I Was Re-assured...

when they shoveled the snow off of our plane, before de-icing and before attempting to take off

SJJ (Sarajevo) Airport - 15 Nov 2007

Closed For the Season

Shaved Ice - Destin, Florida

In Memory...

1912 - 2007
"Grampa Big Truck" circa 1998

Fall

I haven't done one of these is a while. This is an HDR merge of three photos I took just an hour or so ago.

Autumn Night in Veliki Park - Sarajevo

Black and ...

...yellow

Veliki Park - Sarajevo

Dubrovnik in the Rain

Church of St. Blaise - Dubrovnik

The Evil Eye...

More from our trip to Croatia in September...eventually I'll do our trip to Chicago for Ryan's graduation, and if I get really ambitious, work back to our summer cruise and vacation :)

Faces of the Townspeople, Cathedral of St. James - Šibenik

The Road Not Taken

This is as far as I went...

At Dusk - Mali Ston, Croatia

What is Real?

First off, my position on the topic...photos always lie and photos always reveal the biases of the photographer...not any different than newspaper headlines...

I sort of hinted at this a while back in my "Portraits" entry and the entry that followed "Some Things I Didn't Consider". My son got me to thinking more about it a week or so ago when he said "hey! you're just making up a sky!" and I went on to explain that no I wasn't. Here is the photograph that I was working on today that made me think of this yet again.

Diocletian's Palace - Split



And the two versions of the same photograph from which I "made" it. One photo was processed for a blue sky, the other for more neutral to warm stone work....


















So now you know my bias ...skies are always blue because I wear polarized sunglasses and I have a sunny disposition :) ...except of course for dramatic stormy skies...then they are really black!

Memories...

Sometimes you can't remember where you took a picture. In this case, I know it was somewhere between Split and Dubrovnik...closer to Split. And if I read a guide book, I could probably figure it out. The Croatian coast has walls and castles in almost every city, town and village. If you have been there, the reason is obvious....they had to do something with all that rock.

Castle and Walls - Dalmatian Coast of Croatia

Grapes

Everything always takes longer than I estimate, I just finished the first DAY of photos from last month's trip to Croatia, so I still have 3 more days to go...all with more photos than the first. I have a feeling this could take me a while.

Grapes - Dalmatian Coast of Croatia

Catching Up

I had some time over the weekend, and an extra day off today in an empty house which allowed me to start "catching up" on some photos. I still have heaps to go, but in the meantime, here's "an artist's interpretation" (all terminology used loosely, especially the artist word!).

St. Lawrence Cathedral - Trogir, Croatia

Chicago

The Cubs didn't do too well in the playoffs...which is an understatement until you realize that at least they made it to the playoffs. They come home to a pretty cool city...

Chicago Theatre - Chicago, Illinois

Flying with a View

One of Many Window View's From the Past Week

In the Navy!

I flew back to the U.S.last week to see Ryan's graduation from Navy boot camp this past Friday and just returned this afternoon. We got to see a bit of Chicago during his weekend liberty...some photos will come later. In the meantime, WAY TO GO RYAN!

Ryan and Jenise

Impressionism

Trees - Krka National Park, Croatia

Croatia

Been a little busy with work and visitors. But we did get a few days to roam around Croatia. Croatia also has reminders of the war in the early 90's. I'll get to the pretty pictures later...for now

Minefield at Dusk - Near Krka National Park, Croatia

Shadows of War

or the side window we don't have...If we had a window on the east side of our apartment, this is a portion of what you would see. A number of domes, spires, minarets, some pockmarked from the war, two strategic embankments (only one seen here, above the cemetery), a castle-like building and a some cemeteries from the war....which you see in every directon.

Shadow - Sarajveo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Back to the Present...

with photos of things from the past :) Here again is one of my favorite local subjects, the tombstones in Veliki Park. I liked the way the sunlight was coming across the script on this tombstone this morning when I was walking Sophie and Maya. I hurried back up to the apartment and got my camera and tripod. I took about 12 shots before the sun moved enough to change the mood.

Tombstones - Veliki Park, Sarajevo

The Photos from USJA are now Finished....I think :)

If I understand things correctly, you can click on the photo below and it will take you to the photobucket album with all the photos...

Opening Ceremony, USJA Junior Nationals - July 2007, Indianapolis Indiana

Photobucket Album