January 2008 update

In July of 2007, I relocated Arizona Image Is... to Bisbee, Ariz., a small town in the southeastern corner of the state just north of Mexico and just west of New Mexico. Bisbee, the Cochise County seat with a population of around 6,000, was the copper capital of the world at the turn of the 20th century.

Now a delightfully quirky artist community with a very diverse population, Bisbee is scenic, steeped in the history of the wild West and the climate is mild – a true photographer’s paradise.
 
Actually, the move to Bisbee was a homecoming of sorts. I first moved here in 1993, to become news editor for The Bisbee Observer and met my husband in the nearby town of Palominas a year later. But, I made many visits to Bisbee prior to moving here.

 My first visit was Halloween weekend of 1987 and I was hooked. Bisbee became my escape from rampant growth in Phoenix and offered endless images to capture.

Now that I’m back, I’m actually working for The Bisbee Observer again -- covering the city beat.

Just a few days after I arrived, I snapped an incredible picture of San Jose Mountain at sunrise. The clouds were inverted at the base of the mountain and the monsoons had painted the normally arid grasslands below a vibrant green. And all I had to do to find this image was walk out my back door.

 If you look at my photo gallery, you'll see images captured of the shrine nestled in the rocks overlooking Bisbee and Sulfur Valley from the west, rustic Hidden Valley near Deer Point and folks attending the 2007 Bisbee Blues Festival. 

Some of these images are on display in local galleries. Two of my images are currently part of the "Arizona  Asphalt" exhibit at PanTerra

Gallery on Brewery Gulch. San Jose Mountain, along with several other of my images, will be hanging in 55 Main Gallery by mid-March.
 

Ann Widmann,

Proprietor, Arizona Image Is…
 

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