Thanks for the help, D. Allen. Much appreciated. As you can see, it worked.

It certainly did. Thanks for posting your first over here on WOD forum. The colors are refulgent to use a word I heard recently, just glowing like stained glass.

Would you care to share some of your ideas about it and technical details?

dAb

That's great. Thanks again. Just sort of experimenting with posting images.

Sure. The picture was made with a digital camera, Finepix S 5000, at the Water Garden in Denver Botanical Gardens: http://www.botanicgardens.org/pageinpage/home.cfm

It's one of the largest and most beautiful Botanic gardens I know of.

It was made about high noon, not usually the best time to photograph, but this time it worked to my advantage because having the sun directly overhead accounts for the clear view in the water beneath the lily pads.

I edited the photograph using the Filter in the PhotoShop Elements.

I hope it would do Claude Monet proud.

San Timoteo Canyon, CA

From the series, "Changing San Timoteo Canyon."

Josefina Herrera Garcia

Eldest Daughter

Eastern Edge of San Timotao Canyon, CA

Downtown, LA, Summer 2006

Japanese Theater, Second Street, LA

Casco Lake, San Timoteo Canyon

Wonderful! I like the Downtown pictures, especially.

It means a lot to me to see your compliments because I know you enjoy looking at pictures and know a good one when you see it.

By the way, I have a friend who is doing some of the same kind of work in Denver that I am doing in LA. Right now he's working all along Colfax Ave., which I believe is the longest "main drag" in America. I plan to go there in August to photograph during the Democratic convention.

Outside the Red Pepper cafe. Polaroid.

Near Ft. Defiance, AZ. Polaroid.

University Anatomy Building. I opened up the classroom every week-day at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Near Eureka,CA

Established 1776.

In Our Back Yard

Taken With Cheap Camera.

Our Back Yard, CA

Mission San Juan Capistrano, CA

Near Bishop, CA

Riverside County, CA

Southern Pacific

Out of all your latest pictures, I kept coming back to this one. It's almost surreal. I get the feeling that everything is almost computer generated except for the dove. The dove is only real feature in the pic. I really, really like this picture.

That hadn't occurred to me before, but come to think of it, I can see what you mean. I waited for over two hours for a dove to get into that perfect position, too, and now I'm glad I did. It really makes the picture, as you say.

The exposure was made on a 4x5 Tri-X negative in a "field camera"-- you know, one of those old cameras where you see the image reversed and you have to wear that cloth over your head.

In Mrs. Clarks cabin, on northern edge of the canyon, near Chinle, Arizona.

This portrait i like very much. His personality seems to come through - a thoughtful man.

Don't feel bad, but it's Mrs. Clark. She may look somewhat masculine. But thanks-- you're right, her personality does come through. She was sitting just inside an open window and the rest of the cabin was unlighted because she had no electricity. I lived with the family for over a month before I felt at liberty to start taking photographs.

Oh, MRS. Clark! - No wonder I am attracted to her...

There you go!

She was a wonderful person, the mother of 3 sons and 2 daughters. She spoke no English but only Navaho, and she made great Navaho bread and lamb stew on a stove, a picture of which I will post right now. I will also post a picture of her and her husband outside their cabin.

Mr. & Mrs. Clark outside their cabin. A cold winter's day on Northern Edge of Canyon de Chelley, near Chinle, AZ.

Many of the Navahos had these kinds of stoves in their homes. They made good indian bread and delicious lamb stew on it.

Sign on Red Car reads, "Care For California."


Part of work in progress on Southern California Trailer Courts.

Navaho Veterans' Graves
(Polaroid)

We talked for over an hour in the Southern Pacific train-yards while I made a few exposures. He showed me a book with his picture in it of when he was a Marine fighting the Japanese during World War II.

My Eldest Daughter, age 21.

Eldest Daughter, age 3

Josefina Herrara Garcia, unposed, natural lighting.

John, your photos are amazingly beautiful. God has most assuredly blessed you with the gift of vision and insight into the human soul. Because you've embraced that gift and have shared it with us, I am truly blessed. Thank you.

Me too! I'm excitedly looking forward to seeing your pictures from the convention this fall. And in the meantime - more like you have shown us - portraits, cityscenes, landscapes.

Riverside Mission Inn, CA

My dad, pastor, church school teacher, administrator, author, founding principal of Orangewood Adventist Academy, and one of the first teachers to serve at San Pasqual. Now 93 years young.

Author of The Urgent Voice, a biography of William Miller

I remember it was not far from the Loreley
Photographed with my first camera, a primitive Instamatic 110.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreley

Germany-- formerly "West Germany"

I served in the US Army as a field medic, being stationed for about 6 months near Worms where Martin Luther was asked to recant his writings and teachings.

Wish we had police stations like this building. It was built in the early 1700s.

Gosenheim is a suburb of Mainz, Germany.

Mother and Grandmother, both resting now in the blessed hope of the resurrection.

Joshua Tree National Park

Near Fifth St. and Los Angeles Ave.

At Grandmother's during Christmas visit

Restaurant in Paris, France, made famous by Ernest Hemingway as a place where he wrote and enjoyed meals with James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ford Maddox Ford, Morley Callaghan, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Figures prominently in A Movable Feast.

Gosenheim is a suburb of Mainz, Germany

Eastern edge of Oak Valley, Riverside Co.