WELCOME to Paul's travel photography show. For the past 35 or so years I've roamed the world, from time to time -- listening, observing, encountering, avoiding or trying to avoid, engaging or trying to engage, well or ill, comfortable or not, homesick or content -- being, in other words, a traveler. When I crossed the Atlantic for the first time, in 1967, on a passenger-freighter bound for Tangier, I couldn't have known that it would be the start of a type of adventure I would return to repeatedly. I was away for 6 months that time and I came back with a lot of memories -- bedbug bites in Tangier, first view of the Parthenon, the Wailing Wall and then sick from too much halvah in Jerusalem, drinking out of the Ganges in Rishikesh, stoned on hash in Hong Kong -- and no pictures. I had lost my camera in a canoeing accident some months before I left! Eventually I bought a new camera and learned that the secret to a good picture is mostly a good camera and a fascinating subject -- and some ability to use the camera and to see and appreciate the subject. Most photographs in the first seven galleries were taken between 1975 and 2004 (although the earliest photos in the show date from 1962/1963). These photographs were taken with a variety of cameras using Kodachrome and Ektachrome slide film. The slides were scanned with a dedicated slide scanner. Photos in "recent travels" were taken with a Canon Pro 1 except for the last trip when I used a Canon XSi and a Sigma 18-200 mm lens. You're most welcome to travel with me through the world via these photographs. It's easier than sitting in the dark in my living room listening to me guide you through 2 1/2 hours of slides from my latest trip, don't you think? ENJOY!
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