Zenfolio

I have moved my online picture-sharing from flickr to zenfolio.  I love zenfolio’s interface.  It’s elegantly simple without ads and other such distractions.  It’s just about the pictures, thank you very much.
This is a photograph I took inside the Sydney Opera House last May.  It’s in my “Sydney” gallery at zenfolio.
(And I’m crass enough to [...]

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Powwow

I mentioned below that I attended part of the 2007 Plains Indian Museum Powwow. I’ve now posted my set of photos from the Powwow to zenfolio – here.  [They were originally at flickr but I've moved it all to zenfolio as of October 2007.]
I’d never been to a powwow and wasn’t sure what to expect. [...]

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Serendipitous artwork

How to create an art work without paint or canvas:
Take your little old Nikon Coolpix 7900 digital camera to the viewing point at Ayers Rock Resort from which you can see Uluru, just before dawn. Set it to the landscape mode. Hold it as still as possible and click as the sun rises.
Oops. You didn’t [...]

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Airports

So, call me a pervert, but I really like airports. Even the crummy ones are interesting to me.
The lovely surprise on my recent trip was the Queenstown airport (ZQN). A new jewel in a gorgeous setting – okay, that’s a cliché but that’s the best I can do here.
I was never so happy to have [...]

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Mystery

If you research too much, maybe you won’t get surprises.
You might not turn a corner in a new place and feel your sense of perspective shake.
Your jaw might not drop.
You could forget that life is bigger than your hard drive or your library or your wide-angle lens.
I’m glad I didn’t get around to reading much [...]

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