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Blood and Water
“tell the world about what happened here”. She says this just like a movie script. Only she’s in earnest, and she’s jabbing me in the stomach with a large red clapper shaped like a heart. It comes now with every word.
The World Between Worlds
I have become a bumpkin. A wide eyed dislocated ruralite village man. The airport in Bangkok soared around me in steel and glass, impossibly high. I stared up and wondered where they got all that metal from. The streets were so wide, why so many lanes. Look, there was no way could see someone getting a herd of buffalo across, no way.
Nazareth, shawermas, and the circle of fire
today i went to nazareth for the first time. i saw the unearthed old village where jesus played as a kid. this morning i walked by a synagoge freshly unearthed that was certainly attended by Jesus at some point. bought camping gear in tiberias where he pushed out in a little boat and gave his mindblowing sermon. of course as i write this i am sitting on the top of mount carmel where Elijah fought the prophets of Baal.
Oxymoron of the moment, Varanasi in low key.
Enough of that, on with my mission. My own photography mission. Try to shoot the varanasi that people rarely see. Wandering around, I started to see shots I in the gullies at night in low key. If you didn’t know, Low Key is a composition style that favors black and other very dark colors.
Out out out.
The trick is, you just have to go do it. You don’t heave to be perfect at first. I have a great camera that is up to the task. The images are out there, milling around and kicking up dust. You have to carry that camera with you, even when you dont feel like it. You have to get out.
To Iran, with love
Iran is in turmoil. i am a small echo of that turmoil, sitting at my desk in the himilayas.
Portraits: Both sides now
This one was first. A tiny indian girl and her friend accosted me on the road and demanded that I take a photo of them. I noticed the stylish tribal piercing in her nose and decided to comply.
Not to be out divafied, her friend also applied her pressure and got one too.
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…walking in fethiye, i notice giant greco roman tombs carved into the hillside. amazingly beutiful and enormous. i have never even heard of them. anywhere else they would be a national treasure. here its another in an endless series of amazing ruins. we sat in a 2000 year old ampitheatre and i could almost hear them shouting
Delhi Adventure with Kid A
What do you do when your kids are globe trotters? Make your own discovery channel piece of course. Here is a discovery channelesque thingy I whipped up for the kids. Turns out iMovie is about as easy as they say. The kids loved it by the way.
Losing a camera bag in delhi, trust 101.
So it turns out Delhi is an amazing place for a lot of fun things. Here’s a modest sampling of possibilities….
Seeing layers of entire civilizations tossed like a salad and driven over.
Rat Watching. It’s like bird watching, only not as colorful.
Catching glimpses of zoo [...]