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Georgie explores

2010-10-06T20:51:00.001-07:00

May manifestation

2010-05-10T19:54:00.001-07:00

birthday tears

2009-12-05T23:26:00.001-08:00

Merced River grasses

2009-10-29T18:05:00.001-07:00

You're Invited: fresh baked

2009-08-16T11:26:00.000-07:00

Fresh out of the creative oven: come see some of my newer images now up on the walls at Nancy P's bakery in Bend (next to Newport Market).

Invitation

2009-07-27T23:04:00.000-07:00

Come! Look! Whine & Treats!

"The Dog Show: A Fetching Display of Canine Imagery"

Sisters ArtWorks Entry Gallery

204 W. Adams Street, Sisters, OR

Opening Saturday, August 1, 4-7 p.m.

(Show runs through August 31)

Dear friends, I have several small photographs (of my small
dog!) in this show and I'd love to see you there at the
opening if you are available and in the area this Saturday.

Lately

2009-07-11T10:20:00.000-07:00

Turning away

2009-05-02T23:15:00.000-07:00

Invitation

2009-04-27T23:19:00.000-07:00

Thursday, April 30

Sisters Movie House

Sisters, Oregon

7:30 p.m.

International Documentary Challenge Central Oregon Showcase

The film my sister and I made: "Song for the Badlands" will be screened along with three other films produced by Central Oregon teams as well as a selection of international entries.

Freshly hatched

2009-04-02T15:58:00.000-07:00

Just in time for spring

(new beginnings and such)

my photography Web site: bridgetmcginn.com

[almost a haiku but couldn't get that last line to cooperate]

End of March: past time

2009-03-27T20:19:00.000-07:00

Encouragement

2009-03-21T11:22:00.000-07:00

"How did the rose ever open its heart

and give to this world all its beauty?

It felt the encouragement of light

against its being. Otherwise,

we all remain too frightened."

~ Hafiz (1320-1389)

Early March

2009-03-02T22:26:00.001-08:00

Invitation

2009-02-04T19:04:00.001-08:00

LiveJournal site

2009-01-23T18:58:00.000-08:00

For more photos and writing visit: http://writinguphill.livejournal.com

January so far

2009-01-06T23:06:00.000-08:00

Tired of jumping through hoops...

2009-01-06T23:01:00.000-08:00

In the mirror

2009-01-02T20:34:00.000-08:00

Wash the dog

2008-12-26T19:34:00.000-08:00

I am now going to wash the dog. Neither one of us is going to enjoy it.

Early December

2008-12-10T21:39:00.000-08:00

November

2008-12-01T13:50:00.002-08:00

Underside

2008-12-01T13:50:00.001-08:00

Bamboo

2008-12-01T13:46:00.001-08:00

Tail

2008-12-01T13:45:00.001-08:00

Sondra's MerFairy

2008-11-25T23:20:00.000-08:00

Molly's last hour in the sun

2008-11-19T22:06:00.000-08:00

Opening - Aspen Trail

2008-11-08T23:33:00.000-08:00

Kanji - Aspen Trail

2008-11-08T23:32:00.000-08:00

Breitenbush mirror

2008-11-08T23:31:00.000-08:00

Lover's Blossom

2008-11-02T22:01:00.001-08:00

Japanese maple leaves

2008-11-02T21:55:00.002-08:00

November garden

2008-11-02T21:55:00.001-08:00

TtV November garden

2008-11-02T21:53:00.000-08:00

TtV Japanese maple and asters

2008-11-02T21:52:00.000-08:00

Window

2008-10-31T22:23:00.003-07:00

I wish I was here

2008-10-31T22:19:00.000-07:00

It has to be there

2008-10-31T22:13:00.002-07:00

Rock/Stick

2008-10-31T22:11:00.001-07:00

Alders

2008-10-31T22:07:00.000-07:00

Willa

2008-10-26T21:36:00.001-07:00

Above Benham Falls

2008-10-26T21:35:00.001-07:00

Pink towel

2008-10-26T21:34:00.000-07:00

Morning sky

2008-10-26T21:33:00.000-07:00

Prayer Flags

2008-10-26T21:31:00.000-07:00

Self-portrait as lilac leaf

2008-10-19T11:46:00.000-07:00

Bed

2008-10-19T11:41:00.000-07:00

Bookcase

2008-10-19T11:38:00.000-07:00

Finn

2008-10-12T23:16:00.000-07:00

First snow today

2008-10-10T18:35:00.000-07:00

Gladiola

2008-10-09T22:15:00.000-07:00

Ian reading

2008-10-03T22:13:00.001-07:00

She Project

2008-10-03T22:07:00.000-07:00

For the last several years I've participated in the "She Project," an art installation and fundraiser for local women's charities. About 50 local women artists each get a "she phrase" which we have to incorporate into a piece of original artwork for the show and sale. This year I am using one of my self-portraits from Breitenbush, along with a phrase that Doug said during the workshop that I loved and wrote down in my journal: "She was a creative mess...She was wonderful."

Lisa's photos

2008-10-01T10:51:00.000-07:00

Lisa, thank you for sharing your time and energy with me at Breitenbush making my portraits and breaking through barriers. I truly appreciate your friendship and support, as well as your beautiful photography.

To view more of Lisa's wonderful photography visit www.photolisa.com

Ian after water polo, 9 p.m.

2008-09-30T23:20:00.001-07:00

I let in too much light through the TtV contraption so you can see the viewfinder rim in this image but I like it anyway.

Argus 75 TtV

2008-09-30T22:57:00.000-07:00

TtV (Through the Viewfinder)

2008-09-30T22:47:00.000-07:00

Kara and I are starting to experiment with TtV images. I have a bunch of vintage cameras and luckily one is an argus 75 with a nice big viewfinder. I created a contraption to fit over the top of it and block light, and I just shoot down the contraption and make an image of what is reflected in the viewfinder. Fun, but tricky because the image is backwards and your head starts to spin after awhile with two camera and this long contraption thingy. But the images are so cool! Next step is trying to see if we can use this approach with video.

Monday morning

2008-09-29T09:23:00.000-07:00

I have two hundred emails and phone messages to wade through, budget variance reports, 09 budget planning, 23 marketing plans for various departments to write, invoices to pay, mail to read and a new corporate structure to adapt to (it changed while I was gone).

This morning I opened my microwave door to find my oatmeal had exploded and created a mess. It was so perfect I made a photograph of it, I'll post it later from home. The dog escaped as I was leaving for work and I briefly considered just letting him go. I got all the way to work and realized I didn't have my badge/door access card so I had to get back in the car and drive back home. But I'm here now, and work is a good thing. There is plenty to do.

Two leaves

2008-09-28T11:53:00.000-07:00

Cranes

2008-09-28T11:42:00.000-07:00

Coming home has been a reawakening to myself and my surroundings. I'm looking at everything around me with fresh eyes. This morning the cranes hanging in the kitchen caught the sun and reminded me of my search for happiness. My goal had been to fold 1000 cranes by my last birthday but I only made it to about 80...so much happiness has come my way from just those few cranes, imagine what my life will be like by the time I fold 1000!

The dishwasher

2008-09-28T11:39:00.000-07:00

While I was gone for the last ten days the dishwasher broke, and my mom called the plumber to come and fix it. It is old, but thankfully still working. I'm so grateful for my mother's presence in my life, I came home to find my house clean and scrubbed, food in the fridge and my son relatively happy to see me. Thank you, mom. I love you.

Two watering cans

2008-09-28T09:52:00.001-07:00

Two towels

2008-09-28T09:36:00.000-07:00

7:30 a.m., Ian sleeping

2008-09-28T09:24:00.001-07:00

Tiger

2008-09-28T09:22:00.001-07:00

Breitenbush images

2008-09-28T09:07:00.001-07:00

Breitenbush images

2008-09-28T08:48:00.001-07:00

First assignment: No memory card

2008-09-28T08:44:00.000-07:00

Our first assignment on Monday morning was to remove the memory card from our camera and go out and make 50 photos. My camera won't work without the memory card, so my challenge was to delete the photos without looking at them, which turned out to be easier than I thought. I was anxious about it, but determined to get the most out of myself for every assignment, for the entire week. I hit the delete button without pause and didn't think of it again.

Assignment: Break my own rules

2008-09-28T08:35:00.000-07:00

Assignment: Isolate the subject

2008-09-28T08:27:00.000-07:00

Assignment: Unattractive subject with great love

2008-09-28T08:12:00.000-07:00

Recycled can

Peeling paint

Assignment: Nothingness

2008-09-28T08:09:00.000-07:00

Portraits

2008-09-28T08:03:00.000-07:00

Darrell

Mark

Self-portrait as pinecone

2008-09-27T22:57:00.000-07:00

"I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning."

Wynn Bullok

Doug told us to pick out a pinecone for this assignment, he said to choose one that spoke to us. I searched for one that was full, sensual and beginning to open up...wet and "juicy" as Lisa would say.

Self-portraits with pinecone

2008-09-27T22:19:00.001-07:00

Illustration of the Koan "A weed is a treasure and a treasure is a weed"

2008-09-27T22:05:00.000-07:00

Walking back from the bridge with Doug he pointed out the gong that I had been hearing for days, calling us to mealtimes. I had imagined a large bronze Japanese gong and was surprised that the amazing sound comes from a recycled propane cylinder. Treasure to weed to treasure...

I spent so much time photographing the gong, getting down on the ground, touching it, moving around it and really thinking about how it is used, which lead me to look closely at the place it is struck three times over and over each day. I love how the dents and scratches on the gong suggest Japanese calligraphy, and if you squint and have a great imagination you can perceive a Hokusai painting on the left portion of the photograph.

Final assignment: "Find the face of God"

2008-09-27T21:50:00.000-07:00

6:30 this morning

2008-09-27T11:12:00.001-07:00

Mary in the garden

2008-09-27T10:46:00.001-07:00

Love garden

2008-09-27T10:00:00.000-07:00

Home

2008-09-27T09:16:00.000-07:00

Back home from Breitenbush and missing the connections there deeply, but also feeling suffused with love, a very gentle and powerful love. I am looking at everything around me with new eyes and a healed heart.

Earlier this summer I planted a "love garden" in the southwest corner of my yard, the perfect feng shui location. I can see it every morning from my bedroom window. My intention was to bring beauty, life, growth, color and joy to a part of my life that has not been cultivated for some time. There are two small curly willows leaning towards each other, and one of the spirit stone carvings (it reminds me of a Japanese samurai) on a pedestal among the ferns, violets and clematis, plus pink and red petunias.

This morning I woke up softly at 6:30 and crept out of my warm bed into the cool morning garden with my camera. I felt drawn towards the love garden and while it needs some tending it is holding its own at the beginning of autumn. I loved the gentle round face smiling at me from the spirit stone. I found my spirit stone -- the one carved from intuition by an artist in Arizona -- half buried at the root of a juniper, face up to the sky. I pulled her out, brushed off the dirt and took her to the love garden, placing her half turned towards the other spirit stone. Now the two can be together in the love garden, and my heart overflows.

From Whitefish to Breitenbush

2008-09-21T10:39:00.000-07:00

Transitioning from Whitefish, Montana and the wedding of the century to Breitenbush...this weekend's activities were pretty intense and will need processing, but I won't have time for that as I'm heading straight from the airport to Breitenbush for a week of vegetarian food, "clothing optional" natural hot springs and a "Zen and the Art of Photography" workshop with Doug Beasley. I have a feeling that my eight-year-old Nikon coolpix is going to seem woefully inadequate compared to the cameras of everyone else. I'd love to have a new camera but will need to win the lottery first.

Last night at the wedding reception I was dancing with Janis (yes, there are photos to prove that I was actually out on the dancefloor) and I told him he was really lucky...he agreed. "I feel like I've won the lottery," he said. Sandra was dancing nearby and you could just see how proud and happy he was to be near her. She told me that she likes to mow her lawn (the word lawn is a understatement) and I thought that was cool. Janis said she is a total tomboy and I approve of that! What a great pair...and Ivars and Monica looked so happy also. I feel so much love and appreciation to the universe for bringing these four people together, they deserve every happiness. And I am honored to have been present for their double wedding: two sisters marrying two brothers, Latvian style!

Of course it was wonderful to spend time TALKING with Michelle, I don't think we stopped jabbering for the entire weekend. And everything we talk about is meaningful...it is so nice to have a friend like Michelle with whom I feel I can share everything and know that I have her unconditional love and support. It is so crazy to think that I have known Michelle, as well as Janis and Ivars, for most of my life. I think the first time I met them I was six years old and joining the YWCA swim team in downtown Lincoln. That was definately a lifetime ago.

Another great thing about the weekend was having the opportunity to spend time with Steve Gordon and his crazy (in a good way) wife Sue, and Bobby Hannah and his partner Annie. I loved hearing Gordy's stories (did you know he was a champion roller skater? He has the trophy to prove it) and catching up with him. And Bobby is still the very nice guy he has always been. I may have actually convinced him to vote in the upcoming election...we'll see.

Breitenbush is off the grid, no cell phone and no internet for a week. It will be good to be cut off from those lifelines so that I can concentrate on the real lifelines within and around me in nature. Wish me luck with the "clothing optional" thing. I did dance at the wedding reception last night (to an insane Latvian band from Chicago) and I normally DO NOT dance, so that barrier is gone and it feels really great. Why not continue to blast through self-imposed barriers so that I can fully recognize true self-love? That's my plan...

Visit Doug Beasley's Website to see some of his amazing photography and learn about his retreats: vqphoto.com

Evergreen Studio exhibit this weekend

2008-09-09T19:58:00.001-07:00

Check out Evergreen Studios in Redmond this weekend for a contemporary art exhibit. Four of my large-format photos will be there, should look cool in that big open space.

The gallery is located at Evergreen Ave and 5th Street in downtown Redmond. Hours of the exhibit are:

Friday, Sept. 12, 5-8 p.m. Redmond Art Walk; 8-11 p.m. Theatre Plus Poetry Slam event

Saturday, Sept. 13, Exhibit open 11 a.m - 6 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 14, Exhibit open 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Above: "Carpet Frenzy" Color Digital Photography printed on canvas, 38"x50"