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Category Archives: Americana
 Strictly speaking, the adjective “metropolitan” simply means having the characteristics or features of a city and its surrounding areas. But it has also carried a connotation of sophistication and perhaps even glamour. Well, this scene from Metropolitan Avenue just on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn/Queens border lives up to the strict definition, but…
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 “Excuse-me-the-light-is-really-amazing-right-now-I’ll-be-right-back.” I wanted to start mixing in non-Moab photos this week, both to add some variety to the blog and to make the Moab trip photos last longer, but I had trouble deciding what to feature. Then Justin Balog, who was on that trip with me, posted an image yesterday of a restaurant he recently…
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 Cisco, Utah is a ghost town near the intersection of I-70 and Utah State Route 128, the latter of which connects I-70 to Moab. Cisco was originally a water refilling station for the railroad, and the town’s demise came with the obsolescence of the steam engine. The railroad still passes through. A number of decrepit…
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 Positioning is extremely important to photography, and in this case I did not get where I needed to be. The folks in front of me were more dedicated, or — to be more accurate — more motivated. They knew some of the women in this group and had clearly lined up early to get…
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 Usually when my family goes to Walt Disney World, we don’t decide which parks to visit each day until we get there. Then we check the schedules, weather and other factors and plan our week. But this year we visited during Easter Week, and we were fairly certain we would visit the Magic Kingdom on…
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