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  • Repurposing Indian Doors

    If you have an old camera or two, it looks nice on a bookshelf with a couple of hardcover books.  But what do you do with 75 old cameras?  Who has that many bookshelves? It seemed a shame to have them packed away out of sight, but I wondered what kind of shelves would be

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  • We Two Ours One

    As foreigners living in India, we constantly see things around us that leave us scratching our heads.  There’s simply not enough time to chase them all down and figure out what they mean, so often we just accept them and move on, and eventually stop noticing. But every now and then, we figure one out.

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  • Found Film Friday: Year Round

    This week’s “found film” is the last of four rolls that were found in a storage unit in Worcester, Massachusetts.  There’s not a whole lot to say about this week’s roll, other than it makes me think of how we used to take pictures, compared to how we take pictures now.   This 24-picture roll

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  • Celebrating Five Years of TAZM Pictures

    On the occasion of TAZM Pictures celebrating five years on the web, I thought you might be a bit more forgiving as I write a more self-indulgent post (wait, aren’t they all self-indulgent?). tazmpictures dot com….but why make a website?  No, it’s not because “everyone has a website.”  Actually, the initial idea for TAZM Pictures

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  • Baby Olive Ridley Sea Turtles

    Sea turtles have been on this earth for 110 million years, compared to humans’ 200,000.  If my math is correct, relating Earth’s 4.6 billion-year existence to a 24-hour clock would have seen sea turtles arriving at around 11:26 pm…and humans arriving at 11:59 and 56 seconds.  Yet we’ve been tremendously successful – there are now

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