Pheww, I’m so glad we finally got rid of 2010!
And so I would like to wish all visitors to this blog ( yes, all 3 of you) a happy new year!
BTW, I have a silly ritual: at the end of the year I choose my favorite picture for that year.
Basically, it is a great opportunity and an excuse to go over the pictures with a new eye.
I think this is the first time I didn’t choose an urban/street photograph.
entering North Carolina. October 2010
Driving south from Winchester we took small country roads in a hope to find the real Virginia.
We stopped by an enormous flea market with so many cool oddities and though I was unsuccessful bargaining down an old viewfinder camera I confess mostly I just enjoyed the southern accent.
Eventually after some driving through little towns, creeks and wineries we arrived to the Rappahannock river and to historic Fredericksburg on its banks.
Near by is Ferry Farm where George Washington spent his boyhood years. (you didn’t think it would be a day without GW, did you?)
And now I’m getting ready to go back.
To go back from home to L.A.
Valley Forge was profoundly beautiful today with its deep skies, the scent of rain in the air and the anticipated arrival of fall colors and I would probably stay forever.
On the way back to Virginia we stopped by Gettysburg where the sun was setting over these bloody battlefields.
We also drove through Harrisburg which sits on the Susquehanna river but that’s nothing to brag about.
And now all I can say is that its sooooo good to be back in Virginia.
We drove from Virginia into West Virginia, then through Maryland, along the Amish Country of Pennsylvania and into Philadelphia.
It was pretty cool to find myself in a big city after a few days of countryside, small towns, rivers, waterfalls and hiking in the mountains.
So I took street photos like there’s no tomorrow.
And tonight? Tonight I’m sleeping in Valley Forge where George Washington and his army camped over the winter of 1777–1778.
And if by any chance you’re under the impression I’m on some follow-the-George Washington-trail, I think you might be on to something.
A slow day. We hiked along the Potomac (or the Patowmac as George Washington would say ).
The lovely hike took place along the river at Great Falls which is where the Potomac is shared between Maryland and Virginia.
Ideas and inspiration for creative photography techniques that will help you present your favorite photos artistically and even use them in different photo and mixed media projects. By Nitsa
A new DIY photography book on Kirlian photography is being written. The book, by John Iovine, is a complete updating of his original Kirlian photography book that used film. This new digital photography book will detail the construction of equipment needed to take beautiful kirlian photographs using digital cameras and image processing.
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