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Florida Chairs‚ Palm Beach, 2001
Photographed with a Leica M6 and 35mm f/1.4 Summilux lens on Fuji Sensia 100
This is an emotional image for me as it was the first photograph that I took after the the attack on theWorld Trade Centerin September, 2001. You can read my thoughts from that time in a brief item called In Memoriam.  Notwithstanding the emotional context it works as a graphic image.
Salt Flats — Death Valley, 1998
This is a straight landscape photograph of the salt flats looking downwards from Dante's View in Death Valley, CA.  Many times features of the landscape become abstractions through visual isolation.
Photographed with Rollei 6008 and Schneider 90mm f/4 lens on Provia 100
Snow Fence — Toronto, 1994
A walk through a ravine park one spring lead me to this orange snow fence and created a haunting abstract.  The shallow depth of field helps create an air of mystery about the image.
Taken with a Nikon F4 and 60mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor
Whimsy
Not landscapes per-se; not really...

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