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Panama, the Canopy Family, and My Granddaughter's Butterfly
February 06, 2023 - You will have to take it on faith that my granddaughter is beautiful. Her name is Julia and she is two-and-a-half years...
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Disney in the Streets of Cartagena
February 12, 2019 - When I am traveling in a city new to me, I like to book a street photography tour. That is, I pay a local photographer t...
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Stolen Portraits
October 23, 2018 - When I travel, I confess to being a thief. I steal pictures of people.
I know this is unprofessional. I took a photo wo...
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Awesome People at Awesome Con
March 30, 2018 - I have to confess that my passion for comic books started to decline when the price of Superman's monthly adventures ros...
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Photographing a Heroine
September 27, 2016 - Few books have affected my understanding of the world as much as Jane Goodall's In the Shadow of Man. So it was a great...
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Something Republicans Did Right
April 29, 2016 - I am not much of a nature photographer, but you don't have to be very good to get some interesting images near where I l...
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Capturing Moments in Havana
February 25, 2016 - I expected to learn a lot from Peter Turnley when I signed up for his photography workshop in Havana. I was not disappoi...
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Habaneros
February 23, 2016 - I have had the good fortune in the last year or so to visit two places where the people are extraordinarily receptive to...
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The Best Pitcher You Never Heard Of
February 18, 2016 - If you go to Havana's Parque Central and ask for directions to la esquina caliente, any Habanero will direct you to a be...
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The Rhythms of Cuba
February 16, 2016 - I am in Havana, taking part in a photography workshop taught by a great photojournalist, Peter Turnley. I first met Pete...
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Photogenic Antigua
December 15, 2015 - I made a mistake when I decided to go to Antigua, Guatemala, in my long quest to learn at least broken Spanish. Antigua...
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A Saturday Evening Manifestazione in Rome
October 19, 2013 - It was a particularly mild and pleasant autumn Saturday afternoon in Rome, so I took my camera and set out to photograph...
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Taking License, and Light, in Umbria
October 13, 2013 - The Italian province of Umbria offers a smorgasbord (or whatever the Italian name for smorgasbord would be) for photogra...
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Caravaggio, Chiaroscuro, and Me
October 11, 2013 - I write from Rome, which is, by the way, a very pleasant way to begin a blog post.
There are lots of good reasons to co...
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American Families, Summer, 2013
September 19, 2013 - At the beginning of this summer, I tried something new in the way of marketing. I put up a deal on Groupon, offering a o...
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Imitating Alfred Stieglitz
October 28, 2012 - The National Gallery of Art in Washington currently has a show called "The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in...
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Good Glass
August 27, 2012 - I bought a new lens the other day, a Nikkor 85mm f1.8. I wanted sharper pictures, and a lens with a fixed focal length i...
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Frustrating Evening for Olympic Photography
August 02, 2012 - After Day Six of the Games of the XXX Olympiad, I have to report that Henri Cartier-Bresson still holds the gold medal a...
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