Revisit

Every so often, I go back and look at photos I took, 5, 15 & 15 years ago. I recently was compiling & moving an album I created a couple years ago from my time in Sarajevo. A question someone asked about a photo prompted me to go back and have a look at all the photos I took at the time (fall of 2006, not too long after I switched to digital). Here are three that I don't believe I ever did anything with, that may be worth a second look, or in the case of the first photo, an example of why I passed it by.


Window and the Flower
Passed over, I didn't leave enough space around the flower in the lower right

Face in the Wall

Juxtaposition

On the Corner of...

Long Time...No Posts

I continue to be bad about keeping up the blog. Here is a little bit of reminiscing.

Destin, Florida - 2007, 12 years ago today

Sarajevo, Bosnia - 2008, 11 years ago today

Destin Florida - 2010, 9 years ago today

Old Jewish Cemeteries, Prague & Sarajevo

The Prague photos are from a bit more than 10 years ago and the Sarajevo photos a bit over 9 years ago. Apparently people need reminders :(. You can see the scars of the civil war in some of the Sarajevo stones.

Old Jewish Cemetery - Prague

Old Jewish Cemetery - Prague

Old Jewish Cemetery - Prague

Old Jewish Cemetery - Sarajevo

Old Jewish Cemetery - Sarajevo

Old Jewish Cemetery - Sarajevo

Random Old Photos

A couple flower shots from long ago, ran across them looking for something this evening.

Flowers in Abstract - Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

Wisteria - Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Yesteryear

Some oldies, Where and what I was doing 1, 5 & 11 years ago yesterday respectively.

From 1 Year Ago New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut

From 5 Years Ago Yellow Springs, Ohio

Yellow Springs, Ohio

From 11 Years Ago Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

My Way Back Machine

Sunset Haze Over Sarajevo - 10 September 2006

Random Photo

A combination of very busy and sick has kept me from the photography lately. Shelby and I didn't even go out one time with our cameras together during her recent visit.

Path of the Pigeon - Sarajevo, 2009

A Few More

These photos are from my visit to the Jewish Cemetery just before I left in 2009. I didn't have my computer at the time so at first I didn't post photos, but later I tried using what I had to work with on a laptop.


Jewish Cemetery - Sarajevo




Jewish Cemetery - Sarajevo




Jewish Cemetery - Sarajevo



Jewish Cemetery - Sarajevo

Jewish Cemetery, Sarajevo

Jevrejsko Groblje u Sarajevu
I don't know what made me think of these photos today...these were taken during our visit with Shelby in May.

According to the sign, the Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo is the second largest in Europe. Only the Jewish Cemetery in Prague is larger. The Sarajevo cemetery dates to 1630. It was home to snipers preying on the residents of Sarajevo during the siege in the 1990's and was heavily mined. The cemetery is de-mined now, but much of it remains overgrown. Many of the headstones exhibit the wear and tear only a bullet can provide.


Headstone- Jewish Cemetery, Sarajevo



Overlooking Sarajevo- Jewish Cemetery



Birch Tree - Jewish Cemetery, Sarajevo



Restored Headstones- Jewish Cemetery, Sarajevo

Sarajevo Door Handle

not the first time I've had a photo of them... but here is one in actual use.


Door Handle - Sarajevo

I've Been Busy

Very busy...including a trip back to Sarajevo...

Sarajevo Skyline At Dusk



Veliki Park Tombstone - Sarajevo

Two Years Ago Today

Since I've not actually had much opportunity to take new photos...two years ago today, my parents were visiting and on one of our drives around, we stopped up above Sarajevo and I took a series of 6 photographs I intended to merge together into a panoramic ...tonight I tried out the photomerge function in Photoshop CS4 for the first time and here is the result. After the merge and cropping out the "waste" it was still over 45 megapixels. I think Blogger limits me to only 1024 pixels wide (the original is over 17,000). I would have liked a little more blue in the sky (that was behind us) but it was still a nice day. See how many cemeteries you can count...


Sarajevo Valley, 2008 - Sarajevo, BiH





Zetra Olympic Stadium (extracted from the photo above) - Sarajevo, BiH

Sarajevsko Goblje Bare

In my last couple months in Sarajevo, I didn't have access to my computer and I also did a lot of walking around and took a lot of photos (Until my camera died). I'm starting to wander through the photos I took during this time period, sort of mentally preparing myself to start organizing them.

I walked to or through a lot of cemeteries in that time. Here are some of my last photos of the huge cemetery, Sarajevsko Groblje Bare. Which I've blogged about many times before, including here, here and here. I hoped to do a cool merge of two selective focus photos, but the idea I had didn't work out like I thought it would....so you don't get to see it :)

Groblje Bare - Sarajevo





Groblje Bare - Sarajevo




Groblje Bare - Sarajevo

Alifakovac Cemetery - Sarajevo, BiH

While going through some old blog entries and some old photos today, I noticed I made this entry and haven't ever put up any of the photos...well now that I have my computer, a couple minutes, and photoshop, here are a few shots of Alifakovac Cemetery. I took a photo of the USAID descriptive placard which is at the bottom here. There isn't a whole lot on the web about this cemetery, a google search on it brings my previous meager entry up #2...

Alifakovac Cemetery - Sarajevo




Alifakovac Cemetery - SarajevoBijela Tabija (White Bastion) in the background




Alifakovac Cemetery - Sarajevo



Alifakovac Cemetery DescriptionMay have to click on this and expand it to make it readable

A Point and Shoot

Co-workers were kind enough to lend me a digital point and shoot that has some controls. Of course, I can't necessarily find all the controls when I need them, but they are there none the less :) So at times I look like the people I make fun of...using the camera's little bitty flash to try to light up half a city, because I couldn't figure out how to turn off the flash. Well by tonight, I got that part down and took the picture below of the Latin Bridge. Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated after crossing the bridge and thus began World War I. (on the right side of the bridge in this photo)

Latinska Ćuprija - Sarajevo

Not My Best or Happiest Day Ever...

So last night I updated the firmware on my Canon 5D DSLR. While I was doing that, I happened to read Canon's Service Notice: EOS 5D: Main Mirror Detachment.

My "walk" this evening was more of an ascent, straight up through Vratnik to a small lookout and some cemeteries high above the city. I started taking photos...and "clUNK!" my mirror fell totally off. Just as described in the service bulletin. I'll have to rush ship it back to Canon in the hopes that it can be repaired in time for our cruise the latter part of August. What a bummer to be here for my last 2 weeks without a camera.


Cemetery At Sunset - Above Sarajevo



My Last Photo - Sarajevo

What I Learned Today

Yes, you can eat too many fresh blackberries (at least I can).

Today I finally walked to the huge cemetery, Sarajevsko Groblje Bare which I have photographed from a distance a number of times, including here. I learned it is the main city cemetery (Gradsko Groblje) and that there are very few victims from the war buried there (and so corrected my earlier blog post here). I walked through a huge chunk of the cemetery and it almost seemed as if people didn't die 1993-1995.

The cemetery is laid out in sections which vary in size and shape. But just to get an idea of the relative prominence of the various religions here goes. There is a section for Jews, a very small section each for Evangelicals and Adventists, 20 sections for Atheists, 14 sections for Catholic (plus a small one for "Old Catholic" (Staro-katolici) whatever that means), 26 sections for Muslim and 16 Orthodox sections.

I miss my Photoshop, but in the meantime here are a few of today's photos. I takes me 3x as long and the results are 10x worse using the laptop, the touchpad and the Photo Gallery/Paint combination.

Map of the Sections of Bare Cemetery - Sarajevo




Reflection in the Windows of the Meditation Building - Gradsko Groblje, Sarajevo




Groblje Bare - Sarajevo




Groblje Bare - Sarajevo




Groblje Bare - Sarajevo




Haystacks - Groblje Bare, Sarajevo