Last weekend I headed to London with my niece, who’s visiting us here in Poland this summer. She wanted to check out the London Eye. I admit, I’ve always sort of give the Eye a pass whenever in London, and…
Category: Photo Friday
This month we’re showing our 17-year-old niece around Poland and a bit around Europe. On Sunday we headed to the European Solidarity Center “Roads to Freedom” exhibition, which documents the famous Gdansk shipyard strike and protest that subsequently brought about…
Earlier this month I was in Frankfurt for a short trip to pick up my niece. On my free afternoon, I happened to cross the Eiserner Steg, a pedestrian bridge that takes you from the city center to the museum…
Last week I was in Frankfurt, meeting my 17-year-old niece who’s visiting us from Oregon. I had part of a day to myself and wandered through some of the museums clustered on the bank of the river. Just as I…
Last week I was in Coventry for The One Big Show—a trade event put on by CHA, the Craft & Hobby Association. It was an action-packed day and evening of networking, seminars, good friends and colleagues and…cupcakes. (I mean, what…
This month I’m enjoying Susannah Conway’s Photo Meditations course. I love online classes and have taken several from Susannah. One point I picked up on this week was about “exercising your eye”—which for photography, really means getting out and taking…
I pass by this giant old stone house pretty regularly. Like so many around here in Sopot, it’s been divided into apartments with little balconies. It reminds me—somewhat inexplicably—of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (which I loved as a kid)….
The weather is warming up here in Sopot, and the beach scene and long evenings are attracting the usual influx of tourists—while inspiring everyone to enjoy the great outdoors while having a drink or two. Or three. Lately my morning…