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Note (November 2022): this post was in my draft folder for years! It’s from 2015, and I “found” it while repairing broken links in my long-neglected blog. For me, at least, it was nice to read my old thoughts… So here it is! On a Thursday a few weeks ago, the weather forecast was for […]
Iguazu
Iguazu Falls was just one of the many beautiful places we visited on our almost-three-week trip to South America. (A day-by-day account of our full trip is here, on my other website, visiblewind.com.) A wonderful quote regarding Iguazu is from Eleanor Roosevelt, who reportedly exclaimed “Poor Niagra”! It is spectacular, indeed. And huge! The above image […]
Urban Sky
This is my first long exposure photo of the “built environment.” Taken looking up at a cold and windy sky, at the National Air and Space Museum. It was a 30-second exposure, taken with a “Big Stopper” filter, which lets in only 1/10 of the available light, allowing for much longer exposures — and a […]
Rounding the corner
This image is from the corner of Via Venti Settembre and Via Orlando Vittorio Emanuele, in Rome. (What great street names!) I set my tripod up in a painted traffic island. (Which is not especially reassuring in Rome! Although I was not too far from a “real” island, for what it’s worth…) Quite a few […]