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Wheel of Time
Monks from the Namgyal monastery create the sand mandala known as the Wheel of Time or the Kalachakra at the Watts Towers Arts Center in Watts, a community of Los Angeles, California. More about the Kalachakra here http://www.buddhanet.net/kalimage.htm
Melva, a community member contributes to the sand mandala.
photograph copyright, Ana Elisa Fuentes
Photographed using Fuji RDP medium format slide film
Honoring Don Calamar
Today I honor and remember with love the life of Don Calamar, a combat photographer and Silver Medalist who survived the Invasion of Normandy also known as D-Day. Don, was my first photography and photojournalist instructor and sometimes father figure. I remember his soft spoken manner. Don taught more by example. He was unrelenting kind. I remember this the most about him.
His later years were devoted to family, photography instruction, alternative energy, and peace activism. Don was a positive influence in my life.
Always the educator, on one occasion after a family meal, Don and his wife Pat, were so excited to share with me how they prepared our dinner. Guiding me to their backyard for cookies and tea, like eager school children, they unveiled the solar cooker they constructed in their garden backyard.
Don was one of the founding members of Santa Barbara Veterans for Peace and Arlington West.
I am so very grateful to have had a person like Don in my life, especially as a guiding force in my photojournalism career. Thank you for reading this tribute; a testimony to how one life can make an enduring difference in the lives of others.
I miss his goodness. 
A September Summer Evening
If I could talk to the animals
…. then they smile back at me
Image copyright Ana Elisa Fuentes
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Photojournalists Scramble to learn video, is it Worth it?
Your truly was recently featured in an article published in NPR Media Shift written by creative maven Amanda Lin Costa. 
Freedom Summer: Remembering Carolyn Goodman
In the summer of 1964 three young men, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman campaigned in Neshoba County Mississippi to register, educate and inform African-American in their right to vote. Their volunteer efforts were part of the civl rights movement taking place that summer known as the Freedom Rides, and/or Freedom Summer.
Chaney then a 21 year-old African American from Meridian, Mississippi, Andrew Goodman a 20 year-old Anthropology student from New York, and Michael Schwerner, also from New York, a 24 year-old social worker and CORE (Congress on Racial Equality) organizer.
It was during this summer that the three young Civil Rights workers were slain by members of the Ku Klux Klan with the assistance of the local police authorities.
Their disappearance and loss spread quickly throughout the country and an immediate investigation was called by the FBI. Their loss of life galvanized the country and was pivotal in the creation and passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Above is Carolyn Goodman, the mother of slain civil rights advocate Andrew Goodman, with an unidentified woman during a memorial to the Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer and the lives of the Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner.
In 1988 the film Mississippi Burning was released.
Photographs from this freelance assignment were recorded on color negative film, published in the Washington Post and will be featured in my upcoming exhibit, “Women’s Empowerment: A Global Perspective.” Photographs are copyright Ana Elisa Fuentes, and are maintained in my personal archive
From the Nobel Field
The Nobel Field, a luminary homage to Nobel Peace Laureates, past and present, the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway.
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Jazz has always been an important part of my life, integral to my life, just like photography. Just like cycling. Just like tea. Put the two together and it brings a lot of happiness. I use to be the kid that would stand outside the clubs to hear, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Gabor Szabo. I just liked the music. Years later with a drivers license and the right to vote, I was very fortunate to have photographed for a small club in exchange for entry. The Jazz Hall brought the kings of jazz to an intimate setting. The night I met and photographed jazz drummer Elvin Jones, I thought I died and went to heaven. Simply known as the Jazz Hall, it was a gem of a club, in my hometown. But, when Chick Corea assembled a quartet, for the Tribute to Bud Powell tour, a change of venue was necessary. These photographs were recorded on Tri-X film during the bands sound check and later during their performance. Chick Corea on piano, Roy Haynes on drums, Christian McBride on stand up bass, and Wallace Roney on trumpet.
This image added on Tuesday September 7, 2021.
I kept my promise and made prints for the Jazz Hall. Had I not done this, I would have lost this moment forever. The art, music, and jazz community would have lost this record forever. The photo negatives had been intentionally destroyed. This was a heart shattering experience for someone like me who trained traditionally in the darkroom. Whose training in deadline includes cooking your film for one minute, putting your film in the enlarger wet, caption to printing plate/press under five minutes.
The good news is that I’m really happy to have made and kept this community thread. While it’s not the negatives, it’ a digital record of a print. It’s party of my history and community posterity. A treasure comes back.
As for the Jazz Hall, welcome their new incarnation. Who knows maybe my photo with Elvin Jones will come back! Elvin Jones , playing drums with John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, “In A Sentimental Mood” It was so lovely to hear Elvin Jones play the drums to this tune while he was alive.
All photographs in this post copyright Ana Elisa Fuentes. Photographed using Tri-X film at Victoria Hall.
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