Singapore
Visiting Singapore is akin to spending an extended amount of time in a steam bath, and our guide told us that the day we were there was not all that bad — mid-high 80’s with about a thousand percent humidity. Our guide was a feisty Chinese woman — for some reason the local agents thought […]
Monmouth Lake
We spent 8 – 11 am doing a blitzkrieg Lightroom workflow on how to create panoramas and generally edit our photos. On to Mono Lake, an ancient saline lake, about a million years old. The deposits of calcium and salt over the millennia form mounds and jetties, and the smell of the millions of brine […]
Death Valley CA Day 2
Slept most of the day after pulling close to an all nighter for the Milky Way shots. But reconvened at 4:00 to shoot some sunset shots ending up at Zabriskie Point. Dinner at a steakhouse in Furnace Creek. Was surprisingly good. The others opted to go out to the dunes at 1:00 am for […]
Death Valley, CA
Death Valley DV has an eerie beauty – dusky muted colors in the hills and mountains. The Stovepipe Wells Lodge was the base for the Milky Way Photo workshop with Casey Kiernan. Only 3 people per workshop so this one had me, a woman from CA named Debra who was pursuing night photography quite seriously […]
Adieu, Iceland
Our last full day in Iceland before getting antigen tests tomorrow, returning the car rental, and flying home. We strolled over to the Aurora Museum, another small, well done museum about.. . Slide shows, info, even head sets to get visitors into the experience. Well done. And then we took a helicopter tour of Fagradalsfjal, […]
Westfjords Day2
Patreksfyordur, the town where we were based for two nights stretched, like most of the towns, along a curve in the fjord. One of the draws of the Westfjords is the red sand beach at Raudisandur, the westernmost part of Iceland. Actually, the color of the sand depends on the sky but we […]
Westfjords – Iceland
Westfjords, Iceland This area of Iceland is not visited as frequently by tourists although it is quite beautiful. But the roads are a little dicey — sometimes the paving just ends for a while and then you are driving on dirt or gravel. The roads truly hug the coastline so there are twists and turns […]
Myvatn, Husavik, Akureyri and Dragnes-Iceland
Myvatn in the north is filled with lava fields and geothermal areas where steam, smelling of sulfur, just shoots out of the ground. We stopped at a few points of interest – Dimmuborgir, an area of volcanic rock formations, and fields of pseudo-craters. For all GOT fans, the caves around Lake Myvatn are where the […]
Diamond Beach and Borgarfjardarvegur, Iceland
Before heading off to the Eastern Fjords we visited Diamond Beach, a black sand beach where shards of broken glaciers sit in the sun. Before heading off to the eastern fjords yesterday we stopped at Diamond Beach, a black sand beach close to the Glacier Lagoon where chunks of ice sit glistening in the light. […]
Skartafell, Glacier Lagoon – Iceland
Before getting to the places in the title, one last word about Vik which we explored this morning before leaving. It took about 90 seconds. I included the picture of this church on the hill because it is the town’s saving grace, literally. Vik, it turns out, is located next to a glacier which sits […]