Amateur Photographer

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Magic rarely happens when you are comfortable. In fact it often happens when you are feeling the least comfortable. To paraphrase Nick Cave, a creative idea is like a tiny flame that you cup your hands around, praying it will not be extinguished by all the storms that howl around it. If you can hold onto it, life-changing things can be constructed around it.

Christmas in the Middle East was one of those flames. My plan was to fly

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