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Taipei City, Taiwan -- June 2023

#photography #asia #documentary #streets #taiwan #taipei

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Final campaign eveing in Taiwan, election day is tomorrow Saturday 26th November 2022. Candidates with the Kuomintang (KMT) party Yao Ching-ling, Magistrate of Taitung County, center, with Chen Ming-feng, Taitung City Councilor, left, parade with supporters throughout downtown Taitung City.

#taitung #taiwan #kmt #kuomintang

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Morning light: My apartment window presents dominate colors of blue, green, red; half opened half closed, Taitung City, Taiwan.

#Instagram

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A tassel dangles from inside my apartment infront of the texture translucent class window, Taitung City Taiwan.

#Instagram

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Smartphone portrait of what once was 2021. All has gone. Copyright ©️ All rights reserved

#photography #documentary #the braid #lost #smartphone

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Self3 2020 alone

#photography #documentary #self #self portrait

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Center city Harrisburg, PA, circa1980s: infront of the former Warner Hotel on 2nd street. ©️ Copyright Rights Reserved Gary Dwight Miller

#Harrisburg #pennsylvania #police #streets #black and white #filmcamera #documentary #photography

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Two women walk on 2nd street in Harrisburg, PA, circa1980s. copyright all rights reserved Gary Dwight Miller

#Harrisburg #pennsylvania #street #documentary #photography #1980s #two #women #black and white #filmcamera

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TIGER YEAR 2022 Chinatown Philadelphia PA. USA: Arch & 10th streets.

Smartphone clip: Gary Dwight Miller 2022 copyright

#YEAR OF THE TIGER #Lunar New Yesr 2022 #CHINATOWN #TAIWAN #CHINA #VIETNAM #PHILADELPHIA #photography #ASIAN #asia

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©2021 Photography by Gary Dwight Miller. All rights reserved.

JUNETEENTH 06/19/2021

Washington D.C. - Juneteenth—also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, and Liberation Day—has been a tradition in the United States for well over a century. The holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.

This year—in the midst of a nationwide reckoning over anti-Black racism—Juneteenth has become a federal holiday. 

All images are camera viewfinder cropped !

#photography #Juneteenth #USA #documentary #celebration

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Smartphone clip 31/05/2020 Washington D.C. U.S.A. by Gary Dwight Miller copyright 2020 all rights reserved

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In the USA temporarily:(

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My temporary location due to covid-19 travel restrictions. Longing to return to Asia.

"I CAN'T BREATHE", Black lives dearly matter@

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A favorite image that I captured #toletpaper #photography #photodcumentary

After the parade in Lower Manhattan you can find toilet paper cheaper then the Dollar store.

Photographed Feb. 07, 2012

photo credit & copyright Gary Dwight Miller

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©2016 Photography by Gary Dwight Miller. All rights reserved.

AO BA OM

TRA VINH, VIETNAM 2016 - Tall trunked trees wearing green crowns of moving leaves, their roots up from the sandy soil surrounding a square shape bank of  Ao Ba Om, a popular local water refuge attraction in southern province Tra Vinh, Vietnam.  A place with centuries of indigenous history and stories from long ago royalty to contemporary love tales between the nameless many.  Placed near the oldest Khmer pagoda site within the province, road side eateries, photo outdoor-stands, ice cream for sale with souvenirs.  It’s the spot where locals come to picnic and residents of the immediate area collect fire wood from the dropped branches that fall as the wind above moves through the spectacular trees.

The pond is approximately 300 meters wide and 500 meters long having been recognized as an historic national relic in 1994 becoming a popular tourists attraction.  This past dry season the pond suffered through the worst drought in 90 years, according to local officials, scant rainfall and lack of dredging of the pond bed had caused it to dry up becoming a wide hole of cracked soil and wild weeds.

I have photographed the area occasionally beginning from my first visit in 2008 following into 2009.  Several years later returning to Tra Vinh in 2013 to live within various sections of this wet flatland, concentrating my photography focusing on life beneath the ancient trees.  In March riding my motorbike through the location of Ao Ba Om recognizing the emptiness of the pond I decided to visit weekly making a visual record with the thinking that it’s future would eventually fill with water and the delightful flowering water lotuses.

The images above are a small selection that documents rebuilding the venerable sanctuary that has contained dreams from daily visitors and giving relief to the economic hopes for the local merchants.  Final edit is in process with intention to publish in print form, a book.

#tra vinh #vietnam #southeast asia #asia #asean #ao ba om #pond #lake #photography #documentary