Sue Reynolds New Book of Pow Wow Photography

Sue Reynolds has recently published a new compilation of stunning photographs of Native American Pow Wow's titled "Proud People". As the title implies, the book is full of images which capture the emotion, excitement, beauty and color which is such a part of the tradition of Pow Wow's. Sue took the photographs at a variety of events over the last few years.

Sue will have copies of the book for sale at the NCFC Flute Festival this Saturday, April 26, 2008. Be sure to stop by the NCFC/NoNahme booth at the event for information about Sue's book, to browse a copy and to meet Sue personally.

Here's some other examples of the spirit and emotion captured by Sue's work: http://www.susanreynoldsphotography.com/nativecelebration/nativecelebration.htm

Awesome online sound clips of Central American flutes

Clint Goss sent me this link to a set of instruments housed in the Princeton Art Collection. The link shows pictures of several clay flutes and ocarinas, along with a map of where they originated in central America. There are sound clips for each instrument.

Link: http://princetonartmuseum.org/Jaguar/jaguar.html

Moaning Cavern - Pictures of the cavern itself...

Although Mary Youngblood was the "human star"of the Moaning Cavern event, even she'll admit that the real star for the evening was the cavern itself. If you've never had the opportunity to visit Moaning Caverns, it's a real treat. In the first photo above, you see the "Draperies", which form on the walls of cavern. They look soft, but they're "hard as a rock"...

This photo is a wonderful stalagmite on floor of the cavern. It looks small but its more than 20 feet tall from top to bottom. There are no stalagmites or stalagtites in Moaning Cavern which have reached from the floor to the ceiling. The cavern is too young and too tall. If my memory serves me right, the stalagmite above took over 200,000 years to form...

This is a photo of the "Chocolate Waterfall". It's a flow which reaches down the entire side of the cavern from the landing above the stairs. It's brown color comes from the iron which is present in the ground water seeping through the cavern.

Thanks to Norma Swain for sending me these photos

More Photos from Moaning Caverns

Rocky took some great photos during Mary Youngbloods event at Moaning Caverns. He was running around taking photos from some different perspectives during the event and he has posted some of these photos on his Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrockla/

Thanks Rocky!

Problems with NCFC Flickr Pool

I noticed that there is some problem with the publication of pictures to the NCFC Flickr Pool that I set up. I am trying to resolve this with Flickr support. BUT - I did realize that the photos which I have published on my personal Flickr site can be seen by non-Flickr members.

Here's the link to my Flickr photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/naflute

I will continue to add historical NCFC photos from my digital archives in the coming months.

We'll get things resolved the NCFC site, as I am working to set this up so that all of the NCFC Flute Circle Leaders can publish Flute Circle photos in one place.

New NCFC Flickr Photo Pool

I created a Flickr Photo Pool for the Northern California Flute Circle. This is your photo pool, so please feel free to join the Flickr group and upload your favorite photos from past NCFC-related flute circles, concerts or events.

Here's the link: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ncfc/

If you have photos from Mary Youngblood concert at Moaning Cavern last weekend, I have created a set of photos from this event. Please add your photos to this set.