I only had a short visit to Seoul, South Korea but after 24+ hours of being stuck aboard airplanes and in airports the time there was very welcome. Walking around the city was simply amazing. There are so many things to see but with only 8 hours I focused on the Gwanghwamun Square area of the city. One of…
Photos of places I’ve traveled.
Travel
Lingering Fog
Traveling on highway 30 back in to Portland the fog lingering over Sauvie Island was just incredible. I love the mystery fog brings to the landscape revealing just enough to draw in your imagination but leaving you with the question, what’s up ahead? Shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro1 & 35mm lens and edited with Perfect Photo…
Endless Rolls
While traveling down a country road recently I came across a seemingly endless run of huge rolls of hay strewn throughout one fenced acreage after another. I pulled to the side of the road to scope out the best vantage points for shooting but everywhere I looked I found I would have to cross a…
Dilapidated Barn
Like every other landscape photographer I know I find it difficult to pass up photographing those stark, old, dilapidated buildings you can see on just about every rural back road in the U.S. I found this one on a recent trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado. At least twice a day for nearly a week I would drive…
Traveling Lite
As I had previously written in my post Inside My Camera Bag I’m in the process of changing my gear when I travel to a lighter and smaller setup. A couple of weeks ago I headed out to Steamboat Springs, Colorado for a short vacation. This was another chance to test my “traveling lite” strategy and refine it for my next trip. I…
Dreamy Aspen Grove
For me one of the more challenging things to photograph has always been a group of trees in the forest. When I’m standing there visualizing my shot the scale and beauty of my surrounding seems almost impossible to capture with a camera. My senses are overwhelmed. The phrase “Can’t see the forest from the trees”…
The Fujifilm XF10-24mm f/4
With the arrival of my new Fujifilm XF10-24mm f/4 R OIS lens I was very exited to get out and shoot some landscape photos. I attached the new addition to my Fuji X-Pro1 and got ready to hit the road. Over the last year I’ve been in the process of downsizing my travel gear and the plan…
Empty Places
Discovering new places and photographing them is one of the reasons I like to travel. On a recent trip to Kansas City I spent a couple of days exploring the West Bottoms blocks of old downtown Kansas City and the area out around Kaw Point Park. West Bottoms is an old industrial area down by the…
Motion In English Bay
I’ve been working on my backlog of images and I came across this photo from a recent trip to Vancouver, BC. When I’m traveling I like to explore the unfamiliar places early in the morning when the light is just perfect and before a place is teaming with people rushing to work or out sightseeing….
Inside an Abandoned Nuclear Reactor Chamber
There’s something unnerving about a dimly lit building so you would think that entering the Reactor Containment Building of a nuclear power plant would really raise the hairs on my neck but strangely enough all I felt was excitement. I wanted to get in there and I wanted to explore. Once inside the building it was…
Art Deco House In Ferrara, Italy
Have you ever walked passed a house or a building that just left you with a feeling that something amazing or horrifying must have happened there before? Like a crazy lady with only a glimpse of who she once was left in her eyes, she draws you in without saying a word and you can’t…
Stay On The Path
The thick fog added a mystery to the already beautiful but haunting forest ahead of me. It reminded me of the fairy tale Hansel & Gretel. Stay on the path, the further you walk in the more disoriented you become. Since I didn’t have a slice of bread with me to leave a trail I decided…
Battistero di San Giovanni
If you visit Siena you will likely want to stop by Siena Cathedral (Duomo di Siena). It is designed in black and white, the colors of Siena which symbolically link the Cathedral back to the black and white horses of the city’s founders, Senius and Aschius. And after touring the Cathedral it is an easy walk…
The Rolling Hills of Siena
I’m banished to the house this weekend with a nasty headache so I started going back thru all of the photos I took during our recent trip to Europe. This photo was taken on our way back from a day trip to Siena in Tuscany. We had a hard time leaving, but had to be…
Lost in Amsterdam
Today is our last day of travel in the great land of Europa. Looking back on our trip, we have met some amazing people and seen some amazing things and places. We only wish we could be lost in Amsterdam so we didn’t have to come home. Amsterdam is great city and is very well…