Greenwood Images
A Collection by Sonja
What to say?
Honestly I always hated the question - Where are you from? It presented such a dilemma for me. How much or how little did this person want to know? The whole story is too long for the expected basic one-word answers like Munich or New Jersey or Chicago or New Mexico or Las Cruces or Arvin or Santa Cruz or Davis or San Francisco.
I was born in Munich but my halting childish German is an embarrassment to my relatives who are still there. Ironically there is an issue about that too - the younger ones understand because they consider me an American and are proud that their excellent English is better than my German. The older ones would resent my calling myself German because they were from Marienbad and didn't consider themselves German either - but that is another story. (See what I mean) The major part of my childhood was spent in New Mexico and later in Arvin in the vast San Joaquin Valley of California. With one glorious 5th grade year in Chicago, that really woke me up to life’s possibilities. I have lived in San Francisco for more than 40 years now so this is where I'm "from" - now.
For the moment I am doing mostly digital photography. The "Galleries" and the "Walks" tabs above will take you to a sampling of my older stuff. The links to Imagekind and Zazzle will take you to more. I hope you enjoy them. They are meant to bring joy to your heart!
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