Happy New Year!

It was snowing generously, but at a minute or so before midnight, we simply walked out on our balcony and watched the city and the surrounding hills light up with fireworks. The main display was about a block or so right in front of us.


Fireworks Usher in 2008 - Sarajevo

Hoar Frost

It has been below freezing for a few weeks at least now. That hasn't stopped the fog and the resulting hoar frost. The biggest challenge is finding an angle that doesn't have the white and gray background of the snow and fog. Here is what the frost looked like out where Shelby was horseback riding this morning.

Hoar Frost - Bosnia

Lake Atitlan -2004

I took this photo in December of 2004, when we went and stayed a few nights there for a New Year's break. This is a scanned slide. It is a version of one of over 20 photos I took in Guatemala which Guatemalan quilt artistPriscilla Bianchi used for illustration in her recent book, Caliente Quilts

Lake Atitlan - Guatemala

The Pretty Picture

I promised a couple days ago. I've been to Krka twice. This is from our last visit in September with some friends that were visiting. It is a beautiful park with spectacular cascades, but I have yet to get a photograph that really captures it to my liking. Both of my visits were at mid-day and the lighting was harsh. I think it would be best fairly early in the morning...maybe next time.

Krka National Park - Croatia

Another Snow Photo

From this morning in Veliki Park. I'll try to get back to "pretty" pictures soon, maybe a waterfall or two...

Snow in Veliki Park - Sarajevo

No Dreaming Required

It is a White Christmas in Sarajevo

Twas The Night Before Christmas...

Merry Christmas ! ! !

While on the Topic of Sunsets

and though they are cliché...each is unique, sort of like a fingerprint.

The Day Ends, 18 November 2007- Destin, Florida

Less Than 90 Seconds Earlier

than the previous photo (which makes it #1 vice #2)

Ohio Sunset #1 - 3 December, 2007

The Latest Background

on my computer desktop. From the deck off the back of mom and dad's house. The series of photos from the sunset are also known to me as "dang! where is my tripod when I really need it" as none of the photos are nearly as sharp as they should be. I hand held at low shutter speeds. Worse still, a couple days later. I accidentally left my lighter, more portable tripod (which means more likely to be used) behind in Milford while I'm thousands of miles away in Sarajevo :(

Ohio Sunset - 3 December, 2007

Hammock

I sort of wish the hammock was bigger in the frame and I played with various crops of the original...this is what I've settled on for now.


Hammock - Little Miami River, Milford, Ohio

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!