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Being There

23 images Created 8 Jul 2014

I usually make an image that shows what it was like to me to be there doing whatever it was I was doing. Often this has meant being a passenger. Sometimes it's just my feet with some context. Still, each one brings back the complete memory of the experience.

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  • Photographer reflected in the glass exterior of the German Pavilion for the 1929 World's Fair in Barcelona, designed by Mies van der Rohe, with a sculpture by Georg Kolbe.  Torn down in 1930, after the fair, the landmark structure was reconstructed in 1983-6 by a group of Spanish architects who used the same materials as had van der Rohe.
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  • Tikal: view of the forest from the top of the Temple I or II.  Three sightseers seated on the top step just outside the doorway opening.  Another temple shows its top above the treetops in the distance.  Cloudy sky.
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  • View from the elephant's back up the approach ramp leading to the hilltop fort.  Head of the mahout in left foreground; two other elephants approach down the ramp, the lead mahout laughing at the camera.  Other elephants bearing sightseers ahead.
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  • Jaipur, Amber Fort, established 1592 by Man Singh I, with palaces added by Jai Singh I (r 1621-67).  View from the howdah of an elephant pacing up the hill to the citadel.  Mahout in foreground.
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  • Passenger's point of view; partial view of the motor driver who wears ear pads to lessen the ferocious noise of the motor.  Wake behind; forest and cloudy sky.  Exciting and rather dangerous trip.
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  • Bardia National Park guide paddles a dugout canoe across the Karnali river.
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  • Photographer's shadow, camel's head and neck, and camel handler holding its lead, in early morning sunshine.  Morocco, near Erg Chelebi.
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  • Passenger's viewpoint on a raft of thin logs lashed together.  The rafter pushes hard with his pole to keep the little vessel away from the river bank.  Forest, sandbar, and smooth river water.
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  • From the photographer's viewpoint, looking over the horse's ears toward two women riding horses ahead, in conversation, approaching the Pyramids.  Giza desert spread on either side.
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  • From the rider's point of view, horse's ears in the foreground, two other riders in the distance ahead.  Endless sand on all sides; slight hills on the horizon.  Short shadows; it is high noon; pale blue sky.
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  • View of the photographer's blue jeans and boots after climbing Temple ! or !! at Tikal, Guatemala.  Stone steps and flat grassy terrace above the legs and feet.  Guidebook on the stairs.
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  • Looking down at a new drain cover in Stonetown.  Photographer's bare feet in sandals alongside.  Rather elegant circle within a square and the inscription: Stone Town Conservation and Development Authority Zanzibar.
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  • Wet shiny cobblestones, moss in between their rectangular shapes, near the Vatican.  Feet of the photographer in white sneakers.  Much walking despite the rainy weather that day.
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  • Relaxing in a hammock on a sunny day.  The texture of the open-weave hammock casts a network of shadows on my bare legs and ankles.
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  • One of the beehive tombs at Bat, Oman, dating from 2500 BC.  Tombs were robbed long ago.  Inscription painted on a rock in the interior says, in Arabic, "forbidden to enter"
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  • Traffic on Route 1, the main north-south highway in Vietnam.  Aggressive and speeding buses take precedence over cars, pedestrians, and cyclists, seen from inside a passenger car going the other way.
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  • Traffic on Route 1, the main north-south highway in Vietnam.  Aggressive and speeding buses take precedence over cars, pedestrians, and cyclists, seen from inside a passenger car going the other way.
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  • Being there: on a barge moving down the Regent's Canal; other barges used as houseboats docked along the canal's edge.
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  • Rear view of four elephants, each with a howdah, two passengers, and a mahout, crossing a stream near Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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  • View of the coast of Lycia, Turkey, from the prow of a wooden gulet; passenger's viewpoint.  Folded spinnaker on the bowsprit makes a teardrop shape.  Beyond, hills and mountains fading away.
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  • View from Hvar hilltop castle embrasure over the town and harbor below, at noon on a sunny day.  Sailboats, yachts, and islands scattered over the flat blue Adriatic sea beyond.
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