By the Sea

This is about as close as I get to water. I don't swim and where I live in NM is a high desert and we get snow and in the summer the monsoons as people who live here call the. They come up from the south west almost every afternoon for a month or so and drench/flood the town and then the water disappears and we wait until the next afternoon. Sand bags are a frequent sight.

I was fascinated by the waves hitting the rocks and the way the water went back and forth. I'm sure it could become very mesmerizing! I'm in New Orleans for Imaging USA and there is lots of water here so I hope I can figure out how to shoot it correctly. Have a great, long weekend!

Oh and thank you God for getting my Elizabeth safely through the raging snowstorm in the midwest and back to college for her last semester before she earns her Masters in Counseling!

A dirt lot turned into Art?

This is an area in Gallup, NM. I've lived here for 33 years and Chihuahuita has always been here. I have friends that live in this neighborhood and there are several excellant Mexican restaurants that are well known in town. The chili is too hot but I love the food anyway. But to return to this dirt lot. That's what it was and while some people in Gallup thought it was wasteful to spend money (I'm not exactly sure where the money came from) on this work of art, I find it much more attractive that an empty dirt lot, especially at night.

It represents one of the businesses that brought many people to Gallup years ago, coal mining, and since that was what kept Gallup going while other businesses were forming, I'm always happy to see this little piece of artwork that reminds me and hopefully others of the sacrifice people made to move out to the Wild West.

Grafitti on a section of the barrier along the West Bank, Israel

I won't say much about this photograph because I don't really understand the politics of it and don't want to try to explain something I don't understand. But on the road into Bethlehem from Israel I really felt dismay for the people caught in this controversy, on both sides of the fence, and pray that it will soon be worked out for the good of all people.

What caught my eye the most was the graffiti and what it said or left unsaid.

Adopt a puppy!

I take photos for the local Humane Society to publish in the newspapers or use for advertisement and this is one I took right before Christmas. Photographs get people excited to come see all the puppies, kittens and grown animals at the shelter and many are adopted. It's really hard to play with the little animals and then have to leave them there so it's nice to know I have a part in them getting a forever home.

Christmas party in Texas

My little cousin

This sweet little girl is somewhere in my family lineage, like 2nd cousin, once removed or some gibberish. Whatever, she's precious and made a great on the spot model.

One of the other "rules' of a 365/6 project is you can put up a photo that's never been published, this is one of those photos.

Enjoy!

Hello 2012

Bouquet caught by Kelly at a Thanksgiving wedding,

2 weeks later she was engaged!

Life is great around here. It's not freezing until the sun goes down and the little snow we had is melted. My youngest daughter got engaged right before Christmas so the next few months will be hectic and hopefully a lot of fun!

Jay and I are going to New Orleans for the Professional Photographers Association Convention on Jan. 13 (a little early so we can meet up with a couple of long time friends). Then it's back to good old Gallup. In February we will meet the parents of Ian, Kelly's new fiancé. Ian is a wonderful young man and so is his brother Garth so I'm positive Ian's parents are great people.

I'm working on the rest of the photos I took in the Holy Land and hope to have them on my website by the end of this week. There are 2 galleries, one is "Illuminated Paths" and is password protected so that the people on our tour don't have to worry about having their photos on the internet unless they want to publish them. If you were on the tour and didn't get an email from me, please contact me and I'll give you the password. Also, you are welcome to share the password with family and friends, the password is to keep out people we don't know, not to prevent you from sharing photos. The other gallery is "Israel" and contains photos of the places we visited, it is not password protected. I did forget to remove my copyright watermark so if you have downloaded photos and want to print them somewhere besides your home, I'll send you a copyright release. My photo prices are listed now. If you want a photo printed in a size other than 4x6 I'll have to crop it for the size you want and prepare it for printing. Please email me if you have special requests for types of paper (such as canvas or metal) or if you want a book or calendar made and I'll email you the instructions.

Hope everyone has a good 2012! God bless, Kitty

Lost photos

These are photos I took on a Carribean Cruise. I posted them to FB, promptly forgot about them and now they are't there anymore. But I still have them so decided to share them on here.

You can watch them as a slideshow or click the link "Ruby Princess" under the first photo and you can look at each photo individually. Hope you enjoy them!

Ruby Princess - 03/21/09