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Rome, Italy 2015 It’s difficult to find a new angle on a famous landmark like the Coliseum in Rome or the Eiffel Tower. I’m not sure, because I just thought of this, but maybe the key is to have the landmark … Continue reading
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Istanbul, 2008 I’ve read that there are thousands and maybe millions of cats roaming Istanbul. I didn’t notice them on my walks, but later, when I returned home and looked at my photos, I often spied a cat, sometimes in … Continue reading
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Xinjiang China 2003 Hundreds of sewing machines filled the huge room. Hundreds of young women bent to their task: pushing miles of bright-colored fabric under the needle. I wanted a photograph, but the forelady shook her finger at me. Undeterred, … Continue reading
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Red Square, Moscow 2009 This reminds me of the books I’ve read written by innocent people imprisoned by Stalin. Books such as those by Solzhenitsyn, Natalia Ginsburg, Alexander Dolgun, and others who suffered unspeakable atrocities by the communist regime. Deprived … Continue reading
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See the USA! Driving on one of America’s “blue highways”. An expression made famous by William Least Heat Moon’s book of that same name. Blue highways are back roads, roads that lead to places where the owners of restaurants cook the … Continue reading
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Bratsk, Russia somewhere near Irkutsk 1989. We flew Aeroflot from Tashkent to Irkutsk. Talk about having to wait in the airport. We were at the airport at 3 A.M. for a flight around 8 A.M. (We think that is normal … Continue reading
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Moscow 1989 Russian housewives of 1989 stand at the entrance to the Moscow Metro hoping to sell their goods. Some have fresh flowers to sell, maybe some have home baked piroshki or beet salad in a glass jar. Peddling is … Continue reading
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Burma 2011: A floating village on Inle Lake There are several families of the Padaung tribe who live in the Inle lake area. They live in floating villages and keep souvenir shops where the women, with their brass neck rings, are a … Continue reading
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Northern Togo (a country in West Africa) 2002 Have you read any of Alexander McCall’s books in the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series? The main character, Mma Ramotswe, is a Botswana woman with a “traditional build”. The traditional build was once the beauty standard … Continue reading
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California, U.S.A. 2012: A Monarch Butterfly samples the nectar of a Bottlebrush plant. I recently bought a new camera. One with enough megapixels for the advertisers to boast that it is a replacement for a medium format camera. Medium format cameras … Continue reading
