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"Morning Prayers at the Western Wall" - Jerusalem, Israel -- (December 25th, 2011)
- Happy Hanukkah! Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! May your time this season be full of light, love, and levity. (Photograph taken in Jerusalem August 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Dead Sea Sunset" - Dead Sea, Jordan -- (December 11th, 2011)
- On vacation in Jordan last summer we stayed at a gorgeous resort (Kempinski Hotel Ishtar Dead Sea). These guests are at the infinity pool overlooking the sunset and the Dead Sea. Note: Israel is across the other side. (Photo taken in August 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Dog Walk" - Scottsdale, AZ -- (December 3rd, 2011)
- Visiting my parents for Thanksgiving, My brother Mike brought his puppy Pablo, a Yorkie! Every day we went for walks, and one day I decided to document it in photographs Ð this was the most interesting view from the day. (Photo taken in November 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon Powershot 90 - Digital RAW
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"Family Ties" - New York City, USA -- (November 20-27th, 2011)
- I have been thinking about family a lot lately. Weddings, Thanksgivings, Funerals, so many times when we all come together and revisit our family ties. Here is a portrait of Father and Son from a recent wedding. Be well, Be love, Be with family, Happy Thanksgiving! (Photo taken in November 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Autumn Wedding" - New York City, USA -- (November 13th, 2011)
- On 11 Ð 11 Ð 11 I had the honor and pleasure of attending my first legal gay wedding! Two of my very close friends were married at last after decades together in a chilled-by-wind but warmed-by-love brief ceremony in Central Park. (Photo taken in November 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Petra Horsecart" - Petra, Jordan -- (November 6th, 2011)
- I love how this image came out of a galloping horsecart careening down the Petra Siq. I wasn't trying to take a motion image, but my settings were bracketing multiple shots at different exposures. Lucky break! (photo taken in August 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Hallowed Ground" - Tsfat, Israel -- (October 30th, 2011)
- Trying to think of a Halloween image, I remembered a mystical night-time experience I had in Israel at the Graveyard in Tsfat where many kabbalah mystics are buried. At night, every night, devotees and family light yahrzeit candles in memory of the deceased and the whole graveyard glows and twinkles. I did not capture that on film, but I did take a daytime snapshot of the hillside graveyard below the gorgeous tiny hilltop city of Tsfat. (Photo taken in August 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Hudson River View" - Milton, NY -- (October 22nd, 2011)
- The Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa has breakfast and high tea served daily indoors or on a patio with this view overlooking manicured gardens, a pond, and the Hudson River in the distance. Mina and I shot many images at dawn, dusk, and mid-day with this view. The morning fog is also gorgeous, but this image captures the many layers of natural beauty best. (photo taken in October 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon Powershot 90 - Digital jpeg
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"Autumnal Swan Lake" - Milton, NY -- (October 16th, 2011)
- There is an idyllic little Inn & Spa in the Hudson River Valley called "Buttermilk Falls". Mina and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary on a getaway weekend there, and were blessed with foggy mornings, sunny days, and fall colors. The property includes llamas, a farm, a spa, reading nooks, a waterfall, this quaint bridge, swans, tennis courts, the aforementioned spa, and many other lovely accoutrements for guests! (photo taken in October 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon Powershot 90 - Digital RAW
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"Rays of Hope at Days End" - Caesarea, Israel -- (October 1st, 2011)
- The wall in the foreground is the original 13th century crusader fortress wall surrounding Caesarea. While revisiting the famous Archaeology site and open-air museum where I lived and worked in the summer of 2000, I was so happy to see this fortuitous moment before sunset. (Photo taken in August 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Dysfunction Book Cover" - Sandy Hook, NJ, USA -- (September 25th, 2011)
- This weekÕs image is another cover art design for my brotherÕs book Ð this time his first novel Ð a 3 Day Novel contest project. He wrote the short novel over labor day weekend in 2006 and itÕs now available print on demand from amazon here! I took these photos in 2005 at Sandy Hook in NJ at the Gunnison Battery, an abandoned military fortification built by the US Government in the 1800s. When Mike asked me if I had anything that would fit the scope of his post-apocalyptic-people-stuck-in-shelter-underground theme, I immediately went to this photo shoot from long ago that I always wanted to find a use for, I hope this is a successful application!
Canon PS70 - digital RAW
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"Baby Doll Ð The Book (Cover Art)" - Havana, Cuba -- (September 18th, 2011)
- A few years ago, Mike was writing his second novel, Baby Doll (The Book), and we took a vacation to Cuba. Outside the window of our Great AuntÕs apartment I saw this view (on the left side) and told Mike: ÒHey look Ð itÕs like your book about they guys who find the magical head of a Baby DollÓ. So he said that was very cool to notice, and maybe I should take photos! Now a few years later, his book is done and published and my photography is the cover art! How cool is that? For more information and to buy the book visit mikeyopp.com. (Photo Taken in December 2008)
Canon Digital Rebel XT 350 - Digital RAW
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"Petra Portal" - Petra, Jordan -- (September 11th, 2011)
- Similar to last weekÕs image, this is in the carved cave city of Petra, this time from the inside looking out. This one home had both a portal entrance and an extra opening above. The view out includes houses above the Petra Amphitheatre (concentric lines) built by the Nabateans with an eye toward Greek and Roman inspiration. (Photo taken in August 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Hues of Petra" - Petra, Jordan -- (September 4th, 2011)
- The red rock canyons of Petra are gorgeous and multi-hued like places in the American Southwest. This window in a cave-house looked gorgeous and showcases the many hues of Petra quite well! (Photo taken in August 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Entering Petra" - Petra, Jordan -- (August 28th, 2011)
- Most tourists (and many caravans throughout history) enter Petra through the Siq Ð a sinuous crevasse of red rock in many hues. At the end of the canyon, just like in Indiana Jones, is the gorgeous facade of the so-called ÒTreasuryÓ building. Here I captured that moment of awe as Mina looked up and snapped the facade at about 8am after walking through the shaded, breezy Siq.
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Caesarea Revisited" - Caesarea, Israel-- (August 21st, 2011)
- This is the sunset view as tourists pass through the 12 century Crusader fortress entrance after passing over a moat. Caesarea is a famous archaeological site on the Mediterranean coast of Israel where I lived and worked as an underwater archaeologist in the summer of 2000. This vacation was a homecoming of sorts. (HDR Image from photographs taken in August of 2011)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Hotel Signum, Island Paradise" - Salina, Italy -- (August 13th, 2011)
- While researching the Aeolian Islands (Think of Hawaii in the Mediterranean off the coast of Northern Sicily), I discovered this gem of a hotel which has converted old traditional homes in the outskirts of a small village into a 5-star hotel. http://www.hotelsignum.it.Of course it didnÕt hurt that we had perfect weather, went wine tasting, and rented a scooter to tour the volcanic islandÕs beauty as well as enjoying the hotel Spa and pool. (Photograph Taken in October 2010)
Camera & Film: Canon Powershot 90 - Digital jpeg
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"Erice Castle Fantasy" - Erice, Sicily, Italy -- (August 6th, 2011)
- This HDR image (created from multiple exposures combined digitally) shows the view as you walk along the cliff face toward the castle at the edge of Erice. To me, it presents an exciting fantasy dreamscape of what castles are in the imagination. (Photograph Taken in October 2010)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Vesuvius Over Pompeii at Dusk" - Naples, Italy -- (July 24th, 2011)
- Just as the bells clang to announce the closing of Pompeii Archaeological park and museum, preparing to leave, I positioned myself to make this photograph of Vesuvius looming over the once-doomed and now ghostly recovered landscape of a fallen city. (Photo taken in October 2010)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Platinum Sunset on the Pollara Coast" - Salina Island, Italy -- (July 17th, 2011)
- This coastline on the Island of Salina serves as the backdrop for many scenes in Il Postino, which was filmed there. This photograph was taken at sunset from Pollara beach during my honeymoon. I have created an HDR image combining 3 exposures of the same landscape to add contrast and extra texture, and converted it to a silvery black and white for an eerie, more moonlit ambience. (Photo taken in October 2010)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Enter Stage Right" - Sicily, Italy -- (July 10th, 2011)
- This Portal opens onto the stage area of the Taormina Amphitheatre. Behind the Amphitheatre is the Tauros mountain for which the city is named, and on which the city is built. The amphitheatre dates to the 3rd century BCE and is in ruins but is still beautiful and has amazing views to the coastline. (Photograph taken in October 2010)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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"Civilizations Ruins" - Agrigento, Sicily, Italy -- (July 4th, 2011)
- Traveling in many parts of the world grants a different perspective on time and the human effort to build civilizations. These ruins are of Greek temples in Sicily, and could be seen by Greek ships coming into the harbor below, at the time a sign of their cultureÕs greatness, and now perhaps a reminder to us of the effect of time. (Photograph Taken in October 2010)
Camera & Film: Canon EOS 40D - Digital RAW
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