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https://senseofplacemaui.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_full.tpl&product_id=174&category_id=8&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=6

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The Music in tandem with Clara Young Kim's Photos

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The Music in tandem with Clara Young Kim's Photos

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Screen recording from the mobile phone version of the site

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From their About Us section:
"From their first visit, Sharon and Rich fell in love with the island of Maui. Its warm sandy beaches, gentle trade winds, and spirit of aloha pulled them back again and again. In 2012 they had the good fortune of living in Maui and spent countless hours exploring the island's coastline, jungles, and trails capturing images of Maui's most beautiful spots."
This one is quite straightforward in that the couple find a sense of place in the beauty of the vast landscape of the Hawaiian Island.
https://senseofplacemaui.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=4

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From their first visit, Sharon and Rich fell in love with the island of Maui. Its warm sandy beaches, gentle trade winds, and spirit of aloha pulled them back again and again. In 2012 they had the good fortune of living in Maui and spent countless hours exploring the island's coastline, jungles, and trails capturing images of Maui's most beautiful spots.

When not shooting landscapes, the two self-described "snorkel fanatics" are frequent visitors to Maui's beautiful coral reefs. Deciding to share the wonder of Maui's underwater world with others they recently published, "Mask, Fins & Snorkel: The Adventure Guide to Maui's Best Snorkeling."

To reflect their love of the Valley Isle and share it with those of similar spirits, they also launched Sense of Place Maui. They hope you enjoy their images, recognize some of Maui's special places, and return for a visit whenever you need a little "aloha" in your day.

Mahalo for visiting Sense of Place Maui!

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From their first visit, Sharon and Rich fell in love with the island of Maui. Its warm sandy beaches, gentle trade winds, and spirit of aloha pulled them back again and again. In 2012 they had the good fortune of living in Maui and spent countless hours exploring the island's coastline, jungles, and trails capturing images of Maui's most beautiful spots.

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Sense of Place of Maui by Sharon and Rich of Sense of Place Photoscapes

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Sense of Place of Maui by Sharon and Rich of Sense of Place Photoscapes

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https://senseofplacemaui.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_full.tpl&product_id=443&category_id=9&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=26

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The uncanniness of this one is especially so for me since I've never had the pleasure of living in the suburbs

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Sense of Place Photography by Clara Young Kim 2

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Sense of Place Photography by Clara Young Kim 2

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From her about me section
" Her musical background plays a strong role in her way of capturing images and moments.  She believes that the elements of an image, such as the colors, lines, shapes, brightness, and contrast, all contain their own notes and beats in a very orchestral way.  These quality pieces and work together in harmony to produce a beautiful image and work of art.  She enjoys creating and sharing moments that can strike a chord in the viewer's soul."
https://www.claraphotography.com/about-me
Her photography on her website is accompanied by orchestral music which allows for an extra layer of depth in viewing her photos and the beauty of the corresponding landscapes. Kim has found a sense of place in music and connects sound to visuals in her work.

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About me

Clara Young Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, and studied music since she was four years old. She attended Yonsei University as a voice major and taught piano. Her musical background plays a strong role in her way of capturing images and moments. She believes that the elements of an image, such as the colors, lines, shapes, brightness, and contrast, all contain their own notes and beats in a very orchestral way. These quality pieces and work together in harmony to produce a beautiful image and work of art. She enjoys creating and sharing moments that can strike a chord in the viewer's soul.

Clara Young is a member of the Washington Printmakers Gallery, located in Washington D.C. She joined the Art League in Alexandria in 2013 and has been a member of Gallery 75 since 2014. Her work has won many awards nationally and internationally. She remains active in group shows and solo exhibitions that showcase her work throughout the year.

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Her work is showcased throughout the year in the Washington Printmakers Gallery, located in the Washington D.C. Neighborhood of Georgetown near Book Hill.

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www.washingtonprintmakers.com

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About me Clara Young Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, and studied music since she was four years old. She attended Yonsei University as a voice major and taught piano. Her musical background plays a strong role in her way of capturing images and moments.

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Sense of Place Photography by Clara Young Kim 

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Sense of Place Photography by Clara Young Kim 

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https://www.claraphotography.com/sense-of-place

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In Defining Sense of Place from the European Journal of Social Science, Education, and Research

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In Defining Sense of Place from the European Journal of Social Science, Education, and Research

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From the abstract of the journal entry "Sense of Place and Place Identity" written by Shukran Qazimi,
"One process in which identity is attached to a particular place is by a feeling that you belong to that place. It's a place in which you feel comfortable, for example, at home because the way you define yourself is symbolized by certain qualities of that place. The geographer Relph, has gone so far as to claim that 'to be human is to live in a world that is filled with significant places: to be human to have to know your place.'
Intense feelings of belonging to a place focus on domestic places, starting with a room, a house and a garden. Such places offer a felling of safety and refuge even though, this is by no means always the case. Strong feelings of identifying with a place may also concentrate on other places, for example, a sense of belonging to a place may occur at the local scale. One example is the brass bands, based in small villages and industrial towns. The events were famous everywhere, villages became very evident because of the local people. They came to support the band and often wearing the band's colours. Unconsciously, they brought together the local community and the music was part of the sense of place of inhabitants of villages and towns."
Qazimi, S. (2014). Sense of Place and Place Identity. European Journal of Social Science Education and Research, 1(1), 306–310. https://revistia.com/files/articles/ejser_v1_i1_14/ShukranQ.pdf

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An empty road reflects the empty mind

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The music of the mariachi at the Our Lady de San Juan de Valle church is something that is uniquely Tex-Mex. People come from around the country to see them perform, because they are that special.

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Lady of San Juan de el valle mariachi!!!2021. POPURRI CARISMÁTICO!!!!!

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An image taken in the San Joaquin Valley of an irrigation system watering the crops

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Farm Irrigation by Science Photo Library Art by Michael Marton

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Farm Irrigation by Science Photo Library Art by Michael Marton

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This is a very common sight to see in the San Joaquin Valley, where my home in Visalia is. The area is a farming hub and where most of the fruit that is sold across the nation is grown.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/farm-irrigation-jim-westscience-photo-library.html

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Interior of the Cathedral of Saint Joseph taken on Christmas 2018, the same day I took the picture of the Saint Mary church in Visalia (:

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Catholic Life Photography by Aaron Joseph- 3

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Catholic Life Photography by Aaron Joseph- 3

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https://catholiclife.photography/Places/Cathedral-of-Saint-Joseph-Christmas-2018/i-M8WPRpX/A

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Interior of the Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic Church

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Catholic Life Photography by Aaron Joseph- 2

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Catholic Life Photography by Aaron Joseph- 2

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https://catholiclife.photography/Places/Mother-of-God-Ukrainian/i-KbkXvBB/A

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Picture of the interior of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Visalia CA, Christmas Day, 2018

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My choice in sense of place final is to photograph my local church, because even though I would like to have photographed my Nana's house, I can't exactly take a weekend trip to California, so that was out of the question. In making a compromise, I decided that the church is something that connects my home in Texas and my home in California, so it only makes sense to utilize the church in my final project.

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Aaron Joseph's "About Me" describing his Sense of Place in Saint Joseph and the Church

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Aaron Joseph's "About Me" describing his Sense of Place in Saint Joseph and the Church

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" Being raised in foster care, in three homes and two institutions, I had no attachment to my family name. I legally changed it to Joseph to publicly declare that the Patron of the Church is my patron, my father-in-spirit."
https://aaronjoseph.me

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1. With my priest-spiritual director's blessing, I made private perpetual vows to live as a consecrated disciple of Jesus, the Son of God and Son of Joseph and Mary.

2. Being raised in foster care, in three homes and two institutions, I had no attachment to my family name. I legally changed it to Joseph to publicly declare that the Patron of the Church is my patron, my father-in-spirit.

3. To bring to light Saint Joseph's place in the Earthly Trinity, I began SAINT JOSEPH: OUR PATRON - a lay apostolate founded to promote Saint Joseph's universal patronage - "so that all may grow in devotion to the Patron of the Universal Church" (a motive taken from "Guardian of the Redeemer" by Pope John Paul II).

4. I hope to enlighten minds and inflame hearts via the understanding and appreciation that I have been given to highlight Saint Joseph's place in the Earthly Trinity.

5. In my job, I work to build up the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Hartford and beyond through print, web and social media. My photos are regularly published on the AOH's Facebook and Instagram accounts, the AOH and AOH Photos websites, and in the Catholic Transcript - the Magazine of the Archdiocese of Hartford. My work has also been featured in many other diocesan and national publications.

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1. With my priest-spiritual director's blessing, I made private perpetual vows to live as a consecrated disciple of Jesus, the Son of God and Son of Joseph and Mary. 2. Being raised in foster care, in three homes and two institutions, I had no attachment to my family name.

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Interior of the North American Martyrs Shrine

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Catholic Life Photography by Aaron Joseph- 1

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Catholic Life Photography by Aaron Joseph- 1

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In researching photographers, I looked to Catholic photographers because of the sense of place topic and location I ultimately chose, where I stumbled upon Aaron Joseph, who takes pictures of churches across the world.
This Picture: https://catholiclife.photography/Places/North-American-Martyrs-Shrine/i-3HWCpRZ/A
Aaron Joseph's website: https://catholiclife.photography

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My little sister's favorite pooch of all time, My Nana's dog, Peanut

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This was a panorama I took on our 2016 trip to Yosemite, which was one of my favorite places I've ever traveled to and explored. This was one of the first times in my young adult life I was able to truly appreciate the beauty and immense wonder of nature

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This selfie of me and my Nana was taken in 2016. She had just started to go through her dementia. 

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This photo was taken in 2013, which was the year we tried to move to California and lived with my Nana for a year. 

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"Settle down, it'll all be clear
Don't pay no mind to the demons,
they fill you with fear.
The trouble, it might drag you down,
If you get lost,
you can always be found.
Just know you're not alone
cause I'm gonna make this place your home."
This song was invokes a strong sense of place, and as the title would imply, a feeling of being home. The song was used as a theme for the 2012 Olympics American gymnast team, and I remember vividly watching the Olympics in my Nana's living room while we were visiting my grandparents in California for the summer, feeling so comfortable and safe and just... home. My little sister also feels this same sense of home and safety when listening to this song as well. For a long time, and even still today, she cannot listen to this song without welling up with tears, remembering the times we spent with Nana at her house, when things seemed so much more simple and we still had that sense of childhood innocence and wonder. Even now, writing this, I've begun shedding a few tears.

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Sense of Place as described by an "outsider" author and how his travels inspired his "insider" characters.  

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Sense of Place as described by an "outsider" author and how his travels inspired his "insider" characters.  

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In researching Sense of Place, I found this wonderful book in which the author, Michael Shapiro, interviews a myriad of different authors who have written about sense of place and traveling, whether it be through auto biographical works or fictional stories.
In the interview Shapiro did with British author, Johnathan Raban, Shapiro asks how his experience as an "outsider" traveling American inspired his book, "Hunting Mister Heartbreak," in which he writes about an Alabama native with an ingrained sense of place over generations, and Raban responds-
"It seems to me that outsiderdom is something that happens to you, not something that you deliberately construct. And my sense of my own displacement is the grit in the oyster that kind of nags at one. But I think that's a sort of consequence of fate, really. It's the product of having grown up in a certain way, very much as an outsider, an outsider in terms of class- we're talking about England where class is important... So I sort of spent this traveling childhood in which the family were always strangers and outsiders, trying to learn the ropes of the new place and never quite fitting in... So in this sense of oddity in place, this sense of outsiderness, of not quite belonging where you are and therefore having to figure it out, I think that sense of always trying to know what you're doing here... So probably the relationship between the overall narrator of 'Hunting Mister Heartbreak' and the personae of Rainbird and Rayburn and the other characters, I think is related to that. But I don't think it's a calculated pose- I think it's more a fate."
Shapiro, Michael. A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration. United States, Travelers' Tales, 2009, Pg 51.

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Sense of Place in nature in Lewis and Clark's expedition

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Sense of Place in nature in Lewis and Clark's expedition

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From a 1988 journal written in the magazine, The Trumpeter, Robert Hay discusses the writings of the Lewis and Clark expedition into the territory acquired by the Louisiana purchase.
Hays writes,
"Though the greater portions of the journals consist of the pragmatic details of the exploratory expedition (1804-1806) itself, there is a significant number of passages portraying their gradual understanding of the rugged wilderness of the American West. As to be expected, their early impressions are rather superficial, but the deeper the expedition goes into the interior of the Plains and Rockies, the more intricate they become... A wild and sublime nature elicits a sense of profound awe, and this awe elevates the soul of the viewer. By the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the wilderness was considered to be a dangerous, but awe-inspiring place rich in potential natural resources."
Hay, Robert. "Toward a theory of sense of place." The Trumpeter 5.4 (1988) http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/download/699/1061

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This one has a particular somber feel, like the death of a beloved childhood place. 

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I've always been enamored by liminal spaces and the concept of a place being distinctly familiar despite the fact you've never been there. It's as if you've been there in a past life. Something is familiar about the space, and I think this is a good spot to start when thinking about sense of place, even if these cases are usually a tad uncanny.