Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
San Francisco; March 2010 The setting was the Saturday farmers’ market at the San Francisco Ferry Building in early spring. The sun was shining and the stalls were selling asparagus, strawberries and spring flowers – branches of pink blossoms and bunches of fragrant narcissus. Around the corner by the water, I saw these buskers – [...]
San Francisco; February 2010 This is a statue of Indian statesman Mahatma Gandhi behind the San Francisco Ferry Building. From this angle it looks like he is gazing out at the reflected sunset and full moon rising over the Bay Bridge. I took this with my new digital SLR and I’m particularly pleased with the [...]
Madrid, Spain; October 2008 I stumbled across his pair of oil paintings upstairs at the famous Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. It was quite a contrast immediately after perusing the rooms full of Spanish royal portraits, mainly by Velazquez. There was quite a striking family resemblance between fathers, sons, grandsons and brothers and also sisters [...]
London, UK; May 2009 / 19th century Discovered – a rare colour photograph of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Orangery in Kensington Gardens in London. Since colour photography didn’t exist in the Victorian era, this clearly proves the existence of time travel. Maybe the Doctor and his TARDIS had something to do with [...]
Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland; June 2009 After my trip to Orkney last summer, I travelled back south via the Scottish Highlands, the Isle of Skye and Glasgow. I was blessed with gorgeous weather while I was in Skye and went hiking, hill climbing, cycling and dolphin watching. Since I was getting around on the [...]
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