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Just last week I was presented with an interesting challenge by one of the more unusual hotels in town. The Anniversary Inn features elaborately designed rooms based on a dozen or so fanciful and/or historical themes. Every room in the house is a delight and surprise when you open the door and step into it. You could be walking into Catherine the Great's bedroom, a biker bar complete with pool

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I live just a couple of hundred yards from the Boise River, whose course provides the right-of-way for our Green Belt. As it winds its way through the city of Boise it provides a generous variety of scenery and natural attractions. The little stretch near me has several stands of cottonwood forests, islands, and ponds that I've become quite familiar with. It's odd that that familiarity

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There's no doubt that we can come up with breath taking, reality defying images using HDR and I'll be the first to admit I'm always ready to push the envelope in that direction. There are times, however, when we are required to stay within the bounds of credibility in order not to convey a false impression. Real estate photography is what I have immediately in mind. Straight forward

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I've wanted to catch you up on my efforts with HDR (see previous post). But I must not have wanted to do it that badly, I hear you murmur. Well, keeping a roof over and food on can be a time consuming business, which some of you may have noticed.Last winter I was approached by a very successful Australian interior designer, Fiona Lochtenberg, to do an in-depth photo shoot of her new house at

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In my last entry which was, pathetically, some time ago, I mentioned my new and growing fanhood of High Dynamic Range photography (HDR). I have done a lot of it since then and have slogged my way through the fascination of the exotic and fantastic results one can achieve with it that can be, to say the least, rather extreme (but fun).For several years, the number one software for generating HDR

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It's nice to be noticed from time to time.In September I received a nice note from Karl Haudbourg, a fellow in Serbia that had come across my site while twittering (proof that there is indeed marketing potential in these "social media" things). He took note of my page dedicated to Serbia and realized immediately that it would be fodder for his blog "Serbia's Ambassador to the World", wherein he

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Building a website when one has no formal training in doing such is usually a bad idea. On the other hand, if one has not the necessary riches at hand to hire someone to do it for one, then there may be no other option. Seems like the story of one's life: do it one's self or don't do it at all.Well, one found an alternative.For the past few weeks I have been working away at my new site with

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We took a day trip last Sunday into my favorite Idaho county, Owyhee. This vast chunk of country pretty much occupies the entire southwest corner of the state but is home to just under 11,000 people, and that's one of the reasons I like it so much. The road we drove is billed as the Owyhee Uplands Scenic Byway, which is exactly what it is but gives away nothing of what one can expect to see.

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I'm still working through a bunch of old prints from my Mexico days - boy, do the memories come back with those pictures!In the last post I mentioned a series of photos that I took on a magic mushroom adventure in the Mazateca mountains of Oaxaca way back when I was somewhat more rambunctious than I am now. You'll see a few of them below.I was working as a stringer for Newsweek and the New York

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I found a box of old B&W prints dating from my Mexico City days and was immediately transported in the Way Back Machine to those dusty years. Here's a few of what I found.Back in the early '70s I was enjoying an extended visit with a friend in Northern California who persuaded me to buy a pretty nifty Mercier racing bike. I began to ride all over the hills of Sonoma County, taking on mountains

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Welcome!I haven't blogged since selling my t-shirt company (Going Postal T-shirts) last summer, so it's time I got serious about my photographic endeavors once more and get it in gear.Up front, I'll tell you this is about both the promotion of my photography and the promotion of my self. (They might be the same when it comes right down to it.) And that will be my one and only admission of this

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