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Hospital Blinds

Imagine you are in a hospital bed. The bed is in a room that was meant to be a single, but now has two beds and two occupants. The other…

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This pilgrim is home

This pilgrim is home early. After all, a pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago who cannot walk is a fairly immobile oxymoron. It was a scramble to get out of…

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Bad Pilgrim

So I guess I am a bad pilgrim. On account of my blisters, I am staying off my feet, as they advised me at the Pilgrim's service at Queens Hospital…

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Blistered Feet

For days after the 33km march in the broiling sun out of Leon I had been nursing a big blister on the bottom pad of my left foot. It was…

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Coming into Toulouse

Dreamlike, the landscape of France sped past at high speeds, as I viewed the earth from the windows of the TGV (the high speed train). Dreamlike in feeling, and what…

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Pantheon in Paris

Construction began on the Pantheon as a church for the patron saint of Paris, Saint Genevieve. As so often happens when there is construction there were delays, then more delays,…

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Gentle Adventures Are Us

As an inveterate traveler, I crave adventures. Not soul crushing desperate adventures, but life affirming, creative adventures. With this gentle style of adventuring, you come back having met many people,…

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Really Singing

Over on my Instagram feed (@haroldldavis), I've been running through a series of what I've called "Retropolis" images: photographs from my past, usually ten years ago or more, that have…

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Quantum Entanglement

Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that occurs when a group of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such that the quantum state of each…

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Available Materials

I'm a firm believer that you don't need fancy materials to make an interesting photo. In that spirit I present a small structure created with the art materials to hand…

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2022 PSA Progress Award

I am pleased and astounded to learn that I will be the 2022 recipient of the Photographic Society of America's prestigious Progress Award. The annual Progress Award recognizes a person…

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