Blowing Bubbles on the Thames

Bubbles on the River Thames, London, United Kingdom

Don’t burst my bubble! Due to COVID-19 I’ve not been able to get out much to shoot new photos, but I have a hell of a backlog. This image was captured last year while in London on a business trip. I usually stay on Bankside near the Tate Modern and the River Thames. This location […]

Love More Now! Jim Thorpe Street Graffiti

Love More Now! Graffiti in Jim Thorpe

Love More Now! Another of my street photos of an empty Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania during the COVID-19 “lockdown”. The streets of the town were completely empty with nothing going on except a stray car on State Route 209 or Broadway. It was a rare beautiful day for March. It was warm, sunny a wonderful spring […]

Akaroa New Zealand

Caramel Crepes and Cafe au Lait

Akaroa NZ – France meets Kiwis I’ve just returned from a business trip through Sydney, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; and Christchurch, New Zealand for the past few weeks. After work on our last day in the Christchurch area we took a drive down around route 75 south with no particular destination in mind, just driving through […]

Buda Castle: Public Art and Sculptures

A bronze statue at the Buda Castle Hill Area

Buda Castle – Sculptures and Artwork Walking around on my last day in Budapest, within the Buda Castle District, there are dozens of outdoor bronze statues and sculptures. I never did find out the name of this one, but it appears to be Saint/King Matthias based on the other artworks in the general area. I need […]

Budapest: Guarding the Entrance

Lion Statue guarding the entranceway to the Budapest Museum of Art and History courtyard.

None shall pass I’ve been home about a week from my last business trip, and I am still going through thousands of photos I took on my downtime in Barcelona and Budapest. This is one from Budapest, as you enter the courtyard to the Budapest History Museum. I visited the museum on my last trip, but […]

Boston: The Times Pub

The Times Pub – Boston Another set of images taken while walking around the Financial District and Downtown Boston. This image is composed of three Lightroom merged exposures (-2, 0, +2) and some post processing in onOne Photo Suite. The Times Pub sign is what caught my eye, and the brick wall … so grabbed […]

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 […]

Photos in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Jim Thorpe Train Station, Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania. ©2015 John P. Hoke

Photographs: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania Part of the “joys” in moving a blog from one site and application to another is going through the photos and playing with them, and reposting some. Here are four I took a couple years ago and retweaked in onOne PhotoSuite and Lightroom. These were all taken in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, about […]