via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/jxCDKU
Death’s Shadow
South Carolina Statehouse
via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/jwTBVh
Spending our holiday down in Columbia
posted in: Smartphone, Travel
0
via Instagram http://ift.tt/1kQNYpH
It’s a wee bit foggy this morning.
posted in: Smartphone, Travel
0
via Instagram http://instagram.com/p/jMPEpAN0k8/
Spending a little time in Chapel Hill this week.
posted in: Smartphone, Travel
0
via Instagram http://ift.tt/1dKUe98
Some Things Can’t be Avoided
posted in: Nature, Observations
0
The weekend before Christmas, the wife and I headed out to spend the weekend in Helen, Georgia. Helen is fairly well known for it’s Alpine Christmas decorations, which seemed like a fun thing to see, and is very close to Unicoi State Park and the Chattahoochee National Park.
Sounds like a great place to get out the camera gear and see what we can capture, right? Read More
Best of 2013
It’s been an annual tradition for the last few years on my website to put together my favorite photos of 2013. This year, since I now have a blog specifically devoted to photography, it only seems appropriate to bring that tradition over here with me! As I’ve often said in previous years, I make no claim that these are the “best” or most popular photos that I’ve taken during the past year, but they are my favorites. I hope you enjoy some of them too.
The slideshow above does require Flash, so if you’re looking at this post on an iOS device, just go over to Flickr and check out the set!
Here hoping you have a great 2014!
Cassis
Our final day was again spent docked in Marseille, but this was the day we had already planned to take an excursion out to Cassis for the morning. Cassis is a seaside town, which made it fairly quiet this time of year, but again, the weather provided us with some noise as there were a few rain showers and plenty of waves rolling into the shoreline.
After we returned from this trip, someone asked me what the one thing I most enjoyed about the trip was. My honest answer was being in the Colosseum and the Forum in Rome, because of the historical significance of those sites. No question those were two things that I had always wanted to go and see for myself, and was thrilled to have had time to spend walking around them and soaking that up. However, if they had asked me what I enjoyed photographing the most, hands down it was Cassis. Read More
Marseille
After our departure from the port at Livorno, we were scheduled to sail to Monte Carlo. That plan, however, was not to be.
With rainy, stormy weather, we were looking at 18-20 foot seas that evening, with that continuing into the next day. With Monte Carlo being a tender port, that would mean boarding small boats that would transport us from where the ship anchored into the actual port. With seas that high, those tenders would not be running, so there wasn’t much point in sailing to Monte Carlo. Instead, we simply headed for Marseille a day early. I will admit, I was looking forward to seeing Monte Carlo, but you can’t argue with nature, so we’d have to make the best of some free time in Marseille, even if it was a bit rainy there as well! Read More
Siena
After our morning in San Gimignano, it was off to spend the afternoon in Siena! Siena, was also an important city in this area of Italy that was eventually conquered by the Florentines, but unlike San Gimignano, Siena remained a center of banking, thus it has always been a somewhat important part of the region, even if there were times when the money ran out in Siena, which is why you’ll find a piazza that appears to lead nowhere from the Cathedral. They didn’t finish building the cathedral they had planned. Still, even if it isn’t the largest Doumo in the world, as they had planned, it’s still very impressive.
