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7/23/12

Antique Cutlery

Posted by Mike Holtby at 3:11 PM
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Queen's Guard

Posted by Mike Holtby at 1:30 PM
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Druggist's Bottles

Posted by Mike Holtby at 12:53 PM
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Medicine Bottles

Posted by Mike Holtby at 12:32 PM
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Baby Bottle

Posted by Mike Holtby at 9:57 AM
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Nigerian Slave Trade

Posted by Mike Holtby at 9:31 AM
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7/22/12

Ink Bottle Collection

Posted by Mike Holtby at 11:30 PM
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Mike Holtby
I am a psychotherapist (now retired) and photographer. When in college I wanted to be a cultural anthropologist, but I couldn't figure out how to do fieldwork in some remote part of the world with a wife and small daughter. So I changed my major to Sociology. I eventually became a clinical social worker. I burnt out on that field in my mid-thirties, and went to art school in commercial photography. However, in the end the best balance proved to be as a private practice psychotherapist, with photography as an avocation. This eventually synthesized with my original interest in indigenous cultures around the world (I've been to 47 countries) photographing people for a project called "One Planet -- One People". My other photographic interest is wildlife, and I have been on a dozen African safaris, as well as Yellowstone in every season, and Alaska to photograph brown bears. My reasons are similar to photographing indigenous people: the ecosystem is collapsing and much of the wildlife I witness now may soon be gone. I have now come full circle, building a photo studio on Whidbey Island offering professional portraiture, and working on a photo book project.
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