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Out West…in Tibet

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Qinghai, Provence China 2007 Tibetan men wearing cowboy hats play poker at a small resort on Qinghai Lake.  The chairs are covered with hides from yak and other animals…maybe wolf and fox. To read more about the Tibetan cowboy and … Continue reading

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Uzbekistan: Ayazkala Palace

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Uzbekistan, 2012 The Kyzyl Kum Desert We stood in the ruined fortress of Ayazkala and looked across the empty, barren desert to the palace where the ruler of Ayazkala once reigned over oases and fertile lands.  No farms visible now. The … Continue reading

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The Threshers

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Gujarat, India 2009 As I told you in a earlier post, I shot many photos of this scene.  I didn’t vary my viewpoint enough and a certain young man kept getting into my photo. Was that my fault or his??? … Continue reading

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Backroads

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See the USA! Driving on one of America’s “blue highways”. An expression made famous by William Least Heat Moon’s book of that same name. Blue highways are back roads, roads that lead to places where the owners of restaurants cook the … Continue reading

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Mounted Police

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San Francisco, California 1961 This looks retro because it is! I shot this with my Kodak Retina IIIc. How I got such a good exposure is beyond me. LUCK. It happens. I was a military nurse and my friend and … Continue reading

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Photographing “Huge “

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Rangoon, Burma 2011 When you want to photograph something as large as the Shwedagon Pagoda or the giant Buddha, what can you do to make it interesting? You can show the crowds below, of course, or try to find a … Continue reading

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The Dassenetch Tribe of Omo Valley

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Ethiopia, Omo Valley 2013 A Dassenetch woman poses with a vessel made from a gourd. I noticed that the Dassenetch women decorated their gourds in a similar style to the Wodaabe of Niger. Many tourists came to the village on this day. … Continue reading

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The Dacha

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  Russia, 2009 A digital painting of a Russian family enjoying a summer day by the river.

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At the Dongguan Mosque

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Xining, China 2007 She might have to beg, but she has pride. She turns her face away from my lens. She is ashamed to be photographed by a foreigner. I would be, too. She has come to the largest mosque … Continue reading

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Rabari Art

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Gujarat, India 2009… A Village in Kutch A Rabari woman adds gold thread to red silk. We visited some master needleworkers and some women who were just learning. The skillful women taught the less skillful. The village women know that they can earn … Continue reading

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