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Digital Painting of a Burma Girl

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Rosemary
colorful digital painting of Burma girl harvesting snails

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Burma 2011 Her job was to wade through an overgrown pond and find something then put it in the bag that was slung over her shoulder. Maybe she was harvesting snails or maybe some edible plant.

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Spring in Transylvania

Posted on August 15, 2015 by Rosemary
landscape: farm in Transylvania

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Transylvania, Romania 2012 The wonderful smell of freshly plowed earth filled the air. Lumbering oxen slowly pulled wagons loaded with hay down winding roads. Gypsy families uprooted their camps and hit the open road. It was springtime in the country. … Continue reading →

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Siem Reap in Mid Afternoon

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Rosemary
Angkor Wat High Key

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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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Touareg Camp in the Sahara

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Rosemary
Touareg women camp in the Sahara

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Mali 2005 I’m not really sure where we were. No one knew but it was either Mali or Mauritania. The women spoke Hasaniya which is a dialect of Arabic. No matter that we were in the middle of nowhere, the … Continue reading →

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On the Banks of the Niger River

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Rosemary
digital painting of pinnasse on 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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The Ionian Sea

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Rosemary
Ionian Sea off Sicily

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Ortygia, Sicily 2015 Our apartment was on the tip of the island. It was only a few steps to this side where fisherman would go out each morning to get the mussels that clung to the rocks. Little boys would … Continue reading →

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Looking for the Vatican

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Rosemary
bridge over Tiber black and white detailed

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Rome 2015 We walked to the Vatican from our B&B. The woman who ran the B&B said it was only ten minutes away. Evidently she had never been to the Vatican, because we kept up a brisk pace for twenty minutes and … Continue reading →

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Palmyra, Syria

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Rosemary
Interior of Tower Tomb Palmyra syria

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Palmyra, Syria 2010 Tower tombs built about 100 years before the birth of Christ. The tombs contain many graves…whole families are interred with the patriarch’s grave in a position of honor. This is the interior of a wealthy family’s tomb. It … Continue reading →

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Sinister

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Rosemary
Sicily: a palm tree shadow falls on a cobblestone piazza

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Sicily 2015 The shadow of a palm tree flows over the rough cobblestones like blood spilling from a dead body. I couldn’t help but think of the Mafia when we were in Sicily. There was no evidence of it anywhere … Continue reading →

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Togo’s Somba Tribe

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Rosemary
a Somba woman opens a granary by lifting the top off the hut

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Togo 2003 The Somba live in houses that resemble tiny castles. Pointed thatched roofs cover the turrets. Here a Somba woman opens one of the turrets that serves as a granary. Women fill the granary. The grain or beans or … Continue reading →

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