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		<title>Cold is a State of Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another photographer once gave me the following advice: &#8220;When you see a beautiful sunset, turn around and shoot in the opposite direction.&#8221; Winter makes for wonderful sunsets, and photography. The air, devoid of humidity, is clear and the colors can be spectacular. I braved the freezing temperatures yesterday afternoon to follow this advice, and to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewideopenroad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12681307&amp;post=476&amp;subd=thewideopenroad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for Layers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When critiquing my portfolio recently, a photo editor commented that I should try to create more “layers” in my images. “Engage yourself, and by extension your viewer, in the scene,” he advised. He showed me some images that had run in his magazine and pointed out the specific differences between them and my more staid, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewideopenroad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12681307&amp;post=420&amp;subd=thewideopenroad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico, Part III: Death in the City</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I learned about it in my junior high Spanish class, Mexico&#8217;s Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) holiday has intrigued me. I longed to experience it. And as a photographer, my interest intensified – I knew the colorful celebration would provide plentiful opportunities for image making. Coverage of Day of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewideopenroad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12681307&amp;post=373&amp;subd=thewideopenroad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico, Part II: From Root to Sip</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a saying in Oaxaca: “Para todo mal…mezcal. Para todo bien…tambien.” [For everything bad…mezcal. For everything good…as well.] Fermented from the Maguey (or Agave) plant, mezcal is akin to Tequila, the latter being similar to Champagne in that it can only be called such if it is produced in a particular region, Jalisco, Mexico, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewideopenroad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12681307&amp;post=358&amp;subd=thewideopenroad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico, Part I: Where There&#8217;s a Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cracked and parched earth spanned out before us—barren hillsides spreading for miles where twenty years ago forest thrived. “It makes you wonder,” I mused out loud, “who cut down the last tree?” This tragedy has been repeated many times—in Haiti, in Australia and here in rural Oaxaca, Mexico. People cut timber for their livelihood—to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewideopenroad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12681307&amp;post=307&amp;subd=thewideopenroad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico, in Three Acts</title>
		<link>http://thewideopenroad.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/mexico-in-three-acts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I traveled to Mexico this past month with the primary purpose of witnessing and photographing the Day of the Dead (DOTD) festivities in Mexico City. That experience proved as unforgettable as it was visually stimulating. But it turned out to be a spontaneous sojourn into remote reaches of the country that added the layer of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewideopenroad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12681307&amp;post=309&amp;subd=thewideopenroad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico in Black and White</title>
		<link>http://thewideopenroad.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/mexico-in-black-and-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 05:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent the better part of this past month traveling and photographing in Mexico.  I found many distinct stories during my trip, or rather they found me. But one of the prominent notes that struck me throughout was the sharpness of the contrasts I encountered – both literal and figurative. From the desert landscapes to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewideopenroad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12681307&amp;post=284&amp;subd=thewideopenroad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Light of Death</title>
		<link>http://thewideopenroad.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/making-light-of-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;At every Mexican funeral, you will hear someone laughing loudly,&#8221; divulged my dining companion and hostess for this week, which I am spending in Mexico City to experience the Dia de los Muertos festivities. &#8220;Because we are afraid of death,&#8221; she continued, &#8220;we have to make light of it.&#8221; And laugh they do. In the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewideopenroad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12681307&amp;post=272&amp;subd=thewideopenroad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Floating on (Hot) Air</title>
		<link>http://thewideopenroad.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/floating-on-hot-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Above all, please refrain from wearing hairspray. Or polyester of any sort,” admonished (to paraphrase) the release waiver I was signing at 11:30pm last Thursday night. Friday was my birthday – my thirty-third.  In my typical style I had planned an adventure – completely last minute.   When searching the web the day before for potential [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewideopenroad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12681307&amp;post=264&amp;subd=thewideopenroad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People Aren&#8217;t So Bad After All</title>
		<link>http://thewideopenroad.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/people-arent-so-bad-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photographing people when traveling has long been one of those &#8220;eat your vegetables&#8221; things for me.  I know it makes for more memorable and compelling images.  And I know it’s something I need to get very comfortable with if I have any hope of working in the field professionally.  I also really do enjoy meeting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewideopenroad.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12681307&amp;post=247&amp;subd=thewideopenroad&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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