Read "Take the Subway to Meet the Mermaids" by Melissa Whalen Haertsch
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I don't travel all that much, but when I do, and remember to take my camera, I make a few pictures. Some of the photos below were made in New York City, some on the beaches of Delaware or Daytona. In Arizona, I photographed a man building a trail through the desert. Years later, I spent the day at King’s Anvil Ranch making pictures of well-armed Minutemen who said they were protecting our border with Mexico. In Ithaca, New York I photographed a beautiful naked woman seated in a museum gallery. In Portland, Oregon a man grinned at me and my camera through a window. He turned out to be cardboard.