Please click on any image for a better view. Boating on the Beagle Channel, South America Walking in Wales, Black Mountains Playing with Penguins, Punta Arenas, Chile Gazing at Glaciers, Switzerland Dining on the Danube, Budapest Ailsa’s travel theme: Adventure Continue reading Adventure
Ailsa’s travel theme is Names of iconic places – please click on any image for a better view. The New York Salon on Erzsébet Street in Budapest The Moulin Rouge on the Boulevard de Clichy in Paris Guess where in the Czech Republic In London The Nobel Museum in Stortorget, Stockholm The end of Route 3 on Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. The Pan-American highway runs … Continue reading Travel Theme: Names
Please click on any image for a better view. Duck(s) at the Montreal Biodome Dale – Nant Gwynant Valley, Wales Dark – Charles Bridge, Prague Dash – Gaben Street in Vienna Cee’s fun foto challenge: 4 letter words beginning with D Continue reading Deeze
I went for all five. Please click on any image for a better view. Vantage – taken at Fisherman’s Bastion, Budapest Bifurcated – taken in Ottawa Intruding – also in Ottawa Jagged – Ramsey Island, Wales Quayside – Nyhavn, Copenhagen Paula’s Thursday’s special: pick a word Continue reading 5 words, 5 photos
Please click on any image for a better view. Charlie the labradoodle, from Thunder Bay, Ontario Sleeping dogs lie in the Andes, Hotel Portillo, Chile This fellow wanted to play ball in Berchtesgaden, Germany Out to pasture, Thornhill, Scotland Alpaca, Glengarry County, Ontario Walking the dog in Lockerbie, Scotland Sleeping dogs also lie in Punta Arenas, Chile … and a pee break at Dunnet Head, … Continue reading Animal Crackers
Click on any image for a better view. Ailsa’s travel theme is Words Long words … Nuremburg Short words … South Glengarry, Ontario Exciting words … Words of reflection … Bavaria Words of love … Proud words … Ottawa Moving words … Ottawa Funny words … at least to me … Salzburg Incomprehensible words … at least to me … St. Petersburg, Russia and words of … Continue reading Words
Please click on any image for a better view. Red … an artisan in Szentendre, Hungary Blue … summer flowers in Buenos Aires Yellow … a window, also in Szentendre And a three-fer … from St. Petersburg, Russia Ailsa’s Travel Theme: primary colours Continue reading Primarily speaking
Please click on images for a better view. Pass through these doors to enter Dom zu unserer Lieben Frau – the Cathedral of Our Dear lady, also referred to as Frauenkirche. The onion domes of this church are unmistakable on the skyline of Munich. Located near Marienplatz in the heart of the old town, construction began in 1468. However, the cathedral suffered heavy damage from … Continue reading Door(s) 22
Ailsa’s travel theme: Near Please click on any image for a better view. A silk floss tree (I think) – Buenos Aires Tiled floor in the Vatican Museums Flora, Otway Sound, Chile Close up of I’m-not-sure-what in an archway in Munich Highland cattle in the Scottish Highlands Continue reading Near and Far
It IS possible to get a decent shot from the tour bus window while moving at speed down the mountainside 🙂 … with some basic cropping and cloning and the tweaks provided by editing programs. I use Sagelight. Please click on any image for a better view. Continue reading Photo Editing – from the bus window
Ailsa’s travel theme: rain. Please click on any image for a better view. On Ponte Vecchio in Florence St. Petersburg, Russia Chile And, lastly, in my own back yard. Continue reading Rain, Rain, more Rain
This is series on couples – street photography capturing two people – which for lack of anything more imaginative I have named the Odd Couple series, when in fact they may, or may not be odd. I’ll leave that to the viewer. Please click on image for a better view. Taken in Bratislava, Slovakia. For my solo series click here. Continue reading Odd Couple/36 – The lady & the Statue
The Theatine Church of St. Cajetan, built between 1663 and 1690, is situated in Odeonsplatz in Munich. It was founded by Ferdinand Maria, ruler of Bavaria and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire to mark the birth of his son Max Emanuel, heir to the Bavarian Crown. Please click on any image for a better view. It is now administered by the Dominican Friars and … Continue reading Church/St. Cajetan
Doors along Parizska Street – the most expensive shopping street in Prague – the street of Dior, Guicci, Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Jimmy Choo, et al. Please click on any image for a better view. Norm’s Thursday’s Doors Continue reading Door(s) 21
Going by google there seems to be two St. Nicholas’ Churches in Prague. One in the Old Town Square, and one in Lesser Town Square. This one is in the Old Town Square. In Czech it is Chrám svatého Mikuláše, as opposed to Kostel svatého Mikuláše in Lesser Town. Please click on any image for a better view. The following information is taken from http://www.prague.eu which I’m assuming … Continue reading Church/In Old Town Square
These images were all taken as we sailed out of St. Petersburg, Russia. Please click on any image for a better view. Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sky Continue reading Skies over St. Petersburg
St. Mary’s Church in Beddgelert, Gwynnedd, Wales – please click on any image for a better view. This site near where the Rivers Glaslyn and Colwyn meet has been a place of Christian worship since the 7th century. By 1230 the monastic community was recognized as an Augustinian Priory with a sizable church and a number of other buildings that have since disappeared. St. … Continue reading Church/St. Mary’s, Beddgelert
When I travel I like to get my feet on the ground and walk. I pick up so much more walking than driving – to go with the sights come the sounds and the smells and the hum of the atmosphere. Taking local transport is also a favourite, but Ailsa’s travel theme is Walking so I’ll go with that. Please click on any image for a better … Continue reading Walking the Walk
Statue of General Barclay de Tolley – 1761-1818 by the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia. Please click on image for a better view. General Barclay de Tolley was a Russian Field Marshal and Minister of War during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812. A descendant of the Scottish Clan Barclay with roots in Towie, Aberdeenshire, De Tolley grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia. He entered the Imperial … Continue reading Statues and Sculptures/8
Please click on image for a better view. This door provides entrance to what was the Postkantoor (post office) at 42 Coolsingel in Rotterdam, Holland. It leads to an entrance hall with a ceiling rising to 22.5 metres (74 feet). The post office was built between 1915 and 1923. They didn’t want it to overshadow the Town Hall nearby and so situated it further from the … Continue reading Door/17 – Postkantoor
Beyond the Brush 