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Love More Now! Jim Thorpe Street Graffiti

March 28, 2020March 28, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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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 day, eerily devoid of all…

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Akaroa New Zealand

November 25, 2015January 21, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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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 some gorgeous country ...and we…

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A bronze statue at the Buda Castle Hill Area

Buda Castle: Public Art and Sculptures

August 24, 2015January 21, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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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 to go back next time…

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

Budapest: Guarding the Entrance

August 23, 2015January 21, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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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 unfortunately it was closed when…

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Boston: The Times Pub

June 6, 2015January 20, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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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 a few handheld shots and…

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Pont Alexandre III – Paris

May 16, 2015February 14, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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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 my home office that had…

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

Photos in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

May 10, 2015January 20, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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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 20 minutes from where I…

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