One of my first memory is when I first came to the USA. It was a dream come through because I always wanted to go to the us. It was in January 2013 right in the middle of winter. Before the plane land, the pilot says it was -6 degrees I do not know how cold that was until the taxi I took drop me to the place where I was supposed to go. I waited in the cold for my friend but she never show up after 15 minutes I couldn't feel my hand so I decided to look for a hotel and try to reach my friend the day after. I took my bag in the cold but after a 3-minute walking I couldn't anymore I thru my baggage and when I was about to give up I saw a taxi. I wave at the drive and he told me to come I put my baggage in the truck and tell him I was looking for an affordable hotel to spend the night. He told me he will go get some food and we will go look for a hotel. When I get in the taxi the driver feels that I was freezing he pull up the heat and when I get back to my normal state I ask him if I can use his phone to call back my friend. And when I call my friend she told me to come back to her house that she was there so I ask the driver to drop me there and on our way there we saw my friend and I told the driver to stop she get in the car and we went to her house together.
Among the twentieth century’s most influential art photographers, Edward Weston (United States, 1886–1958) is widely respected for his many contributions to the field of photography. Along with Ansel Adams, Weston pioneered a modernist style characterized by the use of a large-format camera to create sharply focused and richly detailed black-and-white photographs. The combination of Weston’s stark objectivity and his passionate love of nature and form gave his still lifes, portraits, landscapes, and nudes qualities that seemed particularly suited for expressing the new American lifestyle and aesthetic that emerged from California and the West between the two world wars. He spent the years 1923–1926 in Mexico City as a part of an international milieu of creative minds attracted by the post-revolutionary excitement of political activists and artists such as Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, Tina Modotti, and others. From the moment he returned to the United States, he began maki
Hi Samba, Wow- that was a rough start- you were lucky to get such a nice taxi driver- proves New Yorkers are mostly good people...
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Yes Teacher That was such an incredible experience.
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