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Shadforth, Durham UK

May 31, 2008 by Michael Shanks

Dawn. For Christina Unwin and Richard Hingley.

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Big Sur CA

May 17, 2008February 26, 2025 by Michael Shanks

Molly and Emma. Site of several scenes in “The Sandpiper” – Vincente Minnelli 1965 – [Link] Ben and Josephine

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Big Sur CA

May 17, 2008December 27, 2020 by Michael Shanks

One of those staged viewpoints. We are little different from the days of the Claude Glass – a tinted convex mirror through which the tourist or artist of the picturesque and sublime could see a composed and painterly image. Now we have the wide angle lens, saturated color (after Fuji Velvia), and the LCD of…

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Anderson Valley

May 6, 2008February 26, 2025 by Michael Shanks

Boonville, Dan’s radio station. Fuji Fortia (super saturated color transparency for the tastes of the Japanese market), old stock. Casado pinhole camera.

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epigraphy #3

April 25, 2008 by Michael Shanks

Bamburgh, Northumberland

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Yosemite

February 18, 2008 by Michael Shanks

Five minutes off the tourist trail.

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Exploring the archaeological imagination – to gain a bigger picture on things that matter.

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