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Los Arcos, San Felipe, BC MX
San Felipe is generously supplied with striking landmarks that can be seen from nearly anywhere in town and a few that can be seen from miles out of town. There are the arches, called by the Department of Tourism The Gateway to the Sea of Cortez. These are two tall plaster and metal "goal posts" standing so close together they form the letter M. The inside profile is of two arches painted a blinding white. They sit in the middle of a traffic circle at the entrance to the town. About three miles north of town the highway curves into a view of these "gates" and they can be seen from almost anywhere in town.

I currently live in Surprise, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. I was born and raised in the beautiful state of Maine, where my interest in photograhy was discovered. I got my first camera, a Kodak Brownie, when I was six or seven years old, and I've been hooked on the art of photography ever since. A year or so later, I got my first processing and print making kit and I began to realize that I could be as creative, if not more so, in the darkroom than in the field. Over the years, my cameras and darkroom got more complex, giving me more creative tools to work with. About 15 years ago, I traded film, chemicals, tanks, trays, and the smell, for a digital camera and a copy of Photoshop. I never looked back. My goal is to capture and...