An End, A Beginning

This blog has already entered into retirement, but my new blog is up here! Check it out and let me know what you think!

New York, New York - (from a train)
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Vaulted ceilings
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Tuning pegs
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The Met
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Middle Eastern strings
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One of many houses of worship
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Atlas at Rockefeller Center
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The spacious Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The looming Chrysler Building
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The balance
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Sarcophagi
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Construction zone
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Entering the temple
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Grand Central Station
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Rugged yet delicate - a medieval gaunlet
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Empty offices
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New York at midnight
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One for all.
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Austere guardian of the library
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Park at night
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Sculpture below the skyscrapers
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NY Public Library - side door
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Japanese instrument at the Met
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Swords at the Met
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The musician, the small-talker, the shoppers... all kinds go thru Central Park
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The complex yet graceful structure of the Brooklyn Bridge
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The Brooklyn Bridge... a popular walk or ride on a sunny day
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The Brooklyn Museum houses the best Egyptology exhibit anywhere outside of Cairo... even better than the British Museum!
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What this park really needs is a castle overlooking the lake... hey look!
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Benches around Central Park's Shakespearean theatre
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Central Park - lusher, cleaner, and more peaceful than I had imagined
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Beautiful and deadly - poison dart frogs
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A traditional view of the Statue of Liberty (how do you take a creative photo of something thousands of people photograph every week?)
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Part three in my quest for a novel view of Lady Liberty
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Fresh view of the Statue of Liberty quest... part two
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The quest for a fresh and ungeneric view of the Statue of Liberty... part one
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New York at night from the Empire State Building
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Strange, arty, or cool? I haven't decided yet.
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One of my rare forays into the realm of photo manipluation for the sake of digital art
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Eerie lighting of the street in Oxnard
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Water Main Valve - Even in this world of buttons and remote controls, sometimes the simplest solution is still the most reliable
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Oxnard at Night - Strange lighting through the fog
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Lola - one of the shots for her upcoming CD
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With so much to look at... the sunset, the surf, the lighthouse, and the first stars coming out... it's amazing that seat isn't taken.
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Give him a quarter, he'll put it in his apron, and shake your hand. But if you give him a dollar, he'll give it to the man with the hat and then pose so you can take your picture with him!
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Take any of the meandering trails along the cliffs to see, or at least hear, the sea lions this region is famous for. Just don't harass them.
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Redwoods
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Sunset over the pier and shipwreck at New Brighton Beach
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The fishing trawler San Giovanni takes a break at the Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey
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Fog pours through the tops of a eucalyptus grove just south of Santa Cruz
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