Month: July 2008

driving….

Mike waiting for me to finish this post..the boy wants to hit the road!!!!!!   i must check out of my Iowa motel right now….heading for Chicago or somewhere near Chicago…i was reading comments, looking at links and made the comment below….i decided this might make a good post , so here it is: HELLO …

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how the west was won….

    around 30,000 years ago the descendants of the Navajo and Apache tribes of New Mexico crossed the Bering Sea from Siberia and became nomadic tribes hunting freely in the fecund mountains and desert where the trendy town of Santa Fe now sits…. Europeans whose culture was far more "advanced" by the 16th century …

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“goin’ to hell”….

"I just don’t know how long I can take it down here anymore. Too much traffic nowadays, too many tourists. They have overbuilt the beach. When I came down here, things were different.The place is goin’ to hell"    the look on Michael Halminski’s  face when he says this, reflects both pain and confusion…..the old …

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self-portrait selection…..

Les   David   Suryo Wibowo ok, we have the three best forum self-portraits as curated by Magnum photographer Chris Anderson….Chris said he chose these because of "their overall photographic quality, sense of humor, and the intelligence that went into them"…..there is  a link below to the 37 photographs from which he chose… these were …

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sunset over Manhattan….

HELLO ALL… i am having the most amazing afternoon…the sun is setting over lower Manhattan..such a cliché…Mike and Marie are here and we are having a rollicking good time….i asked them to do a "screening" of the self portraits you submitted, none of which i had seen before….as you know, i have been pretty busy …

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