A Girl
The tree has entered my hands,
The sap has ascended my arms,
The tree has grown in my breast-
Downward,
The branches grow out of me, like arms.
Tree you are,
Moss you are,
You are violets with wind above them.
A child – so high – you are,
And all this is folly to the world.
by Ezra Pound
Fisher man, originally uploaded by Jeff Frazier Photographs.
Lake Geneva shore from Montreux Switzerland. 2009
Deep Purple made Montreux famous with their song “Smoke on the Water”, which tells the events of 1971, when a Frank Zappa fan with a flare gun set the Montreux Casino on fire.
“ We all came out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline / To make records with a mobile – We didn’t have -much time / Frank Zappa & the Mothers were at the best place around / But some stupid with a flare gun burned the -place to the ground / Smoke on the water, fire in the sky.
I met John while exploring the alleys and canals of Venice Beach California , he was sitting on a bench just outside the muscle beach workout pit . He is a hulk of a man and I was intimidated to say the least, but I just had to get a shot of this guy. I started taking some shots from a distance and as I did he looked up and saw me..uh oh. I thought my camera was about to be inserted into my body along with his fist. Out of his mouth came the voice of an angel, asking me if I wanted some shots of him posing..of course!
I love Southern California and the people there. They are my people. It just feels right.
If you look close you see the word “Participant” on his neck medallion.
Swiss bro, originally uploaded by Jeff Frazier Photographs.
My good friend Jean Saxod . We have some incredibly inspired conversations during our many walks through out the city of Bern. Jean compels me to ask myself the deeper questions. Space,time, all that good existential stuff, accented with our astute observations of the breath-taking variety of females that crowd the arcade in the old town.
He is a cool cat.
Roosevelt Audrey of San Bernardino California, originally uploaded by Jeff Frazier Photographs.
I used to run into Roosevelt as I walked to work. He was always hanging out at the park across the street from where my apartment was in down town San Bernardino. He had this great voice that reminded me of some character actor from the 60s who played in Putney Swope. At the time, I was working as a lab tech and part time photographer for the San Bernardino Sun-Telegram in California. It was my job to process and print the film that was sent in everyday by the photographers and reporters in the different news bureaus through out San Bernardino county. From Barstow and Victorville to Loma Linda. San Bernardno is the largest county in the United States, so there were several news bureaus of the paper scattered throughout. I would receive an average of 30 rolls of film a day to process, edit and print for the following days edition..I also was able to produce my own stories in the form of Photo-essays, we would call them ‘picture pages’ , self initiated stories that would fill a whole page of the local section. The full time staff photographers at the Sun-Telegram were recognized as the top newspaper shooters in California at that time (1982) , for a young guy just getting my feet wet in the world of photojournalism it was an amazing training ground.
Einsteins living room, originally uploaded by Jeff Frazier Photographs.
Kramgasse 49 in Bern, Switzerland where Einstein stayed at the time of his annus mirabilis (“extraordinary year” 1905).
Einstein and his first wife Mileva Marić lived within these walls in the period between 1906 to 1909 and it is thought that the initial concepts for the general theory of relativity were germinated within this cozy abode. The four articles contained with-in the theory contributed substantially to the foundation of modern physics and forever altered our understanding of the physical world.
Doc in Santa Barbara, originally uploaded by Jeff Frazier Photographs.
A writer friend who used to tell me storys about the newpaper business up in New York during the 50s and 60s. Dont remember much about him..he was an original though..he lost his life in divorce and headed west in a Voltswagen van, I think it was one of the Westfalia issues.. He used to come in to the doughnut shop that I worked in. I would ply him with French Crullers and bottomless joe and he would tell me his many storys.
I ended up using him in some of the school projects I was working on at Brooks. He was happy to be in Santa Barbara working as a Parking lot policeman and writing storys for the local weekly.
Deir el-Bahri Luxor Egypt 2009, originally uploaded by Jeff Frazier Photographs.
This is the approach to Deir el-Bahri.
The same temple discussed in the image below. The walls of the surrounding cliffs are full of crypts and tombs.
The focal point of the Deir el-Bahri complex is the Djeser-Djeseru meaning “the Holy of Holies”, the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut. It is a colonnaded structure, which was designed and implemented by Senemut, royal steward and architect of Hatshepsut (and believed by some to be her lover) .
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