Knoxville. Tennessee Theatre in downtown, on Gay Street. One of our few famous landmarks.
From Rome, Italy. This was taken in Piazza del Popolo. The real scenery of the square is the almost perfectly symmetrical avenue and surrounding streets, but I liked the simplicity of this shot. Life before asphalt. Thanks ancient Rome.
Ever been to Vancouver, Canada, eh? The first picture, on the left, is Inukshuk, the 2010 Olympic mascot, in Sunset Beach. On the right is a shot taken from within the city. Vancouver is a unique city because so many of the skyscrapers are all glass, giving it a very uniform and clean appearance. Once the sun starts going down, the colors really play off the glass buildings.
Inside the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona Spain. The Sagrada Familia is the most interesting building I have ever been to - both inside and out. It was designed by an architect named Gaudi, who is the inspiration for much of Barcelona's architecural style. Barcelona is one of, if not the most, unique cities I have ever been to. The picture below is of the support beams inside the Sagrada Familia (a large cathedral). Most cathedrals have very bland, non-descript support beams. Not here.
Minnesota and Norway - what do they have in common? Vikings...While visiting family in Norway, I spent part of a day in the Viking Museum in Oslo. It was pretty wild to think that the vikings would go to sea for hundreds of miles in these vessels. They weren't exactly in tropic waters, so how they survived with virtually no covering is amazing. These two are the front of a viking ship - from straight on and from the side.
Dead tree in Scottish Highlands. We did some hiking in the southern Scottish Highlands, around Loch Lomond. The area was generally very green, so this dead tree really stood out.
Chimneys in Stirling, Scotland. The town of Stirling is built around a hill. At the very top of the hill is Stirling Castle. I hiked up to the castle, from where you can see a lot of the town below you. In America, most of our homes are stand-alone structures with only one chimney. So I liked how this cluster of homes and chimneys contrasted what I have defined as "normal".
Fisherman on Lake Brienz, near Interlaken, Switzerland. Some friends and I spent one very cold night camping at the base of the Swiss Alps in May 2007. Advice - don't ever camp in May in Switzerland. However, the plus side was that I couldn't sleep because of the cold, got up early as a result, and was rewarded with a clear sky and mountain tops, and very calm water. I also happened to catch a fisherman fishing the shore nearby. Without the fisherman, I probably wouldn't think this photo was very interesting.
Maybe I just like this one below because I have a sister with the name. Most boat owners seem to try to give their boat a special or deeper-meaning name. Like "Morning Glory" or "The Good Life", you name it. This is like the Italian Forrest Gump. Someone's "Jenny". For whatever reason though, I liked this boat a lot. This was in Venice, tied up alongside an otherwise unimportant canal without much traffic.
Other cool scenes from Venice, Italy. Finding something interesting in the ordinary. Its amazing how their front doors open to water or docks. No driveways.
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I've always liked this one of Edinburgh Castle, in Edinbugh, Scotland.
I like the street signs in this shot below. So foreign to an American. A buddy and I were just wandering the country streets in Slovenia, not exactly sure where we were going. This is somewhere between Podhom and Vintgar Gorge in the Slovenian countryside, with the Julian Alps in the background.
Rooftops of Dubrovnik, Croatia. Similar to the Stirling chimney shot above, I enjoyed the togetherness of all these homes. That and the rooftops are made of tiles, pretty rare in the southeast US.
Interesting building in Prague, Czech Republic.
A unique city block in Vienna, Austria. Vienna is known for being very formal, very serious. That's why its so interesting to find this city block in Vienna, anything but formal and serious.
Not sure why I've chosen this one, but I think I like how the gray building and sky are in complete contrast to the colorful flowerbed and grass right in front of the building. And this is in Zagreb, Croatia, a place that even sounds dreary. The flowers seem to be fighting back.
When I first got my new camera, my first DSLR, I was always trying to mess around with the settings. I liked how these two turned out, pictures taken of the same thing, but with different focal points.
Taken in Las Vegas, during the Bellagio Fountain show. I was fascinated by these shows.
This was taken during the Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico. It's highly unusual that you would find bagpipes playing in Mexico.
A moment of peace and quiet in NYC? From Central Park.
Cool picture of the post office in Madrid, Spain. Most likely the most ornate post office I've ever seen.
Cool clouds along Highway 1 in Big Sur, California. Maybe I just liked Big Sur a lot, but these clouds were pictureworthy.
Baker Beach - near San Francisco. This little rock outcropping looks to be providing shelter from the battering waves, just a few feet further out.
I really do love this photo. My sisters and I were waiting to watch fireworks from Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington. The little kid in front of us started waving a glow stick, the kind vendors are always hawking at fireworks shows. Rather than get upset at the kid having his fun, I got curious how a slow shutter speed exposure would turn out. The Seattle skyline is a little blury, but it captured the waving effect, the city skyline, and Lake Union. Thanks kid!
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