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. John Paul Caponigro Alumna, www.johnpaulcaponigro.com, Iceland

. Have lived in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, UK, USA, Indonesia, and travelled to 38 countries. Love food photography. Addicted to landscape photography.

. A gourmet and professional visual artist with an impeccable taste offering stunning and impressive images from around the world in the spirit of peaceful elegance, quality, and artistic timelessness.

. For international private and commercial shots, contact: alextjoa.com [at] gmail.com

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On growing — lesson learned:

While riding in an elevator in a Spokane hotel, Bayard Rustin was ordered by a white man to lace up his shoes. Without objection or hesitation, he did as he was ordered. The man then handed him a tip. Rustin refused, saying, "Oh, I didn't do it for money. I assumed you really needed help." The man was extremely embarassed and then apologetic. He invited Rustin to come to his room where they had meaningful exchange on the subject of human relations.

You may say, "But I could never act like that!" It is not easy. It takes great inner strength, which comes only from feellings of self respect and mature self-love. The man obviously had a poor regard for himself, and that was the root of his discrimination. Rustin could treat the man lovingly without offense simply because the act of obvious discrimination was no threat to his security. He was established in the reality of his own being, which was love. Thus, he could easily love his neighbor as himself, for he easily loved and respected himself.

Note that Bayard Rustin had a choice. He could have taken offense and then reacted in hostility and anger. But in that case, he would have revealed a lack of self-respect. Or, as he did, he could simply BE what he knew himself to be — a creature centered in the love of the Infinite, which was adequate to help and heal any situation. No one would have criticized him if he had chosen the way of anger, for that is the way of the world. However, the wise man will always ask himself, "Why should I let another person determine how I am going to act?" The apostle Paul had often faced this kind of choice, thus it was from his own painful experience that he urged us not to let the world around us squeeze us into its own mold, but rather to let God remold our minds from within. Every one of us has a choice many times a day whether to react to situations in human consciousness, or, as Meister Eckhart might say, to let God be God in you.

— Eric Butterworth, "Life is for Loving"

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Bodies:
Canon EOS 30D
Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Lenses:
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Canon EF 14mm f/2.8L II USM
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

Flash:
Canon Speedlite 580EX II

Remote control:
Canon RC-1 Wireless Remote Control for EOS 5D Mark II

Filters:
Singh Ray LB Warming Polarizer, 77 mm thin ring mount
Galen Rowell's Graduated Neutral Density Filter, 2 f-stops soft edge 4x6 handheld
Daryl Benson Reverse Neutral Density Graduated Filter, 3 f-stops 4x6 handheld

Tripod:
Gitzo GT-1550T Traveler 6X Carbon Fiber Tripod with G1077M lateral arm

Bag:
Kata DR-467 Digital Rucksack

Softwares:
Picasa
Adobe CS5


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