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Except where noted, all of my images were taken with a Canon SD550 point & shoot camera...

"Squint for interesting shapes! In and out, out and in, curving and swerving!"

- Mrs. Hertzberg, my 3rd grade art class teacher at P.S. 41, Bayside, New York (an early influence on my photography)

"We see things not as they are but as we are."

- Anais Nin

"In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

- George Orwell

"Freedom means knowing what your government is up to."

- Tom Blanton, Director of the National Security Archives

"I am an information fetishist. I'm into leather-bound books."

- Stephen Colbert