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Italy via Photography: A Small Photo Journey

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Tweet I have said for quite a long time that if I ever make any real money, I will live in Italy. I might be talked into Spain or Portugal also, especially if its near the water. And Croatia has a deep place in my wanderlusting heart. But I simply love everything about Italy. It [...]

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Making Your Mouth Water from Jerusalem

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Tweet I don’t do much food photography. Photos of wonderful tasting dishes just don’t do much for me as a photographer. That isn’t to say there aren’t some amazing food photography out there for you to enjoy. Two of my closest friends are some of the best food photographers I know, Ayngelina of Bacon is [...]

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7 Super Shots Photo Game with @Hostelbookers

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Tweet I normally don’t do these “tagging” posts, where someone starts up a thread, posts some series of things, then tags some people to do the same thing after them. For one thing, most of them just take up too much time and for another, I really don’t like blogging about what everyone else is [...]

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San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua — a Photo Essay

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Tweet A couple weeks ago, I was editing photos for a publication that expressed some interest in a few of my shots from a couple places, namely Cabo Polonio and San Juan del Sur. It offered me a good chance to go back and re-edit some old pictures from my RTW trip. I posted up [...]

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Cabo Polonio, Uruguay Photo Essay

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Tweet Recently I was contacted by some folks wanting copies of some of my old photos from a number of locations. Hopefully they end up liking some of them and using them. It did make me go back and re-edit some of my pictures from my RTW trip in 2009-10 though, which was good. This [...]

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Angkor Wat: A Photographic Taster

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Tweet I have been spending a bit of time in Siem Reap, Cambodia, working on some new photography skills with an excellent photographer and friend, Holger of Vel el Mundo (I see the world). I am learning a ton from him. Get ready for time lapse movies coming soon from Angkor Wat, and then many [...]

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Hmong Tribe of Northern Vietnam: A Photo Journal

Hmong tribe man with cow in northern Vietnam

Tweet I was aware of the Hmong people before I went up to the mountains in Northern Vietnam, near the Chinese border, to take photographs of the amazing rice terraces near Sapa (those photos coming later). It turns out there is a fairly large population of Hmong immigrants back in my home area of Northwest [...]

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Monaco/Monte Carlo Train Station in Photos

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Tweet I am going to be doing up a bit of a longer Monaco/Monte Carlo post in the next week or two, but in the meantime, I thought I would post up a few of my photos from there. I was lucky to get there at one point in the afternoon where there were few [...]

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Italy via Photography: A Small Photo Journey

famous arch in rome italy, arch of constantine

I have said for quite a long time that if I ever make any real money, I will live in [...]

Interview with Andy Hayes, a.k.a. @andrewghayes: Lucky 13 Questions

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Andy Hayes is someone that I have be following for a while, but until I sat down and listened to [...]

Bette, Freddy, Madonna, Louie, Joe… a Show of a Lifetime

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An celebrity impersonation show combines nostalgia, campiness and hilarity. They are a fun sing-along and also a gentle laugh-at, all [...]

Jerusalem, the Most Historical City in the World?

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Jerusalem simultaneously confounds and amazes. In the list of “Cities Unlike Any Place Else,” it has to be right up [...]

Asking for a Little Help from You, My Loyal Readers

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I could use a little help — and will hopefully not only make it easy for you to do so, [...]

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