Monthly Archives: January 2007

The Adequate Gardener in South Africa

So there I was out in the velt of South Africa, hot, dispirited, with clouds of bugs sheeting my LCD screen and me like, well, suffocation–up my nose, in my mouth, in my ears, landing on my skin like a new black shirt. The worst of them, flies that looked like honeybees, stung. It was...

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SPECIAL OFFER FOR BRIDES!

Vancouver has had a tough winter, more like a winter back east than anything we’re used to here, with windstorms and wind damage combined with snow and torrential rains. We missed a month of it being away in the Bahamas and Cuba shooting, but we’ve still had more than enough! When the snow melted in...

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Cuba

Havana must be the most photogenic spot on earth. The communist politics since the 1959 Revolution that lifted Fidel Castro into power and US embargoes have forced the island city, formerly a US playground, into a weird timewarp. Colourful crumbling Spanish colonial mansions, classic American cars babied along since the 1940s and 50s, Latin and...

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