Classical Gas Museum Valve Handles Canvas Print

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Hey. It may be junk, but it's art to me. A somewhat re-touched (ok, very re-touched) photograph of a collection off old gas valve handles observed amidst the artifacts to be found at the "Classical Gas Museum", Embudo, New Mexico. Hwy 68 on the way in (or perhaps on the way out) of Taos, NM.

As a kid I was fascinated with photographs. Look. Life magazine. National Geographic. That well-captured interplay of light and shadow...the notion of people, places and moments - all suspended in time. My first "real" camera was a Minolta Srt101. I was seduced. As a teenager, I learned to develop film while working at Wyle Laboratories in El Segundo. I still recall the smell of the developer, my eyes adjusting to the red filter light, and the sheer magic and delight of watching images begin to emerge. Life, family and a career as a teacher and psychologist intervened, not to mention a few more film cameras. Eventually, there was digital. Liberation! Photography is the creative medium that has allowed me to share personal ...