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Patterns and Tones Turns 2!

February 9, 2013 Patterns and Tones was born Wowwie, two years already! How can it be? The little photo blog that could has been chugging its way into the world weekly now for two whole years. Sharing my vision with you has been an honor and a thrill. I have so many ideas and images in my arsenal, and I derive so much joy in presenting them to you and the world, that I can only see this developing into a life long adventure! I have been asked many times where the name of the blog came from. Patterns represent my Fine Art creations and Tones covers my love of photographing Rock n' Rollers. But the name actually originated from my a talent show my mother used to perform in as a member of her Glee Club when she attended Oakland Technical High School  from 1951-1955. The talent show was called Patterns in Tone.   I remember as a child going through her old scrapbooks and seeing the red cover of a Patterns in Tone program from 1954. The maracas, guitar, sax, trumpet and co...