Mystic Women of Salem

FABULOUS   NEWS!!!   
The  "left side adventures" is now COMPLETE!!!

Additional info:  For the first time a LUNAR PORTAL has been photographed during the "Left Side Adventures"!!!  Cannot wait for everyone to see it!

The last snow storm on February 5, 2014 has given me the exact "look" that I was waiting for! Although we have had several snows...they just did not produce that heavy wet snow that sticks to roofs, the ground, and everything in it's path.  I have been to Pioneer Village numerous times before, during, and after snow squalls and storms...but I just was not satisfied with the "look"...until now.  The Director of the Witch House and Pioneer Village (Elizabeth) was kind enough to try several times to coordinate the snow shoot with me. HOWEVER...when you are depending on the "Mother" to produce a certain type of storm sometimes she most definitely has other ideas and plans.  Thanks Elizabeth, for trying!

Hence guerilla shooting called into play yet again.  Only this time I was in deep...as in almost thigh high snow just inches from the snow/ice filled Atlantic Ocean.  JEEZ...what I will do when that camera is strapped on (and having sense is NOT a part of it)!  BUT...I always get the shot.

A couple of days after the shoot, during editing, I caught these two unusual shots.  The black mass appeared on the left side and then again in the center (you can see the shadow on the snow that the mass caused).  During this time I was doing rapid fire shooting...no mass before or aft these shots.  Seems that every time I shoot at Pioneer Village and the surrounding area unexpected guests and creatures present themselves.  It is truly a place of power and I suspect some residual type activities are going on as well as some long term residents' making themselves visible from time to time.

The "Left Side Adventures" has been a phenomenal success.  The last seven months have been a real roller coaster ride.  The shoots have been challenging, scary, dangerous, satisfying, and most of all SUCCESSFUL!  The bar is set so high by the women of MWS project and every shot that is adjacent to the portraits is equally as beautiful, mystical, and as artistic as the women themselves.   We have unexplained tiny lights, shadow people, graveyards that have unexplained "studio" lighting, creatures appearing, once in a lifetime "cyclone aftermath" sunsets, and the "Breath of the Dragon" (this is a type of heavy fog...VERY different than the usual fog - once you experience it, you will always know it).   Salem most certainly did not disappoint.

I will be sending out a special invitation to the MWS ladies to view the "Left Side Adventures" gallery when the images are complete.  These photographs will not be seen on Smugmug, Facebook, or this blog...they are on reserve for publication ONLY...hence, all the secrecy.

Will update you again with all things MWS...what a long, strange trip this has been !!!   R :}