#astf2018 :: through my lens

Farting around with Adobe Spark...click on it right in the middle of the image and then use the scroll bar in the resulting new window to scroll down...real slow like...a little goofy...like I said...farting around...




Or, here's the entire album on my flickr account...click on the image to click through to the album/set...then look for the "toggle slideshow" icon upper right...

Something I saw on the way home one day...

photo by alex.tango.fuego...click on the photo for the large size...

Titled "Driftwood, Texas"...

Or is this better? Or just different? I'm not sure what I think about "fine art" photography always expected to be black & white...for me, the yellow sign in the distance and the red gas pump "make" the photograph...in the black and white version, those two elements are lost...

Something I saw on the way to lunch...

Photo by alex.tango.fuego...

No crop. No retouch. Just stick my head out the window (on the way to grab lunch), compose in the frame, and snap. Okay, so I did underexpose in manual mode to blue up the sky a bit. But no post-processing whatsoever.

Signs of the times...

Have you noticed lots of vehicles "for sale" on the roadsides?

I can understand a man selling his Suburban. I can understand him selling his 14 cubic yard tandem dump truck. I can understand him hiring his tractor out.

But his dozer? Times must really rough when a man is backed in to a corner tight enough to force him to sell his dozer. Sad.

I'm not sure if it's a Cat or a Komatsu. I'll check next time I drive by.

P.S. The fog is supposed to connote 'impending doom'...

Grasshopper on a 2x4...

Guess...?

Photo by Alex.Tango.Fuego...

Bra on chair :: Oye Como Va

Missing the Denver Fest

The Denver Tango Fest's outdoor/bbq milonga is today...at the Cheesman Park Pavilion...and I am missing it...and many of my friends, old and new.

I'm also missing some special tangos with special women in Miami at their Memorial Day fest.

I'm missing the Milonga a Media Luz in Atlanta tonight due to ongoing transmission troubles.

I'm missing the Milonga Pavadita tonight in Dallas.

I'm missing the long running Sunday night practica at Tapestry Dance in Austin.

I'm missing tango...

Too much tequila last night...

A photo...

Hi, my name is Alex, and I have a foot fetish....

Holy shit...

Click here or on the photo for the large version...

Ever since taking up tango...and it just get worse and worse as time passes...shoes, feet, calves, legs, smooth skin, little fuzzy blond hairs glinting in the sunlight...it all pretty much fucks me up in the head...

Green eyes...

For ms. hedgehog...her eyes are very light green...

Tangoleva :: A plug

Do you ladies know about Tangoleva? It's a tango-centric clothing company based in Santa Fe. The owner is Anne Leva Midón. Her husband is Jorge Midón of Jorge Midón Productions. He was/is the producer of the shows by Miguel Angel Zotto's TangoX2 dance company. There was a show in NYC in the past year or so.

Anyway, Anne's clothing booth was there at the Atlanta Tango Festival, but not Anne herself unfortunately. I am still patiently awaiting an opportunity to dance with her. Seeing her stuff there, and then reading a post today on Tango-L by Janis Kenyon (that she has some items in BsAs for viewing/sale) reminded me about my own personal Tangoleva "collection".

That's right. I am a man who owns Tangoleva. And I am man enough to admit it to the world. I have a good excuse - because I am a photographer "in my spare time while I'm resting". Sometimes photographers have to buy their own wardrobe items for photoshoots, right?

Below are the results of a photo shoot I did in Denver a little over a year ago. Actually two shoots with this same model. Everything except the white corset is Tangoleva stuff. The black skirt with the ribbon & d-ring lace up in the back, the black corset (killer), the black lacy halter top, and the white pants are all Tangoleva. She also has this kinda fuzzy stretchy lacy floral fabric that is really really nice. Almost like stretchy velvety stuff. Can you tell I like it?

Thanks to Gaia the tango goddess of The Tango House in Denver for the use of several pairs of Comme il Faut's for this photo shoot. (Gaia is a great source for Comme il Faut's.) Although the pair with the tribal scroll on the heel are mine. A man never knows when a pair of size 9 Comme il Faut's might come in handy.

So be on the lookout for Tangoleva at your next tango festival. In my mind, Tangoleva is the clothing equivalent of Comme il Faut shoes. Well made, rich sumptuous fabrics, nice designs, nice stuff. Very nice.

And now I'm sitting here wondering if I should press the "publish post" button...normally it is the lady/bloggueras posting about women's clothing...oh well what the hell...here goes...

Here is her website :: Tangoleva

Here are my photos from the shoots ::

A good example of why I love hips...

From a photo shoot I did a little over a year ago in Denver...

Only memories remain...

A Photo

I took this at Town Lake (now Lady Bird Lake I suppose) this morning...

Monument Valley at 50mph

Here are a couple of shots I took in Monument Valley (Arizona) yesterday...driving 50-60 miles per hour...pulling a trailer weighing around 4000 lbs....rolling the windows down as needed... for shots out my window I brace the camera (Nikon D-200 with battery grip) on my shoulder...for shots out the passenger window, these are a bit more difficult...stiff armed...arm extended...sometimes steering with my left knee...the trailer only fishtailed once...I never stopped or slowed down...due to time constraints...that's what makes the photos more interesting for me...

Also, you will note that these are very atypical Monument Valley photos...

More on my brief run through the Navajo Nation in another post....

Enjoy....

Merry Christmas from Aspen

Merry Christmas to all of you, especially my new blog/tanguera friends...Happy Holidays to you and yours...here is a link to my Christmas message I sent out to my family and friends....http://www.alexlongphotography.com/index.pub_files/MerryChristmasfromAlex2007.htm

The Universe :: Winter Solstice

The winter solstice is just a few days away...I took this photograph on a hike up the mountain last night, under the pale moonlight.

Life :: 2007 World Snow Polo Championships [Aspen]

I just walked over and took a few shots of the first chukker. This is the shot I like the best. This is one of the nice things about Aspen. There are things to do here that you don't see anywhere else in the world. It was 14 degrees farenheit. This is Nacho Figueras - a Polo Ralph Lauren model & polo player for the RL sponsored Black Watch Polo Team. (FYI, I'm back here for a few weeks concluding some business, and packing up some of my final things.)