Places – Prague, Czech Republic (part 2/5)
My camera was blowing up in Prague!
June 2008
Places – Prague, Czech Republic (part 1/5)
Here are a few early photos of Prague. I'll be posting a lot more photos once I get back to my desktop computer. This place is absolutely beautiful!
Places – Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam
I'm in Amsterdam this morning waiting for my flight to the Czech Republic. I'll be visiting Prague (also known as Praha) for the next 5 days on business. I should arrive in a few hours. Here are a couple photos of the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam/North Holland.
May 2008
Places – Smith Rock, Central Oregon
Peterson, Meader and I went to Smith Rock today (see the pictures below). We hiked about 5 miles further than our old bodies were prepared to go. Here's a little background from wikipedia.org: Smith Rock State Park is a state park located in central Oregon's high desert near the town of Terrebonne. Its sheer cliffs of tuff and basalt are ideal for rock climbing of all difficulty levels. Smith Rock [...]
Places – Bend Oregon
We traveled to Bend Oregon with some friends for the weekend. Today we went to the Death Cab for Cutie show at the Les Schwab Amphitheater in the Old Mill District. Below are a couple photos of the show (credit blurry photos: Brian Mead). I also threw in a photo of Walter - Ryan and Rebecca's bulldog puppy.
Places – Seattle Public Library
I visited the Seattle Public Library last weekend - here are a few photos... Â Â Â Â Â Â
Places – Botanical Gardens in Bellevue, Washington
It's been a long time since I posted any of my own photos. I apologize about that - especially to my sister Elizabeth. Below are some new photos from the botanical gardens in Bellevue, Washington.
September 2007
Postcards from Expo 67
The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or simply Expo 67, was the General Exhibition Category 1 World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It was considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century, with over 50 million visitors and 62 nations participating. It also set the single-day attendance record for a world's fair with 569,000 visitors on its third [...]
November 2006
The Photography of Thomas Weinberger
Thomas Weinberger from Munich, Germany, uses a very interesting method in his photography. It's called synthesen and as you can see, the images below are almost surreal. Wienberger's technique is to take two photographs - one durring the daylight hours and one at night - then he combines them. The photographs are from the same physcial location. In each one you see aspects and lighting of both day and night. [...]
The Aurora Borealis
Just to the lower right of the moon is a clutch of stars known as the Beehive Cluster, or Praesepe, in the constellation Cancer, and to the right of that is the planet Saturn. The Earth, meanwhile, sports some shining lights of its own. The International Space Station was flying above Scandinavia when this image was taken, allowing city lights to pierce the black of night. The Aurora Borealis. Photographed [...]