You can read all Jack’s musings… Jackadandy. This is a portrait I did for her. We did after all go to kindergarten together 48 years ago. Seemed like yesterday… no really it seemed like yesterday HA !!!
Category: desert
Yellow Cactus Flower Pollen Explosion
This image came from a series of flower photographs taken in the Mojave Desert. Bringing this one into present time. If you want to see the rest of the series it is visable in the portfolio under flora at magentaRaven.
Beautiful male lover takes a swim.
Sometimes we shorten it to BML. But really there is nothing like exclaiming to your partner, “Beautiful Male Lover, let’s …make lunch” or whatever. I have found this term of endearment to be quite dear indeed… and so for a year and half I have been BML as well as having a BML. …anyway try…
Mail Art Call – protect desert wilderness with awareness
Mail Art Call – protect desert wilderness with awareness Dear Mail Artists and regular people, I invite your participation in a mail art call from desertWonderland. Just send a postcard depicting wildlife to desertWonderland and by so doing join forces with positive energies to express the wish to keep wild areas wild for wildlife to…
Fire Goddess
The flames that leapt forth from this fire created a beautiful fire goddess.
Beatnik Cafe in Joshua Tree
After spending a wonderfully productive evening in Yucca Valley at The Pottery creating buddhas and snakes from clay with my friend Maya, by sheer chance we went into the Beatnik Cafe in Joshua Tree to find that they were showing films. FRANK ZAPPA, in a film called Baby Snakes. What a treat. Alot of claymation…
Mosaic Workshop
Yes friends, it is time to sign up again for another incredibly fun weekend at my studio in Wonder Valley for a Mosaic Workshop. You can bring your own collection of special broken pottery and also use the amazing collection of broken bits in the “boneyard”. I will supply all the tools, nippers, grout and…
Gopher Snake
This is a dead gopher snake found on Hwy 62 in Wonder Valley, CA. It was already in this shape. Took it home in the back of the truck and layed it on the tiled table for it’s farewell photoshoot. Printed 30×30 canvas prints also a run of postcards, and some 12×12 matte prints.
Scorpion
Desert wildlife served up on a tile. Scorpions don’t hold much of a threat. They just look a bit intimidating. This photo was taken in 2003 in Wonder Valley. I did a run of postcards of this image as well as 12×12 archival prints. All images are available by contacting magentaRaven.
Vera in Wonder Valley
Who says nothin happens in Wonder Valley? Being in the middle of nowhere you get a lot of surprises. Vera came down a few years ago from San Francisco with his partner Michael Johnstone and we played campfire together. Marshmellows anyone?
desert iguana
Incredible desert iguana can withstand the hottest day and have been seen basking in 125 degrees. I have not seen my usual numbers this year. This is a photo from a few years back when I had the pleasure of tossing blossoms from the desert willow onto the sand for their eating pleasure.
Cactus Flower
Cactus flower in my courtyard here in Wonder Valley. This is part of a flower series that came from the best spring in 100 years here in the Mojave Desert. The rest of the flowers can be viewed at magentaRaven in the portfolio under flora. Most were printed on canvas 30×30 by IDavid GraFicks.
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