Category Archives: Travel

Nomads on the Asy Plateau

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Asy Plateau, Kazakhstan 2016 Kazakhstan is the third largest country on earth. Talk about wide open spaces. That is why this photo is so small.  I wanted to get the herd and yurt in the photo, so I couldn’t zoom … Continue reading

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Fortress on the Neva

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St. Petersberg, Russia Another shot from the tour bus window. But with Photoshop, I can make it look as if I were standing on the bridge as another day dawns. I used Nik filters and Alien Skin’s Exposure X. I … Continue reading

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Hungarian Horses

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Hungary 1989 I’ve shown this photo before. You can click on the link to read about that day. http://www.rosemarysheel.com/archives/horse-power-in-hungary I’m showing it again because I’ve worked on it and made it more to my liking. It has less of an … Continue reading

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Fez, Morocco: Water Seller

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Fez, Morocco 1995 I love this vintage travel poster look! If only I could get all my photos to work the way this one does. But they won’t. I used Alien Skin’s Snap Art to get this effect. It wasn’t … Continue reading

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Caucasus Village

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Caucasus Mountains, Georgia 2016 You can tell we were at about 8000ft because of the lack of trees. It is cold in Ushguli. For six months of the  year the village is blanketed with snow. The people were hardy. The men were … Continue reading

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Life on the Armenian Road

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Armenia 2016 It was fall when I visited the Caucasus. And a common sight were the huge herds of sheep and other livestock moving down the center of a modern highway. This was a situation where a drone would get … Continue reading

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Coppersmith in Damascus Souk

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Damascus, Syria 2010 This is the last of my coppersmiths from the Hamadiya souk. It was dark in there and this man’s workshop had the least light. But I saved it! I used my plug-ins: Exposure from Alien Skin to … Continue reading

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The Czech Grandmother

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Czechoslovakia 1989 Four women formed the brigade from the collective farm. Apparently they were good workers because there were no weeds among the long, green rows of potato plants. I’ve shown the other women on a previous blog. I never could … Continue reading

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The View from My Room

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Tbilisi, Georgia 2017 I got sick in Tbilisi and I was confined to my hotel room. Luckily, it was a lovely room with a balcony that overlooked a narrow street in the old quarter. I could see the bathhouse that … Continue reading

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CURIOUS

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Guilin, China 2005 “Some animals are more equal than others.”  I’ve been watching a film about the life of George Orwell and thought of this quote from his book, “Animal Farm”. The book was a commentary on the rise of … Continue reading

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