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	<title>Seeking the World's Soul</title>
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	<description>Travel Photography and Writing by Kira Hagen</description>
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		<title>Travel Research</title>
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I like to know as much as possible about places before I visit or move to them, and as I’ve been doing a lot of travel over the last few years I’ve worked some basic online research methods. Of course books are great and I love a good travel guide — Rough Guides are my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirahagen.com/2010/03/travel-research</link>
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		<title>On Seeking the World’s Soul</title>
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The last trip got to me. Just a bit, nothing too bad, only traveling two  weeks around Turkey, where I’ve now lived for 5 months. It left me exhausted, though, and I’ve spent the last three days since  getting back to Samsun in the house, all burned out and anti-social.
I always try to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirahagen.com/2010/02/on-seeking-the-worlds-soul</link>
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		<title>Amissos</title>
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Amissos — Samsun, Turkey — Images by Kira Hagen
The English Club visited Amissos on a cool November afternoon. The the wintry sunlight was fading fast, and slid golden over the twin tumuli atop the hill above the old harbor, slowly fading to twilight blues as it sank behind the coastal mountains. The air was cool, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirahagen.com/2009/11/amissos</link>
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		<title>Just moved to Samsun, Turkey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long time since I posted anything on here. A wordpress upgrade broke the old “Options” theme I was using, and I’ve been fiddling with making the blog presentable again since then, on and off. Mosty off as I was spending a lot of time job seeking, then getting ready to move, and finally moving from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirahagen.com/2009/10/just-moved-to-samsun-turkey</link>
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		<title>Upgraded and broke my theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having some problems with my site at the moment — my apologies! I upgraded wordpress and the template I’ve been using for the last few years broke. So, trying to find a new one that displays both images and text well — so far, a lot harder than I expected. I do know some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirahagen.com/2009/06/upgraded-and-broke-my-theme</link>
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		<title>Brides of Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love watching art restoration work in progress, especially when the technicians are actively working on things. These statues were in a wing of the Louvre that was undergoing repairs and covered in a great deal of dust. The plastic draped over them made me think of bridal veils. ]]></description>
		<link>http://kirahagen.com/2009/06/brides-of-time</link>
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		<title>Russian Vikings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my favorite shot from the Gorodets living history festival in 2006. It always makes me think I should title it, “No shit, there I was…” The guys fighting are mainly college students who do this as a hobby. It’s live steel, dull weapons but otherwise real. My husband joined the group and got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirahagen.com/2009/03/russian-vikings</link>
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		<title>Sorry about the mess…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just stopped using Zenfolio’s photo hosting and now some of my older image links are broken. I’ve switched to self-hosted Gallery2 software and am in the process of uploading photos and updating broken links, but it might take a couple days. Hopefully I’ll be able to get it all cleaned up over the weekend.
Also, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirahagen.com/2009/02/sorry-about-the-mess</link>
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		<title>Weekend in Ely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spent the weekend in Ely and visited the International Wolf Center. ]]></description>
		<link>http://kirahagen.com/2009/02/weekend-in-ely</link>
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		<title>Fashion shoot with Szilvia</title>
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Small gallery from my fashion/ lingerie shoot with my Hungarian friend Szilvia. She’s studying photography, but I’ve got to say she did awfully well in front of the lens.
Unfortunately she doesn’t want me posting the more risque photos but we got some good fashion shots (and some of them were good, but as much as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirahagen.com/2008/11/fashion-shoot-with-szilvia</link>
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