Camino Seen via Hotel Room Interiors
Phyllis says that for her my Camino is visually a succession of hotel room interiors. This is because of the nine-hour time-shift with California. When she is sleeping, I am…
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May 4, 2018
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Walking the Camino for Wild Camels
Today on the Camino I met Rosa, a zookeeper from Denmark. Rosa has walked the Camino from the French border to raise awareness and donations for wild camels. Wild camels…
May 4, 2018
Music in My Head
Yesterday I wrote about group singing along the Camino. It turns out that my biggest mistake in preparing for my Camino was musical. By way of background, I like to…
May 3, 2018
The Art of Being Alone with Oneself
I fear the art of being alone with oneself has been lost. Oh, I am no saint! In the evenings I catch up with family via FaceTime, news from the…
May 3, 2018
From Palas de Rei to Melide
I woke this morning early to rain splattering against my window. Clearly the weather had deteriorated from the wonderful sunny-but-cloudy sky of the day before. I walked from the largish…
May 2, 2018
Better Weather on the Camino
I forgot to mention that yesterday's story was written, and the images processed and uploaded, from the small bar across the street from my room. This was the only place…
May 1, 2018
Under Gray and Lowering Clouds
This morning I hoisted my camera backpack, and headed out into gray weather with lowering clouds. During the course of this day I was to experience torrential rain, steady hail,…
April 30, 2018
Walking in the Gardens of Galicia
Today I walked from Morgade to Portomarin, a somewhat bigger town. Portomarin seems like an interesting place. It was completely rebuilt, brick by brick, in the 1960s, when the original…
April 29, 2018
First Day on the Camino
Yesterday was my first day hiking on the Camino de Santiago. I walked roughly twelve kilometers from Sarria to Morgade, a small hamlet. Twelve kilometers is about seven miles, and…
April 29, 2018
Beginning my Compostela
Today I arrived to begin my pilgrimage walking to Santiago de Compostela. I am to start tomorrow morning from Sarria. As you can see in the image, the River Sarria…
April 27, 2018
Morning at the Mas de Garrigue
Waking up at the Mas de Garrigue, out my window I saw the soft light of morning on the wisteria vine on the tower. Every detail here is close to…
April 21, 2018
Carmelite Chapel Ceiling
I photographed the ceiling of the Carmelite Chapel in Toulouse, France with my 8-15mm fisheye set to rectangular fisheye mode (meaning the 15mm setting, at 8mm this lens captures a…
April 19, 2018
Blue Bottles
At the Brasserie where I had a late lunch of poached salmon and ratatouille after flying in from Madrid to Toulouse, I saw these blue bottles lined up on the…
April 18, 2018
Stamp Lady
I got into Madrid this morning about 10AM, and with my door-to-door transit time approaching 24 hours, and the +9 hours time zone shift, I am definitely feeling asleep on…
April 15, 2018
Apple Blossoms
From the median strip of nearby Arlington Avenue we clipped some branches from a beautiful, blooming apple tree. Arlington Ave is too busy for my taste, and one has to…
April 13, 2018
Oxalis
Oxalis is a modest plant, considered more weed than flower. The Oxalis shown here is Oxalis stricta, also known as yellow woodsorrel or sourgrass. In season, this Oxalis grows in…
April 12, 2018
Yum and thanks!
These wonderful chocolates arrived today! Truly, I did nothing other than dispensing a little photography advice to deserve them. So thanks Jarek! Photographed with my iPhone and processed in Snapseed.…
April 10, 2018
Leaving on a Jet Plane
In about a week I'll be leaving on a jet plane, and resuming the life of a peripatetic photographer after several months as a "homebody". I am looking forward very…
April 7, 2018