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Personal Account of Earthquake in Pakistan

A friend of mine is working as a teacher in an international school in Islamabad. I received the following email minutes ago, telling his personal account of the experience. I had an interesting day yesterday but am fine and so is my house. I was watching TV when the first earthquake hit (over 20 aftershocks!) just before 9 AM and looked out the window to see my car moving back and forth in the driveway. I had encountered earthquakes forRead more

Generations

A Javanese family, etching out a life on the south shore of Java. They’re fisherman who work from dusk till dawn, waking in the afternoon to do it all over again. Day after day. Year after year. Generation after generation.Read more
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Cameras, Corvettes, and Confusion

From my brother’s gallery: What does a Corvette have anything to do with cameras? Absolutely nothing, but that’s a privilege of writing your own blog. I just heard that my brother crashed my dad’s Corvette last week. Apparently he hit a deer (or rather, the deer hit him) and caused him to do a 180 spinning into a ditch. Both are bruised and battered I’m sure, but fine otherwise. He’s currently hosting a photographic exhibit at the University of Michigan.Read more