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Southern California, U.S.A. 2012 In summer the sun fills my kitchen with a glorious golden light. I notice things like light now. I didn’t before learning photography. Seeing light, color, shadow is a consequence of trying to get a good … Continue reading
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Mali, West Africa 2000 : A Dogon village in the Bandiagara We had climbed from the bottom of the escarpment to this village at the top. Our guide said that only he knew of some of the places we visited, … Continue reading
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Morocco 1997 A Berber Home in the Desert This woman is Ali’s mother. That is what Umm Ali means. It’s also the name of a dessert popular in the Middle East. Umm Ali sits in her simple adobe house in the … Continue reading
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Morocco 2003: Jemaa El Fnaa Marrakesh It was the heat of the afternoon. The square was as empty as it ever gets. A woman has rushed over to have her fortune told and she sits with a worried expression as … Continue reading
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Northern Thailand 2007 I took the elevator, or was it an escalator, to the temple at the top of the hill. It was beautiful in that golden, intricate Asian style. It wasn’t just one building, it was a honeycomb of … Continue reading
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Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan 2012 This boy was standing next to the village wall as Torie and I approached the ‘gate’ to the center of the village. (Maybe here is a good place to tell you that the village is quite … Continue reading
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Bokhara, Uzbekistan 20012 Square with Madrassa, Minaret and Dome. Shooting architecture can result in disappointment. It’s so glorious when you are standing in front of majestic structures like these. You put your camera on its widest angle and look for … Continue reading
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Northern Benin 2001: A Somba family at home It must have been the perfect time of day to shoot because the blacks have detail and the whites have detail and there are lovely shades of gray. Sometimes you get lucky. I … Continue reading
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Luxor, Egypt 1998 We hired a caleche, which is a small horse-drawn carriage. I wanted to get some shots of un-touristy places. Luxor isn’t very big, and after only a few minutes, we were trotting down country roads. Our driver really had … Continue reading
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India 2003: On the streets of Jodhpur I was scanning my old slides yesterday and finally, after all these years, noticed this one. Not only do I love the deep reds with the black shadows but here we have geometry galore! The two … Continue reading
