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  • A local woman glides down one of many ancient, colorful , cobblestone alleyways of Harar. <br />
*Recently, this photograph was one of three winning AWIF images in the International Travel Photography Awards Third Collection.
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  • Walking the narrow side-streets of Istanbul in ‘street photography’ mode, I came across this local, inadvertently blending-in with the wall mural he’s leaning against.
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  • I jumped into the parade for a brief moment to get this shot from a band member's perspective.
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  • This old church has long since lost it's dome and roof.
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  • Unlike hijabs (head and/or neck scarves worn by muslim women) in Middle-Eastern countries, the women in this tiny muslim enclave in Ethiopia wear vibrant colors just like their non-muslim counterparts across the continent.
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  • A young girl savors an orange as she sits in the doorway of her home.
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  • Outside the walls of Harar Jugol (old town), where modernity exists, motorized rickshaws or ‘tuk-tuks’ are the funnest and most convenient mode of transportation.
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  • A Brother and sister pose for a portrait outside their concrete home.
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  • A group of old cowboys, dressed in striped shorts and cowboy hats, sit in the plaza and reminice.
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  • Three textile mongers sit amongst their wears.
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  • A baby cuddles up in a sling with baby Elmo as her mother works the market all day.
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  • A mother carries her baby in a sling demonstrating the many uses of her guatemalan textiles.
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  • This gentleman spends the entire day in his horse drawn cart at The Plaza giving tourists rides and relaxing in the shade in between.
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  • A young boy feeds the pigeons on the plaza  of the Iglesia y Convento de Nuestra Señora de la Merced.
    20140407-UAEAbuDhabiLiwaMoreebSandDu...tif
  • A giant black labrador lays in the doorway watching the world pass by as he waits for his master to return.
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  • 20141005-Ethiopia-Gonder-40.tif
  • 20141007-Ethiopia-BahirDar-31-Edit.tif
  • “wildflowers recently blanketed the hillsides like a patchwork blanket of green and gold with purple highlights that had simple been tossed over a lumpy old sofa.”
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  • “The gelada, sometimes called a ‘bleeding heart baboon’, is a species of Old World monkey found only in the Ethiopian Highlands, living at elevations of 1,800–4,400 m above sea level.” -Wikepidia<br />
Apparently they like to keep a 300mm lens distance away from humans.
    20141006-Ethiopia-SimienMountains-49.tif
  • The “chira” (fly swatter) is made of horsehair and has been the most immediately recognizable part of the Christian Ethiopian Empire’s regalia for centuries.
    20141004-Ethiopia-Aksum-208.jpg
  • ... Finally, they stopped and grazed on a steep hillside leading down to the rim of the immense green gorge. Thinking it was my last best chance, I crept closer as slowly as I could. Every 4 or 5 paces, the gelatos would simply get up and move equal distance, sit back down and start grazing again. Just as I was developing my theory that gelatas (Bleeding Heart Baboons) seem to have developed a sense of exactly the perfect range from a 70-200mm lens so as to continually entice hope, yet never give you the money shot, this local girl saved my morning session. She caught my eye frolicking through a patch of wildflowers that recently blanketed the hillsides like a patchwork blanket of green and gold with purple highlights that had simple been tossed over a lumpy old sofa.<br />
At first, I was shocked at her apparent immunity to the grandeur of the scene. I guess it’s human nature to place value on things we see as rare or fleeting and take for granted. To this day, she serves as a reminder to me to always treat life like wildflowers, rare and fleeting!
    20141006-Ethiopia-SimienMountains-69.tif
  • 20141005-Ethiopia-Gonder-2.jpg
  • This is the small chapel adjacent to the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion. It is said to house the Ark of the Covenant and therefore The Ten Commandments inside. Of course, only a ‘guardian’ is allowed access beyond the fencing immediately surrounding the chapel. I, as a foreigner was only allowed to get as close as this photograph indicates. That was plenty close for me as it allowed me to shoot not only the chapel, but the revelers in front of it all bathed in beautiful golden hour light. Besides, who wants to risk getting their face melted off like a Nazi in Raiders of the lost Ark? The Legend is that Menelik, the son of King Solomon and a beautiful African Queen from Axum named Makeda (Queen of Sheba), brought it back to his homeland of Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
    20141004-Ethiopia-Aksum-175.jpg
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  • 20141002-Ethiopia-Harar-63.jpg
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  • A young man walking to one of Harar’s 82 mosques, no doubt, passes through the Jugol Wall via Buda Gate.
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  • Two things in this scene really grabbed my attention and inspired me to make this photograph. Comment below what you think they were.
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  • 20140812-Namibia-QuiverTreeForest--1.tif
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  • A man looks down from his open-air, concrete cinder block home.
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  • Leave it to the vendors children to turn the market into their own, personal playground. Here a boy hangs upside-down from beams within a stall, usually reserved for Guatemalan textiles.
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  • A local textile vendor gazes across Lake Atitlán.
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  • This adorable little baton twirler took a break from her duties to enjoy an ice cream cone while marching.
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  • I thought this arch silhouetted would make a nice frame for this composition. It draws your attention to the other arch, that of the dome. Together, they break up the right angles of the architecture.
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  • This perspective from atop Church of St. George really imagine what it really took to slowly create this intricate monolith of a church out of this solid stone outcropping.
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  • Detail shot of one of The Church of St. George’s carved windows and lichen.
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  • A worshipper leans on his cane in a moment of deep reflection.
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  • Best known of Lalibela’s rock hewn churches, Church of St. George is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has often been called the Eighth Wonder of the World. I feel like there’s probably 100 “Eighth Wonders of the World” but this church definitely qualifies. It was carved downward through the hard volcanic tuff before chiseling out the inside. It’s such a mind-numbing feat, the locals claim all eleven of Lalibela’s rock-hewn churches were carved by angels at night while the real workers were sleeping. Whether people 800-years-ago carved out this church with rudimentary tools or they had the power to summon angels to do the work, either way it’s a miraculous achievement.
    20141009-Ethiopia-Lalibela-123.tif
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  • Pilgrims from all across Ethiopia trickle here to worship at Ethiopia’s holiest church, Church of St. Mary of Zion in Axum. It claims to house the actual Ark of The Covenant in a small chapel behind it.
    20141004-Ethiopia-Aksum-156.jpg
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