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Study of light falling on the sand dunes at Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley

Dunes – Silver: Mesquite Flat

Click below to: Choose your print type Select your size Pick your finish Adjust your crop Add a frame (or not) Complete your purchase Dunes – Silver is a study in light of a photograph I took at the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park. The sun had risen some 20 minutes earlier and now climbed rapidly into the sky, taking with it the side lighting that reveals the beautiful natural curves of sand dunes. We’d walked […]

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View of the Eiffel Tower seen through the window of a Paris Metro train

The Eiffel Tower Through a Metro Window

Click below to: Choose your print type Select your size Pick your finish Adjust your crop Add a frame (or not) Complete your purchase The Eiffel Tower For most people, when you think of Paris you get an image of the Eiffel Tower. This iconic structure has now soared above the Champ de Mars for over 120 years. Not bad for a temporary installation. The first time I visited Paris it was the first place I went. I dropped my […]

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Photo looking down the stairwell of the Hyatt Place, Chicago Downtown

Hyatt Place, Chicago/Downtown

In April 2016, I chaperoned on my son’s high school band trip. We stayed at the Hyatt Place, Chicago/Downtown. 300 high school kids in one hotel. I felt for the other guests. On the edge of the core, the Hyatt Place Chicago/Downtown is three blocks north of the Willis Tower and eight blocks west of the Cloud Gate (The Bean). To ensure the kids kept quite after lights out we would put a strip of scotch tape across the door […]

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A corridor in one of the temples of the Angkor Wat complex, processed in Skylum Luminar 4

A corridor at Angkor Wat

I only spent a few days at Angkor Wat and that was back in the early 1990s. It’s one of those places and times that, looking back, I wish digital cameras had existed and I wish I had had more time to explore, and I wish there hadn’t been a war that left the area littered with land mines. I also wish consumer GPS had existed back then as well so I would have been able to accurately place this […]

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Window In Time - View through the clock at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.

Window In Time

A window in time, literally. I captured this view through the clock face at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris on the fifth floor, in the North-East corner of the museum. The space behind the clock face in the North-West corner is a restaurant and I don’t find the view through it as pleasing. Opening as a train station in 1900, by 1939 the platforms had become too short for the trains of that age. The French government saved the building […]

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