mosque
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Varanasi: Walking the Ghats
In previous posts I’ve talked about the “ghats” of Varanasi. Â People keep asking me, “What exactly IS a ghat, anyway?” Basically it’s a series of steps leading down to the river. Â We spent hours walking along the ghats. And not just because walking parallel to the stairs is much easier than walking up and down
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Dispatch from Sierra Leone: Walking in Freetown
There are two seasons in Sierra Leone: Â the dry season…and the rainy season. Â Although there is some rain in the “dry” season, the vast majority of the 3Â meters of rain that fall on Freetown during a typical year occur between May and October, with an average of an inch a day in August. Â Some people
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Photowalk: Gritty Black and White
One of my favorite camera/film combinations is a (relatively) cheap Ricoh Kr-5 Super II – at just over 20 years old, one of my newest cameras – and Tri-X black and white film. Â Lots of people go for “fine grain” black and white films, but I like the gritty look you get from this particular
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Hanging Around in Hyderabad (Post #3)
For my third and final post on our trip to Hyderabad, I’m sharing a roll of Tri-X 400 film (black and white) I shot with my Ricoh Super Kr-5 II, a camera that’s barely vintage, having been manufactured in the mid-1990s. And, amazingly, for a roll of 36 photos, every single shot came out in