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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. -Sam Levenson
Jae Hodges
Nov 22, 20244 min read
la Yglesia de San Jose
Much was changing in the village of Antonchico as it entered the last two decades of the nineteenth century. By then, the town boasted of...
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Jae Hodges
Oct 16, 20243 min read
Traditions
The word "tradition" literally means to hand over for safekeeping. I always thought of my grandmother as the keeper of the traditions,...
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Jae Hodges
Oct 10, 20243 min read
Autobiography
Two people gaze at a photograph--an open door to an empty room, a pair of shoes under the corner of an iron bedstead, a stack of...
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Jae Hodges
Oct 8, 20242 min read
Fantastic Beasts
If the first thing that comes to mind when you see Fantastic Beasts is the film series spin-off prequel of the Harry Potter novels and...
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Jae Hodges
Sep 27, 20245 min read
Scarlet Macaw
Let me be honest upfront--this is not a new photo. In fact, if you go back through my blogs you'll see this same guy pop up in 2020. It...
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Jae Hodges
Sep 23, 20242 min read
Bold Creatures
Book two of my animal portrait book project. According to Merriam-Webster, an animal is any of a kingdom of living things including...
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Jae Hodges
Sep 17, 20242 min read
Brilliant Birds
My grandson's first birthday is coming up, and I thought, there isn't anything that children like more than animals and bright colors....
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Jae Hodges
Sep 2, 20244 min read
The Chapel of St. Helen
There is a mission church at the edge of the village, on the road to the main highway almost dead center between Vaughn and Santa Rosa....
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Jae Hodges
Aug 18, 20242 min read
House in Auvers-sur-Oise
"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." Vincent van Gogh
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Jae Hodges
Aug 8, 20242 min read
Château d'Orquevaux
"Every moment is a window on all time." Thomas Wolfe As I prepare for my next artist in residence experience, I can't help but put it...
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Jae Hodges
Aug 6, 20243 min read
Searching for Chrétien
When I was notified that I'd been selected to attend the International Artists & Writers Residency in Orquevaux, France, my first thought...
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Jae Hodges
Jul 30, 20242 min read
Homage to My Sisters of Light
by Kelley Lannigan Inspired by my photo presented as "Conversations With Myself" and shown at the Becoming: The Feminist Image exhibition...
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Jae Hodges
Jul 26, 20244 min read
Shearing Shed
The building stands alone now, surrounded by a barbed wire fence from which even the laziest of sheep could escape. Beyond it the pasture...
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Jae Hodges
Jul 15, 20242 min read
Rearranging Nature
Tim Carpenter says, in his essay "To Photograph is to Learn How to Die, that intervention of the sort described by Flannery O'Connor as...
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Jae Hodges
Jul 8, 20244 min read
Sketchbook
"The camera is in some ways a sketchbook drawn in time and space, and it is also an admirable instrument that seizes life just as it...
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Jae Hodges
Jun 25, 20242 min read
Self Portrait with Things
I don't believe in coincidence. A month ago I started an on-line workshop called Photography to Get to Know Yourself. I thought this...
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Jae Hodges
Jun 20, 20242 min read
Inventory
My next assignment for the workshop, Photography to Get to Know Yourself, is called Inventory. Using photography, we're to inventory...
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Jae Hodges
May 19, 20242 min read
Escaping Discomfort
So, I'm doing this photography course and the latest assignment I tackled was Expression Photo. Ask yourself a question, then observe the...
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Jae Hodges
May 19, 20243 min read
Contemplating Chanel
My grandmother use to keep a round flat mirror on her dressing table...On the mirror on her dressing table she collected perfume bottles.
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Jae Hodges
May 10, 20243 min read
Eye to Eye
The Tate Galleries define abstract as "art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of visual reality but instead uses...
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