Category:Travel
I was playing around with an image I captured of a St. Peter Street balcony in Photoshop (CC 2015.5) today, messing around with some filters when the image went berzerkoid on me. I’m actually intrigued by the way my image was morphed by the software so I decided to keep it and post it here. Below it you’ll find what I was actually trying to get to. I usually try to compose all my images both vertically and horizontally if […]
Early morning, Cayucos Pier, California. I guess 8:53 am counts as early for a November Saturday morning in this part of the world as there were few people out and about. There was a chill in the air but it was by no means cold. I recall only one person walking their dog along the beach that morning, and there was no one on the pier at all. Shortly after taking this image we packed up our gear and headed […]
In my youth, Citroën made such unique cars. Quintessentially French in design, nothing else on the road looked like them or drove like them. The Deux Chevaux was truly unique. I first rode in one in my school days. The local taxi driver, who was paid by the school district to drive us the three miles to the nearest school bus stop in the morning and take us back at the end of the school day, had one for a […]
The Coliseum at Night, or should that be the Colosseum at Night? As a Brit in America I’m used to the potato – potato pronunciation issues as well as the differences in spelling. Does it matter? I think not. There are far bigger issues facing the world than the correct spelling of some ancient structure. I’ve only been to Rome once, for one evening. I’d been working on some M&A due diligence in Italy which had involved stops in a […]
I took today’s photo, Contrail, through the window of a Qatar Airways jet on a flight from Doha to JFK, New York. According to the on-board flight map we were somewhere close to the border between Finland and Sweden at the time. Gazing out of the window I had seen we were approaching the contrail of a jet traveling on an almost perpendicular heading. As we drew nearer I realized we were going to pass below it so I got […]
Today’s photo is the bow of a dhow moored in a marina in Doha, Qatar. Although built in a traditional style, complete with outhouse hanging off the back of the poop deck (literally), I think the boat itself was not that old. It’s function seemed to be that of a party boat. I was struck by the contrast between the brown of the hull planking and the green of the water.