Photo Opportunities in the Smokies #2
Last week I posted the first of a series of blogposts (I hope) on the various parts of the Smokies. This week I continued exploring the same stretch of the Little River in the Tremont area. The road to this stretch is found about of…
Blue Ridge Parkway in Autumn
Sometimes we don’t spend enough time in our own backyard. I keep wanting to spend more time in Smokies during the Fall and I keep failing at my goal. I did get out for a day last year with a buddy and we traveled a…
Winelands of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Have you been to the winelands of the Western Cape? I may be biased (having spent the majority of my life in this region) but I still think the Western Cape is one of the premier destinations of the world. I no longer live there,…
On a beach in Dubai
Dubai is a fascinating place. It is a place of extremes. Extreme wealth and extreme poverty. The tallest building in the world, the most expensive cars, the biggest mall …. One of the places you see extremes is on the beaches. On the one hand…
Chapel of Vitaleta, Pienza
This place is hard to find. Its not really marked on the main road, the turn-off that is. And then when you find the road there is still no sign for its entrance. And then the entrance has a locked gate, requiring you to leave…
Strada per Monticciello
Strada per Monticciello: This one of the most photographed roads in Tuscany. The village of Monticciello is near Pienza in southern Tuscany. I deliberately chose to photograph this scene into the sun to get a different view of it than the normal tourist shot. Unfortunately…
Lake at Queenstown
This was one of my first shots in New Zealand earlier this year. I had arrived the evening before, sneaking in before the curfew at the airport was imposed. After a wonderful dinner at the hotel (as part of the Trey Retcliffe New Zealand photo…
New York City clues us in as to what makes a city great?
** This post contains affiliate links: you don’t pay more, but we earn a small percentage if you buy through our link. In the last few months, I have been in many great world cities and have more to come in the next few weeks….
Kyoto in Cherry season
Earlier this year I was in Japan on a work trip. We managed to take a day to run down to Kyoto and it was peak cherry season. I have learned that it is actually quite difficult to do justice to cherry blossoms….
Cape Town – the best city in the world?
OK so I have been silent for a while. No excuse, just busy. But it hasn’t been a lack of travel. I have been to Japan and China recently and am on my way home from Mozambique and South Africa. In 2 weeks I head…
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