Bill Murray's Blog, page 171
September 16, 2011
Weekend Reading. Pretty Pictures, too
I commend to you my friend, author and traveler Laurence Mitchell's blog, East of Elveden, for weekend enjoyment. As he puts it, he's in, "Petersburg. No, not that one...."
Friday Photo Quiz #126 - Where in the World?
Famous river, city in the news. Can you name the city? The river? 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 Cairo, Egypt and the river Nile. The river is the Danube.
See almost a thousand photos of cities all around the world in the Cities Gallery.
And take all the CS&W photo quizzes.
September 14, 2011
Sunrise on the Cliffs: Wednesday HDR
The sun has just risen from the Tasman Sea over Watson's Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Click this photo to make it much bigger via EarthPhotos.com.
This is from a single RAW, re-exposed -3, -2, -1, 0, +1 & +2 and saved as .tifs, combined and tonemapped in Photomatix and finished with several steps in Photoshop CS5, then applying the Glamor Glow filter from Nik.
See 338 other HDRs in the HDR Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
September 13, 2011
Strange Museums #8
If you're in the southeast U.S. next weekend, you won't want to miss this:
"The International Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum will be hosting a ceremony for the 2011 Hall of Fame Induction on Sunday, September 18th. Each year between 5 and 10 towing and recovery industry professionals are honored in the Hall of Fame for contributions to improving the industry as well as outstanding professional and community service. The Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum is...
September 8, 2011
Links for the Weekend
A travel blog centered on Eastern Europe: Argophilia. Note their advice on TripAdvisor.
The people at Anna.Aero have been in touch. It's a site for Airline Network News and Analysis, hence ANNA. (A natural partner for the Airline Route Updates blog. If you've GOT TO KNOW that Eastern Airways is to Start Glasgow – Stavanger Service, or Air Mauritius from 30MAR12 is introducing its 4th weekly service between Mauritius and Mumbai, then Airline Route Updates is for you.)
And most importantly...
More from the Book, Next Week
Our first trip to China came way back in 1995, when we visited the impossibly exotic Guangxi Province. The center of tourism in Guangxi is a town called Guilin, much more modest then than it is today, and the Li River, which meanders around curious karst hills and paddies.
Next week we'll post the next installment of Common Sense and Whiskey, the book: Chapter Eight, Guangxi Province, here on the blog. Order the book from Amazon here. See all the book's photos, in color, at A Common Sense...
August 24, 2011
One of Our EarthPhotos Shots Featured in the Current Afar Magazine
Proud to tell you this photo is featured on page 38 of the September issue of the Travel Magazine Afar Magazine, on newsstands now. Get yours today.
It's an HDR from an afternoon spent with a group of tree climbing lions of Ishasha Wilderness, Queen Elizabeth Park, southern Uganda. At EarthPhotos.com, it's in the Uganda, wildlife and HDR Galleries.
Many thanks to Afar Magazine.
Wednesday HDR: Church in Panama's Old Town
Churches and cathedrals seem to lend themselves to HDR processing. This is La Iglesia de la Merced, Casco Viejo, Panama City, Panama. It's from three handheld exposures (-2, 0, +2 ev). combined and tonemapped in Photomatix Pro and finished in CS5. Click it to make it quite a bit bigger.
There are currently 333 other HDR photos in the HDR Gallery at EarthPhotos.com.
August 23, 2011
Quick Travel Links
Chernobyl, My Primeval, Teeming, Irradiated Eden: Story of a visit to the exclusion zone, in Outside magazine.
The Pizkuny Wall: Story in Der Spiegel about life along the Lithuania/Belarus border, and their own mini-Berlin Wall.
Where is Resolute Bay, site of a 20 August 737 crash in northern Canada? Way up there, it turns out. Several maps. The air carrier was First Air. Here's its route map, from its web site:
August 21, 2011
Gorbachev on Yeltsin
"He should have been shunted out of the way and made an ambassador in a banana republic, where he could have smoked water pipes in peace." - interview in Der Spiegel.
