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Santa Fe Sky

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

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Santa Fe Sublime

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

I am walking Toward calm and shady places I am walking On the earth ~ George W. Cronyn, The Path on the Rainbow (1918) Photo taken in the garden at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe

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Summer of USA Day 3: Writing Retreat

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

I’m in Taos, New Mexico on a writing retreat at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House led by Jen Louden. D. H. Lawrence wrote here. Georgia O’Keefe painted here. Ansel Adams took photographs here. I’m sensing a pattern. Let’s see if I can find my place in that pattern.

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What is Creative Flow?

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Alex and I both know this: creative flow is about the body as much as the mind. Find your creative flow with us. You don’t need to be a yogi, a photographer or even be sure yet that you are ‘creative’. You can trust us: you are. Come play with us! Registrations now open through [...]

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My Summer of USA: Day 1

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Venice Beach, Virginia and the delightful Dyana Valentine. Not even 75 minutes in the immigration queue at LAX could kill my travel buzz today. Happy & grateful.

Tags: August Break, Dyana Valentine, Venice Beach
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Taking a break

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

Inspired by my home girl, Susannah Conway, I’m taking a break this August. For the month of August I’ll only be posting photographs. Since I’ll be spending the entire month of August traveling in the US, it seems like an excellent time to take a break from writing and let my pictures do the talking. [...]

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What I’ve been doing…

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

I’ve been a wee bit quiet for the past week or so. That’s because I’ve been working 18-20 hour days on a very special project. It’s my sweetheart’s life-long dream project and yesterday it came to fruition. We just opened a Mexican restaurant in Wellington, New Zealand! This is what opening day looked like:

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Can travel portrait photography be respectful?

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Words and images by: Marianne Elliott Today I was processing some portraits from a trip I made to Papua New Guinea when I was working for Oxfam. They got me thinking about how much I love to photograph people and about what makes a great portrait, but also about the ethics of photographing people who [...]

Tags: photography, portraits, respect, travel
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Surviving survivors guilt

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

‘This guilt isn’t based on anything I’ve done. I didn’t kill those boys. I didn’t kill Amanullah Khan, beginning the chain of events that led to their deaths. The guilt isn’t even really based on anything I have failed to do. I wasn’t in a position to prevent the fighting and although I feel that [...]

Tags: eqnz, guilt, recovery, survival, trauma
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Update on Afghan women’s shelters

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Thanks so much to all of you who wrote letters to the various Ambassadors last week. I just recieved this response from the US Embassy in Kabul: Salaam, Marianne, My husband, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, and I received your recent message regarding the fate of women’s shelters in Afghanistan. Not only do we share your concerns [...]

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