Ok.

I think we can all see that I haven't been treating this blog with much respect.

Or at the very least, I haven't been posting as much as I thought I would. I have decided to switch venues though...in the true spirit of downsizing.

(ahem)

I started Shutter Groupie here in this space after an unfortunate stalking incident through Foolsewoode and my 3-D life (that is, the one that happens outside of my Internet space) to give myself the space to be uncensored and creative. But, as life is, things have moved forward in a different direction and I have set my sights on another place instead.

If you would like to join me, I have decided that I would be better served to have my true creative blog over at The Maestro and The Muse instead.

I hope to see you there as this blog will disappear eventually.
(after I've snaked a few of the posts from here of course)

Rollin...

Big Wheels Keep On Turning...

Or they're retired to the museum of a small town in Northern Arizona...to rust in the rain, and bake in the sun...sitting on tracks that they will never roll down again.

Silver Acorns...

The "Mercury Glass" acorn hanging from the portico...the entrance...to Foolsewoode.

I say "Mercury Glass" because it's not real. Not real Mercury Glass...it is a real acorn however. It is part of a set, and so large and whimsical and Mercury Glass sort of (we've covered this) that I snatched them up meaning for them to be part of a Christmas display...but, they seem to have sticking power, as they've outlasted their original intent.

This is OK by me...

I am secretly hoping they attract giant squirrels though...

Red Dress Series...

I guess this is kind of a cross post with Foolsewoode...but, I couldn't resist.

Yesterday I hung this little red dress on the end of my bed on the canopy, in anticipation for Rich's One Man Show tonight at the gallery...and while I was walking by it, I kept envisioning a picture in my head...so, I grabbed the camera, and a mere 15+ shots later, I settled on these two. I love these two...and were almost what I imagined in my head...and were certainly the best I could take working with the dim morning light and my particular lens.

It's so funny what things strike me as fascinating, and almost instantly compose themselves to pictures in my head...things that I can stop and shoot over and over again with the camera. I wanted so badly to take a picture of this dress with the detail of the vintage wooden Parisian Dye House hanger showing through (yet another thing I collect...and I'm feeling the push to take them all out of the closet and photograph them as well...which is going to be quite the ordeal seeing as they're all in use currently)

But the red dress? It's just about capturing a moment in fashion time.

Some of my favorite shots of the day from The Vulture Mine in Wickenburg Arizona...These made me just giddy.

Which I find a little strange, but It's all in the details...

Isn't it?

Pillar in the Sky...

I've noticed that I'm an UP looking person when it comes to taking pictures...as I sit here, I have no idea why. Perhaps it's all the art training I've had in my life that makes me search for a more artful and interesting shot. Perhaps it's because I'm usually always looking down while walking (a habit that yields a lot of dropped money and other ground scores...and helps me not to fall or trip while I'm making my way through the world) Perhaps it's just that I'm vertically challenged (this is the polite way of saying I'm short) and things like pillars, are tall and reach UP into whatever medium they're currently enjoying...

I find that I am strangely attracted to pillars.

Mostly the pillars I have seen and photographed with wild abandon are attached to ruins of some sort. This particular pillar came in a set, and was in the middle of a ghost town in Southern Arizona...attached to the foundation of a building that for the life of us, we couldn't figure out what it was...

But, the sky in the background looked amazing.

This simple and stunning stairway in Bisbee.

I just love it. I love this picture...I would love to blow it up and hang it on the wall. I would love to recreate these stairs at my house (they're about the right pitch to put in the basement after all...I wonder if they'd miss them if I packed them up and took them home?)

Believe me, I wanted to peek further up these stairs, but there was a gate protecting them from people like me.

Drat.