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The World Turns Under the Sun

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The World Turns Under the Sun

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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At the time, in any location on our planet, when the sun is sinking in transit from day to night, all the species of plants and animals prepares for their nocturnal or diurnal missions. Diurnal, to sleep, and dream of love, life, and events untold coming from the events of the past day. Nocturnal, to rouse, take stock, touch, feel, taste the blood coursing through the veins, to live again.

Here we stand, at a point of decision. We can look at a moment and decide. Shall we live, or shall we sleep?

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Under the Stars at Quivira Basin

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Under the Stars at Quivira Basin

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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I love the stars in this image. … It is so nighttime, still and quiet. You can hear every gentle groan, squeak, and rub, in the Basin, because there are so few noises of movement as the water barely moves in its small variances.

People are asleep in some of these boats. This place is, home and work, for those few living another life just a few feet from others of us that live on land. Even while they are at dock, they sync to the tides, and the stars, while we sync to the clock.

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Craig’s Hat and Poem – Craig Noel Memorial Party

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Craig’s Hat and Poem – Craig Noel Memorial Party

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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Craig’s Poem
by Deborah Taylor

I don’t know what to tell you

“The rest is silence,” like the poet said

Tell me how to love the theatre again

Tell me how to love stage again

When his hand led me to the wings

When his voice led me to the lights

When his heart led me to that Poet.

You know the one-

The one who wrote, “Now cracks a noble heart”

“Good night sweet prince”-

Our prince is gone

Our king

Our teacher

Tell me how to break the silence

roaring in my head.

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Horses on Del Mar Beach

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Horses on Del Mar Beach

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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This little section of beach is part of The San Dieguito Wetlands Project in the San Dieguito River Valley. The project will take 150 acres of coastal wetlands back in time, to when life flourished in the river valley.

It is also where horses can run in the water, and where I caught grunion with my family, as a boy. It is a place of people, kites, volleyball, and dogs. You would like it there. I do.

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Black and Yellow

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Black and Yellow

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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San Diego is a beautiful city as most people see it. But, it has many nooks and crannies of beauty seen by very few.

Fiesta island, is one of those beautiful places that are hidden from a casual view. The island is ringed by a road that is frequented by cyclists in their drive for healthful exercise. Between the road and the interior of most of the island, stand berms, artificial ridges of heaped earth that hides the islands center from the casual view of those just driving around the island. You have to stop your car, get out, and walk past the berms to the magic of a Southern California spring.

I walk there with my dog quite often. It is a very dog friendly place for off leash walking. In this image, my dog Gypsy is having a very good day.

You have to hurry down there to see it, because it is our spring, and it does not last long.

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Turning a Page

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Turning a Page

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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“Moving on,” “Turning a Page,” “Times change,” What is happening today, is not yesterday.

It could be time for a good read, or it could be time to put to good use what we have already read.

For me, I study life in my images, and try to capture tiny moments that tell a story. Like I used to teach my students, “When writing a story, each sentence, paragraph, image, whatever is part of the story, must be complete in and of itself, it must have a beginning, a middle, and an end, so that the reader, or the viewer loses nothing if they move on to something else.”

So, today I am making myself take those statements more seriously to heart. … From today, I will strive to make every image story timeless, and complete. … Yet, I will also strive to ask my viewers, with my works, to want to revisit my visions.

That is my version of giving the audience what they want, while having them also, wanting more.

Moving on, but come back tomorrow.

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The Combat of Metal Horses

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The Combat of Metal Horses

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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The last desert trip was full of cool sights. … Some of them are semi-frozen in time.

I caught this image as the earth was turning, bringing the sun lower to the horizon, watching the shadows growing longer. This little moment is frozen.

But, the horses are rusting. The color of rust makes them beautiful, specially beautiful in the ruddy light of a low sun, but it is rust, and being rust it is an indicator of decay.

All things have a lifetime. These horses are just past the prime of their lives. As long as they are able, they are committed to being in this fight for a very long time.

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Women, Of Two Ages

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Women, Of Two Ages

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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It is cold today, even as the sun shines without clouds it is still cold. I look towards the summer when the beach is populated again. When people blossom out of the whole cloth of winter, and toast their bodies in the warmth of the sun.

In California, cold is relative, and relatively speaking, not very cold at all. … Still, I wear a jacket.

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San Diego Fine Art Society – Hollywood Ball – A group of Friends

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A group of Friends

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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I think all the people in this image are friends, or work together. At least they know each other through each other with just one degree of separation. … Maybe it is only in my mind. … 😉

Anyway, I was shooting some images of guests, and just before I shot this image of the group, I saw these two women sitting in the dark area of the third floor at Anthology in San Diego. It was the soft light on the red hair that caught my eye.

I then asked them out to the patio area to shoot an image with some of the city in the background. And everyone came along. I had not seen them as a group before I asked the two women for a new location, but as soon as I did, it became this wonderful group on the patio. Of course the women are beautiful, but I also find it interesting that the man with the martini, has no socks.

The Red Carpet Set

The Set with Lighting

Playing in the Street Set

And the set of the interior of the Anthology during the event.

And here is the link to
San Diego Fine Art Society

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Pondering Beauty

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Pondering Beauty

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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Spring in the desert of Southern California is full of beautiful things.

This particular Friday evening, was no exception when I went for a ride with a friend to the desert. Warm winds moved the branches, and hair, but did not chill the body. It was evening, and the sun was very low, creating long shadows, and a little later, as the sun dropped behind the mountains, no shadows at all.

I have several favorite images of the evening, but I always come back to this image of Jenivive looking at this large, and beautiful Ocotillo.

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A Wonderful Evening – S.D.F.A.S. Hollywood Glamour Ball

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A Wonderful Evening

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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It was a wonderful evening, and the image editing is moving along. … There are one hundred and fifty newly edited images from the evening of the San Diego Fine Art Societies Hollywood Glamour Ball.

I think you will like some of these very much.

There are still more to come, and as these images are being placed on the server, I am editing the other sets that will be going up tomorrow.

All the images will be reachable from this location.
The San Diego Fine Arts Society galleries.

The Red Carpet Set

The Set with Lighting

Playing in the Street Set

And the set of the interior of the Anthology during the event.

And here is the link to
San Diego Fine Art Society

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Concourse d’Elegance – Greystone Mansion – Beverly Hills, April 11, 2010

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Vintage Palm Beach Ferrari

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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The Concourse d’Elegance at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, was a great learning experience with my friend Lois. I learned some things about showing my images to crowds of people. … I sold nothing … But I earned a thousand things that I had not had before. …

I learned that most people like the work I do. They would stand for quite a bit of time and just look at my images, asking a question now and then. … I learned the young people, very young people, would walk by with their hands in their parent’s hands, and say, “Wow! That’s cool.” Even the other artists liked my work, and wondered why they had never seen me before. … All that felt really good.

And a magazine asked for a submission of three images, along with a short article for publication. Great!

And I chose this green Palm Beach labeled Ferrari as the image to go with this post because I think the car is beautiful.

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Yellow Flames on Red Rod

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Yellow Flames on Red Rod

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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Sunday the 11th, I will be at the Greystone Mansion Concours d’Elegance in Beverly Hills. I have some framed images and a bunch of prints that will be available.

Saturday, I will be loading in my setup from one to five pm. Then the place will be locked up until Sunday morning. You should check out some of the cars that are going to be there. … With any luck, I will be able to make some contacts to shoot another set of images!

Later.

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DeTour Salon – Encinitas, California

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DeTour Salon – Encinitas, California

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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I used to live in Leucadia, Solona Beach, Del Mar, and a couple other places along the coast. One of the places I worked was “Beach And Town Liquor,” a store in Encinitas. So whenever I am coming from somewhere North, towards home in San Diego, I take the beach route, Pacific Coast Highway, old 101, just to look at my old haunts.

This evening I noticed a very pretty addition to Encinitas, next to the place where I used to work. The new place is The De Tour Salon, in Encinitas. I stopped and hauled out some camera gear and took a couple shots of Encinitas. This image is one of the Salon.

The Salon was using a different image that I shot that evening for their Facebook page.

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Abstract of Downtown San Diego, by night.

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Abstract of Downtown San Diego, by night.

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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Sometimes, “You cannot see the forest because of the trees.” Meaning that you are too close to the small details of the larger subject that the small details obscure the big picture.

When someone is telling you that you are too close to something to see it clearly, then the time is here for you to back away from the subject and look at the subject from a distance, gain a new perspective, open your eyes to the new vision, get out of the rut.

This image is a rut changing new perspective vision of San Diego.

Also, sometimes fuzzy logic is better than a clear vision.

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Surfers Shower – A Gentle Rain

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Surfers Shower – A Gentle Rain

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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A shower is always nice, be it a Surfers Shower, or a rain across the land.

The soothing water washes the sand and salt from the surfer. A gentle rain washes the settled dust, and grime from the plant leaves and streets. Rain feels good on the leaves of plants and on the flesh of mankind.

This young man, leaning against the post that supports the shower, is completely relaxed, content, in love with this moment in his life. The not cold, not hot, water courses through his hair, and down his wetsuit, creeping into all the nooks and crannies of his body.

I think I will go take a shower now, lean against the tile, and let the water warm and wash me clean.

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Heading West

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Heading West

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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Heading West is not just a direction on the planet, it is a direction for the future. …

Horace Greeley did say this, “Go West young man, go West!” But, he lifted the intent from John B. L. Soule, an Indiana journalist, phrase, “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country”

To me, Heading West is heading to the future. In this image it is a railroad track leading to clear blue skys, out from under a dark cloud. … But, the track is set, you cannot vary from a track. With luck, our track will lead mankind to the stars.

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The Little Boat That Could

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The Little Boat That Could

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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In the past, I have been feeling like this little boat, continually working my little effort, and not seeing much change.

But lately, things have seemed to be moving forward. Once my little boat finally started the mass moving, it is still moving, and all the continued effort seems to be additive, and the movement is accelerating.

Toot, Toot. Throw some more coal onto the fire!

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A Finch on a Flower of Green

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A Finch on a Flower of Green

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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Spring is here. Go outside and stand, very quietly, for ten minutes, listening. I just heard, what must be hundreds of, birds singing in every direction my attention was focused. What a wonderful sound.

This image is from the Huntington Botanical Gardens in Pasadena. In the image is a little red headed House Finch for you to compare colors. The flowers are that color green, and beautiful.

This is in the cactus gardens, and they have separated planted areas of these kinds of flowering plants. Each of the areas has flowers of one color. Blues, greens, yellows. … Of them all, the blues and the greens caught my eyes most.

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Two Dogs, Two Shadows, Footprints, and the Sea

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Two Dogs, Two Shadows, Footprints, and the Sea

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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One day a friend, Margaret, called. She wanted to take her dogs for a walk on Coronado Islands Dog beach.

This is an image from that day. … Two happy dogs walking, and playing on the beach.

You can see; it was a beautiful day.

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The Dancer With Lively Eyes, as the Lonely Boy Watches

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The Dancer With Lively Eyes,
as the Lonely Boy Watches

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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This is one of my favorite images. Here, we are at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park, San Diego, on the occasion of the Organs 90th birthday.

These dancers were part of the celebration.

The young woman looking at the camera point of view is the only girl looking our way, and she is smiling, proud, happy, dancing for us. I was lucky enough in framing the one young woman against the only birthday balloons that were flying stage left. In the background, through the window, peeks someone. I choose to see the person as a small boy that yearns for the dancer’s heart, but it could, just as easily, be the Instructor, Choreographer, watching the movements of her pupils.

Either way, I love this image because of the eyes of the young woman. You should really view the larger size image to see the emotion of the young woman.

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Dead Tree in Peutz Canyon

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Dead Tree in Peutz Canyon

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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I love colors. We see with colors. The world is colorful.

This little canyon along interstate “8,” just a small distance outside San Diego, caught my attention one day as I was driving towards the mountains. It is the life experienced in transit that matters, not the target of the transit that matters most. “Journey verses Destination”

By being open along the journey, I found this wonderful little place that captured my eyes for a short time. If I had been focused on the mountains, I would not have seen the trees.

I love life, and the travels.

Enjoy what I have captured in transit.

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Medelyn and Almario Alde … and Family

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Medelyn and Almario Alde … and Family

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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When I shoot weddings, I shoot with a team of three photographers. Patricia Cabezas, Cameron Gary, and myself. … This is one of the images I shot of the gathered family. …

Honestly, I shot a thousand images, and I am sure Patricia shot that many as well, so we have a lot to choose from.

I love weddings. Everyone is always super nice, and it was the same with this wedding.

Congratulations Medelyn, and Almario!

And a little Nerd Speak . “Live long, and prosper!”

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The Walt Disney Concert Hall – Los Angeles

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The Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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The Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by architect Frank Gehry, is designed to be one of the most sophisticated concert halls in the world.

It is that, and more. Frank Gehry designed a concert hall wrapped beautifully in stainless steel cladding that stands, glistening in the sun, fending off the elements as if it could stand a thousand years watching, as Los Angeles grows around it. I love this building.

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Man Using Sextant – Huntington Beach

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Man Using Sextant
Huntington Beach

[by Jack Foster Mancilla]

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Why do I talk about a sextant today? I have always loved tools. And a sextant is one of those magical tools of the mariners, but that is not the whole reason.

Most people know the sextant as a tool to find ones latitudinal location on the planet, it does do that. But practically, it is a measurer of angles. Usually, it is seen used in the upright vertical position measuring the angle of the sun, or a star by navigators of the ocean, but it can also be used horizontally on its side to measure the angles between known things, like a couple mountain tops, to find a precise location on the planet.

So this posting is really about location. … My location, where am I going, and what am I doing?

Today, I am thinking about this sextant, and plotting my course for my future in photography. … I could use a few hands along the way. … And for all my friends, “Fair Winds and Following Seas.”

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