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I sit in a 500-year-old patio where Pissarro prepared to conquer a chunk of South America. Classical music plays from speakers. Morning coffee and jugo de naranja just arrived. Palms jiggle in the morning breeze like a hula skirt. This is good. I’m waiting for Randy Olson or Melissa Farlow, Loup Langton or Lelen Robert or Maggie [...]
April 21, 2008 – 10:23 pm, Speaking Spanish: SomosFoto
Pictorial sounds like such a pleasant word. The word must be about pleasant pictures. Sure enough, it is, most of the time. Our tendency is to define types of pictures into categories, mostly so we can enter images that match those descriptions in contest categories, from whence the definitions come. I wonder how many readers see [...]
March 2, 2008 – 9:25 pm, Pictorials Are Pictures, Too