Weekly Photo Challenge: Window-Peeping in France
“…. What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers….”–Baudelaire I have an...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Monuments — The Eiffel Tower Transformed
The Eiffel Tower, with the Waterlogue app. The Eiffel Tower is one of the most famous monuments in the world, which means it has The original photo been photographed at every possible angle and every...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: On Top–Dog on the Roof
With his crazy mismatched eyes, this Husky looks a little threatening, like he’s about to pounce and make a tasty dinner of you. Instead, he was just hanging out on the roof of a building in San...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Spring!
I was in St. Louis last week where all the trees were in bloom, especially those beautiful Redbuds. It was beautiful enough to make allergy sufferers ignore their sneezing. We’re not there yet in...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
When I have guests in Minneapolis, one my favorite places to take them is the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden at the Walker Art Center, one of the nation’s largest urban sculpture parks. When the Garden...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Room (With a View) in Morocco
A Berber family makes this cave in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains their kitchen and living room. The entry to the adjacent sleeping “room” is in the upper right corner. The challenge: share your take on...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Zig-Zag — The Angles of Frank Lloyd Wright
The super-angular patio of the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park, Kirkwood, MO The subject of this photo challenge is to share a photo that for “foregoes the straightforward.” No one did that...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, near Half Moon Bay, California was built in 1871 to guide ships along the Northern California coast. O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or...
View ArticleGraffiti at 5 Pointz New York City
Vandalism or self expression? Graffiti in Queens, NYC This week’s photo challenge is express yourself. While some call it vandalism, there’s no more in-your-face, larger than life form of...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Afloat–Kayaks in Rockport, Mass.
Kayaks ready for a spin in Rockport Harbor, Massachusetts. On one of my favorite kayak trips from Rockport, on the Massachusetts coast, is to the Dry Salvages, a group of giant rocks off the coast of...
View Article“They’re Off”: A Vivid Horse Racing Experience
“They’re off!” Horse racing at Keeneland in Lexington, KY. In light of the Belmont Stakes tomorrow and the possibility of American Pharaoh winning the Triple Crown, it seems like a horse racing picture...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Rainbow Colors at St. Peter’s Fiesta, Gloucester
St. Peter’s Fiesta Carnival in Gloucester, Massachusetts You can’t beat a carnival for color. Each June, on the weekend closest to the Feast Day of St. Peter, the Italian-American fishing community of...
View ArticleHalf-Light: Sunrise in St. Louis
I’m not fond of getting up before the sun rises, but sometimes it’s worth it. Here, the half-light of early morning illuminates the Courthouse and the St. Louis Arch, reflected in a puddle....
View ArticleCurves of Chihuly Glass
Butterfly and Chihuly at Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Columbus, Ohio. This is a lucky butterfly, settling in the midst of the curves of a work by renowned glass artist Dale...
View ArticleTravel Photos- Composition Comes First
Colorful pottery in Sienna, Italy. I’ve been traveling a lot lately and have many stories and pictures to share since I last posted. I’ve had adventures in quite varied places including the backroads...
View ArticleTravel Photography: Portraits
Here’s a young guy I met at the Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden in Minneapolis. Love all those rings. While I’m on the topic of travel photography….Portraits–don’t even get me going on what a...
View ArticleNostalgia: Detroit
The taste of Fargo pop–yes, we call it “pop”– is one of my childhood memories, especially Rock & Rye. I love Detroit. If you haven’t been there lately, that may sound pretty crazy. There’s been no...
View ArticleKiMo Theater, Albuquerque, New Mexico
KiMo Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico The KiMo Theater opened on what was then Route 66 (now Central Avenue) in Albuquerque in 1927. The big new theater was a source of civic pride and boosters...
View ArticleNaniboujou Lodge- An Amazing Detour or Destination
The dining room at Naniboujou Lodge on Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior. I’ve been waiting for a chance to post something about Naniboujou Lodge, just north of Grand Marais on Minnesota’s North...
View ArticleSilence of a Ghost Town—Grafton, Utah
Farm buildings, Grafton, Utah Silence. No people, just empty buildings and cobwebs gathering in the windows. Aside from the occasional door creaking in the breeze, there’s no place more silent than a...
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