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The smell of sulfur was everywhere.
Architecture
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Saul Leiter's maxim: "Shoot through it"
Enchantment
Saturday morning, New York City, Central Park, Bethesda Fountain, Fall. The smart looking street musician caught my attention. Gotta love the scarf, glasses, and exquisite beard. Performing Cat Steven's Morning Has Broken to nobody, although his collection plate was overflowing with money. And then this couple arrived, hardly noticing the musician, but they certainly noticed each other.
Overthrow
A doorway eleven days before 2016 Election Day. It says it all.
Photographer
Juno Beach in Jupiter, Florida offered some excellent photographic opportunities, as this photographer learned as she photographed surfers in the afternoon.
Pan
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The Norton Museum in Palm Beach was undergoing some sort of renovations or expansion when I visited, but the garden courtyard was very nicely designed.
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We had talked about traveling to Portugal for at least 15 years, often as possible winter destination. Like everyone else, we always seemed to go elsewhere--Paris, London, Rome, Vienna, Prague, Istanbul, Madrid, and Moscow, among others. I can't say that was a mistake--each is a worthwhile destination--but so is Portugal.
Bridge
Today, I was up at 5:30AM for sunrise--The Dom Luis I was my muse, just as the Williamsburg Bridge had been Sonny Rollins' muse 57 years earlier. Sunrise is an an interesting occurrence, one which is often taken for granted. First the sky is turquoise, which evolves into an often nondescript gray translucence. It is the last stage, when the golden rays reflect off objects, that captures everyone's attention.