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Dreaming Strange Dreams....

Posted by: ViewFinder  Do you remember your dreams often?  I do not.  The morning of December 12, I awoke from a very confusing dream filled with vivid images and components that seemed to be very significant as if my dream were trying to tell me something.   I was trying to get into a  conference  center to photograph Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife while they were speaking to a young group of girls about high school age.  The girls were dress designers and at a youth fashion design conference.  I was walking down a long hallway that curved.  Lining the hallway were dresses on the display mannequins, all different colors and styles.  One dress stood out it was  a one shoulder dress,  black with a small white floral pattern and a flower  above  the chest made out of the same material of the dress.  In the center of the flower was a sparkling black jewel.  This dress was very impr...

West Valley Police Shoot and Kill an Unarmed Woman in November... Still Not Talking.

November 2, 2012 Danielle Willard was shot and killed in an incident involving two undercover Detectives with the West Valley City Police.   The following day Danielle's roommate, Krystal Harrison and her mother Melissa Kennedy both confirmed that Danielle had struggled for quite some time with an addiction to heroin.  Krystal stated that Danielle had just experienced a relapse in her addiction and believed that drugs may have played a role in her encounter with the undercover detectives that took her life.  I took a moment and looked through Danielle 's Facebook page.  I found a young woman who enjoyed the beauty of the world around her and photographing it.  She was loved by family and friends, she was creative and stunningly beautiful.  Danielle was from Vancouver, Washington and had graduated High School in Gresham, Oregon.  She liked a variety of things, including Spiderman, tattoos and piercings, and the book "Just for Today Meditati...