Tanuma Photos

I have carried around a 1969 Life magazine (with a photo of Ted Kennedy just post- Chappaqudick on the cover!) because it has a gallery of wonderful images by photographer T Tanuma.Yesterday, hoping to put them in a more secure mode, I photo'd them.These are some of the results.

Quote

"... the shot of him crawling down the center line on a remote desert highway (his idea, not mine!) may not send the proper parenting messages. Roads are dangerous, children should be rock climbing instead!"

A.  Jackson Frishman, on grandson Eli in a review of the year's photos of the Adventure Kid. Don't know if he will release that one or not...

"No one sleeps on the yellow line, no one's that alone..."- Warren Zevon

Long time coming...

Long story too-- not just one press...

Better image and info coming.

Heirloom Photos?

Two "family" photos that hang on our walls are a little better than snapshots.

Our friend Jay Dusard took this of me a LONG time ago at Libby's house in Montana.

This, even longer ago, was an outtake for this. That is Libby over near the right with the short black hair and the blonde baby: Jack! His biological father-- I dislike that term, it sounds clinical-- his father, the late Harry Frishman, is on the left beside them.

Great shot!

Action! Duck hawking with Peregrine, shot by Dan Gauss:

And a calm return:

Some more talented friends

Lest anyone be confused about who is who (see comments not too far below), two southwestern greats, artists, horse folks, friends: photographer Jay Dusard, printmaker and pastel artist Nance McManus,

A couple of favorites by Nance: "Prophet", and a Dinosaurian heron

And two by Jay. The first is of rancher- houndman- conservationist Warner Glenn, who first tracked a modern US jaguar, and his daughter Kelly; the second of a Texas bullfight class, many years ago. Right click & make 'em bigger.

Old Portrait

... by Jay Dusard, Libby's place in Bozeman (Montana) in the 90's, with Bart and Bo, long gone. JP says: "I love the photo of Steve at age twelve with his dogs (good looking little Aussie!). I love photos of people with their pets or working partners, meaning horses, (And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim*) because it always seems to reveal the best of them." As always double click to embiggen; the depth & detail of Jay's photos is amazing.

*That's a quote. I bet Tom McIntyre knows who...

Jack at work

My stepson Andrew Jackson Frishman of Crest, Cliff and Canyon, at work as well as play on the lip of the Grand-- photo by Greg Russell.

Make sure you read their posts on a place under threat of a kind of development that would be ridiculous were it not real. Not all "Natives" are benign nature worshippers...

A Few Birds

Coming back this weekend after work, sick days, and generally too much, and that dull. (Why is it so hard to pay writers dammit???) We will have links, pix, dog news, poetry. I will finally review David Quammen. I will announce others. There will be.... MORE. Tonight though, good photos... as always, right or double click and embiggen.

This extremely early bandtail showed up at Carolyn and John Wilson's in the Magdalenas two days past. Photo by Carolyn W:


Goshawks. This adept pigeon- killing young male was in Larry Day's backyard outside of Bozeman MT. I wonder if his meal descended from Spanish pouters I gave Larry 20 years past...


A relative but Melierax not Accipiter-- dark chanting goshawk photographed by Texas writer Dennis Sumrak while hunting in Namibia. Dennis is working on a piece on our water crisis and has been seen at the Spur...


Can anyone remember a Roy Campbell poem-- "Singing Hawk" perhaps-- about this bird? I seem to but can't find it...

Goshawks in Love

Courtesy of Pecular. Happy Valentine's Day! Here's a link to a bigger version of the photograph, and here is one to the photographer, photoblogger Juanma Hernandez: Gos photos and more, including the first action scenes I have ever seen of a wryneck...

Wild East

Here are a few irresistible photos from Lib's friend Jeff Foott, who we saw in Wyoming and who just returned from our old haunts in Western Mongolia.

The third is just nice and speaks for itself. What I love about the other two is the way the Wild East partakes of all technologies from the Neolithic to the 21'st century's simultaneously; a bit "cyberpunk" in style rather than Edwardian Steampunk...

Around the House-- an Occasional series

I thought I'd post a few photos I keep up in my library, which relate to Q - type subjects- click to "embiggen" as they say in Bloglandia...

First, on the bookcase, a few mentors living and dead: Anderson Bakewell, SJ, at the Magdalena shooting range about 1987 (Tom McIntyre's title: "It's been HOW long since your last confession?"); Floyd Mansell with muzzleloader shooting doves with son Phil & me; Dr John Burchard with the late Badari; Sirdar M. Osman in Dehra Dun-- a mentor from afar but a real one.

Some goshawks from all over-- Japan, Siberia, China, Japan again, Khyber pass photo by Catherine Lassez, with me in Montana.

(If you click to enlarge you may also be amused at the unrelated clips below...)

And a few more-- Joe Bodio with black duck & 40 years later with Bets & spaniels; me and Floyd by Tom Huggler ca 1985; Jonathan Kingdon as a youth in then- Tanganyika with augur buzzard, and inset nearer present; Lib out front.

Flock Flight

I never tire of watching the great winter flocks of birds like starlings, moving with eerie grace like some superorganism, supposedly by obeying very simple rules. (Photo, sent anonymously a year or two ago, by Manuel Presti; thanks, PD!)

This is most obvious when birds are under attack.Bill Kessler sent this amazing YouTube filmed in the Netherlands of a flock being harassed by a sparrowhawk, which eventually splits the "organism" in half, making it fission like an amoeba.

Richard Barnes' Animal Logic, a wonderful book of photographs which also features things like deconstructed museum dioramas and skulls (deconstructed in this case a Good Thing) has an excellent selection of photos of starlings flocking in Rome.

(Animal Logic also has an essay by the always quotable Jonathan Rosen which may show up in Commonplace Book soon).