• North America, United States, New Mexico, Sante Fe. Teal wood frame window set in into an adobe stucco wall, framed by wrought iron security bars and structural wood support beams.

    Santa Fe Wrought Iron Window

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    Early morning sunlight brightens rusted wrought iron window bars guarding a teal-colored window frame in Santa Fe. Weathered, splintered, wooden beam posts (called vigas) protrude from the top of the wall.
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  • North America, United States, New Mexico, Sante Fe. Teal wood frame window set in into an adobe stucco wall, framed by wrought iron security bars. Rooster art painted on the wall.

    Santa Fe Window and Rooster

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    A black wrought iron scroll-caged window, framed in peeling teal-colored paint, complements an adobe wall in Santa Fe. A nearby hand-painted rooster crows-in the morning.  
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  • North America, United States, New Mexico, Sante Fe. Lavender and yellow flowers in front of an adobe stucco wall.

    Santa Fe Adobe and Sage

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    Sage shrub with lavender flowers anchor the adobe wall of an art gallery on Old Santa Fe Trail, downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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  • North America, United States, New Mexico, Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. At 650' above the Rio Grande (height disputed), the Gorge Bridge is the fifth highest bridge in the U.S.

    Rio Grande Gorge Bridge from the Canyon Wall

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    The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, located about 12-miles northwest of Taos, is purported to be the fifth highest bridge in the U.S., spanning the gorge 650-feet above the Rio Grande. This shot was taken about 1/4 mile north of the bridge. In reviewing the video afterwards, I realized the drone grazed the cliff wall—as evidenced by shaking video. Lucked out again.
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  • North America, United States, New Mexico, Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. At 650' above the Rio Grande (height disputed), the Gorge Bridge is the fifth highest bridge in the U.S.

    Rio Grande Gorge Bridge Fly-Under 2

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    The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, located about 12-miles northwest of Taos, is purported to be the fifth highest bridge in the U.S., spanning the gorge 650-feet above the Rio Grande. I couldn't resist flying my drone underneath the bridge, which was technically challenging from 800-feet away, above the cliff walls, in the bright sun. High five for not crashing the drone!
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  • North America, United States, New Mexico, Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. At 650' above the Rio Grande (height disputed), the Gorge Bridge is the fifth highest bridge in the U.S.

    Rio Grande Gorge Bridge Fly-Under 1

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    The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, located about 12-miles northwest of Taos, is purported to be the fifth highest bridge in the U.S., spanning the gorge 650-feet above the Rio Grande. I couldn't resist flying my drone underneath the bridge, which was technically challenging from 800-feet away, above the cliff walls, in the bright sun. High five for not crashing the drone!
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  • North America, United States, New Mexico, Valles Caldera National Preserve. 13-mile-wide depression of meadows and streams resulting from a volcanic eruption 1.25-million years ago.

    Rain Squall, Valles Caldera National Preserve

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    Valles Caldera National Preserve is located in the Jemez Mountain range of northern New Mexico. The volcanic eruption that occurred 1.25-million years ago left behind a 14-mile wide volcanic caldera. As we explored the preserve in our rented Highlander that afternoon, squalls streamed across the basin, illuminated by late afternoon sun.  
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  • Inn and Spa at Loretto, Santa Fe

    Inn at Loretto Adobe Geometry

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    The Inn and Spa at Loretto is located on the Old Santa Fe Trail, just southeast of downtown Santa Fe. The hotel's abstract geometric adobe block architecture, punctuated with brown metal gutters that look like wooden support beams jutting out from the walls; and the shadows from the morning sun, caught my attention.  
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  • North America, United States, New Mexico, Albuquerque. Shadows angle down from structural wood support beams onto an adobe stucco wall in Old Town, Albuquerque.

    Adobe Sunlight and Shadow

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    Walking Old Town Albuquerque (a touristy attraction comprised mostly of trinket shops) I turned down a side alley to find this simple adobe wall with wooden support beams (technical term: vigas), casting long shadows at a 45-degree angle across the stucco canvas.  
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  • Horizontal photo of an arched, covered walkway at the church of Saint John the Baptist in San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca, Mexico. A row of stone arches forms the right edge of the rock walkway on the right side of the image. The walkway diminishes in perspective to a solid wall, about 100-feet distant. On the left wall, in the front left of the photo, we see a brightly painted, teal-colored wooden door set into a curved stone arch.

    Teal arched doorway

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    A stone walkway with arched teal door at the church of Saint John the Baptist in the village of San Juan Bautista Suchix Hahuca. Construction for this Renaissance architecture church was completed in 1576. Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico.  
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  • Horizontal photo of four large, light blue ceramic urns, 18-inches at the center diameter, that appear to have been abandoned in the church of Saint John the Baptist, located in San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca, Mexico. The dusty urns lean against a stucco wall, askew, on a table along with several discarded candleholders and an old hanging chain light fixture with four dirty bare lightbulbs.

    Forgotten blue urns

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    Three long-forgotten, dust-coated, blue ceramic urns sit abandoned on a dusty table in the organ loft of the church of Saint John the Baptist  in the village of San Juan Bautista Suchix Hahuca. Old wooden candlesticks lie strewn about the table. A still life image caught in time. Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico.  
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  • Horizontal photo of shirtless man dressed for the carnival celebration of lent in the village of Tilcajete, Mexico. His back is covered in black paint which has caked and dissolved in sweat from his activity in the hot sun. He has tied ten or more black cowbells around his waist, visible across the center third of the image. The cowbells bounce and carom into the air as he dances and chants. Underneath the cowbells we see a heavy burlap garment, stained from his black body paint, and fraying around the edges.

    Cowbell carnival cacophony

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    Prior to Ash Wednesday the village of Tilcajete, near Oaxaca, celebrates carnival with imaginative animal and creature masks in chanting, grunting, colorful processions. Here, a carnival celebrant parades through the dusty village streets with his group of similarly-costumed friends. The cowbells strapped around his waist clang and and jangle as he grunts and dances. Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico.  
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  • Horizontal photo of an albrijes carving—brightly colored Mexican folk-art sculptures—of a fantastical mythical red bull. We see his torso and head from the right side. Extremely fine detailed albrije patterns completely cover the bull's skin. Colorful patterned strips outline the mouth, nose, eye, and horns. Circular patterns radiate from the chest, side, and hump on the back. These intricate patterns include minute chevrons, diagonal lines, dots, smaller circles, dashes, and stripes in colors of red and orange with accents in yellow and blue. His pink nostril centers over a long, bright pink tongue, which sticks out from his open mouth. Brown horns, accented with similar patterns in dark browns and gold, curve forward and up over the bull's forehead.

    Red bull alebrijes carving

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    Red bull alebrijes carving in the Isaias Jimenez’s studio located in the small town of Arrazola, about 4-miles southwest of Oaxaca.  Isaias continues the Oaxacan alebrijes style created by his father Manuel Jiménez Ramírez (who has his own Wikipedia page). Alebrijes are a style of brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of imaginary and mythical creatures. Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico.  
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  • Overlooking the Plaza de la Danza with the Basilica of Our Lady of Solitude on the right side of the image. A dark blue twilight sky frames the silhouetted trees in the back of the plaza and twinkling lights on the nearby mountain in the background. Young friends gather to talk on the far side of the plaza underneath the lamp light. Photo is taken from Avenue Jose Maria Morelos.

    Plaza de la Danza

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    People gather in the Plaza de la Danza (literally, "dance square") at dusk, adjacent to the Basilica of Our Lady of Solitude in Oaxaca, Mexico. Families still gather socially in plazas and squares throughout Mexico. This plaza was very close to our hotel, so we walked past it almost every evening. I thought it was a quintessential Mexican scene: a plaza with families and friends adjacent to the church and lights twinkling on the distant mountain as twilight fades to night. Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico.  
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  • A 3-foot wide, shallow basket, made of out thick twigs, shows off 100 or more colorful Mexican peppers that fill the screen with green, yellow, orange, and bright red. Two small, white plastic bowls sit atop the stack of peppers with additional peppers arranged into a design like an opening flower—some leaning over the side of the bowl, and some pointing upwards.

    Benito Juarez Market Peppers

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    Close up of a basket of red and green peppers for sale at the Benito Juarez market in Oaxaca, Mexico. This 3-foot wide basket of peppers completely covered the spectrum from green, yellow, orange, and bright red. Bekki and I traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, February of 2020 with my sister and brother-in-law who organize cultural trips to Central America and Mexico. While the Benito Juarez Market isn't the only market in Oaxaca, it's a large and vibrant one with over 360 vendors selling ... everything.  
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  • Sitting on the observation catamaran I look abeam over the shoulder of a woman with deep red hair and a dark black sweater who is on the left one-third of the image. The right side of her face turns toward the center of the image as she watches a sailboat race. We see the edge of her red framed sunglasses and white temple arm extending back and wrapping over her right ear. Her red hair blows away from me, onto her face. The center and right one-third of the image includes four Hobie 16 sailboats with white and orange sails, racing in the Hobie 16 World race off of Captiva Island, Florida, under a white cloud and bright blue sky. The sailboats and sky are heavily blurred because the image focuses on the woman.

    Watching the Race

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    The 22nd Hobie 16 World race was held on Captiva Island, Florida, on November, 2019.  A woman watches one of the races from the official observation boat.  
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  • Off the forward bow of our observation boat, a Hobie 16 catamaran under full sail hikes up out of the water in front of us. Leaning heavily to port, its forward starboard pontoon flies 4-5 feet in the air out of the blue Gulf of Mexico. Only the forward part of the white port-side pontoon is visible—the aft is buried deep in the water as the Hobie jets past us at 15-20 knots. The cat’s black mast leans 45-degrees to port, jib and mainsail stretched tight in the wind. The sailor closest to me in blue hikes out over the starboard side of the pontoon. His companion in yellow leans further out to starboard, tethered with a safety harness that keeps him from flying off the boat.

    Hiking Out

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    The 22nd Hobie 16 World race was held on Captiva Island, Florida, on November, 2019.  Sailors hike out to windward to counter the force of the wind on the sails during one of the races.  The starboard pontoon is about 5-6 feet out of the water.  
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  • Off the forward bow of our observation boat, a Hobie 16 catamaran under full sail passes us through the water off our bow. The forward sailor trims the orange and white mainsail and jib into a tight reach as the salt water from the Gulf of Mexico foams up and sprays behind the cat. The aft sailor grips the black tiller rod, focusing intently on the horizon. The Gulf of Mexico comprises the lower two-thirds of the frame—a deep blue backdrop to the Hobie 16 as it passes us in a “swoosh.”

    Racing into the Wind

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    The 22nd Hobie 16 World race was held on Captiva Island, Florida, on November, 2019.  A 16' Hobie Cat points into the wind during one of the races as the port side pontoon throws spray from the leeward side of the cat.  
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  • We see a landscape shot of open sky where blue clouds, offset against a deep blue sky, cap off a small strip of dark blue water in the bottom eighth of the photo. On the horizon line, intersecting sky and water, we see eleven Hobie 16 catamarans, orange and white sails piercing the skyline, spread out across the image as they race each other into the wind.

    Hobie Cat Sky

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    The 22nd Hobie 16 World race was held on Captiva Island, Florida, on November, 2019.  11 Hobie Cats point to windward during one of the races, framed by a backdrop of blue clouds floating in a light blue sky.
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  • Bright blue sky frames the upper 2/3s of this landscape image. In the lower 1/3 of the image we see blue-green water from the Gulf of Mexico to the left; and a sandy beach to the right. Wave action has dampened the sand at the bottom of the image and to the right further up the beach. 60 feet away 20 Hobie 16 catamaran sailboats are lined up down the beach ready to launch for a race. Every sailboat has the same bright orange mainsail with a white palm tree and darker orange sunset on top of a 3-foot white strip along the bottom of the sail. The masts diminish down to the horizon line. The damp sand between the camera and the sailboats reflects the blue sky and orange sails.

    Orange Sails Blue Horizon

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    The 22nd Hobie 16 World race was held on Captiva Island, Florida, on November, 2019. Hobie Cats line the beach between races. This image forms a color wheel clockwise from the white sand to the green waves, teal-colored ocean, blue sky, around to the orange and white sails.
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  • In a night drone shot, the drone hovers 30-feet on the corner of Ocean Drive and Ninth Street overlooking Mango’s Tropical Café in South Beach, Miami. White Italian miniature lights decorate the trunks of 40-foot palm trees for Christmas in front of the restaurant. The palm treetops frame the top of the image. The second story façade is brightly lit in a bright greens and blues. Patrons sit outside underneath a dark green awning that runs the length of the restaurant. Headlights and taillights of passing cars blur in motion as they pass in front.

    Ocean Drive at night – Mango’s

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    Elaborate lighting systems illuminate South Beach's Ocean Drive at night. This is one of a series of drone shots which required three separate trips to South Beach.  The shots were technically difficult because of pedestrians, vehicles, and stiff breezes off of the Atlantic Ocean.  A shot of Mango's Tropical Cafe.
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  • A drone, hovering 100-feet or more at night, looks west over the Breakwater Hotel’s blue vertical backlit sign and roof, at the bottom of the image, to Miami’s skyline over 3-miles away. Buildings and rooftops lit from the outside—many with illuminated windows—compose the lower 2/3s of this landscape image. Just beneath the black sky at the top of the image, Miami’s high-rise architecture fills the horizon with hundreds of tiny neon and window lights from the buildings on the skyline.

    Ocean Drive at night – Miami skyline

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    Elaborate lighting systems illuminate South Beach's Ocean Drive at night. This is one of a series of drone shots which required three separate trips to South Beach.  The shots were technically difficult because of pedestrians, vehicles, and stiff breezes off of the Atlantic Ocean.  This shot looks west to the Miami Skyline above the Breakwater Hotel.
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  • Looking northwest from brick-paved First Street in downtown Fort Myers, the faint light of an early dawn glows blue at the vanishing point on the horizon, brightening the dark sky overhead. Electric wall sconces illuminate the 2nd story of the building visible on the right side of the image, shining columns of light up towards the roof which highlights and accents the horizontal cornice along the roofline. Streetlamps and 30-foot palms line the street—the palm trees silhouetted by dawn sky. The street is empty and quiet except for metal sidewalk street art of a man balancing on a unicycle on the right side of the image.

    Fort Myers Sunrise 1

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    Early morning sunrise on First Street in downtown Fort Myers. I wanted to capture the historic district of Fort Myers without the usual traffic and tourists. Shot was taken 5:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning.
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  • Looking northwest from the center of brick-paved First Street in downtown Fort Myers, the faint light of an early dawn glows blue at the vanishing point on the horizon, brightening the dark sky overhead. Streetlamps illuminate the 2-story building fronts while 30-foot palms lining the street are silhouetted by dawn on the horizon. The street is empty and quiet except for metal sidewalk street art of a man balancing on a unicycle.

    Fort Myers Sunrise 2

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    Early morning sunrise on First Street in downtown Fort Myers. I wanted to capture the historic district of Fort Myers without the usual traffic and tourists. Shot was taken 5:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning.
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  • Looking southwest and down the street from the center of brick-paved First Street in downtown Fort Myers, both curbs diminish toward the vanishing point almost 1-mile distant. Streetlamps in front of 30-foot palm trees line the avenue and illuminate Capone’s Coal Fired Pizza and Cabos Cantina in the foreground. The street is completely empty as the black sky overhead slowly fades to dawn. At the end of the street, and in the center of the photograph, High Point Place, a 33-story high-rise condominium, faintly catches early rays of the rising sun.

    Fort Myers Sunrise 3

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    Early morning sunrise on First Street in downtown Fort Myers. I wanted to capture the historic district of Fort Myers without the usual traffic and tourists. Shot was taken 5:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning.
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  • Taken from a drone at night hovering at 30-feet over Ocean Boulevard in South Beach, Miami, the Colony Hotel and Boulevard Hotel fill most of this landscape image. Baby blue lights illuminate the Colony’s façade, and blue neon outlines the letters on the hotel’s inverted-T sign, with the word ‘Colony’ reaching vertically from the second story to the roof. Boulevard Hotel’s red neon vertical outline and red neon sign contrasts dramatically with the Colony’s softer blue theme. Black sky and the dark street frame both hotels in the image.

    Ocean Drive at night – Colony

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    Elaborate lighting systems illuminate South Beach's Ocean Drive at night. This is one of a series of drone shots which required three separate trips to South Beach.  The shots were technically difficult because of pedestrians, vehicles, and stiff breezes off of the Atlantic Ocean.  This shot is of the Colony and Boulevard Hotels.
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  • This night shot of the Leslie Hotel on Ocean Drive in Miami’s South Beach was taken from a drone hovering 40-feet across the street. Twin gold-lit vertical art deco fan facades reach from the second floor to the top of the roof. A red awning is brightly illuminated from the street level underneath, where tables are crowded with alfresco diners. A dark night sky and dimly lit street frame the building and outdoor dining scene top and bottom.

    Ocean Drive at night – Leslie

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    Elaborate lighting systems illuminate South Beach's Ocean Drive at night. This is one of a series of drone shots which required three separate trips to South Beach.  The shots were technically difficult because of pedestrians, vehicles, and stiff breezes off of the Atlantic Ocean.  This shot is of the Leslie Hotel.
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  • A horizontal drone photo on Ocean Drive in Miami’s South Beach at night. Taken 30-feet in the air from the park across the street, the composition looks directly at the center of Havana 1957, an authentic Cuban restaurant. Columns of multicolored lights between the windows on the second and third levels spotlight the building's long, white façade with pillars of intense blue, red, purple, green, and yellow. Ten square umbrellas line Ocean Drive, underneath which a hundred or more patrons dine alfresco. A man with a white shirt and white panama had stands at the entrance to the restaurant looking inside.

    Ocean Drive at night – Havana 1957

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    Elaborate lighting systems illuminate South Beach's Ocean Drive at night. This is one of a series of drone shots which required three separate trips to South Beach.  The shots were technically difficult because of pedestrians, vehicles, and stiff breezes off of the Atlantic Ocean.  This shot is of Havana 1957—an authentic Cuban restaurant.
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  • A horizontal drone photo on Ocean Drive in Miami’s South Beach at night, taken 30-feet in the air from the park across the street. A dark, deep purplish-blue light cloaks the three-story Crescent Hotel on the left—accentuated with blue neon art deco accent lights: Seven blue neon circles in a row hover just below the flat roofline. Horizontal blue neon lights line the tops of the windows on the second and third levels. On the right third of the façade, a pair of blue neon lights rise vertically from the portico to the roof, curving 90-degrees left over the blue circles. The Hotel's name, "Crescent," blazes in red neon art deco letters centered over the first-floor portico. Adjacent and to the right, Mc Alpin's three-story façade glows in a shimmering, amplified ultraviolet green. The illuminated 'Mc Alpin' sign, centered over the portico, blazes in an intense lime green over the entrance. Both façades look like art deco cubes: the dark blue Crescent on the left; bright green Mc Alpin on the right.

    Ocean Drive at night – Crescent

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    Elaborate lighting systems illuminate South Beach's Ocean Drive at night. This is one of a series of drone shots which required three separate trips to South Beach.  The shots were technically difficult because of pedestrians, vehicles, and stiff breezes off of the Atlantic Ocean.  This shot is of the Crescent Resort on the left, with the Mc Alpin on the right.
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  • A horizontal drone photo on Ocean Drive in Miami’s South Beach at night. Taken from 30-feet in the air from the park across the street, the composition looks straight to the center of the Avalon Hotel. Bands of bright green neon lights stretch across each of the three-story balconies, in between a checkerboard of backlit and unlit windows. The hotel’s signature “Avalon” horizontal sign, in large art-deco font, illuminates the front of the building’s second story. Square yellow umbrellas line Ocean Drive where guests dine alfresco. A lone, white and yellow 57’ Chevy convertible, with 4-inch whitewall tires and lots of ‘attitude,’ sits proudly, parked on the street. The polished hood and trunk of the Chevy glistens underneath the green lights of the hotel’s façade.

    Ocean Drive at night – Avalon

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    Elaborate lighting systems illuminate South Beach's Ocean Drive at night. This is one of a series of drone shots which required three separate trips to South Beach.  The shots were technically difficult because of pedestrians, vehicles, and stiff breezes off of the Atlantic Ocean.  This shot is of the Avalon hotel with a vintage yellow and white 1957 Chevy convertible parked in front.
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  • A horizontal drone photo on Ocean Drive in Miami’s South Beach at night. Taken from 150-feet in the air, the image looks down to the Breakwater Hotel from the park across the street. The Breakwater’s long vertical blue neon sign rises from the second story, reaching 50-feet or more over the top of building’s 4-story frame. Two mint green colored swimming pools hug the front edge of the roof on either side of the large vertical sign. Orange neon horizontal lights outline the second, third, and fourth floors. On the street level far below, square awnings line Ocean Drive, where guests dine alfresco.

    Ocean Drive at night – Breakwater

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    Elaborate lighting systems illuminate South Beach's Ocean Drive at night. This is one of a series of drone shots which required three separate trips to South Beach.  The shots were technically difficult because of pedestrians, vehicles, and stiff breezes off of the Atlantic Ocean.  This shot is of the Breakwater hotel.
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  • A horizontal drone photo on Ocean Drive in Miami’s South Beach at night. Taken from 30-feet in the air, the image looks directly at the Mc Alpin and Ocean Plaza Hotels from the park across the street. Bands of bright blue lights illuminate the facades of both buildings, in between layers of windows on each of the three levels. Palm frond silhouettes frame the left and right foreground of the image. A pale lavender-gray sky fades to twilight behind the buildings. Car headlights and taillights streak by horizontally on Ocean Drive, captured by the long shutter.

    Ocean Drive at night – Ocean Plaza

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    Elaborate lighting systems illuminate South Beach's Ocean Drive at night. This is one of a series of drone shots which required three separate trips to South Beach.  The shots were technically difficult because of pedestrians, vehicles, and stiff breezes off of the Atlantic Ocean.  This shot is of the McAlpin and Ocean Plaza Hotels.
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  • A horizontal photo of Pedro Berro, owner of Cuban Tobacco Cigar Company, who sits in front of his store in Little Havana, Miami. As he smokes one of his cigars, his right elbow rests on a square table with the name of the store visible on the surface. His right hand holds a dark, fat, ash-laden, lit cigar inches below his chin. He stares at a 45-degree angle toward the right side of the image as he exhales a small cloud of dense white smoke. Behind him, through the glass window of the storefront, visible above Pedro and to the left, a full-size wood carving of a man sits facing backwards on a simple chair. The man rests his right arm on the top of the chair as his left arm, bent at his left elbow, holds a wooden cigar to his mouth. The statue’s pose, actions, and direction of his gaze almost perfectly mirror Pedro. We see additional cigar-related paraphernalia in the window adjacent to the statue: a B&W photograph of another man smoking, what appears to be the straw hat of the man in the photo on the surface below adjacent to a photograph of the same hat.

    Smokin 2

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    I shot several images of the Cuba Tobacco Cigar Company during a shooting trip to Little Havana in Miami. The store owner takes a break to enjoy one of his own cigars . Little Havana is a neighborhood in Miami that is home to many Cuban exiles. The neighborhood is known for Cuban culture, food, and cigars.
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  • A horizontal photo of Pedro Berro, owner of Cuban Tobacco Cigar Company, who sits in front of his store in Little Havana, Miami. As he smokes one of his cigars, his right elbow rests on a square table with the name of the store visible on the surface. His right hand holds a dark, fat, ash-laden, lit cigar inches below his chin. He stares at a 45-degree angle toward the right side of the image as he exhales a small cloud of dense white smoke. Behind him, through the glass window of the storefront, visible above Pedro and to the left, a full-size wood carving of a man sits facing backwards on a simple chair. The man rests his right arm on the top of the chair as his left arm, bent at his left elbow, holds a wooden cigar to his mouth. The statue’s pose, actions, and direction of his gaze almost perfectly mirror Pedro. We see additional cigar-related paraphernalia in the window adjacent to the statue: a B&W photograph of another man smoking, what appears to be the straw hat of the man in the photo on the surface below, and another, smaller, wooden statue of an Indian chief with full headdress holding a cylindrical collection of cigars in his right hand. The Indian stares off in the same direction as Pedro and the other statue.

    Smokin 1

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    I shot several images of the Cuba Tobacco Cigar Company during a shooting trip to Little Havana in Miami. The store owner takes a break to enjoy one of his own cigars . Little Havana is a neighborhood in Miami that is home to many Cuban exiles. The neighborhood is known for Cuban culture, food, and cigars.
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  • A horizontal photo of a man hand cutting and rolling dried tobacco leaves at the Cuba Tobacco Cigar Company in Little Havana, Miami. The man, sitting, faces the camera. We see his chest, arms, and hands. He wears a black T-shirt covered by a maroon-colored apron with gold trim on the sides and around the U-shaped neck. He holds an almost finished, wrapped cigar in his left hand as he uses his left hand to adhere the loose edge of a leaf to the tip of the cigar. The worker’s fingers are stained brown from working with the tobacco leaves. He works over a plastic cutting board—its cracks and cervices also stained brown from the dark, dried leaves. On the left side of the cutting board a small pair of stainless steel trimming scissors lies atop of an oval-shaped steel cutting blade. Discarded tobacco leaf remnants cover the chipped, wooden table on the left and right side of the cutting board.

    Hand Rolling Cigars

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    I shot several images of the Cuba Tobacco Cigar Company during a shooting trip to Little Havana in Miami. A worker hand cuts and hand rolls cigars in the store. Little Havana is a neighborhood in Miami that is home to many Cuban exiles. The neighborhood is known for Cuban culture, food, and cigars.
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  • A horizontal photo of a man hand cutting and rolling dried tobacco leaves at the Cuba Tobacco Cigar Company in Little Havana, Miami. The image focuses on a row of 27 double-stacked freshly rolled cigars, which are perpendicular to the camera in the lower-half of the photo. The dark tan-colored cigars—their pointed tips have not yet been trimmed—rest atop a scuffed worktable, stained in a reddish mahogany. Small 1-inch blocks of wood lie on either side of the cigar row, preventing the cylindrical cigars from rolling off the table’s edge. In the top half of the photo, the man, blurred in the background several feet away, sits facing the camera. We see his chest, arms, and hands. He wears a black T-shirt covered by a maroon-colored apron with gold trim on the sides and around the U-shaped neck. He wipes his hands with a gold-colored cloth. His right forearm rests on a plastic cutting board adjacent to an oval-shaped steel cutting blade.

    Hand Made Cigars

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    I shot several images of the Cuba Tobacco Cigar Company during a shooting trip to Little Havana in Miami. A worker makes hand cut and hand rolled cigars. Little Havana is a neighborhood in Miami that is home to many Cuban exiles. The neighborhood is known for Cuban culture, food, and cigars.
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  • A horizontal photo of two men standing adjacent to each other while inspecting a large burlap sack of tobacco leaves. The man on the right holds the bag at a 45-degree angle, such that the man on his left can view the large printing on the surface. The man on the left reaches down with his right hand to hold the bottom of the bag to improve his angle of view. Both men smoke as they inspect the label, blowing puffs of dense white smoke. The man on the left wears a straw fedora had with a straight 3-inch brim and a red and black hat band. Above them on the back wall we see a United States flag, with the flag of Puerto Rico adjacent to the right. On another wall visible to the left, rows of cigars packaged in cellophane sit neatly stacked on dark wooden shelves.

    Tobacco Shipment

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    I shot several images of the Cuba Tobacco Cigar Company during a shooting trip to Little Havana in Miami. Here the store owners inspect a shipment of tobacco leaves in preparation for cutting and rolling. Little Havana is a neighborhood in Miami that is home to many Cuban exiles. The neighborhood is known for Cuban culture, food, and cigars.
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  • Close-up landscape photo head and shoulder portrait of a Guatemalan shaman on a mountainside in Chichicastenango. He is centered in the shot, with blurred dark green trees in the background on the left and right third of the image. The light is soft and diffuse. His shirt prominently displays a 1-inch diagonal checkered print with an unusual combination of colors: black, white, and light coral. He wears an embroidered red headscarf, with accents of yellow and purple, tied at the back of his neck. He smiles broadly at the camera, showing off two silver capped upper teeth.

    Mayan Shaman (2/2)

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    While exploring Chicicastenango someone in the village informed us of a shaman couple that were performing a Mayan ceremony up on the hill.  Following a nearby trail, we found this husband and wife, and they allowed me to photograph them.  When I motioned to the husband to 'smile,' he lit up.  Husband and wife are a diptych.  Transparency taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • Horizontal photo of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge that spans the entrance to Tampa Bay between St. Petersburg to the north (left), and Terra Ceia to the south (right). The bridge’s distinctive cable-stayed supports rise like two gigantic sails 250-feet high over the 180-foot bridge height on the right two-thirds of the image. (Total height 430-feet.) The sky behind the bridge, in the upper two thirds of the image, ranges from a muted grayish mauve on the horizon to a dusty mustard yellow at the top of the frame. Waters in the foreground reflect the gray-mauve horizon. On the left side of the photo, the bridge diminishes in perspective to a small point on the horizon.

    Skyway Bridge

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    The Sunshine Skyway Bridge spans the southern tip of St. Petersburg, Florida, with Terra Ceia on the south side of Tampa Bay.  Here, I captured the cabled support systems of the bridge's sails with a backdrop of yellow-cast clouds after the sun had set.
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  • orizontal photo of the beach in the town of Capesterre on the island of Marie-Galante in the Caribbean. A strip of white sand, with shadowed splashes from the overhead palms, anchors the lower fifth of the image. Beyond the sand beach we see the light-turquoise Caribbean Sea—with a narrow strip of dark blue on the horizon where the waves break over distant coral reefs. From the beach, the camera looks upward following tall, skinny, wind-swept palms that lean in from both edges of the photo against a pure blue, cloudless sky in the upper two-thirds of the image. Rounded circles of palm fronds at the top of each palm tree hover in the sky like small bursts of green fireworks in the upper third of the image.

    Capesterre

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    Capesterre is a sleepy village on the southwest coast of Marie-Galante—part of the French overseas region and the island of Guadeloupe.  Coral reefs that have formed in the Atlantic protect its port and beautiful beaches.  Image made while sailing with friends in the West Indies.
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  • Horizontal photo of a white door with full-length blue shutters on either side in coastal town of Grand-Bourg on Marie-Galante Island in the Caribbean. Two full length panes of rippled glass divide the white door, which appears in the right side of the image. The long shutters on either side of the door are built with narrow planks of wood, framed with two Z-shaped supports that zig zag across the inside of the shutters. The Z-shaped pieces of wood cast deep shadows in the overhead sun. To the left of the door and its open shutters we see another set of blue shutters which are closed. The exterior wall has been painted a light beige.

    Grand-Bourg Blue Shutters

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    Pastel blue shutters frame a white door with textured glass in the town of Grand-Bourg, on the island of Marie-Galante.  I often walk into these small towns with busy traffic and and run-down infrastructure thinking, "what am I going to shoot here?"  Finding shots like this is like a treasure hunt.  Image made while sailing with friends in the West Indies.
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  • Horizontal photo of a fishnet lying on a dock in the coastal town of Grand-Bourg on Marie-Galante Island in the Caribbean. In this close-up photo, we see a shimmery, teal-colored plastic fishnet jumbled into a heap. A green, white, turquoise, teal, and copper-colored rope threads small orange Styrofoam-colored floats. The line snakes over, under, and throughout the dark teal mesh net.

    Guadeloupe Fish Nets

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    Fishing nets laying on the jetty at the Grand-Bourg marina on the island of Marie-Galante.  Image made while sailing with friends in the West Indies.
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  • Horizontal photo of an artist’s mural painted on the side of a building in the town of Grand-Bourg on the island of Marie-Galante. The mural is a stylized portrait of a man’s long, slender, triangular face. His forehead just above the eyebrows, and bottom of his chin, extend off the top and bottom of the image, forming a tight composition. The artist has rendered the face in shades of light blue with dark shadows of deep black over a light gray concrete background. Patches of concrete show through underneath painted elements of the face’s mottled montage. The subject’s full, closed lips—painted in black on the top lip; and blue on the bottom—center a narrow black jaw and chin that tapers off the bottom edge. Large round light green, mustard yellow, and white eyes, with jet black pupils, stare penetratingly forward over a long thin nose. Green, blue, yellow swirls and splashes of graffiti-styled paint and gray concrete surround the face, which is outlined in a thin white line, making it appear to hover over the background.

    Grand-Bourg Mural (2/2)

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    The town of Grand-Bourg on the island of Marie-Galante, which is part of Guadeloupe, showcases some amazing murals that most visitors don't even notice.  Painted on walls and buildings, framed by rusty roofs and chained link fences, I admit these murals can be somewhat camouflaged by the village.  Artist unknown.  Part of a diptych. Shot while sailing with friends in the West Indies.
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  • Horizontal photo of an artist’s mural painted on the side of a building in the town of Grand-Bourg on the island of Marie-Galante. The mural is a portrait of a black man who appears to look directly at the camera’s lens. He squints into the direct sun, lips drawn tightly, giving the appearance of a mild grimace. White hair, white eyebrows, and white beard stubble frame his long face underneath a reddish-brown straw hat which is folded up above his forehead. His leading right shoulder dips forward slightly. An open shirt, with large light blue and white vertical stripes, opens to his black-skinned chest. Multiple colors of green: pastel teal, lime, mint, olive, and pine, surround his head and shoulders. A metal door comprises most of the building wall. Hinges, strips of metal brackets, and rivets define the mural’s background texture. At the top of the photo weathered 2x4s and a rusted corrugated roof protrude above the top of the building.

    Grand-Bourg Mural (1/2)

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    The town of Grand-Bourg on the island of Marie-Galante, which is part of Guadeloupe, showcases some amazing murals that most visitors don't even notice.  Painted on walls and buildings, framed by rusty roofs and chained link fences, I admit these murals can be somewhat camouflaged by the village.  Artist unknown.  Part of a diptych. Shot while sailing with friends in the West Indies.
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  • Horizontal landscape photo taken from the cockpit of a 43-foot sloop sailing off the coast of Dominica in the West Indies. We look over the yacht’s port side, at a 45-degree angle, across the 2-foot teak deck, underneath two chrome stanchions which form an inverted V-shape, past the winch to the blue ocean and verdant green coastline of Dominica. Blue sky dotted by white cumulous clouds appears in the upper third of the image. In the shadows of the hard dodger, a woman gazes out over this tropical scene as the sailboat slices through the Caribbean sea under full sail.

    Sailing Dominica

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    We had the opportunity to sail the West Indies with friends during the spring of 2019.  This view looks to the island of Dominica under full sail from the cockpit of a Hallberg-Rassy 43.
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  • Horizontal landscape scene on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Taken from the top of a hill, the photo provides a sweeping view of pineapple fields in the foreground and the island of Molokai on the distant horizon. Five distinct horizontal bands stripe across the image. Deep green pineapple fields, interlaced with terracotta colored access roads, comprise the lower third of the photo. Six tall palm trees form a tight cluster on the edge of the fields in the left third of the image half a mile away. Above the pineapple fields the blue Pacific Ocean, freckled by occasional tiny whitecaps, forms the straits between Maui and Molokai. In the upper third of the image, Molokai’s bluish-gray mountains—the world’s highest sea cliffs—rise from the ocean to reach an altitude of over 3,000 feet. Thick white cumulous clouds hover at the crest of the mountain ridgeline. Light blue sky forms the final band of color at the top of the photo.

    Maui Pineapple Fields Forever

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    Pineapple cultivation used to be one of the largest industries on Maui.  However, many pineapple businesses closed in the 2000s.  Although there has been a resurgence in pineapple farming with hybrid grafting techniques, scenes like this one from 2000 have largely disappeared.
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  • Horizontal landscape of the backcountry road to Hana on the island of Maui, Hawaii. We look down an empty, deep lavender gray, two-lane country road which extends across the bottom left side of the image. The road curves to the right around a bend several hundred feet away in the center. Dark blue mountains, tinted purple, cut across the horizon—their ridgelines reach up into heavy gray overcast clouds. The mountains dip down slightly where the road turns around the bend, forming a wide V-shaped skyline. Tall pale mint-colored grass meadows line both sides of the road. On the right side of the photo, a steep hill, covered in multiple shades of pastel green grass, climbs up from the road into the cloudy sky. Several deciduous trees have grown through the thick grass carpet. The scene is one of quiet solitude awash in soft grey, green, and purplish-blue hues.

    Road to Hana

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    During one of our many trips to Maui we rented a car and drove the back road to Hana, along Maui's north shore—including its 617 turns, 59 bridges, and over 52-miles of mostly dirt road.  This pastoral scene from the Hana Highway depicts Maui's serene landscapes. I love the quiet pastel mood of this photo.
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  • Horizontal photo of an abandoned 1950s truck on the island of Maui, Hawaii taken from the left front side of the vehicle, about 10-feet distant. The truck’s surface is covered with rust. Some would-be graffiti artist has spray painted various random designs on the front grill, hood, and cab—stars, circles, swirls, and stripes—with yellow, blue, green, and red paint. Both headlights are long gone. An old tire still clings to the rusted front wheel. Rocks have been thrown through the front window, which angles back slightly from a vertical center divider, leaving shards of broken glass around the edges. The driver’s door is ajar.

    Graffiti Truck (2/2)

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    During one of our many trips to Maui we rented a car and drove the back road to Hana, along Maui's north shore—including its 617 turns, 59 bridges, and over 52-miles of mostly dirt road. Off of a side road I spotted a make-shift junk yard of abandoned trucks.  Need I say more?  Also see 'Blue Truck' for another series of images from this shoot.
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  • Horizontal photo of an abandoned 1950s truck on the island of Maui, Hawaii taken from the right front side of the vehicle, about 10-feet distant. The truck’s surface is covered with rust. Some would-be graffiti artist has spray painted various random designs on the front grill, hood, and cab—stars, circles, swirls, and stripes—with yellow, blue, green, and red paint. Both headlights are long gone, as are all the tires. Rocks have been thrown through the front window, which angles back slightly from a vertical center fold, leaving shards of broken glass around the edges.

    Graffiti Truck (1/2)

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    During one of our many trips to Maui we rented a car and drove the back road to Hana, along Maui's north shore—including its 617 turns and 59 bridges over 52-miles of mostly dirt road.  Off of a side road I spotted a make-shift junk yard of abandoned trucks.  Need I say more?  Also see 'Blue Truck' for another series of images from this shoot.
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  • Horizontal photo of a 1940s vintage pickup truck that has been abandoned on the island of Maui, Hawaii. The photo was taken from the right side of the truck, with the front of the truck pointing to the image’s right. The truck’s bulbous rounded cab appears just large enough for two people. The right front tire has been removed underneath the fender. A rusted wheel sits directly on the ground. The truck’s patchy blue paint—light sky blue to a deep azure—makes the truck pop against the dark brown and green hillside in the background. Dark brown rust spots punctuate and accent the blue exterior. In the top right corner of the photo the cab of another abandoned truck, visible over the blue truck’s fender, faces the opposite direction—as if two lonely friends sit silently together.

    Blue Truck (1/3)

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    During one of our many trips to Maui we rented a car and drove the back road to Hana, along Maui's north shore—including its 617 turns and 59 bridges over 52-miles of mostly dirt road.  Off of a side road I spotted a make-shift junk yard of abandoned trucks.  Need I say more?  Also see 'Graffiti Truck' for another series of images from this shoot.
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  • Horizontal photo of a Mercedes Benz 1937 540K Special Roadster. In this closeup side shot of the front hood we see a series of parallel geometric shapes and lines. At the top of the image we see the polished silver painted side curve of the vehicle’s long hood. The middle 3/5s of the image shows silver chrome horizontal trim framing the top and bottom of two metal mesh grills with ¼-inch gaps. Two shiny 3-inch corrugated chrome metal pipes protrude from the top grill mesh. The pipes sweep backwards at a 20-degree angle and re-insert into the large silver painted fender. Without knowing this is a vehicle, the image appears to be an abstract of a highly polished art deco machine.

    Silver Roadster—Pipes (1/2)

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    While visiting friends in Ellijay who rented a cabin there, we drove to Dawsonville.  The owner of this 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster had parked it just off the main square.  The roadster's silver finish and elegant curves captured my interest.
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  • Horizontal landscape photo of a sunset at Naples Beach, Florida. The sun, visible as a bright pinpoint just left of center on the horizon, 1/5th from the bottom of the photo, burns through a micro strip of dark gray clouds just at the ocean’s edge. The setting sun casts a golden sheen across a black-teal almost waveless Gulf of Mexico. The underside of clouds stretching across the upper 2/3 of the photo glow a faint but deep yellow gold from the diminishing sun. Distinctive colorful shapes from many other smaller clouds—bright white, dark gray, and deep gold—explode across a dark blue sky just above the horizon, like puffs of smoke from exploding fireworks.

    Naples Beach Sunset, 2018

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    Golden sun on the horizon just at sunset on Naples Beach, Florida.  I made this image after Bekki and I had dinner in Naples.  The beach is a short walk down Fifth Avenue.
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  • Horizontal landscape photo looking south on the Naples Beach at sunset. Ripples of white sand, illuminated by the setting sun to the right, with rippled shadows on the left, fill the bottom half of the photo with pastel shades of beige, mauve, light gray, and amber. A solid, light gray cloud covers the top 1/3 of the image, underneath which cloud wisps wash across a light blue sky which blends with faint yellow and blue pastels of the ocean on the right side of the photo. A triangle of palm trees and green foliage, glowing from the setting (off-camera) sun, slices into the scene on the left 1/3 of the image. Small distant figures walk on the beach in the distance.

    Naples Beach Afternoon, 2018

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    A wide stretch of white sand shaded pink in the setting sun at Naples Beach, Florida.  I took this image after Bekki and I had dinner in Naples.  Just walk Fifth Avenue west until you reach the Gulf.
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  • Horizontal landscape photo of a sunset on Captiva Island, Florida. A dark golden sky at the horizon, visible on the upper third of the image, extends upward to a light gray after the sun has set. Wisps of gray and amber-colored clouds stretch across the middle of the sky. Bands of light and dark bluish-gray waves reflect the gold-colored sky in the lower 2/3 of the image. A young boy and girl, visible as dark silhouettes, play in the shallow waves breaking on the beach in the lower right third corner of the photo.

    Captiva Sunset

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    Children play in the surf, silhouetted by sunset at Alison Hagerup Beach on Captiva Island.  Captiva is a 40-minute drive from our home in Southwest Florida (if you don't mind the $6 causeway toll).  Image #3 of 3.
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  • Landscape photo of a pink brick walkway on Useppa Island, Florida. The walkway fills the lower center third of the image and disappears to the horizon at the center. A large tree trunk—the dominant subject—fills the frame on the right side of the image. Its huge, trunk-like branches extend up off the top of the photo and out horizontally off both the left and right side of the image. On the left side of the image two additional trunks support the heavy branches that extend over the walkway. This network of thick branches and multiple trunks forms an angular arch over the walkway. Deciduous tree leaves and palms stretch across the top of the photo. Blue sky appears through the branches and between the leaves. Green ferns and foliage fill the left and right side of the walkway, which is deserted.

    Useppa Walkway (4/4)

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    This beautiful walkway along the beach can be found on Useppa Island—a little-known island located on the northern boundary of Pine Island Sound near Southwest Florida.  Rising seas, around 4500 BC, disconnected Useppa from the mainland.  Among other historical facts, the CIA used Useppa as its clandestine practice site for the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.  Image #4 of 4.
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  • Landscape photo of a pink brick walkway on Useppa Island, Florida. The walkway fills the lower left third of the image and disappears to the horizon, 1/3 from the bottom of the photo. A thick green canopy of deciduous trees extends to the top of the image which covers the walkway and reaches over the right 2/3s of the image. To the right of the walkway, underneath the shade of branches, a 30-foot strip of green foliage covers the ground in multiple shades of green. To the right of the foliage, we see a 50-foot strip of pure white sand illuminated by a bright sun, and then a deep blue water of Pine Island Sound which extends to the horizon. A small sailboat floats at anchor near the beach. Blue sky can be seen through the trees across the upper 2/3s of the image. The walkway and beach are deserted.

    Useppa Walkway (3/4)

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    This beautiful walkway along the beach can be found on Useppa Island—a little-known island located on the northern boundary of Pine Island Sound in Southwest Florida.  Rising seas, around 4500 BC, disconnected Useppa from the mainland.  Among other historical facts, the CIA used Useppa as its clandestine practice site for the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.  Image #3 of 4.
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  • Landscape photo of a home on Useppa Island, Florida. The image was taken from the right and front of the house, at about a 30-degree angle and 40-feet distant. The white house—in the Key West architectural style—has an elevated porch which wraps around on all four sides. A small, windowed dormer can be seen in the center of a silver metal roof. The front stairs descend from the porch to a manicured pea-gravel walkway that extends toward the bottom of the image. Lush tropical palms and foliage in multiple shades of green frame all sides of the house, with blue sky and small wisps of white clouds overhead.

    Useppa Island Home

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    Private home on Useppa Island—a little-known island located on the northern boundary of Pine Island Sound in Southwest Florida.  Rising seas, around 4500 BC, disconnected Useppa from the mainland.  Among other historical facts, the CIA used Useppa as its clandestine practice site for the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
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  • Landscape photo of the Arturo Fuente cigar store in Ybor City, at night. The store front’s Mediterranean tiled roofline angles from the upper right corner down to the lower left corner of the image. In the upper left corner of the image, an oval-shaped neon sign angles 45-degrees out from the tiled roof. The roofline and sign form an X, framed by a dark black sky. The sign proclaims: “Cigars, Arturo Fuente” in yellow neon letters, surrounded by a red neon border. In the lower right third of the image an oval varnished wooden sign states “Metropolitan Cigars” in yellow letters over the top of a rounded, arched wooden door frame.

    Arturo Fuente Cigars (2/2)

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    We lived in Tampa for a decade, adjacent to Ybor City which was once the cigar capital of the world.  While not a cigar smoker myself, I find cigar culture photographically intriguing.  Located in Ybor City, Arturo Fuente hand-rolled cigars are rated among the best in the world.  Image #2 of 2.
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  • Landscape photo of the Arturo Fuente cigar store in Ybor City, at night. We see the building at an angle, as the photograph was taken from the right-front side of the store looking down the sidewalk to the left. Incandescent lights underneath a four-foot-wide overhang, supported by three pairs of black metal posts, illuminate the storefront in a warm glow. An oval-shaped neon sign protrudes perpendicularly from the tiled roof, in front of a black night sky, proclaiming: “Cigars, Arturo Fuente” in yellow neon, surrounded by a red neon border. The sidewalk is vacant underneath Ybor City’s globe-clustered streetlights which are visible down to the horizon.

    Arturo Fuente Cigars (1/2)

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    We lived in Tampa for a decade, adjacent to Ybor City which was once the cigar capital of the world.  While not a cigar smoker myself, I find cigar culture photographically intriguing.  Located in Ybor City, Arturo Fuente hand-rolled cigars are rated among the best in the world.  Image #1 of 2.
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  • Photograph of a sign taken in Key West, Florida. The sign reads “90 Miles to Cuba.” The illustration above the text portrays a Carmen Miranda-like Cuban woman’s head and face. She wears a fruit hat with green leaves and a large red and white bow on the front. The illustration depicts a woman with rosy red cheeks, full red lips, heavily mascarad blue eyelids, and pencil thin eyebrows. Her head is cocked at a slight angle as she appears to be looking over her left shoulder. The white background of the sign contrasts with the faded gray and white boards upon which the sign has been nailed.

    90 Miles to Cuba

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    A sign in Key West reminds us of Cuba's close proximity to Florida.  So close, yet so far.
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  • A horizontal landscape photo of a white stucco wall in Old Town, San Diego. The wall is brightly illuminated by the full-on overhead sun. A vertical door, just left of center, is framed with weathered wood painted shades of olive and teal green. Above the door a six-foot long lintel is embedded into the stucco wall. Eight rectangular panels, carved into the door, cast shadows below each panel. The olive-teal colored lintel and door contrast dramatically against the white stucco wall. At the right side of the image, shadows from a nearby tree frame the edge of the photo in a narrow strip along the vertical length of the white wall.

    Rancho Californio (3/3)

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    San Diego's Old Town (started in 1769 as California's first settlement) has wonderful examples Spanish Colonial architecture, where Spanish colonists built single-story adobe structures with flat roofs.  Part of a triptych.
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  • A vertical landscape photo of a white stucco wall in Old Town, San Diego. The wall is brightly illuminated by the full-on overhead sun. A vertical door is centered in the image. Framed with weathered wood painted shades of olive and teal green, the door is centered underneath a six-foot long lintel, which is embedded into the stucco wall. Eight rectangular panels, carved into the door, cast shadows below each panel. The olive-teal colored lintel and door contrast dramatically against the white stucco wall. At the top edge of the image, shadows from the Spanish style tile roof (which is not visible) frame the upper edge of the photo in a narrow strip along the horizontal length of the white wall.

    Rancho Californio (2/3)

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    San Diego's Old Town (started in 1769 as California's first settlement) has wonderful examples Spanish Colonial architecture, where Spanish colonists built single-story adobe structures with flat roofs.  Part of a triptych.
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  • This landscape layout photo shows a street scene in Huatulco, Mexico. At the bottom of the image, we see the street, just above which there is a 9-inch curb and sidewalk. The back of the sidewalk intersects with an orange stucco wall at about 1/3 of the image height. A leafless tree trunk extends from the middle of the sidewalk up out of the top of the frame, branching into three smaller trunks in the upper third of the photo. On either side of the tree trunk two men lie asleep on their backs. They lie parallel to each other at an angle to the sidewalk: heads to the left, toros stretching to the curb where their knees bend above the edge, with their feet planted on the street. Street, curb, sidewalk, and tree are all a similar shade of gray. Yellow leaves have blown into the corner of the street and curb. A bright shaft of light spills down just behind the tree, highlighting the orange stucco wall. It’s a peaceful afternoon siesta in Huatulco.

    Huatulco Siesta

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    Walking around Huatulco, Mexico, one afternoon, I turned the corner to find two men taking a sidewalk siesta in the afternoon heat.  This was one of those photographer moments when panic struck: can I get the camera up, shutter speed set, lens focused, and get the shot off before they stirred?  Yes!  Was it all that time behind the lens that paid off?  Probably not.  They were really zonked out.  (Or maybe a little bit of both.)  This is one of my favorite images from Mexico.  Image made while cruising Mexico in our sailboat 2000.
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  • A landscape photo of green plastic fishnet crumpled into a pile on the beach in Huatulco, Mexico. The green fishnet, a twisted jumble of netting ranging in color from a dark teal to a light forest green, fills the image. A ¼-inch yellow plastic twisted line swirls and loops around the image, in and out of the green fishnet.

    Huatulco Fish Nets (2/2)

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    Fishing nets piled onto a beach in the town of Huatulco, Mexico on the Pacific Ocean.  Image #2 of 2.  Taken while cruising Mexico in our sailboat 2000.
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  • A landscape photo of green plastic fishnet crumpled into a pile on the beach in Huatulco, Mexico. The green fishnet, a twisted jumble of netting ranging in color from a dark teal to a light forest green, fills the image. On the left third of the photo, two yellow buoys—the size of large softballs—nestle against each other just underneath the fishnet. A ¼-inch yellow plastic twisted line threads through the buoys, swirling and looping around the image, in and out of the green fishnet.

    Huatulco Fish Nets (1/2)

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    Fishing nets piled onto a beach in the town of Huatulco, Mexico on the Pacific Ocean.  Image #1 of 2.  Taken while cruising Mexico in our sailboat 2000.
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  • A dark, landscape photo of a carousel at night in Acapulco, Mexico. This medium shot focuses on one of the carousel seats: A white horse with its golden mane fills the left 2/3s of the image. His bridle bites into his mouth, as he grimaces and flashes his teeth. Behind, but to the right and forward of the we horse, we see a Disney-like Pluto character. The bald dog’s bulbous red nose points upward. His open mouth, which is curved down at the back of his jaw, and capped by enormous upper teeth, gives him a grotesque, almost fearful expression—as if something is pursuing him. In the upper right corner of the photo, dimly lit green lightbulbs surround an out-of-focus clown portrait in an oval frame. The deserted motionless carousel, which should be rotating with loud music and filled with smiling happy children, instead conveys a ghostly quiet stillness.

    Acapulco Carousel (3/3)

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    Walking around Acapulco one evening (back when Acapulco was safe) I found a carousel with all the lights on—but no one around.  I checked my watch to ensure that I hadn't slipped into the Twilight Zone, and then shot away.  Image taken while cruising Mexico in our sailboat, 2000.  #3 of a triptych.
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  • A dark, underexposed landscape photo of a carousel at night in Acapulco, Mexico. The full width of the motionless, empty carousel fills the frame horizontally, with black sky in the upper third of the image. Beneath the canopy, softly glowing white, green, blue, and red 3-inch round decorative lightbulbs cast a faint sheen onto the brass poles below, which thread dimly lit vacant horses hovering over the floor. The deserted carousel, which should be rotating with loud music and filled with smiling happy children, instead conveys a ghostly quiet stillness.

    Acapulco Carousel (2/3)

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    Walking around Acapulco one evening (back when Acapulco was safe) I found a carousel with all the lights on—but no one around.  I checked my watch to ensure that I hadn't slipped into the Twilight Zone, and then shot away.  Taken while cruising Mexico in our sailboat 2000.  #2 of a triptych.
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  • A dark, landscape photo of a carousel at night in Acapulco, Mexico. This medium shot focuses on one of the carousel seats depicting a mermaid with long golden hair that falls down to her bare shoulders. We view her at a 45-degree angle as she stares wide-eyed to the right side of the image. She has a long but full face, dark red lips, large black heavily-mascarad eyes, and long pencil thin eyebrows. Both forearms bend forward at her elbows in a superwoman pose, as if she is flying over the ocean. Around and above her we see softly glowing white, green, blue, and red 3-inch round decorative lightbulbs underneath the canopy, creating a shine on her glazed head, shoulders, and torso. The deserted motionless carousel, which should be rotating with loud music and filled with smiling happy children, instead conveys a ghostly quiet stillness.

    Acapulco Carousel (1/3)

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    Walking around Acapulco one evening (back when Acapulco was safe) I found a carousel with all the lights on—but no one around.  I checked my watch to ensure that I hadn't slipped into the Twilight Zone, and then shot away.  Image taken while cruising Mexico in our sailboat 2000.  #1 of a triptych.
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  • Deep blue sky frames the upper half of this horizontal landscape photo of The Baths in the British Virgin Islands. White cumulus clouds arc from the upper left, down across the horizon, and up again to the right. Beige sand fills the lower third of the image, while large boulders cascade from the left into the center. Crystal clear waters lap against the boulders and ripple out into the turquoise waters of Devil’s Bay. Families swim in the shallow waters on the right side of the photo. Ten or more sailboats drift at anchor on the horizon, several hundred feet in the distance.

    The Baths (2/2)

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    At 'The Baths,' located on the southern end of Virgin Gorda (which is part of the British Virgins) huge granite boulders lie on the beach creating natural grottoes which open to the sea.  Horizontal image in a vertical / horizontal diptych.
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  • This portrait landscape photo is taken from the side of a mountain at about 2,500 feet of elevation on the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean. It looks out to the two pitons (ancient volcanic plugs) in the upper center of the photograph, perhaps a mile or more away. At the bottom of the image, we see multicolored rooftops of the town of Soufriere in the valley. On the right side of the photo, Soufriere Bay blends seamlessly into the Caribbean Sea and a blue sky overhead. Green branches from nearby trees, dip into the sky from the top left and top right side of the photo, framing the two pitons, the village, and the Caribbean between them.

    Two Pitons

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    A World Heritage Site, the two Pitons are mountainous volcanic plugs on the island of Saint Lucia.  As we wound our way down the road I asked our driver to stop when I spotted this composition, with the town of Soufriere in the foreground framed by the Caribbean Sea in the background.
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  • This portrait landscape photo is taken from the ridge of a steep mountainside on the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean. A stone wall on the left side of the image, which is perpendicular to the camera, follows a two-track road, just below it, off into the distance. Bright green grass in the middle and on both sides of the two-track, provides a series of stripes in the foreground. The mountainside disappears down to the right through palm trees and jungle foliage. About half a mile away another mountain peaks in front of a bright blue sky. In addition to the blue sky and gray stone wall, there are 100 different shades of green throughout the photo, ranging from grass green to dark teal on the distant mountain, which is partially darkened by an overhead cloud.

    Saint Lucia Mountain Road

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    A mountain road on the island of Saint Lucia, part of the Lesser Antilles.  Nothing exceptional about the location—there are millions of similar views throughout the Caribbean.  I just really liked all of the different verdant shades of green; and the composition, with the stone wall and two-track road leading off to the mountain.
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  • Landscape close-up photo of a statue of the Raices Fountain in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The close-up is of a woman’s head and shoulders, cast in bronze, on the right-side of the photo. She looks left, her nose and eyes in the center of the image. The overhead sun fully illuminates the left side of her face and top of her head, except for shadows in her eye, upper lip, chin, and neck. We see blue sky in the left side of the photo and above her head. Thousands of waterdrops are suspended in the air throughout the photo, frozen by fast shutter speed.

    Raices Fountain (1/2)

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    Raices Fountain, located in the historic colonial section of San Juan, is said to be one of the most romantic spots in Old San Juan.  I wouldn't know—Bekki was off with someone else when I took these shots.  Image #1 of a diptych.  San Juan was part of our Caribbean cruise in 2008.
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  • A close-up landscape layout photo of handmade maracas clustered together in a public market in San Salvador, El Salvador. The maracas are made from small round gourds, about 4-5 inches in diameter. Each set of maracas has been carved with matching patterns (zigzags, pinwheels, nested arcs, clouds, and cactus leaves) and painted red with accent colors of dark lime green, dark teal, dark blue, and deep purple. Red wooden handles have been attached to each gourd. We can only see the maraca heads in the photo except for two maracas paired together vertically in the left third of the image—the maraca heads at the top of the image, and the handles at the bottom. This pair rests on other maraca heads underneath. Both red maracas have been carved with the words “El Salvador,” which have been painted in a dark blue around a carved-out background painted white.

    The Holy Savior’s Maracas

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    Maracas in a San Salvador market, El Salvador.  'El Salvador' means 'the savior.'  So I thought it appropriate to title this as 'The Holy Savior's Maracas.'  Image taken while cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • This landscape portrait of a chef in San Salvador, El Salvador, shows him in a double-breasted, white chef’s uniform. He is a young, handsome El Salvadoran man in his late twenties. He faces the camera directly. In the bottom of the frame, we see his torso just above his elbows. His right shoulder is positioned just below center in the image. He leans to his left, such that his face is in the right 1/3 of the frame. He wears a 2-foot-high white chef’s hat that leans upward and to the right at a 25-degree angle. Dark green tropical foliage blurs in the background on the left side and right edge of the photo, making his white uniform and conspicuously tall hat pop in the foreground.

    San Salvador Chef

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    I don't remember the name of the restaurant in San Salvador (El Salvador) where I met this chef, but I had to take a shot of him and his chef's hat.  As you can see, his chef's hat takes half the vertical space of the frame.  Found this wonderful background of foliage in the back parking lot.  Image taken while cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • A landscape photo shows a horizon of black silhouetted trees rising up from the horizon, about ¼ mile away. The photo is taken from a dark gray river, its waters seen at the bottom one fifth of the photo. On the left 1/3 of the image, just above the horizon, we see the San Miguel Volcano pushing into the sky, the top half of which is lit by the setting sun. Golden clouds cluster around the volcano’s peak. Behind the volcano we see a peach-colored sky, with gray clouds above, and light blue sky behind the gray clouds at the very top of the photo. The dark gray water of the river reflects peach and blue skylights.

    Volcan Chaparrastique

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    San Miguel volcano (also known as Volcan Chapparastique) is an active volcano about nine miles southwest of San Miguel, El Salvador.  Here, the setting sun begins to fade on the volcano's western face.  This image taken from the deck of Andante, our 42-foot sailboat, from the Lempa River while cruising Central America 2000-2001.
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  • We see a close-up stack of colorful, loosely woven hammocks for sale at a market in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. You cannot, however, actually see that these are hammocks. We only see brightly colored cotton 4-inch stripes of light blue, yellow, hot pink, navy blue, mauve, red, orange, bright blue, and coral. The woven threads swirl and bend into multicolored patterns, waiting for hammock buyers to pass by.

    Rainbow Hammocks

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    String hammocks stacked in a San Salvador market, El Salvador.  We rode a bus from the marina to explore San Salvador for several days, where the banks had armed guards with sawed off shotguns.  Image taken while cruising Central America in our sailboat 2001.
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  • This landscape photo, from the Boca del Toro region of Panama, shows a wooden pier jutting out from the right side of the image. The pier’s walkway is exactly on the horizon line. At the end of the pier, almost on the left side of the image, we see three separate thatched roofs held up by thin log supports. A soft golden light from the setting sun highlight the thin edge of the pier and thatched roofs facing the camera. The water, a muddy blue-teal pastel, is calm except for long ripples that turn the reflected roofs into dark brown, striated streaks on the surface. A bright blue sky provides a colorful contrast to the bright golden thatched roofs.

    Thatched Cabana Pier

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    The cabana on this pier takes on a golden glow in the setting sun near Bocas del Toro, Panama.  We had no idea that we would never again return: The September 11 terrorist attacks changed the world.  Image taken while cruising Central America in our Hallberg-Rassy HR 42 sailboat 'Andante,' in 2001.
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  • This landscape photo, from the Guna Yala region of Panama, shows dark powder blue water below the horizon, in the middle of the image; and a similarly dark powder blue sky—all through the filter of an imperceptibly light fog. In the middle of the photo, at the horizon line, a small round island is visible. The island is 150-200 feet away, and maybe another 100-feet in diameter. A cluster of dark green and dark teal palm trees rises from every inch of the island, 50-60 feet high. Intersecting the lower left third of the image we see a dugout canoe which is almost parallel to the lens. The stern is slightly more distant than the bow, which is tied to a stick jutting out of the water two canoe-lengths to the right. A fisherman sits in the canoe, his back to us, arms stretched out sideways, as he manages the fishing line.

    Misty Fisherman

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    The San Blas Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Panama, is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  This lone fisherman worked in solitude as the quiet of the evening mist closed around him.  Image taken while cruising the San Blas in our sailboat 2001.
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  • This landscape photo, from the Guna Yala region of Panama, is taken from the perspective of standing on an island beach. In the lower 1/5 of the image we see a small flat wave receding from a dark mauve colored sand. The edge of the water ripples and foams as it pulls away from the beach. Above the receding wave, up to the horizon line in the middle of the photo, various shades of teal-colored water wrinkle from a soft breeze. In the middle of the photo, about 150-feet away, we see a ketch at anchor, its bow facing left into the wind. The setting sun, which is off camera to the right, illuminates the port side of the yacht in a soft golden light. Directly behind the sailboat, and perhaps another 100-feet distant, a small island with dark palm trees provides a backdrop to the bow, stern, and top of the glowing sailboat. A blue sky peeks through many clouds in the top half of the image. Clouds on the right side of the photo are also illuminated by the setting sun, which accents the blue sky with shades of gold, yellow, gray, and lavender.

    San Blas Anchorage

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    The San Blas Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Panama, is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  The only way to truly experience the islands is by sailboat, and we sailed them for a month. Walking the beach on one of these many islands, I looked up to see this ketch gently illuminated by the setting sun.  Shot while cruising the San Blas in our sailboat 2001.
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  • This landscape photo, taken in the Guna Yala region of Panama, looks down into a dugout canoe at two Kuna children. The canoe slices the rectangular image at almost a 45-degree angle, from upper right to lower left. Sitting in the canoe, a sister and brother look up at the camera, curious but unsmiling. The eight-year-old sister steadies herself with her right hand on the starboard gunwale, her left arm around her younger brother, who is perhaps six years old. They both wear shorts and T-shirts, and their legs and knees are scuffed with dirt. She wears a light turquoise sleeveless T-shirt. Her brother wears a green T-shirt with a bright orange collar and orange sleeves down to his elbows. They wait for their father, who is selling us fruits and vegetables onboard our sailboat. The inside of the canoe has small puddles of water. At the top and bottom of the frame we see deep blue water of the Caribbean Ocean.

    San Blas Siblings

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    The San Blas Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Panama, is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  Brother and sister looked up and smiled from their dugout canoe as their father delivered fruits on the stern of our sailboat.  Image made while we were cruising the San Blas in our sailboat 2001.
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  • A close-up landscape photo of a Kuna woman in the Guna Yala region of Panama. The top of the frame starts just below her shoulders and continues several inches below her waist. Arms folded at her waist, each arm is wrapped with a single strand of colorful beads, with clusters of blue, red, and yellow sections. A watch is strapped over the wrist of her topmost arm. Her yellow print blouse displays large gray flowers outlined in black, with black leaves surrounding the buds. Her dark blue skirt features large beige-colored abstract patterns. She is a showcase of multiple colors.

    Beaded Armbands

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    The San Blas Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Panama, is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  The only way to truly experience the islands is by sailboat, and we sailed them for a month.  Women wear mola blouses with patterned skirts, red and yellow head scarfs, arm and leg beads—as shown here.  I love the watch over the armbands.  Taken while we were cruising the San Blas in our sailboat 2001.
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  • Shipwrecked. This image is a landscape photo of a tiny island in the Guna Yala region of Panama. We see a medium close-up of a woman standing on a large driftwood log in the center of the frame. She gazes through binoculars towards the left edge of the photo, searching for rescue. A stiff wind blows her medium-length blond hair off of her face. The sun-bleached driftwood log that she stands on is surrounded by white sand, but the ocean is only a few feet away. Beyond the island a dark blue Caribbean Sea churns over nearby coral reefs, while the blue sky darkens behind her.

    Shipwrecked (3/3)

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    The San Blas Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Panama, is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  We sailed the archipelago for a month.  One day we found this little round little button of an island with white sand, one palm tree, and a grounded freighter in the background.  So we decided to do a 'shipwrecked' triptych.  Bekki donned a dress.  I rowed her to the island in our dinghy, and then rowed away to photograph.  That's trust!  Images made while we were cruising the San Blas in our sailboat 2001.
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  • Shipwrecked. This image is a landscape photo of a tiny island in the Guna Yala region of Panama. The island, covered in white sand, is about 50-feet long. Crystal clear trquoise-colored water surrounds the tiny island in front. Behind the island we see dark blue water of the Caribbean Ocean, and a light blue sky overhead. A lone green palm tree with six palm fronds juts out of the sand 15-feet into the air. A woman stands on a large driftwood log on the left edge of the island. She gazes through binoculars towards the left edge of the photo, searching for rescue.

    Shipwrecked (2/3)

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    The San Blas Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Panama, is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  We sailed the archipelago for a month.  One day we found this little round little button of an island with white sand, one palm tree, and a grounded freighter in the background.  So we decided to do a 'shipwrecked' triptych.  Bekki donned a dress.  I rowed her to the island in our dinghy, and then rowed away to photograph.  That's trust!  Images made while we were cruising the San Blas in our sailboat 2001.
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  • Shipwreck. This image is a medium landscape photo of a tiny island in the Guna Yala region of Panama. The island, covered in white sand, is about 50-feet long. A lone green palm tree with six palm fronds juts out of the sand 15-feet into the air. A woman sits on a bleached-out log to the left and slightly in front of the palm tree—her head buried into her arms which rest on her knees. Her medium-length blond hair covers her face. Several hundred yards in the distance we see a large container ship, listing to port, that has run aground onto a reef.

    Shipwrecked (1/3)

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    The San Blas Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Panama, is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  We sailed the archipelago for a month.  One day we found this little round little button of an island with white sand, one palm tree, and a grounded freighter in the background.  So we decided to do a 'shipwrecked' triptych.  Bekki donned a dress.  I rowed her to the island in our dinghy, and then rowed away to photograph.  That's trust!  Images made while we were cruising the San Blas in our sailboat 2001.
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  • A landscape photo of a tropical island taken in the Guna Yala region of Panama. The upper left side of the image consists of a light blue sky with a few puffy clouds in the distance. The Caribbean Ocean, in patches of light and dark teal, covers the lower left side of the image. In the upper right side we see deep green sunlit palm trees leaning left, over a light beige colored sand beach in the bottom center and lower right side.

    San Blas Islands (2/2)

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    The San Blas Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Panama, is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  We sailed the archipelago for a month, snorkeling and exploring nearby islands.  Image made while we were cruising the San Blas in our sailboat 2001.
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  • A landscape photo of a tropical island taken in the Guna Yala region of Panama. The upper left side of the image shows dark green palm trees leaning to the right over the beach and ocean. In the lower left we see several waterlogged logs that have drifted ashore onto the beige sand. The beach arcs away from the lens in a crescent, forming a light-teal colored bay in the center of the photo. Deeper shades of teal are seen on the right side of the photo as the shallow bay falls into the depths of the Caribbean Ocean. On the horizon we see a band of white clouds, with blue sky overhead.

    San Blas Islands (1/2)

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    The San Blas Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Panama, is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  We sailed the archipelago for a month, snorkeling and exploring nearby islands. Rebecca painted this image, which is now in our home.  Image made while we were cruising the San Blas in our sailboat 2001.
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  • Leaning Windward

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    The San Blas Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Panama, is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  Only the larger islands are inhabited.  Coconuts are harvested on the smaller islands.  A lone coconut palm leans to windward over white sand and turquoise water.  Taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • Landscape portrait of a Kuna woman in the Guna Yala region of Panama. We see the right side of her face, which is exposed to the sun, as she gazes off-camera to the right. She smiles happily. A gold nugget, which glints in the sunlight, pierces the lower part of her nose. On her head she wears a long red cotton scarf, with yellow accents, which trails off her shoulders and below the image frame on the lower left. Bangs hang down from underneath the scarf and sweep across her forehead. She also wears a light blue cotton blouse with white and darker blue floral prints—and a necklace of tiny red beads looped into multiple stranded layers. Behind her a blurred ocean and sky forms a solid blue in the distance.

    Red Scarf (2/2)

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    The San Blas Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Panama, is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  Women wear mola blouses with patterned skirts, red and yellow head scarfs, arm and leg beads, long black lines down the nose, and often a gold nose ring.  Taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • Landscape portrait of a Kuna woman in the Guna Yala region of Panama. We see the right side of her face, which is exposed to the sun, as she gazes off-camera to the right. She smiles, but with her mouth closed. A gold nugget, which glints in the sunlight, pierces the lower part of her nose. On her head she wears a long red cotton scarf, with yellow accents, which trails off her shoulders and below the image frame on the lower left. Bangs hang down from underneath the scarf and sweep across her forehead. She also wears a light blue cotton blouse with white and darker blue floral prints—and a necklace of tiny red beads looped into multiple stranded layers. Behind her a blurred ocean and sky forms a solid blue in the distance.

    Red Scarf (1/2)

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    The San Blas Archipelago, off the northeastern coast of Panama, is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  Women wear mola blouses with patterned skirts, red and yellow head scarfs, arm and leg beads, long black lines down the nose, and often a gold nose ring.  Taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • This horizontal landscape photo shows a sunset in the Guna Yala region of Panama. Taken from the deck of an anchored sailboat, ocean comprises the lower 1/5th of the image. The balance of the image consists of a wall of lavender-colored clouds with a yellow setting sun peeking through the scattered cloud layers in the left upper third. The ocean below reflects the sky’s lavender, yellow, and gold colors in a blended palette of pastels. In the lower right bottom of the image we see the edge of a small island, its palm tree outline silhouetted black against the lavender sky.

    Lavender Sunset

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    A purple pastel sunset while at anchor in the San Blas Archipelago of Panama.  Off the northeastern coast, the archipelago is home to the Kuna Yala—an indigenous people that inhabit its 365 coastal islands.  The only way to truly experience the island is by sailboat, and we sailed the islands for a month.  Image made while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • A landscape (layout) photo of a wall of an abandoned building in Panama City, Panama. Three boarded up doorways on the second story each have their own wrought iron balcony. Underneath the three upper doors are three more doors on the ground floor. Teal colored stonework frames each of these doors on both sides and a keystone arch overhead. The ground level doors have wrought iron fences barring access. Paint on the beige-colored stucco wall cracks, flakes, and peals with age. The setting sun casts golden light on the upper 2/3s of the image, while the lower 1/3 is in a softer golden shadow.

    Wrought Iron Twilight

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    Walking Panama City (Panama) one evening as the sun set, I came across this abandoned building just at golden hour, as the sun slipped below the horizon.  The combination of wrought iron railings and teal-colored tile arches formed an unusual color palette on the facade, with the decaying building behind it.  Shot while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • A landscape (layout) photo taken from the cockpit of a sailboat under sail in the Gulf of Chiriqui, on Panama’s Pacific coast. The horizon bisects the image horizontally, balanced with blue sky above and blue ocean below. Golden clouds can be seen on the left edge of the photo from an off-camera sunset. The forward half of a sailboat’s cockpit, mast, and bow is visible on the right side of the image. Its boom stretches from overhead to the mast in the center of the image, where it intersects with the horizon. A man steers at the helm as the boat plunges into a white foam wave off the forward port quarter, which points the bow towards the horizon line.

    30 Knots in the Gulf of Chiriqui

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    This is one of my favorite photos from my 3-years of cruising the Pacific on our Hallberg-Rassy 42, 'Andante.'  We were sailing in flat seas in the Gulf of Chiriqui as we made our way toward the Panama Canal.  Suddenly, wind and seas perked up with no clouds anywhere.  My friend and accomplished sailor, Chris Brown, on a close reach as the sun set on the horizon.  Transparency taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • Taken from the deck of an anchored sailboat, we look six feet down to the blue waters of Bahia Honda, a bay off the Pacific Ocean on the west coast of Panama. Two wooden boats, each about the size of a canoe, float in the blue water with the apex of the canoes close to the camera and the sterns fanning out left and right in opposite directions. Each canoe holds two shirtless boys, ranging in age from 9 to 18-years old. The boys smile as they stare curiously at the sailboat in front of them, which they have paddled out to investigate.

    Curious Canoe Friends

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    Bahia Honda, Panama, became one of the most memorable anchorages of our Pacific cruise.  The howler monkeys on shore sounded like gorillas.  No photos of the gorillas, but these inquisitive boys paddled up for a look.  Bekki discovered from the boys that a small store was located at a nearby village—where she bought a cake mix for my 48th birthday.  Transparency taken with a Leicaflex while cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • This landscape photo taken in Tikal, Guatemala, looks over the top of a jungle canopy in the lower 2/3s of the image, its colors ranging from bright lime to deep forest green. We look down on the archeological ruins of the Temple of Talud and Tablero in the lower left third of the image, and up to the Temple of the Double Headed Serpent in the upper right corner with its roof comb high above the treeline. A ridge of mountains can be seen on the horizon, several miles distant, with a blue cloudless sky above.

    Temple 33 and Temple of the Double Headed Serpent

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    An additional perspective on Temple IV (Temple of the Double Headed Serpent) in the background, with Temple 33 in the foreground.  Only the base of Temple 33 now remains.  I sat at my photo vantage point for 15-minutes, listening to the jungle and birds.  Taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • A straight-on photo of Temple II (Temple of the Masks), in Tikal, Guatemala. A steep 34-foot wide stairway, which dominates the photo, starts at ground level in front and ascends to the upper third of the image. The stairs are flanked by three foundation levels, built in thirds, from larger at the bottom to smaller at the top. A large 43-foot high roof comb projects up from top platform. Two people sit inside the doorway of the roof comb, facing the stairs. The pyramid is framed by blue sky at the top, green grass at the bottom, and trees both left and right.

    Temple of the Masks 1

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    Tikal became the most powerful kingdom of the ancient Maya, and it is awe-inspiring.  This shot of Temple II (Temple of the Masks) is center-framed looking straight up the massive stairs that need to be climbed sideways due to their steepness.  Taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • Tikal, Guatemala. A zoom shot taken from a nearby pyramid shows the roof comb of Temple IV (Temple of the Double Headed Serpent)—at a height of 212-feet. The roof comb, which appears in the left third of the image, floats over lush green trees below it. A cloudless blue sky provides a colorful background. We see several people standing inside the doorway of the dark gray roof comb.

    Temple of the Double Headed Serpent 1

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    I love this shot of Tikal's Temple IV (Temple of the Double Headed Serpent) as it looks across the jungle on a level plane to the top of the structure, 212 feet from its base.  If you squint, you can almost imagine the torchlight ceremony in the doorway.  Taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • Tikal, Guatemala. The Temple of the Giant Jaguar, fills the photo from the perspective of standing at ground level 200-feet distant, looking up 180-feet up the face of the steep pyramid to the high roof comb. Blue sky and white clouds provide a backdrop for the upper 2/3s of the temple, which is framed by green trees on both sides. Ten visitors walking along the base of the pyramid appear miniscule.

    Temple of the Great Jaguar

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    Tikal became the most powerful kingdom of the ancient Maya, and it is awe-inspiring.  When we visited in 2001 it was relatively devoid of visitors.  This shot of Temple I (Temple of the Great Jaguar) is taken from the back.  A line of visitors in the shadow provides perspective.  Taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • A close-up photo (landscape layout) of colorful cloth belts hanging vertically at the Chichicastenango market, Guatemala. The embroidery on each belt is extremely finely stitched, showing off significant detail in each piece. Patterns include diamonds, zigzags, Xs, chevrons, stripes, and more. Most of the belts are multicolored—with every color imaginable in the color wheel.

    Guatemalan belts (2/2)

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    More wonderful geometric patterns and earthen colors in these Guatemalan embroidered ... belts?  I'm not sure exactly what these would be used for.  Perhaps if the cord is worn out on the bell you ring the butler with.  This image works alone, or as a diptych with image #1.  Taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • A close-up photo (landscape layout) of colorful cloth belts hanging vertically at the Chichicastenango market, Guatemala. The embroidery on each belt is extremely finely stitched, showing off significant detail in each piece. Patterns include diamonds, zigzags, Xs, chevrons, stripes, and more. Most of the belts are multicolored—with every color imaginable in the color wheel.

    Guatemalan belts (1/2)

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    More wonderful geometric patterns and earthen colors in these Guatemalan embroidered ... belts?  I'm not sure exactly what these would be used for.  Perhaps if the cord is worn out on the bell you ring the butler with.  This image works alone, or as a diptych with image #2.  Taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • A medium shot photo (landscape layout) showing a stack of 15-20 plastic multicolored woven baskets for sale at the Chichicastenango market, Guatemala. The oval-shaped baskets measure 1-2 feet in width. They have been thrown into a disorganized heap: sideways, right-side up, and upside down. Each basket’s color combination is different, and colors are wildly mixed: pink, white, red, green, yellow, orange, black, and purple.

    Pink and Purple Plastic Baskets

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    Predictable title, but it's descriptive of the subject. This stack of plastic baskets in a Chichicastenango (Guatemala) market was piled indiscriminately in a jumbled mess. Not sure how you would find the just the right basket for you, but it was a fun shot.  Taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • Close-up landscape photo of 10 braided plastic ropes laid out in a row at the Chichicastenango market, Guatemala. Each rope is about ¼-inch thick—looped and tied in the middle, with the loops at the top and bottom of the image. We see a rainbow of color combinations: orange and green, green and yellow, light and dark blue, red and white, red and blue.

    Braided Hues

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    My penchant for color attracted me to this stack of plastic braided ropes in a Chichicastenango market.  The red ropes on top punctuate the predominantly blues and greens underneath.  Shot taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • Close-up landscape photo of a woman, perhaps in her fifties, selling white corn at a market in Chichicastenango, Guatemala. In the lower half of the photo she has laid out a sheet of black plastic onto the street, over which she has poured a mound of white corn kernels that form a pyramid in the lower third of the image. In the upper half of the photo we see a large empty burlap gunny sack, laying on the sidewalk, used to transport the corn. She sits adjacent to her corn, with both legs tucked underneath her knees. Her long black hair, which is pulled to the back of her neck, matches her black long-sleeve sweater. She wears a Guatemalan embroidered blouse with red, orange, yellow, and pink flowers, and a dark blue skirt. Her eyes sparkle as she smiles at the camera without parting her lips.

    Chichicastenango Maize

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    Like all third-world countries, vendors find any available space to sell their wares.  This woman spread her corn on a Chichicastenango street.  While not as colorful as most of my other images, the white corn spread out on the street, and her sweet smile, compelled me to take the shot.  Transparency taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • A horizontal landscape photo of a white stucco wall in Old Town, San Diego. The wall is brightly illuminated by the full-on overhead sun. A vertical window intersects the left third of the image. Framed with weathered wood painted olive-green, the narrow 3-foot wide window is centered underneath a six-foot long lintel, which is embedded into the stucco wall. The olive-colored lintel and window contrast dramatically against the white stucco wall. At the top edge of the image, shadows from the Spanish style tile roof (which is not visible) frame the upper edge of the photo in a narrow strip along the horizontal length of the white wall.

    Rancho Californio (1/3)

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    San Diego's Old Town (started in 1769 as California's first settlement) has wonderful examples Spanish Colonial architecture, where Spanish colonists built single-story adobe structures with flat roofs.  Part of a triptych.
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  • Close-up landscape head and shoulder photo portrait of a Guatemalan shamaness on a mountainside in Chichicastenango. The composition shows her on the right side of the image, with the left side comprised of blurred dark green trees in the background. The light is soft and diffuse. Wearing a traditional brightly colored embroidered blouse with multicolored pink, red, and blue flowers—and a similarly multicolored tapestry folded onto her head—she looks directly at the camera. Her jewelry consists of 1-inch looped silver earrings and a necklace with clear glass beads.

    Mayan Shaman (1/2)

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    While exploring Chicicastenango someone in the village informed us of a shaman couple that were performing a Mayan ceremony up on the hill.  Following a nearby trail, we found this husband and wife, and they allowed me to photograph them.  Husband and wife are a diptych.  Transparency taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat 2000-2001.
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  • Close-up (landscape layout) photo of eight different multicolored tapestries hanging on a rack in a Santiago Atitlan marketplace, Guatemala. Each tapestry displays rows of multicolored Mayan-themed iconography and images depicting birds, suns, volcanoes, pyramids, priests, and Mayan gods. Four of the tapestries have beige or brown backgrounds, two are dark green, and one is a bright sky blue. The detailed embroidery work portrays its subjects in significant detail.

    Mayan Spirits

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    Wall of colorful Mayan textiles hanging in a market in Chichicastenango, Guatemala.  This image taken while we were cruising Central America in our sailboat from 2000-2001.  We rented a car in Guatemala City and drove to the city of Antigua and the surrounding area, including Chichicastenango.  I titled this "Mayan Spirits" not only because of the Mayan stories and themes embedded into this wonderfully colorful embroidery—but also because you can almost feel the ancestral spirits everywhere in this magical country.
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  • Medium shot of a roof sail section and glass windows of the Sydney Opera House taken from the front promenade. Roof sails are framed by clear blue sky. Shows exterior construction detail.

    Opera Sails (3/3)

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    The Sydney Opera House triptych is from transparencies shot with a Leicaflex in the 1980s.  In addition to the profile of the entire building I decided to focus several shots on close-ups of the sail roof.  This highlights the architecture with abstract perspectives that are relatively unique.
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  • Side view of the Sydney Opera House in front of a cloudless blue sky, showing all of its white concrete sail-shaped roof sections. Image taken from a boat on Sydney Harbor. Sydney, Australia.

    Opera Sails (1/3)

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    The Sydney Opera House series are from transparencies shot with a Leicaflex in the 1980s.  Part of a triptych, this profile of the opera house provides context for the closer shots of the roof sails.
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