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Bending In Prayer on a Chilly Afternoon
Continue ReadingThere is a tiny mosque — basically an empty storefront with public faucets — located every two or three blocks in Cairo, Egypt. Some preachers at these modest places on Friday draw crowds of worshipers, at times overflowing the sidewalk into the street, where mats must be rolled out to form a continuous surface for […]
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Man Focused On Winning
Continue ReadingI made this portrait of a rider mounted on a thoroughbred horse in muted sunlight a few minutes before a race. The image reflects his determination to win. His lips are grimly set, head upturned toward future victory, overall projecting strength and confidence. Nevertheless his face shows some diluting of that expression. I perceive […]
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Concerning Cairo Sidewalks
Continue ReadingA new resident out for a stroll in Cairo, Egypt will right away notice the lack of continuous sidewalks. Getting around in most neighborhoods requires learning to expect stumbling blocks at every turn. In my district everyone walks in the street hugging parked cars — the only practical choice. Directly outside your building pavement exists […]
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The Joy of Small Victories
Continue ReadingThis photograph was not created at the Olympic Games. It is not an NCAA championship, or a even city-sponsored marathon. It is a provincial race across humid and heavily-forested terrain in the state of Illinois. There will be no award ceremony for this competitor because his team did not win, or even place highly. Notice […]
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Calls To Prayer On Testosterone
Continue ReadingHaving lived in Egypt above a neighborhood mosque for nearly two years, I was accustomed to hearing the daily call to prayer at first light. I could sleep through it after a while despite its amplified intrusion into my room. My first awakenings in Yemen — in the ancient part of the capital city — […]
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Boy With A Wasting Disease
Continue ReadingThe boy had contracted the tuberculosis bacterium, causing a wasting disease among the scourges of the 19th century. Here he reclines in a camp alongside his grieving sister — both of them orphaned refugees amidst the devastation of the Civil War — their home now a make-shift tent, their uppermost concerns finding enough to […]
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My Favorite Re-Enactor
Continue ReadingThere was something special about Katie. She was impersonating an 18th century woman on the Ohio frontier. I fastened on her emerald green eyes, whose pupils were surrounded by yellow/orange coronas —- irregular in shape like solar flares. In our brief encounter her range of facial expression astonished me. She could switch from beautiful […]
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A Woman With Attitude
Continue ReadingThe lady has edge and attitude — in a warmhearted and humorous way. Blended emotions appear on her face, making her expression hard to unravel; without knowing the prior situation and the conversation preceding our photograph, we can only guess. A feeling of disbelief or feigned shock? Whatever happened it seems she knew it […]
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The Pre-Teen Beauty Queen
Continue ReadingOf the many perplexing curiosities one finds in the United States, for me the pre-teen beauty queen ranks among the strangest, and the most disturbing. We have strict laws and registration requirements to contain pedophiles — outlawing even the possession of child pornography in digital form — yet parents allow and assist their twelve […]
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