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Uzbekistan 2013…Market Portraits I bet you’ve never heard the word “costermonger”. I hadn’t either until I read a Masie Dobbs mystery. It’s an old-fashioned term once used in England. It means a vegetable seller. This handsome woman sold her cauliflower in … Continue reading
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Russia 2009: The Canals of the North A centuries old Orthodox church is slowly being destroyed by water. The village, which once surrounded and filled the church with worshipers, is long gone. Once Peter the Great gained control of the Gulf of … Continue reading
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Mali, West Africa 2005: The infamous salt mines of Taodenni Miners pitch in to help a friend prise a salt slab from the earth. The only tools they have are homemade pick axes. Their feet are bare or they wear … Continue reading
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China’s Yunnan Province 2005 Fall is supposed to have the fairest weather in Yunnan Province, but we had day after day of rain. I had prepared by buying about five of those one-time-use plastic raincoats. They cost 99 cents each and … Continue reading
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Beijing, China 2007: Outside McDonald’s What better way to celebrate Father’s Day than to take your Dad out for an ice cream cone? Is there a man or boy anywhere who doesn’t love ice cream? I know I bought some … Continue reading
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Northern Russia 2009 The days were cold and often misty. The cloud filled sky reflected the blue water of the glassy lake. Everywhere I looked it was the color blue. We were in a cocoon of blue. Light shimmered in … Continue reading
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Uzbekistan 2012 There are more than a hundred of these beautiful architectural monuments in Bokhara. This one is a madrassa. Shops for tourists fill the cells that for hundreds and hundreds of years had housed students from the time of the … Continue reading
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Monument Valley, USA 2013 Before I visited Monument Valley, I looked on the net for photos of Monument Valley and I saw hundreds of versions of this shot. At sunset, each day, everyone lines up on the patio of the … Continue reading
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Essaouira, Morocco 2000 The man approaching wears typical Moroccan clothing. On his head is a strip of cloth called a chech, the long gown like garment is a djellaba and on his feet he wears the heelless slippers called babouche. Many … Continue reading
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Kyrgyzstan 2013, a small village on the shores of Issyk Kul Lake Torie and I relaxed after a day of shooting by going out before dinner and before breakfast to shoot some ‘local color’. You could call us photo optimists…Ha! (as … Continue reading
