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One year ago, I was standing less than 20 feet from Paul McCartney in his home town. I had joined my last tour group the day before in London. We would travel up through England, into Scotland, and the Highlands, before some of us would part ways with the group in Glasgow and head back to London (while the rest went on to Ireland). The first stop on the trip was Liverpool, England, the hometown of the Beatles and they certainly love them, there. It is most of what the local guide talked to us about. She surprised us with the news that Paul would be at the local university’s commencement that day, as he holds some kind of position at the university. She told us there was a possibility to see him when he came out of the theater at the end of the ceremony. So, even though I ended up wasting a lot of time standing around waiting, I went and saw him for less than 30 seconds. He did do a quick air-guitar for us, though. It didn’t leave me much time to explore the city, but I did check out this unusual cathedral, that happened to be relatively close to our hotel. This is the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and it looks a bit like a spaceship. It has a shape similar to an upside-down funnel. The cylinder coming out of the top is all stained glass. The interior is designed with the altar in the center and the congregation in a circle around it.
Ocean World Park, Hong Kong.
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Yesterday I noticed there was a yard sale happening at an apartment near where I live and I didn't have time to check it out but a few hours later on my way home I noticed it was over and there was a pile of boxes set out by the street. Unsold items for trash. These were sitting on the top of the pile so I took them home.
Six American Geographic Society travel books, all from 1958. They all contain black and white photographs, colour paste-in plates still attached to a central cardboard section, and illustrations featuring black line drawings and one other colour (i.e. blue, red, green etc.). I plan to scan some pages when I get a chance.
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The Jardin du Luxembourg, or the Luxembourg Gardens, is the second largest public park in Paris located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park is the garden of the French Senate, which is itself housed in the Luxembourg Palace.
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The Panthéon is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris. It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics but, after many changes, now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens.
One year ago, today, I was in Las Vegas. The day started with a long walk down the strip, all the way from the MGM Grand to the Stratosphere, where my friend rode all the rides and I chickened out. That’s where I got this shot looking down towards the bend in the strip near the Mirage (note the Trump hotel is all by itself… it’s almost poetic). That evening we had a proper, fancy Las Vegas dinner and then went to a show. It probably would have been better to see Elton John, since it was part of his final tour, but we checked out the Backstreet Boys in their Las Vegas residence, instead. It was, actually, a pretty good show, although I felt like I was back in middle school. During the show, as expected, all the women swooned. Las Vegas is an interesting place. I’ve been there more times than I would like to admit (almost always for conferences). I can’t handle being there more than a few days, though. It just starts to wear you down.
One year ago, taking some tours, with the tour group, through some of the famous places around Istanbul’s old city. After having whet your appetite with the photo of the exterior, yesterday, I figured I would give you a view of the interior of Hagia Sophia. You can see what I meant about showing its age. The scale of the building is so impressive, though. Besides touring through Hagia Sophia, we also went into the Blue Mosque. Unfortunately, they were doing restoration work on the famous domes, so they were completely obstructed from view, and I was unable to take any photos of them. I guess I’ll just have to go back.
Lisbon is recognised as a global city because of its importance in finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts, international trade, education and tourism. Lisboa is one of the major economic centres on the continent, with a growing financial sector and the largest/second largest container port on Europe's Atlantic coast.
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Kunming Lake (昆明湖) forms the centre of the Summer Palace gardens in Beijing, China. In fact, the lake takes up most of the parks area, covering 2.2 square kilometres or three quarters of the garden grounds. The lake is relativly shallow, with a depth of just 1.5 mtres. The lake is largely man made though a small pond existed on the site before development. The lake was created by Guo Shoujing, originally as a reservoir for the nearby capital, during the Yuan dynasty (1291). The area was converted into the imperial garden between 1750 and 1764, during the reign of Emperor Qianlong. Work was undertaken to expand the existing lake at that time. The spoil from excavating the lake was used to form the nearby Longevity Hill. The lake develops a thick lair of ice during the winter, during which time it can be used for skating. In the summer, a large number of small boats cover the lake.
Best birthday present ever! My girlfriend and I are headed to Chicago at the end of the week. Plane tickets, MTA tickets, tickets to see the White Sox vs. the Cubs at Wrigley. All of this cleverly wrapped in a suitcase. I can't wait!
One year ago, we had arrived on the island of Mykonos, Greece, and were heading to watch the sunset by some of their famous windmills. One thing that the Greek Islands are known for, besides their relaxed environment and beaches, is their large number of churches. Architecturally they are also known for all their whitewashed buildings. Here is a simple shot of those two things captured during golden hour. This photo is an interesting contrast to the time we spent on Mykonos, as we spent a significant time partying at the beach club.
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The Great Wall of China is by and far the most famous tourist attraction in the country. The Chinese call it Changchen (长城) which literally translates as the Long Wall. It is sometimes refered to as the Wanli Changchen (萬里長城) or Ten-thousand Li Wall (a 'Li' is a Chinese mile or about 500 metres) which incidentally is almost right. The true length of the wall is 6,259.6 km (Which is a very precise number I got off of wikipedia - but I'm not going to measure wall and argue with them.) The wall was first built over 2,500 years ago during the Warring states period. It wasn't then so much of one wall, rather many bits of wall. When the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Wandi, unified the country, about 2,200 years ago, he joined the sections of wall together to make one single defensive line. The wall of that era, however, looked nothing like the wall we have today. The Qin wall was made of rammed earth mixed with straw and glutinous rice. The Qin wall soon fell into disuse and disrepair. For most of China's history, there was no wall. When the Ming dynasty was founded, they wanted a strong northern defence against the nomadic tribes to the north. So they rebuilt the wall. This time in stone. The wall that tourists go to see today in Beijing, it the Ming dynasty wall. Sections of the wall have been restored and are open as tourist locations. The biggest of these sections, and the most visited is the Badaling Great Wall which is photographed here.
San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala - 2009
Traditional handmade wooden masks on display at a vendor's booth in San Antonio Aguas Calientes
San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala - 2009
A family walks along a street in San Antonio Aguas Calientes, dressed in colorful traditional skirts
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The Louvre or Louvre Museum is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited. With more than 8 million visitors each year, the Louvre is the world's most visited museum.
For some inexplicable reason this place sells lamingtons.
Nam Phu Fountain
Vientiane
Laos
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Nahan is famous for the local traditions and recently I got a chance to watch the 43rd Annual Hajrat Lakhdata Peer Sahib Dangal which took place at the dangal ground adjacent to the Lakhdata Peer Nahan. There were 50 participants from Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, UP and Delhi, who took part in the famous dangal and the final fight was between Kashmiri from Himachal Police team and Sukhwinder Singh who came from Merrut.
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The Louvre or Louvre Museum is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited. With more than 8 million visitors each year, the Louvre is the world's most visited museum.
A little bit of a meta-photo at Pier 39 overlooking Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. If you look carefully, you can even see the Golden Gate Bridge. As previously mentioned, I have begun doing at-home film development. Well, just once so far. I intentionally bought some inexpensive black and white film in case I screwed up. I also snapped off the photos without much care for the content, again, in case I screwed up. Here’s the result. Pretty grainy, but that can be ok. Not sure if it was the inexpensive Fomapan 400 film or how I developed with Rodinal. I’ll have to shoot and develop a roll of Tri-X so I can compare with the lab-developed negatives I have. So, probably a success.
This is in an Indian restaurant somewhere in London, England. Any good London guide has a tube map on the back or in the center of the book, don't you think? Picture taken by Loopy Lou, one of my bestest friends on Earth. I think it's 2001 -- I had only recently moved to Germany. One of the things I loved about living in Europe is that it's SO easy to quickly get to other countries (lots of cheap flights and train routes).
This week has been Fleet Week here in San Francisco. This always includes airshows on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I took the week off and decided to take photos of the airshow on Friday, which ended up being foggy, so we couldn’t see the jets passing through the Golden Gate. I still got some decent shots. I was shooting from a position close to the Wave Organ. Here are 8 shots of the Blue Angels, including one (the second photo) with some magical light and some interesting refraction happening through the water vapor coming off the wings.
It seems like every generation has an event or multiple events that they remember where they were when they heard the news, because it had such a profound impact on the world. For me there has only been one, and that was September 11, 2001. I was in high school, in my U.S. history class (fitting, I know), and we watched, on TV, as the second tower of the World Trade Center was struck. I had a cousin living in New York at that time (well, I still do) but for some reason I wasn’t too worried about her. I somehow knew she would be fine. There were countless others that weren’t, and we remember you this day.
For having been to New York City so many times, I really don’t have many decent photos. Here is one, although I’ve posted it before, this time in black and white, of the September 11 memorial. I’m not sure how well it works in black and white.
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Pont Saint-Michel is a bridge linking the Place Saint-Michel on the left bank of the river Seine to the Île de la Cité. It was named after the nearby chapel of Saint-Michel. It is near Sainte Chapelle and the Palais de Justice. The present 62-metre-long bridge dates to 1857.