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Image © 2010, Paul Pomeroy.

One of the small sanctuaries at the DeGrazia Gallery In The Sun in Tucson, Arizona.

While post-processing the photograph I recalled something I hadn't heard in a long time, Joni Mitchell's Shadows And Light, performed live with The Persuasions (and Lyle Mays on keyboards).

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Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:03:00 -0700 always take the long way home http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/always-take-the-long-way-home http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/always-take-the-long-way-home

(dedicated to an old friend, Tom Barrett, who celebrated the 27th time he turned 30 today.)

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(Photograph © 2010, Paul Pomeroy. Catalina Mountain Range, Oro Valley, AZ. Taken July 11th, 2010.)

 

Accompanying music is Tom Wait's Long Way Home.

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Tue, 25 May 2010 00:34:00 -0700 esquinas http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/esquinas-1 http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/esquinas-1

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Image © 2007, Paul Pomeroy.

The above photo was taken in 2007 in downtown Bakersfield. It would look great as a large gallery-wrap canvas print.

Translation of Djavan's Esquinas (Corners):

Only I know
the corners
through which I passed

Only I know
Only I know

People know there
what it means to not have
and to have in order to give

They know  there
They know there

And who will it be
in the surroundings of love
who will know to observe
that the day has dawned

Only I know
the deserts
that I crossed

Only I know
Only I know

People know there
what it means to die of thirst
in front of the sea

People know
People know

And who will it be
in the current of love
who is going to know how to guide
the boat before long
through the surging wind
easily and bring
all the peace
that one day
the wish conveyed

Only I know
the corners
through which I passed

Only I know
Only I know

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Mon, 17 May 2010 23:26:00 -0700 so far away from here http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/so-far-away-from-here http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/so-far-away-from-here

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Image © 1997, 2010, Paul Pomeroy. All rights reserved.

 

 

 

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Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:23:00 -0700 smoke (and mirror) http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/smoke-and-mirror http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/smoke-and-mirror

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Image © 1986, 2010, Paul Pomeroy. All rights Reserved.

Bright memories; dark realities; self-reflection; feelings that never quite settle ...

Even now, almost a quarter of a century later, my heart and head can find what seems like a thousand stories in this photograph.

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Music is "Last Song" by the Clogs on their new album, "The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton."

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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:50:43 -0700 unanswered letters (#3) http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/unanswered-letters-3 http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/unanswered-letters-3

Note: I've written a number of letters/emails over the years many of which have gone unanswered leaving me to wonder whether or not the intended recipients ever received them and, if so, what their responses were. To be honest, the vast majority of those are best forgotten, but a few are ones I sincerely hoped would succeed in being actual communications — the beginnings of conversations. The following is one of those.



President Bush announcing the beginning of the Iraq War. March 20, 2003.


March 24, 2003

Mr. President,

I would like to suggest that there is much to be gained at this time by avoiding "God on our side" forms of rhetoric, whether intended or not. If you are going to ask for God's blessing, don't merely ask that God bless America but that God bless all people who value freedom, including the citizens of Iraq. If you are going to ask that people pray for the families and loved ones of those who have suffered because of this war, then ask that they pray for all such people including the families and loved ones of Iraqi citizens who have suffered.

Please consider the significance of paying tribute to a God who is limited by the political boundaries of men. Please consider that your God may indeed be powerful enough to bless, comfort and guide all men, regardless of whose side they are on.

Sincerely,
Paul Pomeroy


Imagine, if you can, how different his address to the nation would have been perceived on the world stage if he had asked his country to pray for everyone. Then again, had he been capable of conceiving such a thing it's highly unlikely there would have been a war to announce in the first place ...

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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:13:00 -0800 brainiac http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/brainiac-2 http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/brainiac-2

From conception to birth, guess how many neurons are created in a baby's brain per second.

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Image © 2009, Paul Pomeroy. All rights reserved.

It's hard to believe, but on average, every second of every day, for 280 days, the baby's brain increases in size by an additional 4,100 neurons. (At birth a baby's brain has somewhere in the vicinity of 100 billion neurons.)

And how about the connections between all those neurons? The number of connections a neuron makes (i.e., from that neuron to other neurons) varies greatly depending on the type of neuron and its location but a low estimate of the average is 1,000. That means that, again on average, more than 4,100,000 new neuron-to-neuron connections are formed in the developing brain every second, non-stop, for 280 days.

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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:23:00 -0800 unanswered letters (#2) http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/unanswered-letters-2-0 http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/unanswered-letters-2-0

Note: I've written a number of letters/emails over the years many of which have gone unanswered leaving me to wonder whether or not the intended recipients ever received them and, if so, what their responses were. To be honest, the vast majority of those are best forgotten, but a few are ones I sincerely hoped would succeed in being actual communications — the beginnings of conversations. The following is one of those.


While the following was addressed to the NY Times Editor (and, due to its length, stood no actual chance of being published) it was also cc'd to Google where I'd hoped it might be appreciated.

June 21, 2004.

Dear Editor,

I cannot decide whether the title for Saul Hansell's article about Google's GMail service ("The Internet Ad You Are About to See Has Already Read Your E-Mail" - June 21, 2004) is subtly brilliant or just very badly worded. How can an advertisement read anything? Isn't it Google that's reading "your e-mail?" Well, no, that can't be right either. How can a "Google" read anything? So, maybe it's Google's software that's doing the reading? That sounds a little more plausible and one might be excused for thinking that software, with all the information processing and artificial intelligence the word would seem to imply, is certainly able to read. And yet, in truth, that is also certainly not right.

In "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," Claude Shannon's seminal paper that launched us into the so-called Information Age, he begins with the mostly forgotten statement that, and I'm paraphrasing here, although he's chosen to use the word information, of course he isn't really talking about the communication of actual information as that would imply a whole host of semantic issues his theory doesn't need to deal with. It was an unfortunate choice of words, one I've often wondered about. I think that he probably never imagined how willingly people would accept and build upon a concept of information without semantics. To me, what he presents in his paper equates to a theory of the communication of "meaningless information," a phrase that sounds pretty oxymoronic.

It would have been far better to have used the word data, a word that more accurately describes what flits about on wire and wave both begotten and consumed by brainless electronics. Information, as hinted at by its -ation suffix, is really more verb than noun. It isn't some thing that can be isolated, stored or shipped about. It's a process, one requiring an enormous amount of knowledge and intelligence to carry out. People do information so easily that it seems like something given, something that is just out there in the world for the taking. We rarely notice how much of what we see isn't really out there at all.

Consider this series of 5 numbers and letters: T 11 C W 9. This is probably about as uninformative to you as it would be to a computer. But pay attention to what happens when they're presented in a slightly different manner: WTC 9 11. To a computer it's just another arrangement of bytes, but to you this is vastly different. What's so easily missed, though, is where that difference resides. It's a phenomenon of our minds that gives us the impression that the difference is outside of us, that it's in this arrangement of characters, but it's really inside, inextricably bound up with the process of information. And that process, itself, is bound up with who we are, what we know and what we've experienced. The meaning of WTC 9 11 is different for each of us and it changes as we change. For that to be true—for the same character sequence to result in so many different meanings—the meaning, and therefore the information, can't be out there in the character sequence at all.

In his article, Mr. Hansell touches upon this miscomprehension of information with examples of how ads bundled with a particular Gmail message are sometimes odd or inappropriate, and he gets closer to the heart of the issue when he discusses how the software behind Gmail can't really tell if "polish" is a nationality, an action or a quality. What he fails to state, though, is that Google's software, as sophisticated as it is, doesn't read in any sense of the word approaching what we mean when we say that we read e-mail. It mixes and matches and manipulates symbols and rules but it doesn't comprehend—it doesn't do information, all it does is process data.

What bothers people about Gmail isn't the targeted ads but the misconception that Google must be figuring out what the messages mean (and, as it's the only way we're familiar with, it must be getting the same kind of meaning from them as we do). The truth of the matter is that today's state-of-the-art software-intelligence is still hung up on the self-inflicted conundrum of how to find meaning in "meaningless information." There is certainly progress being made but, in the end, it simply takes what it takes to be smart enough to do information as well as we do and what it takes is enormously more complex than anything Google's working on (not to mention enormously different).

Software may eventually get there (and probably will). When it does it will appreciate the subtle humor in the title Mr. Hansell has (unwittingly or not) given his article. As nonsensical as it is literally, people aren't going to get stuck on the impossibility of "ads that read" and miss the intended message. We can just skip right past this kind of mistake and still manage to understand what the author was getting at. In doing so in this case, we might notice that to give an article about software's supposed ability to read our writing a title that's a perfect example of what software can't read is kind of clever and funny. How will we know when Google's software is getting smart enough to worry about? Maybe when Google can giggle. Until then, I think there are more significant and realistic things to be concerned with.

Sincerely,
Paul Pomeroy

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:28:00 -0800 unanswered letters (#1) http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/unanswered-letters-1 http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/unanswered-letters-1

Note: I've written a number of letters/emails over the years many of which have gone unanswered leaving me to wonder whether or not the intended recipients ever received them and, if so, what their responses were. To be honest, the vast majority of those are best forgotten, but a few are ones I sincerely hoped would succeed in being actual communications — the beginnings of conversations. The following is one of those.


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Dorothy Counts' first day of high school, 1957.
Photo credits: Douglas Martin/A.P. Photos. [source]
 

October 29, 2008

Dear Ms. Counts-Scoggins,

I came across a photo of you this evening, one chosen by Vanity Fair for their list of the "25 Best News Photographs." I can't help but think that these days must, as we approach November 4th, be quite interesting to you. How much things have changed. How much things have still to change ...

I was 3 years old the day your photograph was taken there at Harding High School -- a small, quite oblivious white boy living a middle-class life in a middle-class suburb of Los Angeles, California. It would be many years before I even heard about "your world" and many more before I could comprehend how sad and evil some people in it could be. Does it make any sense for this now 54 year old man to say to you how very sorry I am that you should have had to experience the things you did all those years ago? Does it help at all to know that when I look at that photo and see the hurt in your eyes that I want to be able to reach back in time and protect you, just as I would one of my two daughters, and to say how proud of you I am?

Perhaps, but I think September of 1957 probably seems like many lifetimes ago for you -- that going back is not that productive a thing to do. Time does what it does, we become who we become and we live in the times we find ourselves in. I truly wish that for you the time we are living in is one of hopes fulfilled, at least to some degree. I want to believe, I guess, that some great imbalance is about to be righted somewhat and that you will find some peace in that. I would like to know that you know in your heart that you are part of what's unfolding -- that there is a connection to your courage way back then and what is happening in this election 51 years later.

Kind Regards,
Paul Pomeroy

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:37:13 -0800 things “blog” might have meant http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/things-blog-might-have-meant http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/things-blog-might-have-meant

In searching for something I'd blogged about several years ago I came across this, written back in March of 2005.

Sometimes I just start thinking about stuff that it would be better not to, like the semantic spaces that got cheated out of a perfectly good name when blog became the by-popular-consent, de-facto name for weblogs.

Would anyone be surprised or disappointed if, instead, blog had ended up meaning:

  1. The groggy feeling that accompanies complete boredom: I was feeling kind of bloggy all afternoon.
  2. The lumps that form in eggnog that has spoiled: He didn’t notice the blogs until he’d already taken a big gulp of Aunt Bertha’s now infamous holiday eggnog.
  3. A clog that causes a sink to back up: Finally, and with a rather loud slurping noise, the sink was unblogged.
  4. The act of slogging your way through a boring task: After a full day of blogging through year-end financial reports, Shelly was ready to scream!
  5. A blinding fog: Driving in bloggy weather can be extremely hazardous.
  6. Stale ale (gross grog?): Oh Yuck! How can you drink this blog?

Okay…, so maybe I have a little too much time on my hands today.

Feel free to add yours in a comment ...

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:39:00 -0800 darkness and light http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/darkness-and-light http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/darkness-and-light

Up to taking a little test?

Please listen to the following 3 minute excerpt from a suite of classical pieces recently composed by Emily Howell:

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So here's the test: please choose one of the following, whichever seems most likely true based upon what you have just listened to.

Emily Howell is:

  1. a student at Julliard
  2. a 16-year-old prodigy from Korea
  3. a "retired" classical pianist now turned composer
  4. a stroke victim with no prior musical training

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If you answered 1, 2, 3 or 4, you're wrong. In fact nobody (no person) composed the music. "Emily Howell" is the name given to a computer program created by David Cope. You can read more about it here.

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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:26:00 -0800 Another print: art & aid for Haiti http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/another-print-art-and-aid-for-haiti http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/another-print-art-and-aid-for-haiti

I've added another print to the set. This one will sell for $125 (USD) of which at least $75 will be donated to an aid program for Haiti. This is actually another version of a print already available for $75. The difference here is the print quality and the print type. This print is on Kodak Endura Metallic paper.

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Orange Vase (30x15 inches) on Metallic Paper


It's rather hard to describe what metallic prints look like aside from stunning. Some have suggested they look like "chrome on paper." To my eye they look somewhat more like the photograph reflected in metal that has been given a very expensive paint job. There is a depth and clarity to the image that you can't get with regular paper and the colors are all more vibrant somehow, especially dark jewel-tones. The above image looks spectacular as a metallic print.

How to order the above print

Send a check for $125 (USD) made out to Solorzano Photography along with a note including the name of the photo ("Orange Vase - Metallic"), your name and address and (if different) the name and shipping address you want the print sent to. Please, print clearly so I can read it.

If you'd rather just pick up the print at the Solorzano Photography studio, include a note to that effect along with your phone number and I'll call you as soon as it's ready to pick up.

Send all this to:

Solorzano Photography (Haiti fund)
1608 19th Street
Bakersfield, CA 93301

You can contact me with any questions via email at paul |at| solorzanophotographycom

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Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:02:00 -0800 help (more) http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/help-more http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/help-more

See yesterday's post for the background on this.

I've added an additional print to the set. This one will sell for $150 (USD) of which at least $100 will be donated to an aid provider or program for Haiti.

Biography

This is a 30x20 inch print (the actual photograph is 27 inches wide and it has a 1.5" border). Please click on the above image to see a larger version. The details in this image are simply wonderful and at full size it's a gorgeous print.

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How to order the above print

Send a check for $150 (USD) made out to Solorzano Photography along with a note including the name of the photo ("Biography"), your name and address and (if different) the name and shipping address you want the print sent to. Please, print clearly so I can read it.

If you'd rather just pick up the print at the Solorzano Photography studio, include a note to that effect along with your phone number and I'll call you as soon as it's ready to pick up.

Send all this to:

Solorzano Photography (Haiti fund)
1608 19th Street
Bakersfield, CA 93301

You can contact me with any questions via email at paul |at| solorzanophotographycom

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:25:00 -0800 Help http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/help-1553 http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/help-1553

Without going into details, suffice it to say that I'm in no position financially to help my fellow world citizens in Haiti as much as I want to. And yet I also can't not help.

So here's what I'd like to try. You can buy any of the following prints for $75 and I'll send, at a minimum, $50 of that to whichever established aid group seems most in need and most able to apply as much directly in aid to the people of Haiti.

All of these are 30-inch wide prints of my photography. They're cool. You'll like owning one and you'll feel good about helping out. Of course you could just send $75 to one of the aid organizations yourself (and I'd love it if you did) or even send $50 (which is okay, too), save $25 and stare at your blank walls thinking "I sure wish I had some art to go there ..." but here's an opportunity to both help and acquire some art at a good price.

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#1 ☞ (30x20 inch print)

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#2 ☞ (30x20 inch print)

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#2A ☞ (a 30x15 inch print — same photo as in the previous one but with a 2" border all the way around and no text)

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#3 ☞ (30x20 inch print)


Don't like any of these? Take a look at my work at http://paulpomeroy.blogspot.com and if you find something there you like better, let me know. Not everything there will look fine at large print sizes but if you'll let me know which photo and what size you'd like it I'll let you know if that's possible.

How to order one of the above prints

Send a check for $75 (USD) made out to Solorzano Photography along with a note including the number of the photo (above) that you want to order, your name and address and (if different) the name and shipping address you want the print sent to. Please, print clearly so I can read it.

If you'd rather just pick up the print at the Solorzano Photography studio, include a note to that effect along with your phone number and I'll call you as soon as it's ready to pick up.

Send all this to:

Solorzano Photography (Haiti fund)
1608 19th Street
Bakersfield, CA 93301

 

You can contact me with any questions via email at paul |at| solorzanophotographycom

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:54:00 -0800 Alex Roman's "The Third & The Seventh" http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/alex-romans-the-third-and-the-seventh-1 http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/alex-romans-the-third-and-the-seventh-1

The Third & The Seventh is a 12 and a half minute short film by Alex Roman. It is, with few exceptions, a fully computer generated (CG) animation that explores the art of architecture from "a photographic point of view."

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Still from Alex Roman's The Third & The Seventh


A couple of things to note:

  • In probably more than 95% of the film you can't tell it's a CG animation. It apparently took Roman a year to make this and it shows. What he does with textures is great but it's what he does with the lighting and selective focus that makes the results look so incredible.
  • It's not 100% CG. The following elements are good old fashioned reality: photographer (shot on greenscreen), pigeons, time lapse of growing flowers, flying airplane and sky backgrounds.
  • Above all else this is just a beautiful film to watch. Whether or not it's CG is quite irrelevant, at least while you're watching it.
  • As Jamin Winans did (see my review of Ink), Alex Roman also did his own film score.

 

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Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:00:00 -0800 ink http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/ink-125 http://paul-pomeroy.posterous.com/ink-125

Double Edge Films' 2009 release, "ink," is now on Hulu (watch movie). It is, as described by one reviewer, "a beautiful, dark, wondrous and poetic tale." It is also a testament both to all that is good about indie films and to the almost incomprehensible talents of the husband and wife team that created it. Jamin and Kiowa Winans have, on a shoestring budget of $250,000, created what will certainly become a classic.

This trailer for the movie is, like most trailers, somewhat misleading. This is not some sort of goth "Return of the Borg" (one impression I got from the trailer). I can't imagine a trailer that could do the story justice, though. It's very difficult to describe "ink." It seems part Gilliam's "Brazil," Aronofsky's "Pi" and Gondry's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and yet it is uniquely the Winans' film - I've never seen anything quite like it before.

Its point of view is not epic, but personal. It focuses on the internal forces at work in a man who's lost his way, so to speak. What Jamin Winans  (who wrote, directed, edited and composed the music for the film) has done is create a story in which our internal guides (both dark and light) are made visible. HIs script, which starts rather dark and scattered, eventually weaves itself into an uplifting tale of a father's redemption. (It might surprise you by the way, especially given the above trailer, that one of the groups of people who really like this movie are "young mothers," something that both surprised and pleased the Winans.)

The movie is not rated but would probably be given a PG-13 for language. It is not a scary movie, per se, but could definitely be upsetting to young children predisposed to bad dreams (or afraid of things that go bump in the night). Also, if you're easily bothered by the f-word, be forewarned that this is the first three words out of the main character's mouth in the very beginning of the movie. I'm not bothered by the word but still found this the most off-putting scene the first time I watched it, not only because it's so unexpected but because it is some time before the outburst is explained.

This (unexplained things) is characteristic of the first third of the movie, in fact. You're given quite a few different threads to hold onto at first before the story begins weaving them all together. Be patient. It's a lean script, to be sure, but it is complete and everything will make sense in the end.

Some Interesting Facts

  • Shot on DV (Sony HDV V1U), post production on Macs using Final Cut Pro, Logic Studio and Adobe After Effects.
  • Shot in 83 day, 14 months in post.
  • Shot entirely in Colorado.
  • Most voice and ambient recording done in studio (Kiowa, in addition to being the Producer, was the sound designer/engineer).
  • 7 main character, 35 speaking parts, 70+ locations and hundreds of extras (not unusual for feature length films, just very unusual for low budget indies).
  • Jamin said in an interview that Snow White was one film that he was really impressed with as a child, especially the witch. That might explain Ink's nose ...
  • Some of the music was composed before filming so that the action could be synced with the rhythm.
  • The Winans have been experimenting with the distribution cycle for this film. It's no accident that the movie is available on Hulu the same year it was released (not to mention via Netflix, iTunes or Blockbuster)
  • Jamin is primarily self-taught (he got through one year of film school before dropping out).

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(A long-exposure shot taken through the car window while on the way out of Las Vegas.)

Residencial Llorens Torres by Miguel Zenón Listen on Posterous

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I took this photograph at the FDR Memorial in Washington D.C. back in 2006. It is an artistically rendered close-up of the husband depicted in George Segal's sculpture, "The Rural Couple."

Please scroll down, press the play button on the music player and then scroll back up and click on the photo to display the large version. Both the photograph and song stand on their own but, together, taken as a meditation if you will, they are something else altogether. How they resonate with you and the degree to which they resonate is up to you, of course, but I have no doubt that they will resonate.

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For who knows what reason, the music player for Posterous keeps leaving off the artist's name. The above song, Full Steam, is by David Gray. You can find it on his Draw The Line CD which was released this past September.

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Abby

December 1st, 2005

Girls,

I just got back from the vet's a little while ago. My dear Abby fell asleep with her head in my lap to never awaken again. It was painless for her and quick -- very quick. I had hopes of getting through this dry-eyed until I could get home but that was some kind of macho bullshit wish. The tears, like the rain here today, came in swells even before I could get her to the vets.

Abby died with her eyes open, both of them clouded with cataracts. When I laid her head down it was between her two front legs and she looked so much like she was still there, just laying there looking around like I've seen her do a thousand times before. They were kind enough to give me a few minutes alone with her. I just kept petting her and telling her how sorry I was.

At the moment it doesn't matter that it was the right thing to do for her. It just hurts -- terribly.

Dad

Hard to believe it was 4 years ago today. It was one of the hardest things I've done to sit there with her as the vet put her to sleep -- it tore me up inside much more than I expected even though I thought I was expecting the worst.

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What I love most about macro photography is perhaps what is most counter-intuitive about it: by looking more closely we see less and yet by seeing less we end up seeing more.

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