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A Most Challenging Look
Continue ReadingIn their frankness her eyes disconcert me. She projects a feline look — bold, provocative; her lips curl toward a snarl and her teeth show just slightly — maybe in anger. She is a spectator on a sidewalk waiting for a parade to commence. To honor Saint Patrick, our lady has turned out in purple […]
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Chagrin — Vol. 2
Continue ReadingThe little fellow on the right is definitely chagrined — feeling disappointment, humiliation and upset. His friend appears to commiserate.
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Young Woman With Mixed Emotions
Continue ReadingShe rides on a float in a parade and waves half-halfheartedly toward people on a crowded sidewalk. She expresses complex emotions. I did not see what prompted this look; the event appeared and disappeared too suddenly. She has observed something she despises. A combination of anger, bitterness and disgust definitely shows up on her face. […]
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Chagrin — Captured in the Wild
Continue ReadingCHAGRIN: Disquietude. Distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment or failure. Vexed, frustrated, annoyed, disappointed, expressing displeasure. If life, liberty and all of the future depended on it, I could not recreate on my face this expression of pure chagrin. I recorded the lady at a race track in Middle America. Catching her reaction […]
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On Losing That First Love
Continue Reading“Never give all the heart …. He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.” William Butler Yeats I remember the warmth she gave To reciprocal talk on humid nights, Our bodies jointly radiant, listening To raindrops chime on stained glass. In satin yellow light Water-beads cast shadows […]
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An Inhabitant of Cairo Streets
Continue ReadingI took our photograph through the windshield of a taxi on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Our subject is well-groomed considering he spends much of his life cleaning streets with primitive equipment. Off the boulevards he no doubt lives in cramped, poorly-maintained housing, lacking private amenities. In spite of this he has trimmed his beard, […]
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Survivor On A Salt Lake Sidewalk
Continue ReadingI saw our lady approaching a long way off — ambling in fits and starts down an incline toward me. I noticed surrounding pedestrians in the distance snap their heads toward her, as if reacting to a loud noise; just as quickly they turned back to their own business. When our survivor-of-the-modern-world stopped, she stood […]
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From the Ghost Collection — A North American Frontiersman
Continue ReadingHe is Pre-American (before nationhood) therefore a stateless subject of the English King. His buckskin — and the improvised uniform lacking insignia — give him away. Beyond the determination evident in the way he holds his mouth, our subject gives us only enigmatical indications of his present state of mind. He has dropped in from […]
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Human Hands VIII — The Indecent Gesture
Continue ReadingI took this picture in Western Carolina at a saloon packed with intoxicated customers. I did not expect one of these wholesome college girls with excellent dental hygiene would give me the finger as I operated my camera. It was such a crowded scene full of rowdiness I did not notice the obscenity until the […]
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