Photo credit © Ed Alcock / eyevine
INTELLIGENT LIFE MAGAZINE MAY / JUNE 2014
Tourists flock to view the Mona Lisa painting by Leonardo da Vinci which hangs in the Louvre art gallery in Paris, France.

I spent my career in and around photography. The images appearing in my blog are mine, unless otherwise noted. I’m grateful to other photographers, artists, authors, who understand that their work is available for noncommercial fair use thru sites such as Wikimedia, Photobucket, as well as all global media. Here is  a statement about  that legal doctrine: 

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