Post Card From the Tea Gardens of Munnar, India
Some of the world's finest black tea grows on the slopes of the Western Ghats near Munnar in Kerala State. Finding growing conditions in this area, some five to six…
Neighborhood Watch – Two Perspectives
When we visit another country we wish to think of ourselves as travelers. Definitely not tourists. We want to blend in. To see and not be seen. To observe, learn, understand. But make no mistake, we are noticed, we are watched. Usually just a noted oddity; possibly a potential opportunity for needed income, or amusement.
From the Rooftops
Looking across Havana Harbor from Morro Castle at sunset. Â Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs. ___Roman Payne Bangkok, Thailand As…
Enterprise M’F’G. Co.
Somewhere along highway 42 in rural North Carolina. I have no idea what Enterprise manufactured, but it appears to have been a general store too, selling dry goods, candy, feed, and…
Ganesha Hidden in Kolkata, India
Hidden
The Hindu deity Ganesha lies hidden behind tree roots along a ghat in Kolkata, India. Ironically, Ganesha is revered as the remover of obstacles. Darkness was hidden in a deeper…
Informal Portrait – One Shot, Two Ways
A tobacco farmer near Vinales, Cuba, patiently poses for an informal portrait by the barn, allowing me to capture one shot, two ways - actually several ways as it turned…
Kathputli Colony, Delhi – One Shot, Two Ways
It is estimated that half of Delhi's 18 million inhabitants live in slums. Curiously, some of the slums are so called "authorized colonies" but most are "unauthorized colonies." Life in…
383 Bose Lane, Kolkata, India
 ...there was no doubt that Calcutta produced more writers than Paris and Rome combined, more literary reviews than London and New York, more cinemas than New Delhi, and more publishers…
You Got the Blues?
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say. ___Justin Timberlake I been in the blues all my life. I'm still…