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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Photography

Exploring the Deer Paths Behind My Home

December 4, 2020

I spent a lovely morning recently exploring some of the deer paths behind our home, stopping to take photos along …

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“Love is a Language Few Practice, But All Speak”

March 8, 2020

Unreast in Baton Rouge By Traci K. Smith            after the photo by Jonathan Bachman Our …

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The Roman Forum, An Ancient Relic Then & Now

July 28, 2019

The Roman Forum lies right behind the Colosseum, that I wrote about last week. It is the great plaza where …

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Ancient Relic of Rome – The Colosseum, Now & Then

July 22, 2019

It seems so far away now, and long ago, that trip to Europe last summer. Even more so when re-viewing …

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A Lovely Sip of Sorrento, Italy

May 13, 2019

With summer around the corner I’ve been looking at all the photos I never shared from last year when I …

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Astonished, Opened at Last

May 5, 2019

Fallen in Love by David Whyte That day I saw beneath dark clouds the passing light over the water and …

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Art that Mirrors the Inner Essence

April 28, 2019

I found this photo on the cover of Sun Magazine some years ago and fell in love with it. It’s …

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The Fabulous Island of Capri on the Amalfi Coast

April 15, 2019

We spent several days on the fabled Island of Capri during our 30-day whirlwind trip to Europe last summer. It …

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What Makes this Photo So Fascinating?

April 7, 2019

What makes a photograph great? What draws us to look again and again? What is it we see that fascinates …

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The Insatiable Eye – Sontag on Photography

March 31, 2019

In her book of essays On Photography, Susan Sontag speaks of the “insatiability of the photographing eye” in our image-obsessed …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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