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Parts⠀ ⠀ If you're looking for a part for your car, Willets Point is the place to go. No matter the make or model of your car, the junk yards and auto parts stores will likely have what you need.
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Willets Point⠀ ⠀ The area just east of Citi Field in Queens has had a long and controversial history. This industrial section is currently under assault by modernization, gentrification, and capitalism, like so many other older neighborhoods in the NYC a
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Historic San Miguel ⠀ ⠀ Cobblestone streets and colorful buildings come together in San Miguel de Allende, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. San Miguel was the first city that was declared independent of Spanish rule by the army during the Mexican War of Ind
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The People We Meet⠀ ⠀ There are some places where taking pictures of people is really easy, like India and Cambodia. There are places were taking people pictures is nearly impossible, like Morocco and Singapore. Everywhere else, it's about getting the p
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Walking Stick⠀ ⠀ I told you a few posts ago that I shot this yellow church multiple times over several days. That's the beauty of "living" in a place for a few days. The light here was special. And the location itself was a treasure trove of photographi
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An Invitation to Enter⠀ ⠀ I'm inspired by the work of many artists and photographers. Before going to San Miguel de Allende, I made sure to reacquaint myself with @richard.martin.photo and his stunning vision and execution of color, shape, and shadow. H
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The Stories They Could Tell⠀ ⠀ There are places that have stories. Sometimes it's a wall or a room, a step or a tree root. In San Miguel every corner and street seemed to have a story. As I walked by an outdoor juice stand, these stools screamed out to
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San Miguel Streets⠀ ⠀ All around the main plaza in San Miguel are food stalls and vendors selling dolls, hats, and other trinkets.
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Afternoon Labor Upon arriving in San Miguel de Allende, we were delighted to discover our Airbnb overlooked this fantastic yellow church that was being given a bit of a facelift. Even though the buildings aren't that tall, the narrow, cobblestone street
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St. John's Anglican Church The only church in the small village of Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia is St. John's Anglican Church. It was built in 1893-94 of wood and is in the Carpenter Gothic style. If I understand correctly, due to the abundance of wood in
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Peggy's Cove Peggy's Cove is a quaint little village about an hour out of Halifax. While the lighthouse may be the most photographed lighthouse in the Northeast, the town, is quintessential, perched on rocks in a very small harbor, and just as photogen
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Ageless Here is another image highlighting daily life in Cuba away from the tourists. On a weekend afternoon, tucked away in a Havana neighborhood, there is this African Rumba club. Rumba combines Spanish and African music brought to the island from bo
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Practice My goal for this set of images is to highlight the daily life in Cuba instead of the tourist view. What is life like outside of colors, classic cars, and cigars? On my first day in Havana, we stopped at a sports complex. This was a Saturday a
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Baseball Baseball is a big thing in Cuba. It was brought into the country in the 1860's and became the national sport. From street games to pro sports, baseball is played almost anywhere or any time. This game was taking place in the Regla neighborhoo
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Transporting Greens I've had a lot of questions about how I do these motion images. I aim for a shutter speed of 1/15 sec. That seems to be the sweet spot where I can blur the image and still pan at a speed that matches the movement of the scene to ren
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On the Corner In this series called India in Motion, either the camera, the photographer, or the subject are in motion - and sometimes it's all three. It's a lot of trial and error shooting out of a van going 50 miles and hour, or shooting from a tuk tu
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Chokhi Dhani @shamikphotography and I are deep in the planning and preparation stages for our upcoming trip to India. Flights and hotels are booked, but more research is needed on what to do in each location and what time of day to visit. I love this
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Safe Harbor We woke up to a dense fog this morning in Lunenburg and scampered over to the little community of Blue Rocks to shoot everything we did the previous evening. You know, fog changes everything! The largest tides in the world occur in the Bay
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That little community called Blue Rocks just outside of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia is a landscape photographers dream. We only spend one night in Lunenburg, but we stopped here the first evening as clouds and light rain were rolling in. The scenes in and ar
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Magical We had an amazing morning on Prince Edward Island watching the sun rise over the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Luckily, we had scouted this location the night before and we knew the best vantage point was down the cliffs on these rocks near the water. As
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Memories Darkened hallways in the abandoned isolation ward on Ellis Island give you a glimpse of what it may have looked like when the hospital was open. Can you imagine how scary it must have been to arrive in a new country, fail the medical inspection,
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Into the Light As I mentioned in my last post, the hospital complex on Ellis Island was a tremendous success story from a public health perspective. Both doctors and nurses stayed on Ellis Island to serve the needs of the patients. I think this is one o
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Boat House Blue Rocks is a quaint, tranquil little town nestled on the South Shore about 5 minutes out of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It's a bit like Peggy's Cove, but smaller, without a lighthouse. * * I was drawn to this scene because of the layers prese
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Peggys Cove Lighthouse I have wanted to go to Nova Scotia for several years. I don't really even know why Nova Scotia was on my list. There was something pulling me there. We go to Maine pretty regularly and we had a discussion about how different cou
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park Happy 100th to the National Park System (hey, I'm celebrating your birth year). From Yellowstone and Yosemite, to Arches and Shenandoah, the US National Parks are treasure I enjoy whenever I can. Thank you for providing
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Skidmore Bay - Glacier Bay National Park Glacier Bay National Park holds a special place in my heart. I worked at the Lodge for 3 summers in college. Then I had the pleasure of working on small ships that cruised the Inside Passage and Glacier Bay for
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Star Trails - The Devils Golf Course - Death Valley One of the greatest things about the US is our National Park system which protects unique areas for the world to explore and enjoy. Death Valley National Park has so many ecosystems that are interesti
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The Bathtub Essaouira was one of my favorite cities we visited in Morocco. A small fishing village perched on the edge of the North Atlantic has a unique charm. A walled fortress encircles the medina and the working harbor brings in a wide variety of th
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Old Town Havana, oh Havana -- it's a photographer's dream to wander here. The area of Old Havana is full of friendly people who are eager to talk and engage in a conversation on streets abundant with a cacophony of colors and classic cars Given the pop
