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January 13, 2012
Friday Photo Quiz #138 - Where in the World?
This monument was completed in just a month back in 1936. It has come to represent this capital city, and it sits on what promoters call the widest street in the world. I'm skeptical.
Can you name the city? The country? The answer is below.
And a good weekend to all from Common Sense and Whiskey and EarthPhotos.com.
And the answer is ..................................................... it's the obelisk in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina. Here's something on the...
January 12, 2012
Lapland Photography
We're back on the farm and I've had a chance to put up a few Lapland photos on EarthPhotos.com. Here are a half dozen for your perusal.
Click them to make them bigger. See all we've posted so far in the Lapland Gallery at EarthPhotos.com. These will all ultimately live in the Finland Gallery.
January 11, 2012
Wednesday HDR - Big, Huge, Massive, Get Out of the Way Bank
I don't know, it was just funny. In lots of places, a big bank like this one in Helsinki probably suggests safety and stability. But in the U.S., with all our bailed out too-big-to-fail financial institutions, mortgage lenders, car companies, you name it, it plays a little differently.
This particular Big Bank, on Salomonkatu in the Kamppi section of Helsinki, was shut tight on a Saturday in these photos. The top HDR was processed from three hand held bracketed shots, and the other is...
January 10, 2012
January 9, 2012
Blog Recommendation
Got a blog to recommend, from a fellow named Jake, who's working his way around the circuit in Cambodia right now. His blog is called My Alternative Life. I've put a link in the sidebar on this page under "Worth Your While," because it is.
Go spend a little time with Jake when you get a chance.
Check out what's on his front page right now, for example. Shooting big, swaggery weapons, Angkor Wat and a great, fascinating and very photogenic place, Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake. What's not to...
People to People to Cuba
Most of my email after the radio interview Friday was about Cuba. I mentioned that in a couple of months we'll visit Havana and stay at the venerable Hotel Nacional.
As I understand it, the Clinton administration instituted a "people to people" exchange program, which was suspended by the Bush administration and has now been reinstated.
Certain travel agencies have been approved to conduct these tours and trips resumed last August. In general, the idea is that each trip should include...
January 6, 2012
Welcome South Carolina Radio Listeners
Welcome to fans of Walter Edgar's Journal on South Carolina ETV Radio. Thanks for listening. Hope you enjoyed the show. Dr. Edgar is a gracious host and a fine human being.
As he and I discussed, we've just returned this week from above the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland. I haven't had time to get many photos up to EarthPhotos.com yet, but there are a few in the new Lapland Gallery, and I'll get more up over the next week or so.
I invite your travel questions to bill (at...
Friday Photo Quiz #137 - Where in the World?
It's an iconic city with most of its icons outside the photo. It's bordered by an ocean, it's the largest city in the country (at about 4-1/2 million) but not its capital, and it was called Warrane by its original inhabitants.
Can you guess the city? The country? The answer is after the jump.
And a good weekend to all from Common Sense and Whiskey and EarthPhotos.com.
And the answer is ..................................................... it's Sydney, Australia, capital of...
Defeat!
How much is just too much for a Japanese budget wonk? 10,000 free airline tickets, apparently.
In an effort to relight the fire under travel to Japan after the Fukushima disaster, the Japan Tourism Agency submitted a budget request for money enough to give away 10,000 tickets. The budget was to have been aproved and applications were to be received by about April this year. To apply, you'd send an essay describing why you'd like to visit and where you'd go.
Just found this on the a
January 5, 2012
Photography - Housekeeping
Beginning a new Lapland Gallery at EarthPhotos.com. Not much there yet, but it'll grow over a couple of weeks, and after it's complete I'll put copies of the Lapland photos into the Finland Gallery, too.
