Dubrovnik’s Stradun
I have several photos I took in and around Durbrovnik, Croatia, and when I post them here, I wonder how many tens of thousands of other tourists have photos from the same location. But anyone who has wondered the same thing knows that there is something special about having your own pictures. It is perhaps [...]
Saving His Skin
I took this photo several years ago when I led a Watertown High School student trip to Rome. We had a free afternoon and one of my students and I made the trip to the church of San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome. This church is remarkable in many ways but I was captured by [...]
Spiral Stairs
Is this a chambered nautilus shell? No, it’s a carved stone spiral staircase in the “government building” in the amazing German town named Rothenburg o.d.T.
Ambulanza
This is what a Venetian ambulance looks like. The pilot races down the Grand Canal, weaving through gondola traffic. And he looks cool and poised in his Italian sunglasses. . .
Pelekes Beach, Corfu (Greece)
This little beach is tucked in against the fairly steep western central banks of the Greek island of Corfu. Corfu doesn’t match the stereotypic view the of Greek islands. It isn’t real glitzy. Whitewashed buildings are not the norm. And the place isn’t over run by tourists. It’s a wonderful destination.
A View From the Eye
It’s the London Eye, of course. This is a shot I took several years ago on a trip with students that took us to London, Paris and Rome. The Thames looks really brown in this photo, but some of that is due to the HDR and contrast process I applied to this photo. Canon 5D [...]
Split Harbor (HDR)
This is not a true, layered HDR photo. Instead, I made it using Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro 4.0 and Nik Efex HDR. It creates a bit of a surreal effect, I think. Are you a photography student wanting to know more about the process that leads to photos like this? Here’s a tutorial I [...]
Live To Eat?
This is a beautifully served creme brûlée that my wife had while we were staying in Rothenburg O.D.T. Here’s what I had. (Click) Do we live to eat or eat to live? When Deb and I travel, it’s a little of each. (And that’s not Cool Whip on the right – it’s real whipped cream!)
Backroads Bavaria
This is a photo I took a few miles west of Rothenburg O.D.T, Germany. The crops look like crops you’d find in South Dakota. But you wouldn’t find a road like this because traffic safety officials would never allow the trees to line the road. My observation about Europe is that one difference is that [...]
NSFW!!!
I don’t know what you see when you look at this photo, but I see Belgian chocolate. Titillating Belgian chocolate. And the big question I had was, “Do I want white chocolate or do I want dark chocolate?” I have read that dark chocolate is good for the heart, the brain and the joints so [...]
Keep Out!
OK, so the actual translation is “Private,” which is more polite than “Keep Out!” And if the message weren’t already friendly enough, how about surrounding it with a berry and twig filled metal thing? This was on the door of the rectory adjacent to the Bruges Cathedral in Bruges, Belgium.
Return To La Sagrada Familia
The other day I was changing the desktop on my Mac and I came across this photo, which was featured in a post from almost exactly two years ago. I won’t go into the details on this famous Barcelona landmark since the earlier post does that already. The one thing that is striking about the [...]
Arches Gone Wild!
Today’s post features a detail photo of some of the stone work in the Cathedral in Seville, Spain. Why “Wild” in the title? As you will see in Monday’s post, the Roman arch was round and utilitarian. A thousand years later someone in western Europe decided to enhance the look a little. And the so-called [...]
Loyalty
On August 6, 2011, 30 US troops, including 22 Navy Seals, died in action when the helicopter they were riding in was shot down in Afghanistan. One of these soldiers was John Tumilson and on the day of his funeral, his dog Hawkeye was allowed to attend. As a precedent for today’s post, you need [...]
One of Thousands
Deb in I had a little extra time in a small town in Slovenia called Lesce Bled before our train was scheduled to leave for Vienna. We had coffee at a small cafe and then went exploring. This beautiful church was our best discovery. There were many things that struck me about this place. The [...]
Before Sunrise
We spent one night of our recent trip to Slovenia near a pristine mountain lake called Bohinj (pronounced Bo-heen). I got up early to capture a sunrise and blue morning sky over what I hoped to be a mirror smooth lake. I got a smooth lake but fog instead of sunrise. I also found the [...]
Snow In Berlin?
I think it may snow on rare occasions in Berlin, Germany. But if you own a Brandenburg Gate snow globe, you can make it snow whenever you want. I wonder if they sell Great Pyramid snow globes in Egypt? I’m wondering if they even know what snow is in Egypt. . .
History Lesson
I have already mentioned in another post that at the time Deb and I visited Dachau, there were few people present. But there were two groups of young German soldiers touring the grounds. Here, one group waits for another in front of the famous monument to those who suffered and died at this concentration camp.
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