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November 1, 2008

Rotterdam

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Westmalle Tripel - the classic.

May 17, 2008

Big Sur

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One of those staged viewpoints.

We are little different from the days of the Claude Glass - a tinted convex mirror through which the tourist or artist of the picturesque and sublime could see a composed and painterly image.

Now we have the wide angle lens, saturated color (after Fuji Velvia), and the LCD of the digital camera.

May 6, 2008

Routin Lin

By the hill fort and over the falls.

February 18, 2008

Yosemite Falls

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July 16, 2007

Rob Roy

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Abbotsford, Scottish borders, home of Walter Scott: armor from the field of Waterloo (1815); the skull of Rob Roy (cast, 1734).

June 28, 2007

The W, San Francisco

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July 30, 2006

Holy Island

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Lindisfarne, 793 - first Viking raid on Britain.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - "In this year fierce, foreboding omens came over the land of Northumbria. There were excessive whirlwinds, lightning storms, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky. These signs were followed by great famine, and on January 8th the ravaging of heathen men destroyed God's church at Lindesfarne."

Reeenactment in the remains of the Norman priory, 2006.

October 16, 2005

the fuschia house at Wallington, Northumberland UK

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Taken on a pinhole Ovnipan made by Joachin Casado of Barcelona.

August 2, 2005

Bamburgh House

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Northumberland UK

July 21, 2005

Warkworth

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March 2, 2005

Dunstanburgh

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Northumberland coast, UK

October 11, 1995

Esgair Fraith, Wales

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"Tri Bywyd" (Three Lives) - a work of theatre/archaeology by Brith Gof

Eddie Ladd as Sarah Jacob - link