Posted on February 6, 2010 by patitucciphoto
“I want to go for a walk with my camera this morning.” My waking thought.
Like each year, I take a break from making photos. Come early November, the camera gets put into its bag and only re-emerges when the time is right. Apparently that time is now, and it does feel right.
Outside our home is a small chapel, a place for the spiritual to go and spend some moments in silence. I do this, not for religious reasons, but because it is a symbol of something, something special and well taken care of so we may all use it for the purpose we each require. I thought about what it is to see things, and to make images of them. How incredibly beautiful I find life, especially the things we humans are capable of doing within the natural world.
As the day began to lighten, and with clouds still thick in our valley, I took my walk. With open eyes and an open mind, I looked a little closer at where I live.
As I arrived, one candle was lit and glowing in the window
There is no lock on the door, the chapel is open to everyone
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Posted on December 24, 2009 by patitucciphoto
If you have landed on our PatitucciPhoto Blog, welcome. We seem to use this site more in the spring through fall seasons when we are shooting non-stop. These days, and throughout the winter, we’ll primarily be posting images and stories to our Mountain Sport Site: DolomiteSport.
We invite you to head over to DolomiteSport for our Mountain Sport Photos; Gear Reviews, Trip Reports, Stories and the writings of our many guest contributors.
PatitucciPhoto’s Blog will resume when the time is right. Happy Wintering…
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Posted on December 7, 2009 by patitucciphoto
This week’s photo is meant to make our friends laugh. The absurdity of this photo is especially apparent to anyone who knows us.
In 2000, Janine and I were in Kodiak, Alaska. A walk in the woods or the beach is something best done armed. So with my handy six shooter, and Janine with her sawed off shotgun, we set out to explore the whales roaming the shoreline. Our friend Lynn Noel snapped the photo of us in our best Bonnie & Clyde stance. Yuck it up folks.
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Posted on November 25, 2009 by patitucciphoto
This week’s Photo is inspired by cold, coziness, snow and friends. All of which many of us are trying to combine this Thanksgiving Holiday week.
We find ourselves in Moab, Utah and are fortunate enough to have been offered dinner with some new friends we met only a week ago. We’re staying at an amazing little B&B called the Cali Cochitta who’s owners, Dave and Kim Boger have been incredibly wonderful as hosts, and it is with them that we will be enjoying the holiday. Traveling is a reminder of how many great people there are in this world, and for this we are thankful this year.
Also for our amazing friends, who regularly shine with kindness and generosity. You all make traveling about so much fun to check in with or meet up for some playtime.
In 2008, along with 18 friends, Janine and I went to the Fairy Meadows Hut in Canada. There, completely isolated in the backcountry, we startled hibernating animals with our laughter emanating each night from the comfort of the warm hut. Friends, warmth, good food and drink – great stuff to look both back on and forward to.
From Janine and Dan – Thanks to all our friends and friends to be – Happy Thanksgiving.
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Posted on November 20, 2009 by patitucciphoto
Janine had the camera today and exactly twice I heard her yell, “Stop!”
And so I did, and these were her two takes. One classic Moab scene and one funky fun. Both, this week’s Photo of the Week – to make up for missing last week.
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Posted on November 16, 2009 by patitucciphoto
Almost exactly ten years ago, a rickety old VW Westfalia pulled into Moab. Its owners had no real plan as to what they would do, they just knew that things would fall into place. The length of their stay would depend on how things went, how they liked the area and how they found the community. With no home but the van, life was free and easy, the days would be full of mountain biking, climbing or trail running. If it rained they would sit it out in some cafe, making friends and plans for when the sun returned. Life was good.
Today a Subaru with mountain bikes on the roof rack pulled into Moab. Like the VW, its owners have no real plans, they simply know that things will fall into place much as they always do. The length of their stay is also undetermined, it depends on how they like Moab and how they find the community.
The people are the same in both these cases and they are of course us. After not having really been on a road trip in several years, we are marveling at how little has changed in terms of who we are. I drove along singing off key back then and I sing along off key still today. A road trip is a road trip, it offers a “take it as it comes” lifestyle and serves as a mirror reflecting the difference the years have made.
In these years we have built a successful mountain sports photography business – which was our goal upon arriving to Moab so long ago. We bought a home in Bishop, California where we lived for many years until deciding to get a second home in Europe, where we now spend the bulk of our time.
While making our way back to Utah, we have had numerous reminders of what we have done with our business. Numerous mountain shop visits along the way had us continually confronted by our own work; as store displays, posters, in magazines, hang tags, and catalogs. Finally it culminated in seeing the current Runner’s World on the reception desk of our B&B as we checked in, a Runner’s World in which we have a two page spread.
Janine (x2) alongside a Deuter Packs poster
We have worked extraordinarily hard in the last ten years and this journey back to our roots has revealed where we have taken our business and how we feel about it. This trip is neither a beginning or an end, it is simply a moment within the process in which we find ourselves.
We are excited at the coming months of being on the move, we have no idea where we will go, what we will shoot or whom we will meet. Life is still free and easy and it is most certainly still good.
Janine (x2) at Patagonia's San Francisco store
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