile Mounted Police Mardi Gras School.
His course, entitled “Rider Empowerment and Equine Confidence,” can be a one-part, two-part or three-part series depending upon how much particpants would like to get out of it. It covers areas of horse physiology and psychology, equitation techniques, mounted drill, mounted obstacles and mounted sensory.
Richey will be on hand in Monmouth County, New Jersey for two sessions this weekend, March 30 and 31 in Manalapan and again the weekend of May 11 and 12 in Freehold. Thoroughbreds, Arabs, Warmbloods, Quarter Horses and other breeds have all been successfully trained as police horses so all type of horses may attend. Riders may also choose to attend without a horse and audit the class.
For more information contact:
National Mounted Police Services, Inc.
275 Kings Point Rd
Kings Point, NY 11024
239-214-2062 or [email protected]
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Spacebound from Spacebound on Vimeo.
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I am a Nikon shooter but Bob shoots with a Canon and the principles are the same regardless of your camera.
A few weeks ago, I did a studio shoot for the Non GMO efforts (Friends of Family Farmers) here in Jackson County, Oregon. I thought it might be illustrative for how studio lighting can be done without a lot of expensive high end equipment. I used strobes and various shaped soft boxes to shape the light ... and explain it all in this PDF: Studio Lighting Tutorial PDF
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If you want to keep GMO's out of our food supply, please vote YES on 15-119 this May or help support the effort at www.ourFamilyFarmsCoalition.org
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This is an ebook (32 pages) of photos: no words, including some of my favorites photos of the past year. At heart I am a minimalist and prefer for a photo to stand on its own. No music, few or no words, just let the image ignite the imagination. If you love horses, I believe you will enjoy.
Cornelius Matteo
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In this 1983 interview with BBC, Adams revealed all of this about himself and more, including some truly profound photography advice:
-- Rebecca Bennett
Mules can be lightweight, medium weight, or even, when produced from draught horse mares, of moderately heavy weight. It has been claimed that mules are "more patient, sure-footed, hardy and long-lived than horses, and they are considered less obstinate, faster, and more intelligent than donkeys... Wikipedia
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As Herzog says, "In one second, entire lives are either wiped out or changed forever."
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I photographed local Ashland artist Ian Thirkell last month in my friend Barbara Tricarico's home made studio (I used several speeed-lights in two large diffusers): at one point I asked Ian to just sketch something so I could catch the artist in action.
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When my landlord asked me to photograph him with his cats I knew this would be a challenge -- he's had photographs taken of him with his cats through the years. Always up for a challenge, I combined his love of cooking with his even greater love of his cats -- the result was that everyone got to wear a chef's hat.
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Always before a photo-shoot I question how I can make this time special and unique and I am driven back to Cartier-Bresson's words:
“There’s no new ideas in the world. There is only new arrangement of things. Everything is new, every minute is new. The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute.” -- Cartier-Bresson
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Today, for the first time, I visited Table Rock, thanks to my new friends Barb and Ellen. We all enjoyed the beautiful weather and took a lot of photos of everything except wild flowers -- there were so few wild flowers blooming, unusual for this time of year.
I love portraits and could not stop myself from asking a young family if I could take their photos. They were happy to oblige -- I asked the mother to lift up her daughter high enough in order to block the sun behind them. This gave them a lot of light to rim their hair and profiles but also enough backlight to wrap around into their faces.
But for me, it was the love shared by mother and daughter that made this my favorite photo of the day.
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“Society, by automatically stressing all the collective qualities in its individual representatives, puts a premium on mediocrity, and everything settles down to vegetate in an easy, irresponsible way. Individuality will inevitably be driven to the wall. This process begins in school, continues at the University, and rules all departments in which the state has a hand. In a small social body, the individuality of its members is better safeguarded; and the greater is their relative freedom and the possibility of conscious responsibility…. The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers … the greatest infamy on the part of his group will not disturb him, so long as the majority of his fellows steadfastly believe in the exalted morality of their social organization…..”
C.G. Jung, “The Assimilation Of The Unconscious,” in “The Relations Between The Ego And The Unconscious,”
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For me, it all started with the opening night party where we had been given a room to photograph anyone at the party who was brave enough to step before my camera. Gwenne Wilcox did a great job enticing people to get their photos taken. But since I had been told there would be no more than 300 guests making happy that night in the main ball room of the Ashland Spring Hotel, I felt secure thinking I would only need to photograph maybe 50 people. After all, most people are suppose to be camera shy
Well, from start (7pm) to finish (10pm) I photographed well over 150 people and stayed up till 7am the next morning getting less than half of the photos edited and placed online so people could view and download them (It took me the next 4 days to finish editing all the photos, since i was busy with daily photo-shoots).
This has been such a unique experience for me -- and what a joy; indeed, it seemed as if the entire town of Ashland came out to see the films and to support the festival. What a pleasure to be a part of it all.
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This tribute by Alan Watts to Carl Jung shortly after his death focuses on a specific and core aspect of Jung’s teaching of the integration of opposites and the ‘shadow’.
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"He lives so much with darkness and light -- he can find both sides in each person he photographs."
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My 3rd visit to China in the last 4 years -- never boring, a country, city and people in constant motion.
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