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Happy Birthday, Mary Farace. Today I’m celebrating your birthday with a collection of images from during 43 plus years together, plus one of you with your Mom and Dad that was made well before we every met.

As most of you know by now, I’m not a landscape photographer but when I do shoot landscape I have my own way to approach this genre.

Living in Colorado, it gets cold during the winter and occasionally snows and sometimes there’s lots of snow. If I lived in my wife’s home state of Florida I’d have a different way of choosing locations for shooting ;portraits than I do working here. For much of the year I shoot most of my portraits and glamour images in either my home studio or an outdoor location that’s close by. So maybe I’m lazy too.

Back in the early days of our marriage—we’ve been marries 43 years—Mary would stop by The Tattered Cover’s former basement bookstore and pick up books she thought I was interested in reading.

“Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn’t make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.”—Ernst Haas

The classic definition of macro photography is that the image projected onto the film plane or digital sensor should be the same size as the subject. At a 1:1 ratio, a DSLR or mirrorless camera with a full-sized chip should have the ability to produce life-size magnification and focus on an area as small as 24×36 mm.