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How Others Live 101

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Traditional houses in western India, Gujarat and Rajasthan, are small and round with conical straw roofs. The women love color and decoration and have become experts at painting, embroidering, and sewing. They make the beautiful hand embroidered clothing that the … Continue reading

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The Last of the Black and White

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I shot my last film when I went to China and Viet Nam about 4 years ago. I never thought I’d use a digital camera. I’m not sure now why I felt that way. I guess because I knew nothing … Continue reading

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Biting the Dust

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I like to go to the county fair to shoot the rodeo every year. Here’s one of my shots. With modern cameras and a good place to shoot from, it is easy to get a shot like this. No skill … Continue reading

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Moscow, Then and Now

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This is what one of my teachers used to call a “drive-by shooting”, meaning that you shoot from the car window. Sometimes when you are on a tour you have no choice. I don’t usually shoot from a window, but … Continue reading

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Haji Ali Mosque Bombay

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If you’ve ever seen a photograph of this mosque then you’ll know why my friends and I made a special effort to photograph it ourselves. The mosque sits in the waters of the Arabian Sea. There is a causeway to … Continue reading

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ARCHITECTURE AS STILL LIFE

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This is Tumacacaori Mission near Tuscon, Arizona. It isn’t easy for me to ‘find the picture’ when the subject is static, a landscape or architecture, for example It was a help to have been here before (almost 20 years ago … Continue reading

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Tea Time in the Village

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I enjoyed drinking tea in India, no matter if it was in a shack like this was. I never got sick. The liquid is boiling, after all. The Indians poured theirs into a saucer to cool it, but I didn’t. … Continue reading

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Shoot for the Shadows

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Shoot for the shadows was our byword when shooting with black and white film. If you did “shoot for the shadows” you’d have detail in your blacks and you could control your whites with your darkroom developing techniques. But my … Continue reading

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Lessons from Cartier-Bresson

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One of my favorite photographers is Henri Cartier_Bresson. He was noted for his instinct in pressing the shutter at exactly the right moment…called “the decisive moment”. I remember one of my teachers giving us the impression that Cartier-Bresson had a … Continue reading

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Nomad Berber Women in Morocco

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  This Berber woman lives behind the great dunes of the Erg Chebbi located in southeastern Morocco. She is a widow with several children and I have visited her many times over the years. Since the loss of her husband … Continue reading

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