Little trip to Central City and then on to Idaho Springs via the Oh My God Road (actual name: Virginia Canyon Road). It’s a nice drive on a good dirt road past numerous old mines and several semi-abandoned small settlements. … Continue reading
In addition to occasional vacations where photography and / or hiking are the main goal I travel – a lot – for work. Oftentimes, my Canon 5DmkIII gets left home alone. The difficulty and stress of travel is a monotonically … Continue reading
One of my goals for this summer’s vacation with my brother was to get out and about in the wilderness for photography at dawn and dusk. We hadn’t managed many sunrises or sunsets for several years, in part due to … Continue reading
A couple of years back my brother and I, more or less on a whim, decided to spend a few days visiting Stewart on the BC / Alaska border to see what the bear viewing was like at Fish Creek. … Continue reading
Quick trip over to West Kirby in the Wirral yesterday. An oddity here is that the tide goes out a long way, and there are three islands (one big enough to have houses) that you can walk out to at … Continue reading
Just back from a long weekend in Pisa. It was my first visit to the city, but of course I had a pretty good (!) idea what to expect. The central area – the Piazza dei Miracoli – was more … Continue reading
A few days of vacation in Southern Italy, starting from Naples then on to the Amalfi Coast (beautiful, but very busy even in June!) and the region south of Taranto in Puglia. Quite an abundance of photo opportunities here: beautiful … Continue reading
A weekend in Steamboat Springs and the north-western corner of Colorado. Didn’t have time to do any landscape photography in Dinosaur National Monument, but Dinosaur Quarry – where fossilized bones have been left exposed in the rock of an ancient … Continue reading