My local JCC sponsors a photography contest every year; last year's honorees went on display around the same time that I started working out there, and I must admit that I was envious of all the exhibitors. I also like to think that I've taken a few decent pictures over the last two years (the period of eligibility for the competition) -- in fact, ( Read more... )

I like to pretend that one of the disadvantages of travelling with my mother is that I cannot wrest the camera from her hands without a prybar; in reality, however, she's quite happy to let me take all the snapshots I want. It's just that I only want to take a picture when I see the cover of National Geographic. Show me rare wildlife or exotic ( Read more... )

Long delayed: one photograph of the sunrise over Lake Titicaca.

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I am updating from Cuzco, Peru, where I have altitude sickness; this is a step up from Peurto Maldonado, where I had constant heatstroke. The one constant through it all since I left Lima (which is lovely, by the way, though we never saw the sun through the omnipresent mist and haze) has been my turistaI am having fun and hope to actually be ( Read more... )