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Ha Long Bay: a digital silkscreen

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Viet Nam 2005 The light in the scene ranged from deep shade to bright sun. I was shooting slides or positives which have less range than film. Photoshop came to the rescue and turned the scene into the fantasy I … Continue reading

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Anthropomorphic

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 1992 Definition of Anthropomorphic: Giving animals human qualities In those days there was a huge wooden barn on the outskirts of Lancaster where Amish farmers bought and sold horses. The Amish needed draft animals such as Percheron and … Continue reading

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Siem Reap in Mid Afternoon

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Siem Reap, Cambodia 2011 Rays of sunlight penetrated the jungle canopy. I took my cue and decided to print high key. This smoothed the texture of the pock-marked stone that has been damaged by centuries of lichen growing on the stone … Continue reading

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Procession in Rome

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Rome, Italy 2015 Priests led the procession of the Blessed Sacrament down a narrow street to another church only a block away. First came priests wearing cassocks and sandals holding their prayer books, then priests clad in cassocks and the … Continue reading

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Ghana Boy

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Ghana 2003 Oops! I got some lens flare. Maybe if I’d had a lens shade, the glare of the sun on my lens wouldn’t have made that distracting circle of light. It’s twice as bad because it overlaps the boy’s face. … Continue reading

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On the Banks of the Niger River

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Mopti, Mali 1997 The patch-work sail billows over a pinnasse loaded with firewood headed to the market of Mopti. The man in front watches for submerged mud banks that could ground his boat. In the rear another man holds the tiller. The … Continue reading

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Rome: View from the Forum

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Rome, Italy 2015 Every where we looked that last evening, the light was soft and beautiful. I took several shots of this scene. And I’m glad I did because in one of them I cropped in too closely and cut … Continue reading

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Inscrutable

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Yangon Burma 2011 An orphan peers from a window in the old monastery/orphanage. There is a hint of friendliness but at the same time his face betrays no feeling. He didn’t duck back into the shadows as did his companion. … Continue reading

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In the Andes

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Cusco, Peru 2004 I hired a boy of about 13 years old to show me around the market in Cusco.  He liked the market as much as I did. The menu at his house was meager and  as I shot my photos, … Continue reading

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River Town on the Niger

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Mopti…Niger River Town 1997 There weren’t any other camera toting tourists the afternoon I sat on the banks of the Niger recovering from my migraine. The women going about the business of washing the family’s laundry or bathing themselves took … Continue reading

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