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Camp Manitou!  It occurred to me at the end of last year that I never made time for our annual family vacation pictures.  After looking back this afternoon, however, I realized I skipped it in 2024 and 2025.  I was so busy with all my other images I wanted to share, I just never got...

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You've perhaps noticed by now that Dubai has become a regular stop in my travels.  There's a work conference there every year that has proven to be quite beneficial for my research team, so I've attended it the last three years.  This year, in fact, we were due to go back in April for another...

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Sometimes the best ideas are the ones you have when you get home.  Over the last couple of weeks I've written some about creative vision for my images - and this is definitely one of those images where I saw it in my head before I went and shot it.  I wasn't completely sure how...

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Built in the 1880's, the Bud Ogle tub mill in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a short walk from Cherokee Orchard Rd, behind the Bud Ogle cabin) looks strikingly primitive when compared to the Reagan mill, built just 10 years later.  To be fair, the Reagan mill was recently restored, while the Ogle mill...

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According to park documents, Ephraim Bales built this cabin in 1890, and he and his wife Minerva ("Nervy" - love that) raised their nine children here.  Can you imagine?  Eleven people in a two room house.  As a 6'2" person, I had to stoop to get through the doors, and I was never terribly confident...

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