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Top Photographer Lynsey Addario Lives Her Photography Dream

Last updated on December 7th, 2012 at 12:25 amI ‘ve created a list of characteristics and experience I think is an important part of being considered a top photographer: Have passion. Be tenacious. Create images that create, cause or move emotion. Have a story to tell Be known for something. In one of my posts from last year, 8 Top…
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Bay to Breakers: Running Down a Dream

Last updated on May 17th, 2012 at 07:52 amMy Bay to Breakers weekend started off with a strapping college boy, a van cab and Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’” bumping in the background. What could have been scandalous prelude to my highly anticipated weekend of debauchery was just an innocent cab ride the airport. Quick note for those of you who don’t…
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The Crime We Commit Against Our Dream: Not Breathing

Last updated on April 2nd, 2012 at 11:31 am Sometimes the universe delivers exactly what we need. I am on the tail end of helping my 16-year-old son with finals, papers and projects all due in a whirlwind of me wanting to kill myself. High school is one reason I don’t want to believe in reincarnation — who wants to…
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Traveling Dreams – Dateline: Dayton Iowa

Last updated on June 23rd, 2011 at 11:08 amMy rental car is backed into the parking lot of one of many Lutheran churches that guard this town and opposite my front bumper sits the rusty green steel one story shed construction City Hall of Dayton, Iowa. My Mac in my lap. I’m visiting the town where my birth mother graduated…
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