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Shooting in your own backyard

Shooting in your own backyard

I was in Istanbul a couple of months ago sitting in the courtyard in the Blue Mosque. Does that sound obnoxious? Is that like the place equivalent of name dropping? I'm not trying to gloat or anything. I was there as part of an event and it's a beautiful, the building is incredible and there was all these people around it. It was a really spectacular location, I was sitting there and I kind of looked around and I said, there's nothing to shoot here. It was, a ridiculous thing to think, I, I was tired but still I, I really did think that, nah, nah, there's nothing to shoot here in this spectacular location in a foreign land. And I continued to sit there, actually a little bit relieved with the idea that there was nothing to shoot there because I was off the hook. I was able to just continue to sit there and vegetate, or whatever it was I was doing. But then my eye caught a play of light on a far wall, on some you know, 12th Century stone wall, there was this beautiful splash of light…

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