"In the beginning, God created..." As I was privileged to make these photographs I was overwhelmed by omnipotence of the Lord's imagination. I pray that with the addition of verses from His Holy Word, the photograph's visual message will impact your Spirit with awe, wonder, and thanksgiving for what He created for...YOU! And most important, how much He Loves...YOU!
Get Excited!!!
In 1969, photojournalist, Dallas Kinney, began a two-and-a-half-month migration to visually document the men, women, and children of this nation's oldest migrant farm worker "stream."
For his efforts, Kinney was awarded a 1970 Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism, and the first annual "Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award. The Pulitzer Prize was the first awarded for a series of photographs.
What follows are the results of Kinney's Visual Voyage into the lives and spirit of a proud people, published via an eight-part series for the Palm Beach Post, entitled "Migration to Misery."
Flowers by God!
“And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these” Matthew 6:29 (KJV).
We know, according to Genesis 1, that in God’s great plan, flowers were logically down on His creation list.They were preceded by heaven, earth, seas, and dry ground. But in Genesis 1:12 we discover that after creating everything, including vegetation, “God saw that it was good.” I’m convinced flowers had to be a visual catalyst for that declaration.
Look around and tell me that God doesn’t love His firmaments, mountains, oceans, trees, etc. Now I know “God is love,” so I’m not sure if He bothers with degrees of love, but if He does, I suspect that the flowers He created for our multi-seasonal visual pleasure carry a very special love message for each of us. The reason for this portfolio is to exhort you to never overlook these visual and olfactory blessings, for they are from the creative mind and hand of God…just for you! Get excited!
Blessings,
Dallas
The Earth Laughs in Flowers
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I confess, I've too often coveted new vistas, new landscapes for visual stimulation when, paraphrasing Marcel Proust, my quest was to be fulfilled by truly and simply "seeing" and being blessed by what was in my most immediate landscape. I pray this series of photographs from our backyard will motivate you to discover the fact that...as I'm assured Adam and Eve affirmed in their "garden"..."God Loves Green!"
The Burr Trail is a scenic backcountry route extending from the mountain town of Boulder down through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument into Capital Reef National Park and then to Bullfrog in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The route covers about 68 miles. The Burr Trail takes adventurous traveler into some of Utah's most beautiful and extraordinary country. It affords extraordinary views of the Henry Mountains and lower Capital Reef country. It provides access to incredible hikes in contorted landscape like The Gulch, The Circle Cliffs and the Waterpocket Fold.
This portfolio was inspired by my wife, Martha, who lived and worked in Madrid for five years as a journalist for the Efe News Agency. I took her to Madrid to celebrate her birthday. She, in turn, gave me a tour of "Martha's Madrid." My photographs were made in various colonial Madrid neighborhoods that Martha had called "home."
Mission San José de Tumacácori is a historic Spanish mission preserved in its present form by Franciscans in 1828. Mission San Cayetano del Tumacácori was established by Jesuits in 1691 in a different location, as has been discussed by Seymour (2007b) who has documented and excavated this original native site and mission location. After the O'odham rebellion of 1751 the Mission was relocated to the present site on the west side of the Santa Cruz River and renamed; it is here that the first actual church structure was erected. The Mission is located in present-day Tumacácori National Historical Park, and is open to the public daily.
San Xavier del Bac Mission
Mission San Xavier del Bac is situated in the Santa Cruz Valley nine miles south of Tucson, Arizona. Framed in the warm browns of the surrounding hills and the violet shadows of more distant mountains, it rises, brilliantly white from the desert floor of dusty green mesquite and sage. The imposing dome and lofty towers, the rounded parapets and graceful spires etched against the vivid blue complete a skyline with a graceful enchantment.
From the earliest times, the Tohono O'odham settlement in which the Mission is located was called Bac, "place where the water appears," because the Santa Cruz River, which ran underground for some distance, reappears on the surface nearby.
The celebrated Jesuit missionary and explorer, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, first visited Bac in 1692. Eight years later in 1700, Father Kino laid the foundations of the first church, some two miles north of the present site of the Mission. He named it San Xavier in honor of his chosen patron, St. Francis Xavier, the illustrious Jesuit "Apostle of the Indies."