Close Up and Far Away

Travels, Adventures, Friends, Big Days, and Tiny Moments

I post occasional photoessays about interesting people and places. If you sign on using the form on this page, you’ll get a notice when I publish (generally just a few times a year). This is a new location for my blog. Here are links to favorite photoessays from my old site:

Detroit: A great city, battered but resilient

I visited empty lots turned into Detroit Abloom, art created throughout a decimated neighborhood at the Heidelberg Project and optimistic residents.

Heidelberg Project art, Detroit
Heidelberg Project art, Detroit

Women at Work in Mexico

I met intrepid women when I took photos all around Mexico for Pro Mujer, a micro-loan nonprofit for small businesses.

Justina Reyes in her restaurante de mariscos, “La Langosta Enamorada,” in El Rosario neighborhood southeast of Oaxaca.
Justina Reyes in her restaurante de mariscos, “La Langosta Enamorada,” in El Rosario neighborhood southeast of Oaxaca.

Buttons, Floppy, and Queenie will be sorely missed

On a road trip to Nova Scotia, I came across a quiet, charming pet cemetery, one of the highlights of the trip.

Trouble--gravestone in a pet cemetery, Nova Scotia
Buttons, headstone in a pet cemetery in Nova Scotia

The Disgruntled Lions of Italy

Most of the lions holding up buildings look grouchy. I took their pictures and guessed what they were thinking.

Lion decoration on a building in italy
Oy yoi yoi, I’m not even Catholic. (Salute Basilica, Venice)

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