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Moving Stills 74 – Shopping Cart Stampede

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I stopped by Target and wasn’t sure whether to round up the wild carts or run for cover from the stampede! You can read the rules for a Moving Stills post and learn how the series came to be by reading my initial post in the series – Moving Stills 1. Your having fun with [...]

28 August 2009 Read the full article →

Moving Stills 73 – No Turn on Red?

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This is obviously the hardest sign to figure out in all of Phoenix.  Each day (multiple times) I sit at the Union Hills exit from Loop 101 and watch car after car turn right against the light (legal in Phoenix except where posted otherwise.)  Sometimes I watch the motorcycle patrols pulling them over as soon [...]

21 August 2009 Read the full article →

a visit from Wile E Coyote

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My older son & I saw a coyote yesterday about 50 feet away; pretty neat actually!  Our neighborhood borders the New River, which is a very large desert wash the 359 days of the year it doesn’t rain, and runs from the mountains in north Peoria southwest through Peoria, Glendale, Sun City, Avondale, and Goodyear, [...]

18 August 2009 Read the full article →

Moving Stills 72 – Entering Midtown

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One of the few non-rectangular buildings in town (and one of my favorites), the M & I Bank building stands at the northern edge of Midtown, on the southeast corner of Central and Camelback.  The building “points” WNW – maybe this was an aerodynamic design, since most monsoons hit it from that direction. (yeah, I [...]

13 August 2009 Read the full article →

Phoenix Photos goes live!

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I’ve been photographing Phoenix for 18 months for my Moving Stills series, and I’ve absolutely enjoyed it.  However, I have 2 frustrations about it: 1. The series limits me to photographs I’ve taken from my car, which means there are dozens hundreds of pictures I want to share, but which don’t meet the guidelines for [...]

12 August 2009 Read the full article →

Moving Stills 71 – Headless Palm Tree

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Every once in awhile you’ll see a palm tree that didn’t make it.  I’m not sure whether they’re called Headless Palm Trees, or Palm Poles, or something else entirely, but they always look a little out of place… You can read the rules for a Moving Stills post and learn how the series came to [...]

7 August 2009 Read the full article →

Moving Stills 70 – Khalsa Montessori

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I’m Heading downtown and notice the urban scene to my left; older buildings, trash can knocked over, spray-painted wall.  Then I take a closer look – that wall is actually a mural celebrating diversity, unity, education, teamwork, and togetherness!  Even the pillars are painted to look like books in a bookshelf.  Great job, Khalsa Montessori [...]

4 August 2009 Read the full article →

Moving Stills 69 – Obelisk at Cancer Survivors Park

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It’s worth taking a walk around the Burton Barr Central Library (Central Ave just south of McDowell) area.  Margaret T Hance Park (the Deck Park) sits on the south side of the library, and the Richard & Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Park faces the north.  It’s a nice place for a walk – plenty of [...]

29 July 2009 Read the full article →

Showing 117

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Yesterday was a personal record; it was the hottest I’ve ever experienced first-hand while showing homes with clients.  117 under bright blue, sunny skies. Standing in backyards while we discuss potential landscaping ideas and pool repair. Standing inside homes without a/c, where the temperature might have only been 97, but the humidity was brutal. And [...]

28 July 2009 Read the full article →

Moving Stills 68 – Rainbow at Java Grounds

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This week’s morning thunderstorms gave me the perfect time to take a picture of The Java Grounds – a great little coffee house on the southwest corner of 83rd Ave and Deer Valley. You can read the rules for a Moving Stills post and learn how the series came to be by reading my initial [...]

24 July 2009 Read the full article →

Friday’s dust storm

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We had a pretty good dust storm on Friday evening.  I noticed the dark skies to the southwest when I left my house (in the northwest valley) under sunny skies. These pictures were taken from around the I-10 and Loop 303 area, during the early evening (when there should have been a big bright sun [...]

20 July 2009 Read the full article →