Dear Photographers and Fellow Travelers: We're very excited that the 2022 live-and-in-person Photographing Flowers for Transparency weekend workshop, here in Berkeley, California in August, is gaining momentum. There are still some…
Here's another view of the Astorga Cathedral, this one using my iPhone, and processed using the Waterlogue app.
As an archetype, "James Bond" is deeply embedded for better and worse somewhere not far below the surface of cis-Males of my generation. But what if James Bond had liked…
Imagine you are in a hospital bed. The bed is in a room that was meant to be a single, but now has two beds and two occupants. The other…
This pilgrim is home early. After all, a pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago who cannot walk is a fairly immobile oxymoron. It was a scramble to get out of…
So I guess I am a bad pilgrim. On account of my blisters, I am staying off my feet, as they advised me at the Pilgrim's service at Queens Hospital…
For days after the 33km march in the broiling sun out of Leon I had been nursing a big blister on the bottom pad of my left foot. It was…
On the main trunk route of the Camino de Santiago, the Camino Frances, Astorga is a small city that sits on a hill. When Celtic culture dominated the area, there…
The rooster crows at the break of day, I have had my cafe au lait, and I am on my way! Hip, hip, hooray! It's true that I woke just…
Castilla y León is a semi-autonomous region in Spain, like Galicia or Catalonia. The city of León, spelled like my middle name "Leon" but with an accent aigu over the…
At the outset I must stipulate that a spacious room in a luxury 5-star hotel is a great place to organize for a longish walk on the Camino de Santiago.…
Thanks to methodical planning, good luck with the weather, and helpful guides my photography group was able to photograph the ancient town of Cordes-sur-Ciel from across the valley at sunset.…
The USPS has created a page for my Tulip Pano stamp at stampinformation.com/tulips/. This page has information about the stamp, the first day of issue, where to buy the stamp,…
Dreamlike, the landscape of France sped past at high speeds, as I viewed the earth from the windows of the TGV (the high speed train). Dreamlike in feeling, and what…
Construction began on the Pantheon as a church for the patron saint of Paris, Saint Genevieve. As so often happens when there is construction there were delays, then more delays,…
If you visit Paris, check out the stunning renovation of the Samaritaine department store (shown in the 8mm fisheye view below). It is on the right bank adjacent to the…
Since I am jet lagged I am going to keep this short and sweet: What great fun to be back in Paris with my camera! Just now, after dinner at…
I'm pleased and excited to learn about a new Italian translation of Composition & Photography from ApoGeo in Milan. The title sounds sonorous and compelling in Italian: La Compsizione Fotografica:…