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Portrait of an Uzbek Patriarch

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Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan 2012 An elderly man, who appeared woozy, sat on a cement wall. His family, mostly women, hovered over him with worried expressions. One of the women, reached into her carryall, retrieved a large thermos and poured out a … Continue reading

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Anthropomorphic

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 1992 Definition of Anthropomorphic: Giving animals human qualities In those days there was a huge wooden barn on the outskirts of Lancaster where Amish farmers bought and sold horses. The Amish needed draft animals such as Percheron and … Continue reading

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Alone in the Crowd

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Rome 2015 The sun filled piazza in front of the Pantheon was crowded with tourists and buskers. We were off to the side spooning up coffee granitas. It was a day to people watch.

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Tolerance

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Rome 2015 I remembered these street corner holy pictures from twenty years ago. They are part of the Italian culture as well as a symbol of the Catholic church.  I’m glad the paintings and statues are still in place in this … Continue reading

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Woman by the Sea

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Ortygia, Sicily 2015 The azure sea lapped at the rocks. The cool breeze caressed her bare limbs and becalmed her hectic thoughts. A sigh heaved from her breast. For two weeks she could forget the nagging demands of her job … Continue reading

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Fishermen at Accra, Ghana

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Accra, Ghana 2001 I wish I knew more about these fishermen. I’d like to know how far out they take these wooden boats. I’d like to know if it is easy to manage one in a rough ocean. I don’t … Continue reading

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Siem Reap in Mid Afternoon

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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

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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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Procession in Rome

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Rome, Italy 2015 Priests led the procession of the Blessed Sacrament down a narrow street to another church only a block away. First came priests wearing cassocks and sandals holding their prayer books, then priests clad in cassocks and the … Continue reading

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Ghana Boy

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Ghana 2003 Oops! I got some lens flare. Maybe if I’d had a lens shade, the glare of the sun on my lens wouldn’t have made that distracting circle of light. It’s twice as bad because it overlaps the boy’s face. … Continue reading

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