Tag: asia
group name: photoessayist
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July 04, 2007 11:04 AM EDT --
(Part 3 of 4. To begin at Part 1, click HERE)
The next morning, my first full day in Asia, I had a simple goal: to find . . . more
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November 03, 2007 02:37 PM EDT --
In the town of Kanchanaburi -- home of the famous Bridge on the River Kwai -- there are also cemeteries, museums, kayaks, and so on. And there are, of course, dogs. Below are . . . more
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March 07, 2007 01:28 PM EST --
Several minutes after crossing the border into Uzbekistan I exchanged $20; in return, I got a wad of bills wrapped . . . more
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January 02, 2008 03:03 PM EST --
I'm doing something a little different for this week's column. Instead of a "crafted" article, I'm simply posting a . . . more
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June 20, 2007 07:41 AM EDT --
(Part 2 of 4 -- to read Part 1, click HERE)
The plane banked left to line up with the runway on the edge of hazy Minneapolis. After a ninety-minute . . . more
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July 03, 2008 03:48 PM EDT --
The day had begun in the Chinese city of Kashgar, where I awoke to see thick winter clouds pouring cold rain onto the streets . . . more
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October 12, 2007 08:53 AM EDT --
THE SETTING
Most of my 34-year-old peers are married with children. They live in homes and, with few exceptions, have jobs for which . . . more
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March 28, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
On my laptop is a Word document in which three years ago I typed up my favorite passages - 4,000 words worth - from Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers . . . more
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June 06, 2008 08:52 AM EDT --
It was dusk now and the bus continued its rumble west on the Grand Trunk Road. We were two hours out of Rawalpindi and still . . . more
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April 26, 2007 02:08 PM EDT --
I remember the first time I looked at a puddle and felt sadness. It was a summer afternoon in Nepal, the 30th of July, 2004, . . . more
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May 27, 2006 01:49 PM EDT --
Girl at sunrise walking along the moat surrounding the world's largest religious monument, Angkor Wat.
Centuries ago, Cambodia was a great power and ruled over territory stretching from Vietnam . . . more
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September 26, 2007 07:32 AM EDT --
(Part Two of two; to begin at Part One, click HERE)
After a short nap at my guesthouse, I set out in search of dinner. I was hankering for . . . more
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June 06, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
In 329 BC, when Alexander the Great first laid eyes on the cosmopolitan city of Samarkand, he said, "Everything I have heard about [Samarkand] is true, except that it's more beautiful than I . . . more
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November 06, 2007 02:34 PM EST --
In the interest of balance (four days ago I published three pictures of a Thai dog ), and because a story I'm working on this afternoon is driving me up absolutely up the wall (and so I . . . more
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August 30, 2008 06:41 PM EDT --
I appreciate a good piece of technology as much as the next guy, but I don't like to spend money on it. . . . more
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March 23, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
It was early morning when I passed through Thai passport control and boarded a boat bound for the Lao side . . . more
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March 25, 2008 12:18 PM EDT --
Bangkok Photos, Photos, Photos!!!
Okay, did I get your attention? Since I've spent the last few weeks showing you apartments in Brussels - including my new apartment - I thought I would step . . . more
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April 25, 2008 01:21 PM EDT --
What follows is lifted from my personal journal and is set in 2004 on Indonesia's largest island, Sumatra. I don't . . . more
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March 13, 2008 11:37 PM EDT --
In one of the final pages of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karmazov , the main character is speaking to a group of boys and encouraging . . . more
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May 30, 2007 09:24 AM EDT --
This picture was taken in December 2004, while waiting in Istanbul's airport to fly back to the U.S. after a . . . more
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