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What is Street Photography? - and what it isn't

May 24, 2013 - I was incited to write this post after looking through a great many 'street photo' forum posts and reading online discus...
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The Meaning of 'meaning'

April 15, 2013 - 'Meaning' in art simply describes some sort of connection or communication with the viewer. The viewer see something, an...
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How to improve your photography: your own twelve step program

April 11, 2013 - I originally thought of titling this post 'why short courses and workshops are terrible, tutorials and books slightly be...
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The secret to taking pictures of people in a foreign country - for me at least

April 07, 2013 - Somewhere someone said that the photographer's attitude is the key to getting good street photos, as opposed to the size...
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A Day on Inle Lake

February 16, 2013 - We were at the end of second week in Myanmar and had arrived in Nyaung Shwe, the large town at the northern end of Inle...
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Getting to a Final Image - some words on editing photos for a new photographer

January 03, 2013 - The typical way to get into editing is mechanical. People learn some photo-editing techniques or tricks and then they wa...
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Shooting in P mode & Why photographers defend their methods

December 26, 2012 - This a short post I wrote for a popular photo site where there is a high percentage of relatively new photographers. It...
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Getting to the image - how people see and how the photographer can use that. Pt 1

November 22, 2012 - This is the first of a series of posts that deal with how viewers of any level of photographic sophistication actually p...
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Semiotics of Images - why some images are more comfortable than others -Part 2

November 21, 2012 - Semiotics Content is king. Whatever else people 'get' from an image, how they relate to the subject either intellectual...
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Creating an image - the important things and a false start on composition - Part 3

November 20, 2012 - As far as I am concerned, the photographer must see through to the final image from the very start of the process, even...
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Managing the Center(s) of Interest - Part 4

November 19, 2012 - Centers of interest People look at your pictures and instinctively try to figure out why everything is there and why ea...
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Adventures on the Road in Northern Laos

September 08, 2012 - There are two kinds of tourists in Laos. The first is those tourists with more money and little time; these fly into the...
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Adventures on the Road in Northern Laos Part 2

September 07, 2012 - Before I disclose whether I lived through being stranded in the middle of the night in an empty dirt lot in a small town...
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Adventures on the Road in Northern Laos - the third and last part

September 05, 2012 - Westerners can't really understand the dramatic difference between travel in the West and in the third world countries o...
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Photography as Art

September 01, 2012 - I sing only passibly, can't write more skillfully than that, can't draw water and can barely play music on a radio. I wa...
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Images of Summer

August 30, 2012 - Summer images For those who enjoy larger images, I have put these pictures on a slideshow at my website. Just click thi...
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Esther, Sitting By the Road

August 01, 2012 - It was my first time back in Yangon, Myanmar – formerly known as Rangoon, Burma and it had not changed perceptively in t...
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Almost fluent in my native tongue

February 22, 2012 - I like the English language, it seems unending to read or to write. I love writers like Hitchems or Nabokov or the like...
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Pictures of Involuntary Memory

December 15, 2010 - I am a slave to involuntary memory; cues encountered in my everyday life that evoke strong recollections of the past wit...
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The color of small money

September 09, 2010 - The hill people of South East Asia– the montagnards – have little interest to national borders and many of them fought f...
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Note to any reader.

My most interesting and meaningful, to me, posts are on travel and I encourage you strongly to click on the travel keyword below to list them.

It is difficult to pick a favorite and that varies according to my mood, but my favorite countries are Burma (Myanmar), Laos and Vietnam in that order and I encourage you to read at least these three.

Esther, sitting by the road - a chance meeting in Rangoon inspired this story

Adventures on the road in Laos  - the link to the first in a 3 parter

Meeting a Man who wanted to kill me - a story from my first trip back to Vietnam

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