When exploring the Kasbah of the Udayas in Rabat, Morocco we came across this orange juice stand, sans owner. The color orange from the owner’s artfully displayed orange peels with the blues of the wall really make this photo pop!
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When exploring the Kasbah of the Udayas in Rabat, Morocco we came across this orange juice stand, sans owner. The color orange from the owner’s artfully displayed orange peels with the blues of the wall really make this photo pop!
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At the mouth of the Bou Regreg River where it meets the Altantic Ocean is found a a very picturesque setting. Colorful boats pop against the dull color of the water and fortified walls with cannons stand as a reminder to this former pirate town’s past. Rabat is an interesting town mixing old and new and I look forward to photographing more of it.
by Jason 2 Comments
For this week’s Photo of the Week I was at a loss on what to post. For our month long stay in Denia, Spain we have taken some nice photos, but not too many that make you say “wow!” The only photo that really impressed me this past week was the one I took of my daughter’s eye. My daughter, Sydney, had been watching TV when I was playing around with a macro lens. Since she was transfixed by the Tv and completely motionless with the correct lighting, I thought I would take macro photos of her eye. At first this did not seem like a very good choice for a travel themed photo of the week, but after second thought, it was perfect. You see, we are taking our daughter on a 2-year around the world trip and what she sees through her eyes will be totally different than what we see. She is a mere child of only 8, yet she will see things most people can only dream of seeing and she will see it with an innocence we wish we still had. So, for this weeks photo, I present my daughter’s eye.
In an ancient necropolis (city of the dead) in southern France, we came across something dark and creepy. Looking inside a hole in a sarcophagus, which was once housed a corpse, we saw a pair of green eyes starring back at us. Something black lurked within. Our young daughter, Sydney, reached out slowly with a gloved hand toward the creature. The creature within struck out, taking the glove off her hand and pulling it inside the sarcophagus. We knew this was a trap to get us to stick a hand inside the dark hole, something none of us wanted to do. The creature would draw our blood if we dared recover the stolen glove. Thinking quickly, Sydney ran around to the back side of the sarcophagus and screamed at the creature causing it to scurry off towards another dark sarcophagus. We quickly retrieved the glove and made our escape…
by Kerri 6 Comments
In 1888, Vincent van Gogh left the cold, gray winter of Paris and traveled to a little town in the south of France named Arles. He was seeking inspiration and sunshine. 125 years later, our family unknowingly followed in van Gogh’s footsteps and ended up in the same town that van Gogh fell in love with…
During van Gogh’s 2-year stay, he painted over 300 paintings in and around Arles. The city of Arles has created a van Gogh walk with a map and markers directing the way. During our stay, we retraced van Gogh’s footsteps to find nine of the places that he used as inspiration for his paintings. Although several of the places are relatively similar many have changed significantly due to war and time. Jason also swears that van Gogh had fish eye vision, as there is no way the normal human eye could have been able to capture all the angles that he created in his pictures.
After staying a month in Arles, I can see why this town was a muse for van Gogh. The sun, the twisting streets, the Roman ruins and muted colored houses could bring out the artist in anyone. Here are the nine van Gogh’s paintings along with photos of how these places look as of January 2013.