I have no words to describe your  pictures of Mexico, I am a Mexican doing my MBA in the USA and believe me, I have cried with emotion from your pictures, I have been to all the places you have, and there are no words to describe your work.  It is amazing , it is beautiful,  you have touched the heart of someone that loves his homeland like probably no one else in the world, thank you, thanks for sharing your experience.  I really hope the images here remain in your soul for ever, in your memory for years to come, it is the most impressive foto documentary I have ever seen of the place I call home.

 

Very thankful for the rest of  his life.

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Subject: sufi

Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2004

 

In October the Jerrahi Halveti (from Istanbul) https://www.sufijerrahi.it will play the sema in Verona (Italy). I have been asked to design the poster. I love your pictures and I was thinking to use one of your dervishes. Unfortunately there is no money for this poster but I can write your name + e-mail on it and I can send you some copies. What do you think? Would be possible?
 

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Subject: Picture

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004

My name is A and I work for the "Surprise Streetmagazine" in Basel, Switzerland. We're looking for a pic for an article about the North Pole and surfed through your pages. We like your pictures very much and would like to ask if we can use one. As we are a non-profit street paper (f.e. like London's "Big Issue"), vended by homeless people, we cannot afford a fee and would like to know if we could use the pic for free? Of course, we'd write above the pic from which source it is. For a quick feedback, thanks in advance.

 

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Subject: salam (magazine and pictures)

Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2004

 

Asalamualaikum bro and sister. My name is K from Warid press in singapore. We are just starting to begin our new Islamic magazine name "The Path". We would like to seek your permission in using some of the pictures in your net like the whirling dervishes in Syria. Unfortunately we do not have a budget to buy the photo however we will acknowledge where the picture come from in the magazine itself. We are new magazine, struggling with funds. I hope you understand our situation. Hope to hear from you soon. thanks

 

Thanks very much for your site and pictures. I shall return and enjoy some more of it later. I spent 6 months hanging out in Syria (mostly in Tartous) in 1992-3 and visited most of the places you did. But I didn't take photographs and now I have yours!

 

Was the old caretaker still there at Ugarit? A couple of Syrian friends took me there and I think we had to wake him up.

 

I'm using one of your Palmyra pictures as wallpaper now. Wadi Rum will be next. I got lost driving there via an alleged back road off the road coming up from Aqaba. The Jordanian border guards that I finally found said I had come from the direction of Saudi. So, as a woman, I have defied their silly laws.

 

Keep finding those places and posting your photos.

Ann, Texas

 

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Subject: Photos of Cuba -- Photos de Cuba

Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2004

 

I have visited your photographs on the internet and I enjoyed them very much.

 

I would appreciate if you would give us your permission to be able to publish some of them, only the ones with the theme of Cuba, in our section "The best photos of Cuba" ... With our nonprofit website, which has been up for many years now, our only goal is to let people know the authentic Cuba. For that reason, the photography plays a very important role.

 

We will include in the section whatever information that you desire (email address, website, etc), and we will always respect the copyright of the photographs. We do not publish anything without the permission of the author.

 

We await your response.