An Apple A Day
On the highway through Cawston we saw fields of fruit trees. This orchard of apples displayed both organization and density. Scarce water used wisely. On the edge of Lake JimSmith a twisted pine tree is Read More …
Outhouses and Trucks
The comforts and discomforts of home are captured in this image. There was a time in history, our history, that an outhouse and woodshed were common sites. I captured this image on the way to Read More …
Juxtapositions
Climbing the mount at the back of the temple on a well worn path is contra-indicated by the signage. The island temple was rescued by Europeans from the rising waters of the high-Aswan Dam. Controlling Read More …
A Close up at the Aswan
The layered clothing shelters people from the hot and cold swings of day and night. In the courtyard of their house the couple shares hibiscus tea with visitors and with an appropriate gift might apply Read More …
A Small Village — Sohail
Carefully weaving bead patterns onto textiles, the woman sits in the morning sunlight. The step, the door, the shadows and the platter of beads hint at pattern and colour. In the wall that surrounds the Read More …
That Sinking Feeling
Legends and stories combine. On the Nile, one of the riverboats we used was called the “Titanic”. The captain was proud of the tourist attraction the name was — it was valuable for tips, valuable Read More …
Signs
The marker arranged sign points to columns. I am sure that the columns are not urinals. Yet, in the barren desert land nothing seems to make sense. The colonnade of columns leads the eye toward Read More …
Super-Glue Highway
Pausing to pump gasoline speaks to the present. The ground surrounding the pump a blend of gasoline, diesel-oil and sand pressed under wheels and foot into a near macadamized road. The heat of the day Read More …
Times and Temples are Changing
The kicking sands of desert time have their corrosive ways of burying temples, tombs and palaces. Beneath the rolling mounds, gathered by wind and time, archeologists and stumblers have found history lessons that predate 3000 Read More …
Drug Money
There is an imbalance in the drug industry. In Cairo, at the end of January a large Egyptian drug pedlar hosts a soirée so elaborate that even the streets of Cairo were turned into conduits Read More …