Tavern | Alcoholic infusion Licensed consumption On premise social tradition |
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he Sumerians, inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia (3500 BC) in present-day southern Iraq, are believed to have invented the convention of gathering in a public venue to drink alcoholic beverages. Civilizations come and go, but some customs endure.
Both spherical aberration and motion blur contributed to the atmosphere in today's image. I like to create photographic painterly effects as a function of capture technique made possible under certain lighting conditions. I also like to unobtrusively blend into my environment so the presence of my camera doesn't change the behavior of the indigenous.
“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.” - James McNeill Whistler
