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…
Tag: Photo Friday
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…
Traveling is good for the soul—but traveling in time? Magical. Last month we went to Warsaw for the weekend. Around the corner from our hotel was the Fotoplastikon, a small dark room containing a giant machine shaped like a drum….
I walked past this beautiful old building on my way home from the gym the other day. The building itself—a bed and breakfast by the beach—is lovely, but what really caught my attention was the staircase. I think it’s so…
I suspect it’s still winter outside, although I’m not so keen to venture out much with our -11° temperature (that’s 12° Fahrenheit for my fellow Americans, which frankly doesn’t sound a whole lot better). This is a cold, cold winter here…
Every morning, the fishermen bring their boats up on the shore of our local beach, where they offload salmon, mackerel and other fish. Somewhere in between hauling up boxes of fish, pulling off rubber overalls and gathering for a quick…
Last week we headed into Gdansk—Sopot, Gdansk and Gdynia form what’s called the tri-city area. Gdansk is about 20 minutes drive from us in Sopot, and we go every few weeks for a change of pace. The city has one…
November 11 was Poland’s Independence Day. This is to mark the anniversary of 1918, when Poland resumed independence from Russia, Prussia and Austria. Anna and I went out in the evening—not much was open all day except for our “downtown”…