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  • Daily Coffee Talk~ 90/365

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    I have recently started to scan my old negatives and slides from the pre-digital camera time. I remember the times when every frame counted because well, we only had a limited number of frames in the film. I remember the excitement of seeing the images after however time it took to finish the roll, to…

  • Day 31~ March 31st~ Egypt

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    Every journey must end for a new one to begin… This image concludes the Egypt series for the month of March and I thought in encapsulates the whole experience for me. Humans, friends, together in a quest, searching for the truth, looking at the ancient, to better cope with the now and with the future.…

  • Day 30~ March 30th~ Egypt

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    There are some places you travel to that remain alive in a very special place in your heart… It really was a journey like no other, this adventure in Egypt. The pyramids, the sphinx, the desert, the camels, the ancient ruins, the mind boggling architecture, the friends, the strange carvings, the sense of being so…

  • Day 29~ March 29th~ Egypt

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    As I come close to the end of this journey back into Egypt I have to carefully choose the last 3 images I want to share with you. Temples, artifacts, artwork, that can all be seen in books, on websites, it has all been recorded again and again, but the people of Egypt, the human…

  • Day 28~ March 28th~ Egypt

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    The impressive mortuary temple built for Queen Hatshepsut, the 18th dynasty female Pharaoh stands as the evidence of Egypt’s influence on today’s classical architecture styles. This pharaoh was known for her great power and dominion over both upper and lower Egypt and was said to reign for over 22 years. The original name of the…

  • Day 27~ March 27th~ Egypt

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    If the pyramids were burial chambers, how come no bodies(mummies) were found in any of them in Egypt? This impressive 6 mastaba pyramid is found inside the great courtyard of Saqqara near the city of Memphis in Egypt. Historians tell us that it was built around 2800 BC as a tomb for the Pharaoh Djoser…

  • Day 26~ March 26th~ Egypt

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    The Pyramid of Khufu in Giza, the greatest and largest pyramid known to us, I had the chance to walk inside it in 1996. If you find the pyramids mysterious and impressive on the outside which everyone I know does, then the inside will leave you mystified! The pyramid of Khufu is constructed with shafts…

  • Day 24~ March 24th~ Egypt

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    Imagine having a makeshift hut or a tent for a home, knowing that your home is where your belongings are, it is not a place, it is a moving entity… Growing up in Lebanon I have always been fascinated by the lives of Bedouins. I watched their children play on dusty roadsides, barefoot, in and…

  • Day 23~ March 23rd~ Egypt

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    Our memories work in a funny way that we mostly remember the things that stand out, the odd things… Have you ever met someone who spoke to animals in the most natural way as if animals understood every word they said? I have. This boy in this 15 year old film scan was the camel…

  • Day 22~ March 22nd~ Egypt

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    Places of worship continue to vibrate with the intentions of the people who built them and those who used them to utter their prayers… In the Egyptian desert, near Elephantine Island, is an abandoned coptic monastery that dates back to the 6th century. It is one of the biggest coptic monasteries in the world and…