Download or read book Coloring Metal Sculptures The Magical Works of Ricardo Breceda written by Diana Lindsay and published by Sunbelt Publications. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something magical about Ricardo Breceda's metal sculptures. Perhaps because they evolved from his little daughter's request for her father to build a dinosaur for her. Not many fathers would acquiesce to such a request. But his little girl was his princess and he aimed to please. He built the dinosaur and went on to build many more dinosaurs, horses, and elephants.His small menagerie caught the attention of millionaire Dennis Avery who commissioned Breceda to build 131 different metal sculptures scattered on his property in Borrego Valley with the most dramatic creature being a fantasy giant dragon that dives under the road and has a rattlesnake tail. The Borrego Valley sculptures have become a major attraction for Borrego Springs. Today, Ricardo's sculptures can be found scattered about southern California in such places as Twentynine Palms at the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park, Cabazon and the Palm Springs area, La Quinta, Norco, Temecula, Aguanga, Ocotillo Wells, Idyllwild, and even Jacumba. Now you can add your own magical touch to stagecoaches, Pleistocene animals, historical characters, dinosaurs, bighorn sheep, snakes, monkeys, and various other assorted animals.
Download or read book Lilian s Last Dance written by Christene Meyers and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a vivid history of film, we move across America and the Atlantic, across art, culture, technology, villains, good guys, melodrama, war, relationships ... in the company of an unforgettable cast.
Download or read book The Rebel written by Leonor Villegas de Magn—n and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rebel is the memoir of a revolutionary woman, Leonor Villegas de Magnon (1876-1955), who was a fiery critic of dictator Porfirio Diaz and a conspirator and participant in the Mexican Revolution. Villegas de Magnon rebelled against the ideals of her aristocratic class and against the traditional role of women in her society. In 1910 Villegas moved from Mexico to Laredo, Texas, where she continued supporting the revolution as a member of the Junta Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Council) and as a fiery editorialist in Laredo newspapers. In 1913, she founded La Cruz Blanca (The White Cross) to serve as a corps of nurses for the revolutionary forces active from the border region to Mexico City. Many women like Villegas de Magnon from both sides of the border risked their lives and left their families to support the revolution. Years later, however, when their participation had still been unacknowledged and was running the risk of being forgotten, Villegas de Magnon decided to write her personal account of this history. The Rebel covers the period from 1876 through 1920, documenting the heroic actions of the women. Written in the third person with a romantic fervor, the narrative interweaves autobiography with the story of La Cruz Blanca. Until now Villegas de Magnon's written contributions have remained virtually unrecognized - peripheral to both Mexico and the United States, fragmented by a border. Not only does her work attest to the vitality, strength and involvement of women in sociopolitical concerns, but it also stands as one of the very few written documents that consciously challenges stereotyped misconceptions of Mexican Americans held by both Mexicans and Anglo-Americans.
Download or read book Anza Borrego Desert Region written by Diana Lindsay and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its expanded 5th edition, The Anza-Borrego Desert Region offers complete coverage of the over 1 million acres of desert lands, including Anza-Borrego State Park, Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area (OWSVRA), parts of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, and adjacent BLM recreational and wilderness lands.
Download or read book Night Photography written by Gabriel Biderman and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a night owl looking to make stunning images of streetscapes, fireworks, or the night sky? Do you like to bend time with long exposure photography? Do star trails or lightning strikes inspire you? Then this book is for you! In Night Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, photographer Gabriel Biderman brings you the basics of digital night photography—exposure, composition, and light—and how to scout and capture different nocturnal locations once the sun goes down. Gabriel will help you understand the fundamentals and bring your unique artistic expression to any night situation. In this beautifully illustrated guide you will: Focus in the dark and master basic composition rules—and know when to break them Understand metering and switch to manual mode for more control over your exposure Set white balance, understand color temperature, and add flash or slow sync Explore color, light painting, and creative ways to play with light in your images Learn what gear works best for your style of shooting and strategies for operating your equipment in the dark Discover expert techniques for post-processing your nighttime images in Lightroom and Photoshop Beautifully illustrated with large, compelling photos, this book teaches you how to take control of your photography to get the image you want every time. And once you have the shot, show it off and join the book’s Flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/night_fromsnapshotstogreatshots
Download or read book Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles written by Marshal South and published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1940s, Marshal South chronicled his family's controversial primitive lifestyle on Ghost Mountain, in what is now Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California, through popular monthly articles written for Desert Magazine. This is the complete collection, along with never-before-published photos of the family.
Download or read book Ricardo Breceda written by Diana Lindsay and published by Sunbelt Publications. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artist has taken a primitive welding art form of Mexico to new provocative heights with his creation of more than 125 life-size fanciful creatures that conjure up the past and stoke the fire of imagination.
Download or read book Either Way It s Perfect written by Lenny Silverberg and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Either Way It's Perfect" is a remarkable collaborative work presenting 45 watercolor paintings by Lenny Silverberg of Noni Reisner, his beloved wife, beset by early onset dementia. Even as her health declined, she was able to share her personhood through her unique expressions--funny, witty, biting, playful, nonsensical, and deeply insightful. The combination of Noni's sayings and Lenny's beautiful paintings is a humanistic triumph. It is a visual memoir of a time of difficulty and sadness but also a time of loving and growth. To care for a loved one is painful and also enriching.
Download or read book Roadside America written by Jack Barth and published by Fireside Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trivia-filled odyssey across America that tells the reader, for example, where to see the world's largest twine ball and how to locate the Lawrence Welk museum.
Download or read book Coast to Cactus written by Diana Lindsay and published by Sunbelt Publications. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coast to Cactus: The Canyoneer Trail Guide to San Diego Outdoors is much more than a hiking guide. Written by the San Diego Natural History Museum Canyoneers, it is the new bible for really getting to know and appreciate the countys biodiversity while exploring firsthand. The guide has 250 hikes, each with its own map and photograph, hike description with mileage, elevation gain/loss, difficulty rating, directions to the trailhead with GPS, trail use, special features, and type of habitat(s) found on each hike. Each hike has a focus on a species or natural/cultural history feature associated with that hike.
Download or read book Wisconsin Death Trip written by Michael Lesy and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik.
Download or read book Anza Borrego A to Z written by Diana Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete list of historical references ever assembled for Southern California's Anza-Borrego area. Includes detailed maps of Split Mountain and Coyote Mountains and 750 entries about this spectacular desert.
Download or read book Coloring Plants Used by Desert Indians written by Diana Lindsay and published by Sunbelt Publications. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a period of thousands of years, Native Americans experimented and learned how to use plants to provide virtually everything they needed to survive. Their environment became the local grocery store, drug store, hardware store, and department store to provide needed food, medicine, tools, and materials to make clothing, kitchen tools, hunting equipment, regalia, toys, and adornments. Desert Indians are particularly blessed with an environment that provided the greatest diversity of plants that could be processed for a variety of uses. This book has 40 key plants that desert Indians primarily living in the Sonora Desert of Southern California, Baja California (Mexico), and Arizona have used for centuries. Many of the same or similar species are found in the Mojave Desert of Southern California and parts of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, and also the Great Basin Desert of California, Nevada, and parts of Utah, Oregon, and Idaho. Use of the plants by the various bands is similar although the language and cultural differences among these people are very diverse. The commonality for all is the continuing importance of key plants to provide necessities of everyday life. The Color and Learn series will help you learn about these plants as you apply your creative art strokes to bring the plants to life.
Download or read book San Diego County Victorians written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic overview of great variety, which covers Victorian-style homes throughout San Diego County. The author/photographer has included all style types, from architect-designed to beach houses, summer cottages, and farmhouses; from the affluent to the working-class home.
Download or read book Night Photography and Light Painting written by Lance Keimig and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lance Keimig, one of the premier experts on night photography, has put together a comprehensive reference that will show you ways to capture images you never thought possible. This new edition of Night Photography presents the practical techniques of shooting at night alongside theory and history, illustrated with clear, concise examples, and charts and stunning images. From urban night photography to photographing the landscape by starlight or moonlight, from painting your subject with light to creating a subject with light, this book provides a complete guide to digital night photography and light painting.
Download or read book Bighorns Don t Honk written by Stephen Lester and published by Bobolink Media. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bighorn sheep can leap from ledge to ledge and only need two inches to land. They run fast, swim and have some of the best eyes in the animal kingdom. Their fights sound like thunder. They live in the mountains and in some of the hottest places in America. All the fun facts about an American West fixture with fun to read rollicking verse and hilarious illustrations are in this book. Bighorn region: British Columbia past California to Mexico and eastward to North Dakota. For Ages 4-8.
Download or read book Dasha on the Trail written by Gwynne Margaret Bruck and published by Sunbelt Publications. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dasha on the Trail is a hike through Southern California's rugged landscape as seen from eyes and snout of a lighthearted pup, Dasha. She sniffs out animals on the trail like mischievous ravens and her leash-free cousins, the coyotes. She longs for freedom but knows a tame dog might not know all the tricks of this untamed world.
