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Mystic River In National Geographic Magazine
December 19th, 2008 @ 06:02:16 | Photography
Following a dear friend’s advise, I had submitted a photograph to Your Shot section of the National Geographic Magazine in February / March. Having little or no hope that it would even be amongst the Daily Dozen, I totally forgot about the submission. One fine day in July, another dear friend posted a comment with the news. It was only then that I realized that I had deleted the email, which had the notification from National Geographic, without even opening it 
Since then, I have been carefully reading every email that comes my way and few correspondences later, folks at NGM confirmed that this would appear, in print, in January 09 issue. Needless to say, this has been the best gift ever.
I know for a fact that I would have never seen this day but for constant support from the best place on God’s green earth and very many friends from around the world – Thank you!!
Congratulations Gowtham, what better start to the new year than this. Hopefully this will be the harbinger of many many more successes to come your way. Sigu firstu, sikki treat haaksu!
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This is awesome G! It looked great in print – definitely one to save for sure.
Congratulations Gowtham. We are all happy to see your photograph in NGB. We wish u more photographs to come near future.
[...] Geographic, taken by my friend Gowtham. A link to the picture is here, and his blog posting is here. Presque Isle River [...]
[...] Geographic, taken by my friend Gowtham. A link to the picture is here, and his blog posting is here. Presque Isle River [...]
you say? That’s pretty cool $author
Wow, did that video bring back memories! Just hearing the AIM song took me back over 30 years to my old Red School House, Heart of the Earth and Little Earth days days when I was priviledged to be working among a handful of strong Indian women raising money for the TC AIM organizations my kids were Red School House kids, having started school there when in the Abenugee Daycare center. I still have a picture of Susie and Son sitting on the dumpster at RSH with all the other little grubby kids..brings back good memories. Feasts and 49′s every Thursday night and a real sense of community. It was from those formative years in the cities that I learned the art of grantwriting and will be forever grateful for that opportunity as it enabled me to earn an income to raise my family. Why am I telling you all this? Because the AIM I know was about teaching Indian kids first and foremost, to be proud of being Indian, and exposing them to their language and culture it was not about pitting one tribe against another, and certainly not one district against another. It was not about blood degree and ranking one’s rights in accordance with the amount of Indian blood you had. It was about advocating for basic human rights for all people and taking on issues when asked for help. This does not mean it was perfect. If it was, it would be as strong today as it was yesterday. Where it went wrong was having different rules for different people. Which is a pretty universal mistake and recipe for anarchy.