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
“Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.” – W. Eugene Smith Weekly photo challenge is: Threshold Continue reading Visual Quotations 51: Threshold
This is the third challenge in about as many weeks that has led me back to my photos of the Beagle Channel at the southern tip of Argentina. This will remain as one of the grandest mornings of my life. The Beagle Channel at Ushuaia, Argentina The Weekly Photo Challenge is: Grand, with a Wow! factor This entry, for me, really had the WOW factor: … Continue reading GRANDeur
“I was awe struck by the flawless beauty, the silence and the light—I felt as if I flicked a finger at it it would all shatter into crystalline pieces.” When I saw Ese’s Shoot and Quote this week is Silence, this photo immediately sprang to mind, because this will be the closest I will likely ever come to photographing silence. The magnificent light and the … Continue reading The Song of Silence
“There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.” – Nelson Mandela Ese’s Weekly Shoot and Quote is: Direction Continue reading Visual Quotation 35: Direction
When reviewing my photos I’ve taken to converting them to black and white, often with pleasing results. Even with landscapes where one is often captivated by the colours spread before our lens, conversion to black and white simplifies the composition and sometimes reveals dynamics within the shot that went unnoticed in the riot of colour. Instead of being bedazzled by the colours, the eye sees the values within the shot. It’s the habit of many painters to view their paintings in black and white to determine balance within the painting, by judging the values. With abrupt or frequent value changes a b/w Continue reading “It’s all there in Black and White”
Friday, September 21 was International Day of Peace … if only we could Continue reading “International Day of Peace”
Green …
We had experienced several days of rain but the upside was this last meander along the River Rance between Dinan and Léhon in Brittany with the intoxicating scent of the lush, damp woodlands sweetening the air.
Yellow … Continue reading “Five Colours”
Karen at The When I Feel Like It Blog has announced a new photo hunt.
“Show me the place that is “the end of the earth” for you …”
This photo was taken by a friend and travel buddy who passed away not long after our return from this trip. Ushuaia, Argentina on the Beagle Channel, is the southernmost city in the world.
I have to admit that the next one Continue reading “Photo Hunt: End of the Earth”
“At the ends of the earth, where the Americas become condensed into a volcanic wedge of moist Antarctic rainforest and cold, beautiful lakes, caught between toothy ridges of sheer granite and rivers of glittering ice, is Tierra del Fuego National Park. This is the very edge of human habitation.” – viator.com
Ailsa’s travel theme this week is Parks.
Established in 1960, the Tierra del Fuego National Park encompasses about 240 square miles and is the southernmost national park in the world, stretching north from the Beagle Channel along the Chilean border. (map)
Our catamaran sailed into Bahia Lapataia with the mountains rising majestically from the channel.
Here sits the most Continue reading “Travel Theme: Parks”
“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet … maybe we could understand something.”
Robin over at Bringing Europe Home hosts Quotes from the Masters and this week’s quote is by Frederico Fellini. This particular morning I was in a catamaran on the Continue reading “Quotes from the Masters: Fellini”
Sea Lions – this photo was taken in Continue reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Together”
We have heard that Captains of cruise ships must take nine years of training and then earn huge salaries as they sail to all the world’s faraway places … why? Because there is a Cape Horn.
Cape Horn sits at the south tip of the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego and Tierra del Fuego sits of the south tip of South America. There isn’t a whole lot between Cape Horn and Antarctica. The Drake Passage around Cape Horn forms part of the Southern Ocean.
The Southern Ocean from about latitude 400 south to the Antarctic Circle has the strongest average winds found anywhere on earth because there is less land mass to slow them down; they just blow around the world almost uninterrupted by land. The latitudes between 400 south and 500 south have been dubbed the Continue reading “Below 40, there is no law”
Beyond the Brush 