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Last month, I went on a two-day trip to New Orleans with friends. We spent the first day at cemeteries, and then walked around the French Quarter and Garden District the next morning. In case you don’t know why cemeteries in New Orleans are special, it’s because they consist entirely of above-ground tombs — because [...]
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Recently, as I have been reorienting my life following the death of my father, I have been slowly trying to learn to play the guitar. This isn’t coming completely out of left field, actually, as when I was a kid I played trumpet and trombone at school and a keyboard at home. I was starting [...]
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On my way home from the hamfest yesterday, I stopped at the Harmony Park Safari, a cageless animal preserve near Huntsville. It isn’t a zoo in the conventional sense, but more of a big natural enclosure with a gravel path for your car. They don’t have the same variety of animals as a typical zoo, [...]
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I went to the Birmingham Zoo again today, and it seems my photography skills are improving because I actually got ten images I was happy with out of around a hundred exposures. Of course, I’m also using different equipment now — today’s trip was mainly an excuse to use my DSLR and the Sigma 18-200 [...]
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