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In All It’s Serenity – Montreux – Switzerland

As my husband and I ran to the train in Montreux, Switzerland our last morning we both stopped and remembered I never got any photos of the swans on Lake Geneva. As I arrived a swan was perfectly located for me to get a perfect photo as if I had paid him as a model! I used my Nikon DSLR and used no filters. I edited using my iPhone photos app. After the swan’s “photo shoot” we ran back to the train to head to Zermatt to view the Matterhorn from Gornergrat. There we had champagne and fondue. The day was more like a date on The Bachelor for us even after 29 years of marriage! I hope you enjoy my photo as much as I do!

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The Brooklyn Bridge, NYC, USA

I was living in NYC for a couple months and it was my first time there. I was walking the Brooklyn Bridge like a good tourist and just stopped to take this photo. I used an EOS Mirrorless M10 with the lens that came with the camera. I didn’t alter the image or anything, it’s just natural.

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En la Cima de las Torres, Chile

I just use my Iphone 7 plus to take this photo.

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Wonderful Indonesia

Sony A6000, using Sony E 50MM f 1/8 and editing using Lightroom

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What Did We Do In London? Part One The Rubens At The Palace

On my way to my first ILTM conference in Cannes, I decided to visit London. I was lucky that my friend, Julie, decided to join me.

Do you want flying to be fun again? My first stop was at The Private Suite at LAX. 

My bags were checked in for me, I went through security in their private area and I had my own suite to relax in. I ordered lunch, watched TV and even played outside.

There are drinks, sweets, and amenities galore. I highly recommend it if you want to feel like a V-VIP—a very very important person. There is a toy menu for kids of all ages so no matter your age you will be entertained. I loved traveling directly to the terminal by private car (2018 BMW 750). It is a truly luxurious experience.

The Private Suite was the perfect way to start my adventures in London!

VIDEO: Will You Love the Private Suite at LAX?

What did we do in London?

Thank you to The Rubens at the Palace for a fantastic stay. Our address was literally Buckingham Palace Road and we were steps from the Palace where the Queen was in residence. We saw the Palace at daytime and night time. We walked through Hyde Park and saw the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain. We loved afternoon tea at Egerton House Hotel which is also part of Red Carnation Hotels. In the evening, we saw COMPANY at the Gielgud Theater. The show is a twist on the original with Bobbie as a female bachelor this time. I visited Harrods for the first time and loved all the holiday decorations in the store and around the town.

VIDEO: Do You Want To Explore London With Me?

We found a changing of the guard: 

“The Four ‘O’ Clock Parade, also known as the Dismounting Ceremony and Punishment Parade takes place at 16:00 hours in the courtyard in front of the Horse Guards building.(Facing Whitehall).

The guards are inspected by an Officer and then the mounted guards take the horses back to the stables for the night.

Two dismounted sentries will then guard the entrance until 20:00 when the gates to Horse Guards are closed and then one sentry will remain on duty until 07:00 when the gates re-open.

The 4 ‘o’ Clock Parade started in 1894 when Queen Victoria found the entire guard drinking and gambling while on duty.

As a punishment, she said they had to be inspected every day at 4pm by an officer for the next 100 years!

The 100 years finished in 1994. However, the reigning Queen wanted the parade to continue as a tradition.” 

VIDEO: Did You See The Punishment Inspection?

 

Lisa and Julie at The Rubens at the Palace
Lisa and Julie at High Tea at the Egerton House Hotel
The Rubens at the Palace at night

Is there anywhere better than London at Christmas? Thanks for featuring our wonderful properties, looks like you had a blast!

— Red Carnation Hotels (@red_carnation) January 17, 2019

 

 

Fantastic vlog!!

A Fisherman’s Life, France

iPhone 5s

Basic light and color adjustments with Apple’s photo editor

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Fresh Mountain Air in Andorra

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T5i

Lens: Canon EFS 18-200mm

Aperture: f/8.0

Shutter Speed: 1/160

File Type Shot: RAW

Editing Process: For my photo editing, I use Lightroom. For this particular photo, I shot it RAW format so that when I went to edit it, I could make the mountains in the background pop out, while also lightening/slightly silhouetting the trees in the foreground to act as a frame. To do this, I slightly decreased the temperature of the photo, brought the highlights down far and the shadows up, and I slightly increased the whites while bringing down the blacks. When all was said and done, the photo was exported as a JPG file.

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Taxi, sand and palm trees in Havana Cuba

I took this on a very inexpensive FujiFilm digital camera with 12x zoom. This picture isn’t altered as I just loved the pop of the yellow cab on the otherwise very empty landscape.

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350 years since his death Rembrandt and United Airlines

Thank you to Hemispheres, United Airlines Magazine, for publishing my story about Rembrandt. More than a dozen museums in the Netherlands, will put on exhibits to mark the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt Van Rijn’s death. Here is a by-the-numbers guide:
If you are flying this month, see my article on page 34, or to find it online.

Happy New Year! Introducing the January 2019 featuring Three Perfect Days in Bogotá, The Hemi Q&A with Ethan Hawke, and former French rugby star Gérard Bertrand on Languedoc wines. Check out the full issue: https://t.co/QTTPrIF17m pic.twitter.com/wKRU1UCdGK

— Hemispheres (@hemispheresmag) January 1, 2019

What will your legacy be? Join the celebration of one of the world’s greatest painters in the Netherlands. It has been 350 years since Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn’s death and his art will be exhibited all over the country from The Hague, Leiden, Leeuwarden with many exhibits in Amsterdam.

18: The number of paintings on exhibit at Mauritshuis in the Hague ‘Rembrandt en het Mauritshuis’ including The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp and Rembrandt’s late self-portrait.
1639-1656: Rembrandt lived at Jodenbreestraat 4, now the Rembrandt House Museum for 17 years where there will be three exhibits of his life and work including ‘Rembrandt’s Social Network,’ ’Inspired by Rembrandt,’ and ‘Laboratorium Rembrandt’
13,000:  In 1639, Rembrandt paid 13,000 guilders for his home which now is The Rembrandt House Museum.
210: The number of years The Night Watch, one of the most famous paintings in the world, has been at Rijksmuseum (since 1808). It has been in 3 locations: from 1642 at Kloveniersdoelen in Amsterdam until 1715 when it was moved to the Town Hall and since then at Rijksmuseum.
19: Rembrandt opened his own art studio when he was nineteen and was teaching others how to paint by the time he was 21. 
600: Rembrandt painted over 600 paintings, influenced other painters throughout history and is considered on the of the greatest artists in history.
100: Rembrant charged his advanced students 100 guilders per year, not including lodging. He did not teach beginners and did sell his students’ work.
1619: Rembrand’s first lessons were in Leiden by master Jacob van Swanenburgh visit the historic location: The Rembrandt Lokaal at the RembrandtLAB which is an initiative by Museum De Lakenhal, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Leiden Marketing and Cultuurfonds.
1637: Rembrandt drew Hansken, a young female elephant, who was brought by a VOC (Dutch East India Company) ship to Amsterdam, this is believed to be the first portrait of an Asian elephants described by science. What was the port like? At Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam take a a Virtual Reality journey called “Dare to Discover” back to the Dutch Golden Age. See the port, city and wave to a departing Dutch East India Company’s ship.
400,000: Explore the Dutch Golden Age in 3 museums on the Citywalk ‘Amsterdam Original’ at Het Scheepvaartmuseum with 400,000 artifacts and 500 years of history (The National Maritime Museum), the Portuguese Synagogue which was built in 1675 after the Jews escaped from Spain and Portugal and Museum Het Rembrandthuis (the Rembrandt House Museum) where Rembrandt lived for 20 years.
30: For the first time ever, see 30 colossal 17th century group portraits from the Amsterdam Museum and the Rijksmuseum which will be show at the Hermitage Amsterdam. Due to their size, they are rarely exhibited they are the ‘brothers and sisters’ of the famous ‘Night Watch’ by Rembrandt van Rijn.

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Touching the Sky in New Zealand

I took this photo using the Nikon D5200, slightly edited on Photoshop.

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