Over the last 15 years he has passionately pursued fine art color landscape photography throughout North and South America and the Middle East. While many photographers move toward digital, Ginsberg goes counter to the grain, in his migration to large format view cameras as he continues to photograph the wild and beautiful places of the western hemisphere.

Rosh Hanikra National Park at Sunset
Ginsberg, Jerry
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David Roberts was 42 when he set off, in 1838, on the second of his important foreign journeys. The first, in 1832-33, was to Spain, a country then little known to his compatriots. From Gilbraltar he made a short trip to Morocco, to Tangiers and Tetuan, his first African experience. In the five years between the two journeys, Roberts earned enough from sales and oils and watercolors, and from commissions for book illustrations, to undertake this second expensive expedition. He had read as much as he could about the countries he planned to visit.

Roberts left London in August 1838. He traveled through France to Marseilles, sailed via Malta and Greece to Alexandria, which he reached on September 24th. While he was away he kept a journal, written in pencil, of which one small fragment survives; the rest was transcribed by his young daughter into two leatherbound volumes.

With the help of the British counsul at Alexandria, Roberts hired a boat, its eight-man crew, a reis, and a servant. He went to Cairo and spent a day or two there, seeing the pyramids and the Sphinx, then went on to his river journey. Like most of the artists making the same trip, he did most of his drawing on the way downriver.

The Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD The
Roberts, David
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Yvette Cardozo: Worked eight years for major metropolitan newspapers; has done freelance travel and outdoors articles and photography since 1974.
HIRSCH: Worked at a variety of research and writing jobs in government and private industry and has been doing freelance articles since 1982.
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel
Cardozo, Yvette
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This image is part of the French School collection, a vast assortment of styles that originated with prehistoric cave paintings. Through the years French artists have made many important contributions in all media from painting and sculpture to architecture and the decorative arts. The birthplace of Gothic art, France again became the center of Western art in the mid-19th century.