Category: Weekly Blog
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Thanksgiving in Cambridge
It is somewhat ironic to spend the Thanksgiving holiday in England when, at some level, Thanksgiving is a celebration of having survived escaping England in the first place. But we had a wonderful day with my friends Rob and Shirley, who kindly met us in Cambridge and showed us around. My phone tallied the day…
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Stairing in Notting Hill
Our hotel in London was only a mile or two from Notting Hill, so one afternoon I spent a couple hours wandering the streets enjoying the architecture. It was a dreary day, but the resulting soft light was perfect for doors and windows and such, which are obviously a favored subject of mine whether they…
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Christmas Lights in London
Thanksgiving is an American holiday, not an English one, so I am not sure what serves as the starting gun for Christmas decoration deployment in London, but they were definitely ready to go with at least a month to spare. Along with lots of other decorations, there were an abundance of beautifully decorated trees. While…
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York and Yule
Two of York’s big draws are York Minster and The Shambles. York Minster was the focus of last week’s post, but I’m not sure that I have enough worthwhile images of The Shambles’ narrow streets and snickelways (super-narrow alleys and passages) to warrant an entire post. But here’s a few, just to convey a taste…
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Views of York Minster
My wife and I just returned from two and a half weeks in Europe, so for the next month or two I will be featuring photographs from that trip. Our trip began in York, England, where we had three full days. Well, we would have, except the weather was so hideous the first day that…
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Abandoned in Colorado
I mentioned last week that I was going to show off some of the random gems that you can find just driving around the San Luis Valley. One of the first I found was the wonderful abandoned house above. At the time we were driving towards the Great Sand Dunes, which start just off the…
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San Luis Valley
Alamosa, Colorado, sits in the middle of the vast 8,000-square-mile San Luis Valley. The valley floor is at an elevation of over 7,500′ and is surrounded by mountain ranges that feature 14,000′ peaks. The valley is primarily agricultural—lots of ranching and farming—and there is a fair amount of open space, as is pretty clear in…
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Southern Colorado Gold
My wife and I are on a mission to see the entire state of Colorado. This isn’t happening at a breakneck pace, mind you, but we are making steady progress. Whenever we drive somewhere new we color in the roads with a pink highlighter on our rather beat-up paper Colorado map. At this point, there…
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Western Virginia in the Fall
Two weeks after my shooting day in New Hampshire, I was staying for the week in Norton, Virginia, which offers plenty of fall color of its own. The image above is just a tiny piece of endless forests bursting with color. Unfortunately, I was only free for a couple short forays into the woods that…
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The New Hampshire Challenge
I have alluded to this in the previous two posts, but there was a distinct challenge during my one-day New Hampshire photographic marathon: so many trees with so many colors. Unlike the forests in the Western US where evergreen trees dominate, in New Hampshire the deciduous trees hold the overwhelming majority. When confronted with the…