Family = Love
June 26, 2008
How do you photograph unconditional love? Many feel it’s not easy to even find. Perhaps that’s truer than we’d all like to believe. But here’s one place I looked.
A mother and her daughter…a lesbian mother and her straight daughter. A woman who has been an open and proud lesbian as long as she’s been “out,” and her daughter who has always known, who was raised by an openly lesbian mother, who openly supports and defends her mother (and all human rights), no matter the adversity and outright hatred that exists for the LGBT community. This is not mere acceptance. This is love, true and unconditional. You don’t photograph it; it commands everything in its presence.
I salute LGBT Pride by honoring these women, brave and loving and beautiful. May our world be filled with more and more people, of any and every persuasion, just like them.
Alyson, wearing a “I Am What I Am” pendant, and Amy, donning buttons that read “F#%K Homophobia” and “Hatred is not a Family Value”
Three generations of love and support, Lenore joins daughter Alyson and granddaughter Amy
It’s All About the Wine
June 13, 2008
Just took a little break from corporate photography and visited Napa and Sonoma in California Wine Country. Even if you don’t imbibe (and I do), there is so much there to fill you with joy. Perfect weather, gorgeous scenery, exquisite dining, happy people (with or without the wine!). It’s a wine lover’s heaven, and a photographer’s paradise.
The Growing…miles and miles of rolling hills and vineyards.
The Tending…migrant workers are seen throughout wine country working the vineyards.
The Fermenting…large metal vats where the juice-to-wine transformation takes place.
The Swirling…“opening up” the wine, a must-do before tasting.
The Tasting…a Merlot, a Pinot Noir, and a Cabernet Sauvignon are poured for a tasting.
Flags at Half-Mast at Mondavi Winery…Robert Mondavi, a California wine country icon, passed away on May 16, 2008, at the age of 94, just two weeks before my visit. Flags at his winery in Napa fly at half-mast.
