Monthly:January 2016
So here’s a shot of us approaching Tagrifet, looking through a window in the same Twin Otter featured in yesterday’s post. Can’t say I really know much about Tagrifet other than it was at one time occupied by the Italians when they ruled this part of Libya before WWII. The fort is curious to me because of it’s triangular shape. Sitting at one end of a low mesa, other photos I’ll post in the future show the barbed wire defenses […]
I recently came across this image of our re-supply DeHavilland Twin Otter in a desert takeoff from our camp air strip in the Haruj area of Libya. The Haruj is a large volcanic field in central Libya and contains the remains of about 150 volcanoes. In most places the black basalt gravel covering overlays a fine yellow sand – even gypsum in some places. Breaking the surface of the basalt gravel would send up choking clouds of fine dust such […]
Having lived in Paris for two years it’s certainly one of my most favorite cities. Much more compact that London, I find it to be a very walkable city. I took this photo of a window box while wandering semi-aimlessly around the Montmartre area of town, near Sacré Coeur. The original image is from 1998, scanned into Photoshop and then run through Topaz Simplify to get this effect. I don’t have a wider view of this scene but I can […]
You can’t miss I.M. Pei’s pyramid entrance to the Louvre museum. I think it works architecturally simply because it is so out of place with it’s surroundings. To have made any structure sympathetic with the surrounding wings of the museum would have resulted in something truly horrendous. The Pyramid works, in my view, but note that it’s often not the fastest way into the Louvre and on a sunny summer’s day the heat outside in the courtyard can be stifling […]
I was recently playing at scanning some of my black and white negatives and came across this charming image I took some time late in 1998. It’s a sunny but chilly day, most likely a Sunday, and these three ladies are all engrossed in their books. You can tell it’s an ‘old’ photo as no-one has a smartphone! Take that same image today and probably two of the three would be reading on their phones. I’m struck at how most […]
With my family, we were ambling back towards our hotel having just left Notre Dame when I saw the setting sun glancing off these buildings on the Rue de la Huchette in Paris. The Rue de la Huchette is one of the oldest in Paris though the origins of the name are obscured in time. Huchette may derive from ‘hutchet’, an old term for a bugle or hunting horn, or from ‘huche’, a box for keeping bread. Today the Rue […]
