My wife and I departed from our normal modes of travel transportation, exploring the beautiful Danube River by Bike, and Barge this past summer. We explored the bike trails along the river by day, enjoying a comfortable cabin on the MS My Story by night. We enjoyed it so much we are looking forward to other bike and barge cruises in the near future.
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Pack your shot list along with your underwear
Let’s see, what am I forgetting? Packing is not my favorite thing to do in the whole world, but traveling may be. Of course camera gear is the second priority right after underwear and socks. I love photographing almost everything, but travel photography is probably the most enjoyable, especially when it’s a new destination. So I tolerate the packing chore to make sure I am ready to explore a new world.
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“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” ― Ansel Adams
This Ansel Adams quote echoed in my mind for days after reading it several years ago. I always loved photography even as a young boy but I had never thought of photography as an expression of how I feel in the “deepest” sense. As I looked through an old photo album, I began to realize that every photo I have ever saved in an album or shared with others were photos expressing feelings about what was being photographed.
Continue readingClassic lines brings back fond memories
I walked through the displays of classic lines feeling the same way I felt so many times before. Of course, I can’t resist viewing and capturing the feelings through the camera viewfinder. I don’t really know what it is about classic car shows that brings back so many remarkable memories for me, but it happens every time.
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“Make you the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.” – Edward W. Bok
It was another one of those remarkable moments.
Continue readingCapturing your most remarkable moments
I don’t know about you, but I find the most remarkable photos I enjoy seeing over and over again are those with friends and family enjoying our remarkable times and places. Capturing our feelings and the remarkable scene is sometimes very challenging.
Continue readingDivine Art Therapy – a sunrise walk on the beach.
The wind was a little cold as we left our garage so early in the morning. Not very cold by most people’s standards, but a little cold for a Florida morning. It was still dark.
Continue readingThe Cinque Terre – a magical place of peace and tranquility
My wife and I have had the good fortune to travel to some of the most interesting and peaceful places. However, Italy’s Cinque Terre is a place like no other we have visited. “The Five Lands” is the most relaxing and tranquil places we have ever been.
The Cinque Terre is composed of five little unique villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore are located on the rugged coastline known as the Italian Rivera on Italy’s West Coast.
- I think the peace comes from the quaint little terraces and houses built into the steep cliffs that overlook the Ligurian Sea. It is so refreshing and peaceful to see no corporate development or large hotels. And no cars. Just hiking paths, trains, and boats to connect the 5 villages that reside inside the Cinque Terre National Park. The serene hiking trails perched on cliffs high above the sea was so relaxing, we wished we could have stayed forever.
She can only hope – Holguin Cuba
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietist chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy – New York Times bestselling author.
I find Pat Conroy’s quote so true . . . especially when reviewing photos of your journey.
Continue readingSeven tips for remarkable smart phone photography
According to Yahoo!, 880 billion photos will be uploaded to the Internet in 2014. Facebook suggests that over 6 billion photos are posted every month on this popular social media site. With all this photography going on, all of us should be experts by now! But have you seen some of these images? Not always a pretty picture.
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