Category Archives: landscape

Umbrella Pine as Design Element

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Rome, Italy 2015 We spent our last hours in Rome at the Forum. A soft pink/yellow light cast a painterly glow. The trunks of the umbrella pines added design elements to aged apartment walls and the ruins of Caesar’s time. … Continue reading

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Morning in Ortygia

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  Sicily 2015  Early morning light gilds medieval Ortygia. At first the island seemed large and confusing to us, but soon we learned some street names like Capodieci that cut across the island and deposited us at Fonte Artusa, a few steps … Continue reading

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Landscape of a Cypress Swamp

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South Carolina 2011:  North of Georgetown I shot this from the road leading to Mansfield Plantation. I’m hoping to return to South Carolina to visit Beidler Forest for some wild life shots as well as murky, swampy shots. Dear Reader, … Continue reading

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Garden on the Mekong

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Laos 2007: A Laotian family tends their garden. Sometimes I think that if it weren’t for farms and religion, there wouldn’t be anything for me to photograph. Religion means churches and mosques and temples and often a certain type of dress, … Continue reading

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Transylvania: Bran Castle

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Transylvania 2012 On my first visit to Romania, in 1974, we were told that Dracula had lived in this castle. We were shown “the well where he threw the headless bodies of his enemies, the carpet which hid a trap … Continue reading

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Mongolian Shaman

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Mongolia 2014 Since the Soviets have left Mongolia, Shamanism has been making a comeback among the Mongolians who never completely abandoned their traditions. The statue in the foreground is of a revered shaman. The clothing on the statue is an … Continue reading

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The Steppes of Asia

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Western Mongolia 2014 A Kazakh man sits astride a Bactrian camel. Can Genghis Khan be far behind?

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The Bridge at Mostar

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Mostar, Yugoslavia 1989 I’ve tried and tried to get this slide to look right and this is the best I’ve done. I loved the small village of Mostar with its many cafes overlooking the emerald-green river that flowed under its … Continue reading

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Abandoned Kasbah

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Ouarzazate Morocco: some time in the late 1990’s There are several old kasbahs on the opposite side of the river from the town of Ouarzazate. A crumbled village sits behind the crumbled Kasbah and that is where this woman is … Continue reading

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Flowing LInes

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Utah, USA 2013 It looks like an aerial map with rivers, deltas and terra firma. The colors make me think of Africa now that I’m writing this. But the shapes also make me think of Kyrgyzstan, when my friend, Torie, called … Continue reading

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