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Omo Valley, Ethiopia 2013 I’ve received some very important corrections from my Ethiopian friend, Osman Ahmed of Sora Tours…www.soratours.com Osman informs me that my blog of today was totally incorrect from the tribe’s name to the sex of the child … Continue reading
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Burma 2011 A young Buddhist nun turns her beautiful face to the light…a serendipitous shot from an afternoon’s shooting in a Yangon monastery. Don’t stop shooting until you’ve left the premises is my advice. In Photoshop, I increased contrast and added a layer … Continue reading
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Ethiopia 2013 My husband and I once saw a gallery exhibition of Irving Penn’s photographs of West African people. They were stunning. Most of the women seemed to be from the Mandingo tribe of Mali. Their extravagant dress, made of many … Continue reading
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Ethiopia 2013, Somewhere in the Omo Valley Three Hamar men attend a ceremony celebrating a young man’s entry into the rank of warrior. The event is called a “bull jumping” and the candidate, who has been circumcised recently, must take a running jump and leap … Continue reading
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Ethiopia, 2013: Hamar Tribesman We waited for our dugouts to take us across the river to visit the Dassanetch Tribe. Did you learn about dugouts in grammar school as I did? I can still remember Sister Jane Mary discussing the virtues … Continue reading
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Rangoon, Burma (Yangon, Myanmar) 2011 This was shot in a monastery in Rangoon. The young nuns lined up to receive a special lunch and no doubt their anxious expressions betray their fear that nothing would be left for them. I … Continue reading
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Bucharest, Romania 2012 I had a couple of days in Bucharest after saying good-bye to my guide, Daniel Gheorghita (http://www.covinnus.com/index.html). It was Easter weekend and almost everyone was spending the religious holiday with family and friends. I walked the deserted neighborhood streets … Continue reading
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Uzbek Market 2012 I first learned this market shot technique in a book written by Lisl Dennis. She demonstrated with a photo of some Andean Indians standing by their table with goods to sell. The two were unaware that Lisl had … Continue reading
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Bokhara, Uzbekistan 2012 I’d learned Scott Kelby’s technique for shooting panoramas and decided I had the perfect subject with the huge walls of Bokhara. Scott has an unusual technique, which is to shoot verticals and not horizontals. Of course, you … Continue reading
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San Francisco, California 2012 Years ago, every time we visited San Francisco, the weather was cold. Often it was overcast. I was always glad to get home to warm Southern California. Last year, when we visited we had warm, almost … Continue reading
