This week’s challenge hosted by Steve is Best Ever Images. While I judge my own work, I never know if my own opinion is reflective of what others see and think, so deciding on the criteria was a challenge in itself. My best is none too goodMy first thought in selecting images was to go …
An American’s observations of a first time trip to France. It wasn’t too long ago that the idea of driving in Europe was on par with sky diving; everything is in a language I don’t understand, how do you get gas (in the usual manner?), the driving habits and traffic laws are different, maybe the …
An American’s observations of a first time trip to France. “Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living.” ~ Anthony Bourdain We hit the first traffic of any consequence on the eastern fringes of Quimper. Quimper advertises itself as a village, but with a population of 64,000, I feel l have to …
She reclines at an angle in the mud flats off Lone Tree Point near the Rodeo Marina, from where the squawks of a pair of peacocks breach the quiet of dawn. The Polaris was a once a proud working boat when she plied the waters of San Francisco Bay. Her story is documented in a …
This week’s challenge from Beth of Wandering Dawgs (link here) is anything that begins with “B”. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area there is no shortage of boats. The image below was taken in the morning at the marina in Emeryville. Being a ship, the vessel below might take offense to be relegated to …
My San Francisco is a series of posts that describes my own personal relationship with The City. My San Francisco pieces might be photo essays, or life stories, or commentaries – or a combinations of all three. My impressions aren’t always paeans to San Francisco. It’s a beautiful city, but like any city, it can …
of this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge, led by Patti Moed (link here). Patti highlights the various techniques to make make the subject of an image the real star of the show. Simplify the backgroundI like to use this technique in post processing images of city skylines or of a view that looks up the side of …
The subject for this week’s Monochrome Madness, chosen by Leanne Cole, is flowing water. I have plenty of images of flowing water, as during COVID one of the only places to venture safely, or without being rousted by the local fuzz, as we used to say, was a secluded beach (they were all pretty much …
This week, Ritva Sillanmäki leads the Lens-Artists Challenge with the topic, Choose a Color. ” . . . select one color (excluding black and white)”. . . “where your chosen color is the prominent hue . . .” In the hills of Granada is the Moorish district called the Albaicin. It is a free for …
My San Francisco is a series of posts that describes my own personal relationship with The City. My San Francisco pieces might be photo essays, or life stories, or commentaries – or a combinations of all three. My impressions aren’t always paeans to San Francisco. It’s a beautiful city, but like any city, it’s dirty, …
The Life in My Years 