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From the daily walks….
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From the daily walks….
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One more Paris post from Steve tomorrow night, and we will be at the end of our trip to Paris wit Steve. It’s been a lovely trip.
In case you missed my comment last Friday:
By the end of next week, we will be at 325 On The Road posts since I picked this up in April.
That’s 325 amazing sets of photos from all of you, and I want to thank each person who has submitted photos.
After the 10 for the coming week, there are no more submissions in the queue. I would be surprised if we are out of memories to share, so maybe we are all holding our breath or are feeling overwhelmed by everything that is going on around us?
If you have an idea for a photo series, like this set from Steve from Mendocino or the Scotland set from Albatrossity, send me an email with your idea. If you have photos to submit for the early morning OTR, send in your pics!
Otherwise, we’ll be taking a break from On The Road.
Hopefully it will just be a short break! A few people wrote with ideas for a series for After Dark, and we have 5 submissions for the morning next week. It’s hard to focus right now, and next week will be quite the crazy ride, so maybe a week off from On the Road After Dark isn’t a terrible thing. If submissions show up in my mailbox, I will definitely put them up.
A few tidbits from here and there around the city.
Fall colors in the late afternoon on a Paris boulevard.
On The Road – Steve from Mendocino – Paris 9/10Post + Comments (15)
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I visited Croatia with my husband In 2009. I’d read somewhere that Italians vacationed in Croatia as it was cheaper and less crowded than Italy. A friend who toured Eastern Europe with her accordion gave me some tips on where to go… After a visit to Plitvice Lakes, we drove south and caught a ferry from Split to the island of Vis, off the Dalmatian Coast. Vis had served as a communist military base after WWII and had been closed to foreign visitors until 1989.
Cars park above the limestone village of Vis (on the island of Vis) which is transected by narrow lanes such as this one. Our hotel is marked by the small green sign on the left.
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Paris gets pretty strange at times, not necessarily more than other cities, but it seems to stand out more because of the contrast with the formality of the Paris architectural infrastructure.
Euro Disney was originally dubbed Paris Disneyland, but its location is well beyond the limits of the city itself. One of the big subway lines (RER) terminates at Euro Disney, so it’s easily accessible from the city. My grandfather’s beach house in Newport Beach was 30 minutes from Disneyland, and I went first within months of its opening in 1955. While it was more polished than Knots Berry Farm or the Alligator Farm at the time, it was still pretty funky and basic. As it’s evolved, it’s become much slicker, but there remains an old timey feel of the roots underneath. Euro Disney, on the other hand, feels like a corporate formula all the way to the bones. I went with my daughter (who also had Disneyland experiences as a child), and we both felt the dissonance of this inhuman, corporate excrescence that has been inflicted on the French landscape. I’d been curious about this place from the time of its initial proposal, and that itch has been scratched.
On The Road – Steve from Mendocino – Paris 8/10Post + Comments (25)
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The waning days of 2020 saw a cold Pacific storm roll though southern California bring thunder, lightning(a rarity here) and heavy rain. It also brought snow to lower elevations(though not a low as 2019), so the first thing to do once the storm clouds passed was to head to the Baldwin Hills to get some photos of Los Angeles with a snowy backdrop. I took both my NX1 for visual shots and the modified NX300 for IR shots. With the exception of the panorama at the end of this set, all the photos were processed in RAW Therapee(as opposed to Lightroom) to emulate different film types(Ektachrome 100, Kodachrome 64, and Aerocrhrome for IR).
I was intending to park close to the ridge at the northern portion of the park that is a favorite for photographers, but the parking was a nightmare there so I headed over to La Brea and parked on a side street east of the park and hiked up from the south side of the park.
On the first ridge after you climb up from La Brea you find this concrete sculpture of a diamondback rattlesnake. This was shot with a wide aperture for a bokeh effect and processed with Ektachrome emulation.
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In October and early November of 2011, my younger daughter and I spent 6 weeks hanging in Paris at Anne-Marie’s apartment. Dinner was, per our family tradition since I informally retired, at mid-day, with supper consisting of a baguette, cheese, some kind of charcuterie, carrot salad or celerie remoulade, and cider, of which my daughter was allocated one glass because of the alcohol. We ate mostly at bistros or high mid-range restaurants that were well thought of by people I trusted. We never went to a starred restaurant, but our list of recommended restaurants turned out to be consistently successful. My wife makes an excellent fallen chocolate cake, and my daughter took it upon herself to order that for dessert anywhere we ate. Only one of the sampled cakes was as good as my wife’s. No need to go travelling on that account.
The doorway to the apartment building where we stayed. Anne-Marie used to chuckle at the concierge who was scandalized by the adjacent “Massages Asiatiques”, all pink and lurid in its implicitly sexual appeal.
On The Road – Steve from Mendocino – Paris 7/10Post + Comments (16)
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I have been kind of depressed lately, stuck at home and seeing at all the great places people have gone. So I started looking back through my travel pics for something “inspiring.” I found my waterfall pics from three distinct continents. I actually have pics from five, but with the limit of eight pictures per submission, I might have to do a second round.
Starting closest to home, we have Niagara (2011). I have been to Niagara Falls many times. My mother’s family is from the 1000 Islands region of upstate New York and we often went for summer visits. Next we go to South America, to Iguazu Falls on the border between Argentina and Brazil (2016). Finally we go to Africa for a visit to Victoria Falls on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe (2013).
A couple of years ago, upon returning to the US from some foreign trip, I was questioned about the Zimbabwe visa in my passport. Apparently the ICE boys at OHare could not think of any legit reason why someone would go to Zimbabwe.