I’m returning to Terlingua this All Hallow’s Eve to document, this time on video, the annual Dia de Los Muertos ritual at the Terlingua cemetery. Despite the presence of a thousand or more CASI (Chili Appreciation Society International) celebrants, Terlingua is full of good folks who are best at minding their own business–and throwing a great party.
Me and my crew are staying at the Villa Terlingua guest house with hostess Cynta De Narvaez.
Railway bridge over the Trinity River on 9/14/2013. The Trinity Railway Express, the commuter line between Dallas and Fort Worth runs on this bridge.
October 14, 2013 issue of “Fort Worth Weekly“.
My short feature package of story and photos documenting a few of my favorite bridges along Fort Worth’s Clear Fork and West Fork of the Trinity River. Also includes not-so-subtle digs at Dallas.
Students from W.T. Francisco Elementary School in Haltom City, Texas, attend a flag-raising ceremony at the beginning of their day at YMCA Camp Grady Spruce facility on Possum Kingdom Lake in Palo Pinto County, Texas on September 27, 2013. The students spent three days at camp studying science in the school’s outdoor education program.
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A father and daughter walk down the Midway of the State Fair of Texas in Dallas, Texas.
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Just four more days!!!
FW Weekly editor Gayle Reaves liked my John Graves blog well enough that she re-published it with another of my John Graves photos in the current (August 7-14) issue. I’m delighted that she thought enough of the tiny piece to publish it. Not a story, so much as a remembrance of my visits with John.
It was John’s words that put me on that river 30 years ago and will find me there again this October.
Vadym Kholodenko looks to conductor Leonard Slatkin while performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major during the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas on June 9, 2013.
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Sean Chen throws his head back near the end of his performance of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, op 30 during the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas on June 9, 2013.
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A Metairie Louisiana couple is suing Jessica Simpson and OK magazine for using a photograph on its April 2012 cover of Simpson holding their child at a Metairie, La., shopping mall. Parents of the child are contending that the magazine is using the photo “in such a way as to suggest the child was hers, according to a lawsuit the couple has filed,” says this The Times-Picayune story.
According to the story, the couple “. . . asserts an invasion of privacy and emotional distress caused by the celebrity news magazine, which boasts a weekly circulation of 4.5 million and a website that attracts more than 7.3 million views per month. The couple is seeking damages that appear to be no more than $75,000.”
According to the T-P story the couple essentially contends that they were unaware the photo would be used in the magazine. However, I’m failing to understand how this doesn’t come under editorial use, which negates a need for a model release. The couple literally handed the child to Simpson who was photographed by “the person thought to have taken the photo, Kevin Mazur.” Seems like the lawsuit would have actually named the photographer but I haven’t read the suit. And a shopping mall doesn’t seem like the place where anyone would have a “reasonable expectation” of privacy.
And why is Simpson named in the suit? She doesn’t edit the magazine. She doesn’t select photos for the magazine’s cover. If she simply held someone’s baby while a photographer took a photograph, it falls way short of complicity. The suit does name Getty Images and the magazine’s publishing company, American Media Inc.
An intense Beatrice Rana performs Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor op. 16 during the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas on June 8, 2013.
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June 8, 2013–Fei-Fei Dong performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major op. 58 during the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas on June 8, 2013.
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Nikita Mndoyants performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor during the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas on June 8, 2013.
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Vadym Kholodenko of the Ukraine performs Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, op. 26 during the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas on June 7, 2013.
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