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A photograph is a stitch in time, captured forever, there for all to see, even for unborn generations to wonder about the setting and subjects.

My goal is to describe each photo below with a backstory, but this is proving to be quite a process and takes time. If you follow my website, please have patience as I identify each picture and bring you the story behind the image. I hope you enjoy.

Africa - my favorites

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Lone elephant and Mt. Kilimanjaro

Zanzibar beachfront

Breakfast with a herd of giraffes

"Look at the mountain, Dad"

Zanzibar

Powder my nose

Yemen

Yemen

Kenya

Kenya

Kenya

Kenya

Kenya

Kenya

Buzzards in Kenya

Proud lioness

Kenya style hair salon

Nairobi National Park

Kenya

Zanzibar-style laundry

Serengetti plains

Mama was mad

Kenya

Maasai child (Kenya)

Nile lechwe

Baptism Masai style

Baptism in rural Kenya

Baptizing a new Christian believer

Kenya

Blind Masai believer being baptized

Maasai woman (Kenya)

Nairobi Game Park

Kenyan child with a big smile

Kenyan child

Pensive pose

Kenyan child in Limuru

This boy is not all he seems

Kenyan children from Nairobi's Dagoretti slums

Zanzibar

Zanzibar building

Zanzibar fruit vendor

Masai woman

Babobab trees are called "upside-down" trees because the roots look like they are sticking up

Zanzibar fishing net

Masai mama

Fisherman tending his nets off the coast of Zanzibar

First look inside a camera

Masai woman

Massai Morani Warrior

Masai mama and her baby

Shanyanga (Tanzania) market

Taking care of business

Masai warriors dancing in Kenya

Baptism Masai style

More Masai baptism

Masai mama, girl, and children

Masai warrior singing songs from a Masai translated hymnal

Masai choir

Masai woman

Masai woman singing gospel hymns in her native language.

Masai bleeding a cow

Capturing the blood in a gourd

Check out my new spectacles

Masai boma

Masai mama and the mother of a friend

Interesting Masai man

Masai village

Masai women

Child in Yemen

Rural Kenyan clothes market

Lone elephant and Mt. Kilimanjaro

Zanzibar beachfront

Breakfast with a herd of giraffes

"Look at the mountain, Dad"

Zanzibar

Powder my nose

Yemen

Yemen

Kenya

Kenya

Kenya

Kenya

Kenya

Kenya

Buzzards in Kenya

Proud lioness

Kenya style hair salon

Nairobi National Park

Kenya

Zanzibar-style laundry

Serengetti plains

Mama was mad

Kenya

Maasai child (Kenya)

Nile lechwe

Baptism Masai style

Baptism in rural Kenya

Baptizing a new Christian believer

Kenya

Blind Masai believer being baptized

Maasai woman (Kenya)

Nairobi Game Park

Kenyan child with a big smile

Kenyan child

Pensive pose

Kenyan child in Limuru

This boy is not all he seems

Kenyan children from Nairobi's Dagoretti slums

Zanzibar

Zanzibar building

Zanzibar fruit vendor

Masai woman

Babobab trees are called "upside-down" trees because the roots look like they are sticking up

Zanzibar fishing net

Masai mama

Fisherman tending his nets off the coast of Zanzibar

First look inside a camera

Masai woman

Massai Morani Warrior

Masai mama and her baby

Shanyanga (Tanzania) market

Taking care of business

Masai warriors dancing in Kenya

Baptism Masai style

More Masai baptism

Masai mama, girl, and children

Masai warrior singing songs from a Masai translated hymnal

Masai choir

Masai woman

Masai woman singing gospel hymns in her native language.

Masai bleeding a cow

Capturing the blood in a gourd

Check out my new spectacles

Masai boma

Masai mama and the mother of a friend

Interesting Masai man

Masai village

Masai women

Child in Yemen

Rural Kenyan clothes market

Creepy, crawley, winged, and wiggly

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It's a bird world

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Caddo Lake . . . spooky, mysterious and ever so cool

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My guide on Caddo Lake

My guide on Caddo Lake

The great state of Texas

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Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Near Fredericksburg, TX

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Willow City Loop (Texas)

Near Fredericksburg, TX

Interesting people, places and things

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Fanning Island

Plush hotel room

Our Hotel in the Yemen

Switzerland

Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia (Canada)

Fanning Island

Young boy on Fanning, Island

Fanning Island

Roses, rain and an (extremely) slow shutter

The grand lady herself

In photography it's all about perspective

Bar Harbor, Maine

Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, Maine

World Trade Center Memorial

Boston, MA

The Non-Conformist Graduate

Louisiana moss

Hydrangea photographed with water drops

Grand Canyon Thief

Swan Motocross in Tyler, TX

Motocross in Tyler, TX

Motocross in Tyler, TX

Fall Leaves

Fall leaves

Lilly pads

Grand Canyon

Tyler, TX

The Matterhorn

The Matterhorn

Billy Bobs - Ft. Worth, TX

Bryce Canyon National Park

Fall in Tyler, TX

Snow storm

Gas was cheap that day near Fredericksburg, TX

Fireworks (Lake Grandbury, TX)

Bryce Canyon

Good friends in Switzerland

Zion National park

Bryce Canyon National Park

Fireworks (Lake Grandbury, TX)

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Western United States

Hill Country flowers

Germany

The Jeteau (Geneva, Switzerland).

Somewhere in France

Fanning Island

Plush hotel room

Our Hotel in the Yemen

Switzerland

Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia (Canada)

Fanning Island

Young boy on Fanning, Island

Fanning Island

Roses, rain and an (extremely) slow shutter

The grand lady herself

In photography it's all about perspective

Bar Harbor, Maine

Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, Maine

World Trade Center Memorial

Boston, MA

The Non-Conformist Graduate

Louisiana moss

Hydrangea photographed with water drops

Grand Canyon Thief

Swan Motocross in Tyler, TX

Motocross in Tyler, TX

Motocross in Tyler, TX

Fall Leaves

Fall leaves

Lilly pads

Grand Canyon

Tyler, TX

The Matterhorn

The Matterhorn

Billy Bobs - Ft. Worth, TX

Bryce Canyon National Park

Fall in Tyler, TX

Snow storm

Gas was cheap that day near Fredericksburg, TX

Fireworks (Lake Grandbury, TX)

Bryce Canyon

Good friends in Switzerland

Zion National park

Bryce Canyon National Park

Fireworks (Lake Grandbury, TX)

Zion National Park

Zion National Park

Western United States

Hill Country flowers

Germany

The Jeteau (Geneva, Switzerland).

Somewhere in France

It's a small world

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Dragonfly

A drop of food-dye colored water

Passion Flower, Tyler, TX

Dragonfly

A drop of food-dye colored water

Passion Flower, Tyler, TX

People-pics from around the world

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Africa - family and friends

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Our home in Nairobi (first time in the mid-seventies)

Our first car in Kenya - a Subaru

Beatrice worked in our home

Jeff and his palm-leaf canoe

The Peveys - special friends

Jeff with Maasai children

Ron preaching in Swahili (sort of)

Testing audio equipment for filming

The Jesus film in ki-Maasai language

Spear chunking contest

Lynda around 1989

Jeff dodging kids who wanted to touch is white skin

Our home in Nairobi (first time in the mid-seventies)

Our first car in Kenya - a Subaru

Beatrice worked in our home

Jeff and his palm-leaf canoe

The Peveys - special friends

Jeff with Maasai children

Ron preaching in Swahili (sort of)

Testing audio equipment for filming

The Jesus film in ki-Maasai language

Spear chunking contest

Lynda around 1989

Jeff dodging kids who wanted to touch is white skin

Ron & Lynda - a life built together

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Friends and good times

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Lynda's backstory in pictures

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Ron's backstory in pictures

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Ron Preaching in Tanzania

Dad and his open heart surgery scar

Ron Preaching in Tanzania

Dad and his open heart surgery scar

Jeff's backstory in pictures

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Fun, quirky, pics, photo-art, AI art, pour-art and more

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"Bill (William Carroll) Ragan" family photos, archives and genealogy

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Jacob Ragan

Howard and Billy Joe Ragan

Luther Ragan (Dad's brother) died as a child.

Jacob Ragan

Howard and Billy Joe Ragan

Luther Ragan (Dad's brother) died as a child.

"Evelyn Marie (Parmely) Ragan" family photos, archives and genealogy

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Ron's "Tiger Cruise" with Jeff on the USS Belleau Wood October 2004

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Shower on the USS Belleauwood

Shower on the USS Belleauwood

© 2025 Ron Ragan

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