12.7.10 Photographing Innate Wisdom

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In my backyard there is a woman and maybe her baby on the fringes of death for something as basic as dehydration, that’s why.  I …

11.29.10 Photographing Divinity

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As soon as you accept Your Own Divinity, you will love what you see. You will see the Magnificence of Your presence.  You will see the beauty of …

11.25.10 Photographing the Land of My Childhood

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It’s Thanksgiving and I just polished off a bowl of black beans with hatch green chilies over a bed of fresh, raw spinach.  Guapo rested …

11.11.10 Photographing Authentic Asana Yoga

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Like I have said before, I was raised by musical hippies.  Religion was not enforced upon my growing-up self.  Finding my authentic and artistic being, however, …

11.4.10 Photographing Unconditional Love

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Some People are dog people.  Some are Cat People.  Some are Horse or Parrot or Snake People.  I was born a “Dog People”. My first …

10.31.10 Photographing a Day of Fall Color and Love

Fall in Sedona

I love puffy down jackets.  I love them so much that as soon as I hear it is cold somewhere, ANYWHERE in Arizona, I promptly …

10.29.19 Photographing The Musical Tribes

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Some people are born in clean, white hospitals.  I was born on a bean bag chair in my mother’s house on a record hot day …

10.27.10 Photographing my Pot-Luck Tribe

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My name is Yari Bangoura, and you do not know my story.  I was born into a Lucky-Pot.  It was an old, well seasoned cast …

10.20.10 Photographing a Child Born into Drum and Dance

A Child Born into Music and Dance

The first time I met Maisha she was safely and warmly curled up inside of Heidi’s belly like a little kangaroo in Taos, New Mexico. …

10.14.10 Photographing The Jungle of My Spirit

Jungle Leaves, the day before.

The first time my feet landed on her, The Rich Coast de Costa Rica was in 1998.  I was 18 and it was almost my …

10.13.10 Photographing the Re-Defining of the Word “Goddess”

Yoga Goddess in her Home

Do you believe that one’s realities is shaped by one’s beliefs?  Do you know how powerful you, the person reading these lines, are?  Do you …

10.10.10 Photographing a Son who loves his Mother: For Real.

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I know Robert as Swami.  I know his mom as Mom.  I know Swami because we have a very deep and common passion-love: West and …