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Part of the Berlin Wall that still exists in the city with the famous painting of the former USSR secretary general, Leonid Brejnev (on the left) and Erick Honeker, the former communist leader of East Germany (on the right), in 1979. The kiss, taken from an actual photo, symbolized the close relationship of the two communist countries at the time. I overlaid the famous statement by Ronald Reagan in 1987 appealing to Mikhail Gorbachev of the USSR to tear down the wall dividing East from West Berlin.

I began photography with a Brownie camera my parents gave me as a child sometime in the 1950s. In the 1970s I finally graduated to an SLR and actually won a few contests, then took a hiatus through the 1990s but picked up digital photography in earnest in the mid-2000s. Now, many years later, it still excites me to venture out and try to find what the world is all about in my own way through this wonderful medium. To me, photography is about capturing the hidden meaning, the emotion, and the invisible in a given moment in time. It transcends mere composition and lighting. When it's done well, we sit up and take notice, we pause over an image, and if everything is perfect, we might even feel that slight tingling up the spine. While I try...