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“When Science and Art Collide”

January 7, 2025No Comments

Long Tail Potoo and Young - nesting 45m in the rainforest canopy

Long Tail Potoo and Young - nesting 45m in the rainforest canopy

Sedona News – Join the Sedona Camera Club for a presentation by professional photographer/videographer Dano Grayson. The meeting starts at 6:00 pm on Monday, January 27, 2025, at Christ Lutheran Church, 25 Chapel Road, Sedona. Doors open at 5:30.

Dano (Daniel) Grayson’s “When Science and Art Collide” is a comprehensive presentation showing the use of scientific methods and photography to catalog the behaviors of animals found near and far. Dano has spent a lifetime getting close to nature and having worked on projects with the government of Peru, San Diego Zoo, and USGS, the BBC, National Geographic and many others. He has been allowed access to some of the world’s most wild places. The pictures Dano will show during this presentation are a catalog of adventure travel and science. He hopes to show the world the beauty of biodiversity through the use of his noninvasive photography methods.

A Stare from the Darkness - male Ocelot in the Peruvian Amazon roams the darkness in search of prey — A Stare from the Darkness – male Ocelot in the Peruvian Amazon roams the darkness in search of prey

Dano has invented gear and developed methods used to capture unique moments in nature. Methods, gear, wildlife and adventure are encapsulated in his presentation.

Grayson has spent his life chasing childhood dreams of wildlife adventures. Always a dreamer, Dano followed a less conventional path or took the scenic route (as he’d call it) to becoming a wildlife photographer. Over the last 20 years he has traveled far and wide as a wildlife researcher, eventually trading the calipers for a camera and focusing on capturing the science he was researching. His work has appeared all over the world, showcased by notable groups such as National Geographic and the BBC, Netflix, Disney and many others.

When not exploring the rainforest, Dano owns and operates wildlife photography sites in Southern Arizona built and designed to make ease of photographing the beauty and biodiversity of our amazing desert.

Presentations, hosted by the Sedona Camera Club, are free to members. There is a $5 fee for guests. Local photographers are encouraged to join to support bringing high-quality speakers to promote interest in photography and develop photographic skills. Membership costs $35 for the whole year. For more information on the Sedona Camera Club, go to sedonacamera.club.

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A Cauldron of Misconceptions: Sedona Enquirer
By Sean Dedalus

Sedona, AZ — I don’t know what happened to the Publisher of Sedona.Biz, the once moderate and reasonable journalist, Tommy Acosta. Or maybe I do. He must be pulling our leg.

In Mr. Acosta’s last Opinion piece, Cauldron of Chaos, Acosta pins together a necklace of current events and concludes we are on the verge of a “cosmic reckoning”. Acosta throws paint on the canvas with each hand slapping the slop on the imagination of the readers. He says in Georgia, a young college student jogging on campus was raped and murdered by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien. Shortly thereafter, Congress passes the Laken Riley Bill.

In Louisiana, Acosta points to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US Army veteran who killed 14 people and left 35 more injured after he drove a truck into a crowd on New Years Day.

In New York City Sebastian Zapeta, another illegal alien took out a match and set afire a sleeping woman to death on a Brooklyn subway. Meanwhile, up in Manhattan, the CEO of United Healthcare was shot in the back by Luigi Mangione an Ivy League graduate. Acosta also takes us to Colorado where the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua took over an entire apartment building.

Acosta is not finished as he suggests that Los Angelas County’s California looked like nine concentric circles of torment which constituted hell on Earth, as spelled out by Dante Aligheri.

Finally, Mr. Acosta draws our attention to the skies all around the world where US Black Op drones follow alien plasma orbs, while Joe Biden wears his typical dumbfounded look and mumbles that even though he does not know what is going on, there is no evidence of any danger to public safety.

Mr. Acosta warns American society is unravelling at the seams. He stops short of predicting the showdown between Jesus and the Antichrist. His Opinion reads like the script to The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock.

I am sorry to report to Mr. Acosta that there is no evil spirit spreading fear throughout America. That’s right. No evil spirit. Just greedy criminals and politicians. And very stupid politicians whose malfeasance borderlines on criminal conduct.

If we were to reflect as to events suggesting the end of the world we need only look back to World War II (1939-1945). Over 30 Nations were actually at war. Over 100 million people served in uniform. An estimated 70-85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the global population in 1940. On 6 and 9 of August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 286,818 people were killed.

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