New Zealand landscapes

Reblogged from walking around with a camera:

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New Zealand is no stopover to your destination.  New Zealand is the destination.

Some impressions from Athens

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Here are some impressions from my Athens visit from the last two days. Enjoy.

When you walk about Athens, Greece, this is what you see.

Madrid, Spain in B&W | Day 1 Part 2

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We continued our walk west towards Plaza Mayor from the Parque del Retiro and I took many photos along the way to try and show a little bit of what life is like for those that live and work here.

Day 1 Part 3 continued....

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Have you ever seen Madrid, Spain in black and white?

Where the Wild Things Are

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I'm easily distracted by any photo op.

After riding the rails to Denver, Karen and I caught a cab to the Car Rental lot in Denver near the airport. As she inspected the car I caught a glimpse of a bunny face-off in the small patch of grass separating the lot exit from the street. I dropped my luggage and grabbed my camera - I no longer cared about what kind of car we would rent, or mileage, or color, or insurance, or anything else.

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The diversity of wildlife on this planet is enormous.

Happy Birthday South Sudan (via The Mzungu Diaries)

Nothing necessitates the printing of updated maps more than the birth of a nation.

I have seen RPGs before. They're funny because they look like toys. A gun is a gun, but an RPG is a stick with a rugby ball on the end and it looks comic unless it's pointed at you. What I had never seen, however, was the sheer array of weaponry that South Sudan insisted on lining its roads with in the run-up to independence. Not that you can blame them, though. As the bus enters Juba it passes a long stretch of road on which the rectangular shad … Read More

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Photographs from Bologna: The food capital of Italy… (via Dakota .D Journal)

This month has been another amazing chapter of travel through Italy!! I’ve been to: Florence, Pisa, Venice and Verona, each of which have had their own unique sense of character. Bologna however, is my favorite city in Italy for it’s celebrated food culture… Memorable mornings in Bologna were spent at local café’s where I savored some of the best Italian coffee and pastries. The taste of rich cappuccinos, macchiatos and poached cherry tarts wer … Read More

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The Wondrous, Santa Barbaran Fourth of July Fireworks Show (via modeofaide)

I miss watching the Fourth of July Fireworks Show in Santa Barbara. I watched the fireworks show during two stints of summer school at UCSB in 2000 and 2001. The first time, I watched it with roommates from my apartment at the hillside where SBCC is located. The following year, my friends and I parked at the outdoor mall, Paseo Nuevo (where the parking was free, a welcome treat for us broke college students at the time), walked State St. all the way to Stearns Wharf and waited for seven hours before the fireworks show took place directly above us.

We were running late.  Shifting around scores of people as we rushed along the downtown section of State Street, we began to both hear and feel the explosions in the sky.  It didn’t matter.  Our patriotic endeavor was successful.  The only thing more pleasant than the fireworks themselves were the looks on people’s faces as they gazed upon the blinding colors.  Independence is beautiful. Neon explosions. The intermezzo. The denouement. For those … Read More

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