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…

Ferrara Art-Deco House With Round Window

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…

Fog In Forest Park X-Pro1

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 Fuji X100S In The Studio

For this series of photos I wanted to play off of the vintage coat and glasses by having the images look more like film photos and not digital photos. Keeping with the “vintage” theme I decided to take the photos with my X100S by Fujifilm and not the Canon 5D MKII, which is what I normally shoot…

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…

Bicycle Friendly

Amsterdam is known as one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world. While cities like New York struggle to get people onto bikes, Amsterdam is trying to keep its hordes of bikes under control. In a city of ~800,000, there are ~ 1 million bicycles. In the past two decades, travel by bike has…

Amsterdam

Amsterdam really is a beautiful and interesting city. The architecture and the canals are so nice to walk and the cultural diversity, social tolerance and way of life here is really refreshing. There must me more bicycles here than on the entire west coast, maybe even all of the US. I could come back to…

Foam

We made it to Amsterdam yesterday and while on our flight discovered that Amsterdam has a photography museum called “foam“. So, today we walked ourselves to the museum to see photo exhibits from “Edward Steichen – In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years, 1923–1937”, “Stephen Gill – Best Before End” and “Bowie by Duffy –…

City of Light

Tonight is our last night in the amazing city of light. It seems only fitting to post another photo of the iconic Eiffel Tower. We have had an amazing time here, seen so many amazing places, and met so many great people that it’s very hard to leave. Paris actually has been very easy to…

lottadjossou Paris

Paris has some great little shops and lots of artists if you know where to find them or just stumble upon them while exploring the little neighborhood streets. While wandering not far from our apartment we came across this lovely little jewelry shop called lottadjossou Paris where the designer Clément Djossou creates his designs. His designs are…

Estate of Versailles

Today we visited one of the most amazing disappointing places that we’ve been. We woke up early to try to get to the Estate of Versailles before the long lines. We actually specifically selected Thursday as our day to visit because it was supposed to be one of the lower traffic days to visit the estate….

Catacombs of Paris

Today we got up early to visit the Catacombs of Paris. Believe it or not this is a very popular attraction and you must arrive early if you want to get in. The line to get in wraps around an entire large Paris city block and beyond and they only allow 200 people at a…