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Geometry and Mystery

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A village in Gujarat, India 2005 I remember the days when I couldn’t tell my good photographs from my bad. In my first semester of photography class I asked the teacher to choose for me when I had to print. … Continue reading

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Jewels of the Orient

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 Uzbekistan 2012 Turquoise tiles set in geometric designs cover the more than 500 year old mausoleums in the necropolis of Shah-i-Zinda. I cropped my image, saturated the colors, and used Topaz Impression to get this painted look. I wanted to … Continue reading

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Bagan: Black and White

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Bagan, Burma 2011 One of my photography teachers would not shoot with color film. He said the colors didn’t look natural. I remember that when I can’t get the colors to look right and then I try the shot in black … Continue reading

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Flower Market

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Delhi India 2009 Photos from the Delhi flower market. When you are on a photo tour, you will stop at places like this even though it is high noon and the Indian sun blasts a white light over everything in … Continue reading

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Blue Filter

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Mongolia 2014 An eagle hunter captures his eagle who is reluctant to let go of his kill. I used a blue filter to accent the blue color in the eagle’s feathers and didn’t want to stop there because I liked the … Continue reading

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Nature’s Rock Art

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Utah, U.S.A. 2013 I’m always happy when I look through my old shots and see “gold”. Sometimes it takes some work in Photoshop to bring out the gold but I enjoy every minute of it. Memories come to mind of … Continue reading

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Niger: Wodaabe Ceremony

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Niger: Somewhere near Agadez The Wodaabe are nomadic. The elders, women and children set up camps and send the young men out with the cattle. They men stay with the cattle until the grass is sparse, then the camp is moved. … Continue reading

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Kerala: Faces in the Crowd

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Kerala, India 2009 The crowd was mostly women. They covered the hillside, crowding under the lone shade tree, waiting for Theyyam to appear. I looked for a group of women who would give a sense of the atmosphere at the temple. I … Continue reading

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Thinking Graphics

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India 2009 I forget what we did that first morning in Delhi but after lunch we walked over to the Qutub Minaret. And there it was, right in the middle of the park with the mid-day Indian sun blasting down … Continue reading

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A Bowlful of Pearls

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Burma 2011 I learned from Lisl Dennis that a wide angle lens is the lens of choice for market shots. The wider the better and if your lens is a zoom then you’re ready for any close-up situation. Lisl showed how  … Continue reading

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