… working on the portfolio again today and for a change I am deleting a lot of aerial shots that are duplicates, near duplicates or I just don’t like them. A little over twenty years of shooting aerial shots and I am finally getting around to culling them. This will go a long way to getting the total portfolio down to ten thousand raw photographs plus processed images. New shoots I am culling close to ninety five percent now … no reason to keep anything but the few that really standout from the rest.
The image above is looking across Long Canyon towards the SW from over Uptown. On the left side near mid image is Thunder Mountain and on the horizon top left the Black Hills mountain range which includes Mingus Mountain … to the right of that is Black Mountain, the gap (into Sycamore Canyon) and Casner mountain … in the extreme background on the right side of the Black Hills Range are the Bradshaw Mountains … Paulden is out there too as well as the source of the Verde River which flows north across the Big Chino Wash and turns east before the confluence with Sycamore Creek. I removed Seven Canyons development, Enchantment Resort as well as other areas of development … smiles!
Below is a shot of a Wood Duck and its reflection that I shot yesterday as I drove to West Sedona via Page Springs Road … only adds thirty plus miles to the trip 🙂 Reality to Abstract with a simple rotation.
Friends Bill and Elaine Belvin are displaying their great photographic art at the Sedona Council Chambers in West Sedona and there is an Artist Reception between 4PM and 6PM this Thursday the 26th in the Council Chambers and Vultee Conference room. They do beautiful work and hope you will be able to join in.
Keep breathing, smile and enjoy the people you meet and greet each day … life truly is fantastic!
Cheers,
Ted
To you who walk in shadows dark
And keenly hark
For kindly words if but to live,
Myself I give,
My life and all my heart and hand
Here where I stand.
‘Tis thus that both our lives will grow
I know.
I bring but this one common thought
My life has wrought;
That from the dregs of drear despair
Still everywhere
There is a joy I yet may sip—
‘Tis comradeship
With all mankind, the high and low
I know.
excerpt from I Know by Max Ehrmann
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The easiest way to reach Mr. Grussing is by email: ted@tedgrussing.com
In addition to sales of photographs already taken Ted does special shoots for patrons on request and also does air-to-air photography for those who want photographs of their airplanes in flight. All special photographic sessions are billed on an hourly basis.
Ted also does one-on-one workshops for those interested in learning the techniques he uses. By special arrangement Ted will do one-on-one aerial photography workshops which will include actual photo sessions in the air.
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