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Inside Gertrude Zachary’s downtown home

January 2nd, 2011 by Steven St John

Gertrude Zachary's home in downtown Albuquerque New Mexico...CREDIT: Steven St. John for The Wall Street Journal (Steven St. John)Gertrude Zachary spent her life collecting antiques and designing jewelry. Now she's living in her dream home in downtown Albuquerque...CREDIT: Steven St. John for The Wall Street Journal (Steven St. John)A small statue atop a table sits alongside pictures of Gertrude Zachary's grandchildren inside her home in downtown Albuquerque New Mexico. ..CREDIT: Steven St. John for The Wall Street Journal (Steven St. John)A view of the stairway an statue on the ground floor of Gertrude Zachary's home in downtown Albuquerque New Mexico. ..CREDIT: Steven St. John for The Wall Street Journal (Steven St. John)A gargoyle on the top level of Gertrude Zacharys house overlooks downtown Albuquerque New Mexico...((NOTE TO EDITORS: Technically, this is considered a grotesque, as it is a sculpture that does not function as a waterspout and only serves an ornamental function))..CREDIT: Steven St. John for The Wall Street Journal (Steven St. John)

I got a rare chance to peek inside local jewelry manufacturer and antiques dealer Gertrude Zachary‘s amazing downtown home recently for The Wall Street Journal. You can see the photos on their site here. If you’d really like to see more, double-click any of the photos above or follow this link to my archive where you can see the whole take. Big thanks to Jakob Schiller for helping with lighting. We had to move quickly, and it was a challenge with so many rooms, so many chandeliers. I’m just glad we didn’t break anything of more value than an old Nikon SB-28.

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Gabe + Angie Photo-Booth (Take your own dang photo)

November 18th, 2010 by Steven St John

This was the first time anyone took up my offer to set up a photo-booth using my pocket wizards at a wedding, but I doubt it will be the last. This is just a small sampling of the the fun photos that friends of Gabe and Angie made of themselves, 24 of my favorites, but there are so many more winners. You can see the rest by visiting my online photo archive where you can buy lovely square prints by clicking add to cart. The regularly scheduled documentary wedding stuff that I make will be the subject of another upcoming post. Stay tuned.

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Happy birthday America, adios Hector

July 5th, 2010 by Steven St John

Hector Mediavilla, center, is a photographer from Barcelona Spain, who spent the past few weeks traveling around the southwestern USA and Mexico after sharing his work at Review Santa Fe. July 4th was his last night in the states before flying home, so we made a picture to mark the occasion, a five second exposure using sparklers to do the light writing. Jakob Schiller is on the left, and that’s me on the right.

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Martha Burk

March 28th, 2010 by Steven St John

MARTHA BURKE

MARTHA BURK

MARTHA BURK

I got called this week to make some portraits to accompany a story for the New York Daily News for an article about Martha Burk as Tiger Woods prepares to return to Golf. Burk led a demonstrations during Masters week at Augusta National Golf Club in 2003 to protest their male-only membership policy. There are a few more portraits of Martha Burk in my archive available for licensing.

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