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The showcase continues to be an amazing success and we're aiming to make next year's Showcase even better! The 2009 Showcase will take place over TWO NIGHTS in the HISTORIC KIMO THEATER in downtown Albuquerque. The 2009 show will continue to feature an art show in the adjoining Kimo Theater gallery space.
aka 'The Case of the Palm Tree That Wasn't'. Actually this is no crime scene. Just a combination of the quiet road back to my hotel, an oil stain, and my lurid imagination. Still reminds me of Weegee, though I doubt he ever mae it to Bali.
1) Twisted Spoke
2) Moonshine
3) Piece
4) The Handlebar
5) Weegee's
6) Danny's
7) Cleo's
Several of us started our ride in the rain earlier in the day, but everyone stuck it out til the end. Saw lot's of friends this day and drank a lot of great beer. I'll never forget it.
In the book Naked City, Weegee wrote "To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real." But Weegee was a photojournalist.
According to Judith Fryer Davidov, in the book, Women's camera work: self/body/other in American visual culture, Edward Weston is supposed to have said, " There is so much talk of the artist getting down to the realities of life. But who is to say which are the realities? Obviously, they cannot be the same to everyone."
For me, what is going on internally, when I encounter an object or a view, that I am capturing on film, or in pixels with a digital camera, that is the reality.
This shot is a straight capture of a reflection on a dirty window, on which someone had sprayed their message. No textures. No layers.
Photos taken with an iPhone 3GS and post-processed with TiltShiftGenerator and ShakeItPhoto. A little holiday fun!