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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. -Sam Levenson


Milk
My great grandfather William Theodore Grund, called Billy for all of his adult life, started working in 1893 at age 15, as a clerk...

Jae Hodges
Jun 303 min read
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Boats at Honfleur, Reimagined (2024)
Honfleur, France (2024) It's been more than a year since I created this image. And still I keep returning to it. Edward William Cooke...

Jae Hodges
Jun 203 min read
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La Casa de Mi Abuela
I give a lot of thought to why I take the pictures I take, and the only consistent answer I come up with is that something catches my...

Jae Hodges
Mar 293 min read
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Beasts of Burden
The cart and the horse, harnessed as he is to ensure only the person with the reins is in control of his movements, stand ready. As you...

Jae Hodges
Feb 182 min read
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The Poetry and Composition of Still Life
Yes, friends, I am still here! I've been thinking about this one for awhile and am just now finding the space and time to put it to...

Jae Hodges
Feb 22 min read
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la Yglesia de San Jose
Much was changing in the village of Antonchico as it entered the last two decades of the nineteenth century. By then, the town boasted of...

Jae Hodges
Nov 22, 20244 min read
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Traditions
The word "tradition" literally means to hand over for safekeeping. I always thought of my grandmother as the keeper of the traditions,...

Jae Hodges
Oct 16, 20243 min read
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Autobiography
Two people gaze at a photograph--an open door to an empty room, a pair of shoes under the corner of an iron bedstead, a stack of...

Jae Hodges
Oct 10, 20243 min read
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Fantastic Beasts
If the first thing that comes to mind when you see Fantastic Beasts is the film series spin-off prequel of the Harry Potter novels and...

Jae Hodges
Oct 8, 20242 min read
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Scarlet Macaw
Let me be honest upfront--this is not a new photo. In fact, if you go back through my blogs you'll see this same guy pop up in 2020. It...

Jae Hodges
Sep 27, 20245 min read
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Bold Creatures
Book two of my animal portrait book project. According to Merriam-Webster, an animal is any of a kingdom of living things including...

Jae Hodges
Sep 23, 20242 min read
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Brilliant Birds
My grandson's first birthday is coming up, and I thought, there isn't anything that children like more than animals and bright colors....

Jae Hodges
Sep 17, 20242 min read
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The Chapel of St. Helen
There is a mission church at the edge of the village, on the road to the main highway almost dead center between Vaughn and Santa Rosa....

Jae Hodges
Sep 2, 20244 min read
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House in Auvers-sur-Oise
"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." Vincent van Gogh

Jae Hodges
Aug 18, 20242 min read
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Château d'Orquevaux
"Every moment is a window on all time." Thomas Wolfe As I prepare for my next artist in residence experience, I can't help but put it...

Jae Hodges
Aug 8, 20242 min read
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Searching for Chrétien
When I was notified that I'd been selected to attend the International Artists & Writers Residency in Orquevaux, France, my first thought...

Jae Hodges
Aug 6, 20243 min read
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Homage to My Sisters of Light
by Kelley Lannigan Inspired by my photo presented as "Conversations With Myself" and shown at the Becoming: The Feminist Image exhibition...

Jae Hodges
Jul 30, 20242 min read
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Shearing Shed
The building stands alone now, surrounded by a barbed wire fence from which even the laziest of sheep could escape. Beyond it the pasture...

Jae Hodges
Jul 26, 20244 min read
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Rearranging Nature
Tim Carpenter says, in his essay "To Photograph is to Learn How to Die, that intervention of the sort described by Flannery O'Connor as...

Jae Hodges
Jul 15, 20242 min read
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Sketchbook
"The camera is in some ways a sketchbook drawn in time and space, and it is also an admirable instrument that seizes life just as it...

Jae Hodges
Jul 8, 20244 min read
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