Photography By Faith

01/23/2019

Here’s to our self worth and dignity for both horse and human x

05/09/2017

The saguaros are blooming on my land, and all around me. These were photographed a few days ago about 100 feet from my office window. I love many of the cactus blooms of spring in the desert here in Arizona and saguaro blooms particularly as they are held up high in a seeming tribute to their maker.

05/09/2017

Compadres
Saguaros in my "front yard"
May 3, 2017

04/28/2017

I attended an AZ Daily Star hosted class taught by John Kerr this morning. Fueling my brain with information, inspiration, conversation, hydration, natural nootropics and some protein boosted with antioxidants. Now, to blend motivation and inspiration with the information and make a sweet recipe and get cooking. 😉

04/17/2017

Buck Helton
Faces of Old Tucson
April 7, 2017

04/11/2017

Portrait of Michaela Ivey
Old Tucson 40717
Tucson, AZ

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03/05/2017

Old Tucson actor/singer/dancer Christina as Steampunk Sailor Moon at Wild West Con yesterday on the lovely old carousel. We shared a ride after I made a few images of her there. :)

03/05/2017

I went to Wild West Con at Old Tucson yesterday and spent a bit of time photographing, and mostly chatting with the folks and connecting with them. I planned to go today, but my pain level and exhaustion from yesterday's foray requires I stay at home today. (Recovering from auto wreck last April) This lovely lady, April, I connected with I found out lives in Tucson and we found some interesting things to talk about, and I taught her a few lighting and posing techniques. She was excited with this image SOOC (straight out of camera) and I feel she'll love this finished portrait. Hopefully, I'll be photographing her family soon.

02/28/2017

At WPPI this year, Sue Bryce gave an inspiring and powerful keynote speech. She's made it available free to anyone who wants to watch. Here's the link! The title is not the "full story." ;) and this is NOT "just" for photographers.

https://suebryceeducation.com/course/wppi2017/?giftlink&mc_cid=4cb7ff4e53&mc_eid=1b19e7196f

02/27/2017

© Lori Faith/Photography By Faith ®
The Art of Connection
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02/11/2017

My dear friends,

I just returned from a photography conference in Las Vegas where I spent time with photographers I've come to know and met some who I am positive I will be connecting with more as we go forward. This conference was very different for me than many I've attended before, as symptoms from the auto wreck I was in last April didn't allow for the same kind of experience as I've usually had (although, those experiences have been incredibly varied). I went there knowing that I'd be looking more to connect and network, inspire and be inspired and I was blessed with exactly this. A key was turned toward more hope in me, and I had many insights toward my life as it is now and as it is becoming. Creativity is key for me, and imagination is paramount in shifting my current paradigm. Much like in the Never Ending Story, imagination is required to create universes, physically and of the heart and soul. I am coming into new realities, of external forces that have and are affecting me and of deeply intimate conversations with my own be-ing, and while they can be frightening, those realities are also transformative ... and that transformation is fueled and solidified by imagination and how I put that imagination to work in creation. Love in action is the paintbrush I use to dance with the light, and I'm as curious and excited to see what comes forward as my loved ones are.

May you be blessed always in all ways, Lori Faith

This photograph was created of a very young Calvin Hampton (and a friend he was playing with), son of R.W. Hampton and Lisa Hampton, several years ago at Western Music gathering in NM.

11/07/2016

I got word today that Georgie Sicking has passed on. I will miss her insightful, savvy, and sometimes hilarious stories about her Cowboy life. Yes, Cowboy...Georgie always said that Cowboy is a verb. She is in the Cowgirl Hall of Fame and she told me a coupe of times she would have liked to be in the Cowboy Hall of Fame. I wish I could've stayed with her for a couple of months and written a coffee table book about her life's memories. Ride the good horses, Georgie!

Here is one of the blog posts I wrote about Georgie: http://alightdancer.com/2009/04/21/the-cowboy-and-the-grey/

Georgie Sicking was born in Kingman, AZ in 1921. Through her very exceptional life she has lived passionately and strongly as a wife, mother, mustanger, cowboy poet and Cowboy. Yes, COWBOY…don’t call this gal a CowGIRL. In her world, cowboy is a verb…as in “to cowboy.” I photographed Georgie in Florence, AZ when she was 87 year old on a horse borrowed from a friend. Georgie scrambled up on a horse trailer fender and her horse moved over close to her. She climbed up into the saddle and off we went into the desert. With each stride, the hoofbeats seemed to synchronize with Georgie’s heartbeat and the years dropped off her as she sat straighter in the saddle. I felt blessed to photograph her, witnessing this true Cowboy on her new fuzzy flea-bit friend. This image has been painted by Anne West, featured at CowboyPoetry.com as an Art Spur piece titled Heading Out, and accompanies Georgie's exhibit in the Ft. Worth Museum of the Cowgirl. Georgie just had her 90th birthday!