At my home I have a wall covered in canvas prints of photos I have taken during my travels. Digital photos printed on canvas create a beautiful effect that looks somewhere in between a photo and a painting, which is forgiving for flaws in photos while also very eye catching when I have visitors. Every year or two I add photos to the wall to include updated destinations from my … [Read more...] about [Friday Photo] Panoramic View of Salzburg, Austria from Kehlsteinhaus
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[Friday Photo] Original US Capitol Columns at the National Arboretum
Perhaps the best kept secret in all of Washington, D.C. (an extremely bold statement, I know) is the National Arboretum. I had never heard of it until my wife suggested that we spend an afternoon there in October of 2011. If the adage in real estate is location, location, location, the National Arboretum probably has the worst location of them all. It's not located along the … [Read more...] about [Friday Photo] Original US Capitol Columns at the National Arboretum
[Friday Photo] Spaceship Cloud in the Argentinian Andes Foothills
As part of the process of adding Argentina to my travel map, I started to look through photos I took along the way. One photo has always stood out from that trip, a cloud like none other that we encountered driving through the Andes Mountains. You may think it looks like a brush stroke on a blue canvas, but to my dad, uncles and me, we thought it looked like a gigantic … [Read more...] about [Friday Photo] Spaceship Cloud in the Argentinian Andes Foothills
[Photo Friday] Tahitian Sunset on the Island of Moorea
Because I am feeling a little guilty about my lack of progress on completing my Tahiti/Cook Islands trip reports, I decided that this week's photo Friday would demonstrate some of the beauty I saw while staying in French Polynesia. The sunsets in French Polynesia were amazing - probably the best that I have seen in my life and definitely the best that I have … [Read more...] about [Photo Friday] Tahitian Sunset on the Island of Moorea