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“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
– Marc Riboud
(French Photographer)
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📷 Moon Boats of Bangladesh
Where craftsmanship is shaped by sea and sand I traveled to Bangladesh in February 2020 (just weeks before the world shut down), to document the incredible work of Voice of America journalists working in and…
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📷 Where the Past Still Walks
In Shepherdstown, the past isn’t gone—it’s just waiting for nightfall. The Shepherdstown Mystery Walk ghost tour starts a little before sunset, when the shadows start to stretch and the brick street near the visitor’s center still holds…
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📷 Palm Sunday in St. Peter’s Square
Anticipation, ritual, and observation in Rome On March 29, 2026, we woke early to attend Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square—one of the few things that had made it onto our “must-do” list before…
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📷 Namba Yasaka Shrine; The Lion That Swallows Fear
One of our favorite stop in Osaka was the Namba District. And in the Naniwa neighborhood, we spent some time at the Namba Yasaka Shrine, best known for its monumental Shishiden—a giant lion’s head whose wide-open mouth…
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📷 Gotokuji, The Lucky Cat Temple
Gotokuji is famous for its cats — rows and rows of white maneki-neko, their paws raised in perpetual beckoning. Visually, its quite satisfying — eye candy almost — with its repetition, the color, the cuteness….
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📷 Dunes of Morocco
From a distance, the Erg Chigaga dunes of southern Morocco appear smooth and continuous, but up close, you see patterns made by shadows, footprints, and the wind. It’s a reminder that the desert is constantly…
