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Balance: It’s Key!

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Inle Lake, Burma 2011 It might surprise you to know that most, if not all, of the fishermen on Inle Lake cannot swim. It surprised me. Their houses float, they run across floating fields of water hyacinth to get to the … Continue reading

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Floating Farmers

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Burma: Inle Lake 2011 Men harvest underground vegetation which will be used to build a new floating field on which they will plant or perhaps build a home. Children running across these fields sink with each step. I never saw … Continue reading

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Digital Painting of a Burma Girl

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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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In the Andes

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Cusco, Peru 2004 I hired a boy of about 13 years old to show me around the market in Cusco.  He liked the market as much as I did. The menu at his house was meager and  as I shot my photos, … Continue reading

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A Vanity Post

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Romania Early 1970’s When I began photographing, I’d shoot a scene or person without a thought to composition or point of interest. I didn’t realize that I needed to think out the best way to show why I thought the scene … Continue reading

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Three from Aleppo

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Aleppo, Syria 2010 Colorful downtown Aleppo as an advertisement might say. Aleppo had a charm that Damascus didn’t have. Or maybe by the time we got to Aleppo, we had become acclimatized to Syria. It was our favorite city. A … Continue reading

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Rosemary Remembers Romania

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Bukovina, Romania 1989 Farmwomen drive a horse and cart through a muddy barnyard in rural Romania. The little girl wonders why I am taking her photo. These photos were taken shortly after the rebellion where Ceausescu and his wife were killed. People were … Continue reading

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Work Makes the Man

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Yunnan Province China 2005 H’Mong men wait for work on the city streets of Dongchuan. They waited and smoked. The man in the middle had a version of a corn-cob pipe. The pipe stem seemed to be a piece of … Continue reading

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Gleaning

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Near Leh, Ladakh Our young Ladakhi guide was a devout Buddhist. I’d see him murmuring his morning prayers in the car on days when he woke late and hadn’t had time to pray in private. We visited a monastery in … Continue reading

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Silhouette, After the Fact

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Burma 2011 I loved these shots of the Burmese paddling their boats on Inle Lake. Of course, the leg-rowing men were my favorite but I loved the women perched on the ends of low riding boats filled with produce heading … Continue reading

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