Sziget Festival – I’m (not) with the band

Are you with the band?

Sziget Festival – I’m (not) with the band I am in Budapest, Hungary on the last leg of my European business trip, and apparently it coincides with Sziget Festival – one of the largest music festivals in Europe is in town this week. All flights were full (or as mine was – overbooked), hotels are packed, […]

Barcelona Panorama

Panoramic view of Barcelona from the top of the Cathedral of Barcelona

Panorama from the Cathedral of Barcelona Another photo from my recent business trip to Barcelona, this one is from the top of the Cathedral of Barcelona  (Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia).  This is about 210° centered on the large cross at the back of the Cathedral. For €3.oo to get to the top […]

Barcelona: Why Have They Cast Me from Heaven?

Sculpture by Julio Nieto "¿Por qué me echaron del cielo?" at the Cathedral of Barcelona

Barcelona Cathedral: Julio Nieto “Why Have They Cast me From Heaven?” For the past week I have been on a business trip in Oslo, Norway – and – one of my favorite cities, Barcelona, Spain Catalonia and have been able to take my wife with me and show her this amazing city. After work we […]

Viking Wooden Animal Carving

Viking Wood Animal Carving

Viking Wooden Animal Carving While on my trip to Oslo, we had some down time and took a ferry over to Bygdøy and spent a few hours at the Viking Ship Museum. When you stop and think, the first permanent English settlement in North America was Jamestown, Virgina in 1607 and these ships may have predated […]

Home again … or?

Home again … or on my way again? So, for the past three weeks or so I’ve been on the road in Europe for a work trip Bracknell UK, London, Frankfurt and Paris. Luckily I was able to take my wife along for some of the travels and also my camera and new lenses. I’m […]

Barcelona Cathedral Revisited

Barcelona Cathedral III

Barcelona Cathedral Revisited On the road again, this time in Boston, Mass… and it was an unusually rainy and cold night so I spent the evening in my hotel room catching up on some of Matt Kloskowski‘s Lightroom and OnOne training videos I purchased last month… I somehow missed Lightroom’s inclusion of a native merge […]

Barcelona Cherubs

Barcelona Fountain Cherubs

Barcelona Fountain Cherubs An image from a trip to Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain earlier in 2015 while in the city for business. The walk from the office to my hotel was through La Rambla and I passed these cherubs two or three times – each time the lighting was fubar or there were too many people sitting in […]

Pont Alexandre III – Paris

Pont Alexandre III Bridge - Paris

Pont Alexandre III A photo of Pont Alexandre was taken in Paris back in 2013 while traveling with my wife on a business trip. We were walking around the city along La Seine in the afternoon and I took a bunch of photos with my older Nikon D7000. I found a SD card this week in […]

Summer Business Travel

Paris Eiffel Tower

So it appears that I will be heading back to Europe this summer for work … currently on the itinerary: London area, Paris, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Budapest, Oslo – that’s for starters … While I am not loving the idea of traveling over the summer – it takes time away from one of my favorite hobbies/mental […]