Maggie and Alma, Carizozo, New Mexico May 14, 1992
During a SWPW workshop in 1992, we stopped in Carizozo, NM, and while roaming the streets, these two ladies came out to see what we were doing across from their house. We talked, I asked permission to photograph them with the 8x10. This is Maggie and Alma, known in Carizozo at "The Aunts" -- they are retired old maid school teachers. Spent their entire careers in the Carizozo schools. When passing through Carizozo in 2002, I asked about them, and was told they had both moved to a retirement home. Last I heard of them.
I have challenged my digital students to make a fall image what with all the color about these days. I stepped out in my back yard this morning and noticed our little bird bath with the water and the leaves.
I have been photographing for more than 45 years first working as supervisor for yearbook and college newspaper. Later I headed the photography department for the News Service at UTAustin. In 1979, I became a Dobie-Paisano Fellow and began to follow a career in freelance and doing my own personal work. My wife's career pulled us out of Texas for the east coast finally winding up in central Massachusetts. Now in my 73ND year, I teach both digital and wet darkroom at a small liberal arts university in Worcester, MA.
I shoot these cameras and formats:
8x10 - Kodak MasterView:
4x5 - Wista, Ebony, Cambo:
6x7 - Pentax:
Digital - Canon 5D MK-II