Yearly Archives: 2008

Vermont: A Californian’s First Peep

The Vermonters call it “leaf peeping”.  That’s when Vermont fills up with tourists viewing, enjoying and photographing the beautiful colors of fall that Vermont has in abundance. We were lucky enough to visit Vermont last week when the fall colors were at their peek.  This photo was in Smugglers Notch, Vermont, where we stayed for...

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Dance the Dance

My friend Lesley, one of the dancers, gave me a little history of the dance and the American Tribal Style of Belly Dancing. So, I did a little bit of research on belly-dancing because I was so fascinated with this particular photo shoot.  This was such a wonderful opportunity to be on the inside of...

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The Art of Belly Dancing: not for the faint of heart

To continue my story of my photography adventure this weekend…my husband and I drove over to Murphys, CA, to photograph a belly dancing troupe known as The Sisterhood of the Dancing goddess.  I think that the troupe has six women of various ages, however, I was only able to photograph 5 of the women.  These...

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A Visit to Murphys, CA

My husband and I visited Murphys, CA over the weekend.  Murphys is in Calaveras County, CA, in the mid Sierras south of where I live.  We visited Murphys for a couple of reasons.  The first reason was I had an opportunity to photograph a belly-dancing troupe who were going to be performing in Murphys. Second...

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The whole shootin’ match

This is the entire shoot…in a nutshell. I love animoto.com

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