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Anne Schmitt has been doing graphic design, photography, illustration, copy writing, project design, and other forms of commercial art for the better part of forty years. "After moving back to my childhood home in the White Mountains of Arizona, I decided to concentrate on the parts of the creative process which make me the most happy. Nutrioso is a small town on the side of Escudilla Mountain in east central Arizona that still has much of the rural lifestyle and access to the wilderness that I treasure. I started with “The Mogollon Gazette,” a publication which featured the culture, history and nature surrounding us in this most exquisite part of the southwest. Writing about memories and current interactions made me take more and more photos of the area. Then noticing that the only cards in the area were left over postcards from 1963 and only presented motels and paved main streets of the various towns, I realized I needed to take the pictures I would want people to take home from here. The Mogollon Gazette had a great local following. Due to health problems I retired that paper a couple years back. However, the cards I produced with the local scenery were a hit. I kept taking photos. Recently, community issues surfaced that needed to get out to all the folks in our small town. I printed an old-fashioned broadsheet to put out for everyone to read and discuss. The Occasional Gazette will be just that – occasional. I was going to try to do it weekly but have decided that onthly is more my speed. When there is enough that wants to be said that is of concern, or at least interest, to our area I will pull together an edition to put around town. The photo galleries were born out of the many photographs I began to accumulate during my travels around the state. Many of Arizona’s small towns have changed in my lifetime from thriving towns to skeletal remnants of themselves. Photos of what remains of these places and the cultures that made them over the past hundred years are my way of acknowledging the greatness of their vanishing lifestyles and history. Many photos are of the open space that is the largest part of Arizona. This is also disappearing along with the rural towns. Expansion from the urban areas has enveloped many communities and changed them from self supporting agriculture communities into expanded suburbs and resort areas for people with no tie to the land they are buying and transforming into a bland and lifeless existence. Rural lifestyles are becoming a thing of the past and I am trying to document it before it disappears. This focus of photos makes up the largest section of my gallery. I hope you enjoy this site and come back in the future. I have ideas for some fun things I want to do here... including regional items for sale, history articles, antique art from the Southwest, and much more." "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail." "I try to increase the power God has given me to see the best in everything and every one, and make that Best a part of my life . . . No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." — Helen Keller— |
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