Part 1 — Of A Series, On The Life Cycles In This Vibrant City — Birth, life, decline, death, and finally, rebirth. This is the cycle of life I witness daily in this vibrant city of Oaxaca de Juarez. The capital of the state of Oaxaca, the fifth largest state in Mexico. In my story yesterday, Quiet Solitude In Monochrome, I wrote of my own…

Abstract Views Offer Meaning And Understanding — Photographs are said to tell stories. Stripped to shadow and light, an alternate version of these stories is created. Monochrome adds another dimension through subtraction. Images can be altered through both addition, and subtraction. Removing information will illicit an alternate response. This response moves from the intellectual to the emotional.

You Are Hoping To Make A Buck, Using Free Images? — I have a beef with writers on this platform using free images they find on Unsplash. This is just plain lazy. Writers on this platform are all trying to make a buck by writing and publishing stories here. Yet you use free images from Unsplash to illustrate your stories. …

My Way Of Saying, Thank You, On This Thanksgiving Day — I was sitting at Cafe Mundo Nuevo this afternoon, drinking a ‘pick me up’ cafe latte. I wanted to think about an idea that appeared out of the blue, a half hour earlier. This idea was to pay a visual tribute to my friends on Medium. The ones who have…

A Walk Through The Park, Where The Palms Were Crazy Good — During an 1854 lecture at the University of Lille, French microbiologist and chemist Louis Pasteur said, “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” Source From my perspective, I would add two words to this oft quoted sentence. I would add . . . …

Music In A Dance Of Shadows And Light — The music began softly, in the early evening light. Dreams of this melody followed in the overnight darkness. Stepping out into the bright light of a new morning, the volume was turned up to six, or maybe seven. An infatuation with this simple patio is ongoing, from dawn to dusk…

Photographing White Walls In Soft Light — It is late Autumn in Oaxaca. The rainy season ended a month ago. The ongoing ten day forecast, is either full sun or partly cloudy. Partly cloudy translates as full sun, with a handful of scattered clouds. I am missing the soft light of the rainy season. It suits both…

A Return To The Plant Kingdom, Bathed In Sepia — Since landing in South Centro Oaxaca nearly two weeks ago, my eye and lens have been preoccupied with the earthiness and patina of this, new to me, old neighborhood. Waking this morning I was aware of missing the plant kingdom, missing the tropical flora, missing all those shades of green…

Symbols And Meanings Of The Changing Light Of A New Season — The thing that is by far the most noticeable, since moving to South Centro a week ago, is the change in the light. In many ways it seemed to happen overnight. Residing close to the equator, there are only two hours difference, between the shortest and longest days here. That…