Lost In The Desert

I look at this photo.. it seems unreal.. but it is exactly as you see it..

i arrived late at nite to some place in the middle of the desert in Morocco..... i had no idea where i was... all i knew is i’d wake up to such majestic landscape like id never seen.

a man name Ali knew i was a photographer and when i woke he told me there was a woman getting water from deep in the sand and to hurry out there... so off i ran with my camera, in bare feet walking briskly across the sand..what a bloody FOOLLLLLL i was!!! you never leave without water and shoes...

i walked and walked and every time i thought i was getting closer she moved further and further away.. what i thought was five minutes took a good half hour or more..

i was so lost in my rapture of seeing her out there all alone appearing out of what seemed like no where..i mean where could she have come from…... i stood watching. shooting.. trying to speak in sign language... and then when it was time to go i turned around and saw nothing but sand as far as the eye can see..... i panicked. which way did i come from??? am i going to be lost? my heart started pounding...

the sand was getting very hot. my feet hurt..i was jumping up and down as i walked to get them cool... i threw something down on the ground and jumped to it every few steps..

slowly i saw something in the distance and there was Ali so far away like a speck of blue in the distance with his turban ... waving for me...yelling Nina.....he said he was just about to start looking for me...

lesson learned..... but a memory so special..... i think about this desert.. the feeling i got from being there... hope one day i can return there... and many other places on my hit list... and have a partner or friend to share in some of these wonderful experiences...the laughter.. the joy... the growth

If I Should Live To Be An Old Lady...

if i should live to be an old lady… i will be the one looking out the window… sitting on the stoop… engaging people… watching the world go by… picking up the energy swirling around me… always have been drawn especially to the elderly with my photography… that person on the corner.. … this lady felt so unnoticed in her anonymity until we shared glances.. and we smiled at each other.. as i continued on my way

Silence No More

A very emotional and powerful day in Washington Square Park today......Millions March... the power and determination to speak up against injustice......it is the good in humanity coming together .. and they did it in force and numbers.....i could feel the synergy right through me.. .. was tremendous....

I’m really fascinated by signage.....and how words soon become slogans.. familiar to time and place...... I’m glad to have gone out again... too often there is momentum and it dies down.. if we want changes.. if we want a society in which there is no shame.....disgrace.....violation of civil and human rights... then we have to have the courage to stand up and speak up..  “white silence = white consent”..........the birds were flying back and forth over the crowd in big formations....... i felt as if they were with us