(part of the Utah series) I would have a hard time picking a favorite national park out of those I’ve visited, but for best ratio of decent shots taken to time and effort spent, Canyonlands would likely be first. We did hike some trails early in the day, but spent most of our time here … Continue reading The Canyonlands
Last winter, my wife and I spent a week in NYC doing the typical things a tourist might do. It wasn’t explicitly a photo trip, but I still brought me camera because I figured I’d find something to photograph. Normally, if I’m shooting a city, I spend a lot of time just walking around for … Continue reading New York City
I returned a week ago from a grueling, but extremely productive, road trip out West. The hospital featured in this post was actually the last major destination we would see before setting off eastward on the long return trip home, but it was the circumstances of how our visit came to be that made me … Continue reading Great Western Tuberculosis Hospital
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to see some swordsmanship. A friend is part of the Chicago Swordplay Guild, which bills itself as a “modern school of traditional European martial arts”, and was in a friendly tournament open to the public. I thought it would be a fun thing to watch, but also an opportunity … Continue reading Such Swash. Very Buckle. Wow!
Back in April of 2020 I purchased round trip tickets to Ecuador for October of that year. We were two weeks into the shutdown and airfare prices had tanked as travel had all but stopped. Naively, I thought that surely this pandemic will be long over by autumn. Of course, that was not to be, … Continue reading Quito, Abridged
Since the previous post was about spring, it’s only natural that summer would be next. As before, these are photos of a church seen across an urban prairie as well as some old tennis courts. But with the changing of the seasons comes a much different look. I like the tennis courts enough that I … Continue reading Summer
The World War One museum in Kansas City sits atop a low hill just south of downtown. It offers an unsurpassed vista of the city’s modest but stately skyline. I was in town last summer and, at the end of a long, hot day, got to enjoy the sunset and the cool breezes at this … Continue reading Kansas City Twilight
I found out only recently that there a few nuclear power plants around the country which were abandoned mid-construction. And you can go to some of them! Strictly speaking, you’re not allowed to go to them, but we are really splitting hairs. So it was that a clear winter’s morning found us traipsing through some … Continue reading Atomic Tourism
Kiev was founded over fifteen hundred years ago, and though it’s grown into a sprawling city of almost three million, many layers of its history are visible around the center of the city. Golden-domed churches are some of the oldest buildings in Kiev, each about a millenium old. Kiev’s Russian imperial past can be seen … Continue reading A Thousand Years Within Walking Distance
On a day when we had other destinations, we were distracted by dramatic fog rolling in from the lake. Good thing, too, because this was the only good shot I got that day. Continue reading Morning Fog Over the Chicago River
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