1st attempt editing

A Year Has Passes

A year has passed since I last posted any images to my post. It was nice to go back, and view what I shot a year ago. It brought back the memories surrounding the moments captured. I especially treasure those taken with the families that live in Tennessee, a region of the country that has stole my heart. The history, people and there's no way I could ever forget the music.

Music from the heart; twang accepted, accompanied with whatever is handy; spoons, washtubs, you name it, it's been used. Instruments may also be used; those with talent or a trained voice won't be turned away, only requirement: sing from the heart.

I've not posted any images because I think I've left the innocence of capturing the moment first, skill second. I'm now more concerned with the technical correctness of how I shoot, over capturing with passion the mood of the moment. How does one retain the innocence and excitement of looking for the moments to capture over how to technically snap the candid image? I feel I now have to edit my work before sharing it. The only problem my skills of editing are very limited.

Will a balance come? Will there be a merging of the two? Frustrating can be so paralyzing.

Desire caged due to lack of skill.

Buffelgrass

I was introduced to the "weedwackers', a voluteer group involved in an intense effort to eradicate buffelgrass fronm the Sonrana Desert while visiting Tucson. On saturday, as will as during the week groups can be seen with digging bars pulling up not only the grass stemms, but also the root ball of the buffelgrass. The grass clumps are then put in bags and disposed in landfill.

Buffelgrass, a native to Africa was introduced into the United States in the 1930's for live forage and erosion control. A mature plant is about 1.5 ft. and about 3. ft. wide.

It is a warm-season grass, and below 3000 ft. will grow and flower after a rain.

Since buffelgrass grows densely, it's roots and ground shade has been known to prevent germination of the native plants, as well as competing with larger plants for water.

Being highly flammable it is a serious risk. It causes flash burning; burns quickly, the intense heat suffocation desert plants in it's path, then burns back in the direction from which it started destroying all life in its path. Buffelgrass  will sprout from roots after a fire, when native plantswill not..

Desert Sunrise

 No words can add to the captured beauty of the desert sunrise. In a moment there, and then gone, lost if not viewed in a brief instant. The hues of the sky changed in what seemed to be seconds. 

Tucson in bloom

I spent the last few days drinking in the hidden beauty of the desert. Here is a sampling of the array of color found in delicate pedals I captured in a what at a casual glance appears to barren landscape. As my eyes began to focus, an oasis slowly emerged. 

When I capture future images of the desert, I plan to get an image of the plant in it's entirety, then zoom in to capture the delicate beauty of the flower. Some of the plants are mere inches from the ground, their beauty so easily over looked, or even crushed by careless feet. Others, dance in the breeze lazily from trees, and yet others by their brilliant hues catch ones eye as one carefully walks among the cacti avoiding even a gentle brush against the cacti.