A park near the Louisville Convention Center (June, 2016)
Anyone have any original photos to share? Please do so if you’ve got them. No real theme this month. We need a reminder that there is some beauty in this world.
For photo blogging from the earlier series, see this diary by BobX (the last curator of the original Foto Flog series) and work backwards. One last thing, you don’t have to have professional quality equipment or be a professional photographer to participate. I’m strictly an amateur hobbyist. I still have my old Canon 35 mm camera, but almost never use that due to lack of dark room, film development costs and whatnot. I use my current Galaxy S6 for photography (at least for the last year and a half) – and before that an Android G4. This is intended to be more of a casual series of diaries, in the spirit of the previous series.
In the meantime, I’ll put another one up next month, probably around the same time, so figure April 21. We’ll stick to keeping content open-ended.
Tips and recs are always appreciated. And your original photos, of course.
The Louisville Convention Center was about to be closed when this was taken. I managed to get a photo or two of the center, although I was never really happy with how those turned out. I’ll be curious to see how the new Kentucky International Convention Center looks once it’s completed.
I did get some nice shots of the inside of the Muhammad Ali Center. I was in Louisville the weekend of his memorial service.
These were shot in Italy with an old point and shoot Vivitar 35 mm. I was working in northeastern Spain and my wife flew over for a couple of weeks to visit a friend who was teaching near Naples. We met up later in Barcelona for a glorious weekend and a later train ride together back to Zaragosa.
The road to Firenza
And the shepherd
A bell and my belle in Pisa
Lovely photos. I have a dear friend who lives in Lucca – so not far away from Florence and a few other cities I’d love to visit. I am hoping to one day take her up on an offer to crash at her place one of these years. If so, expect some wonderful scenic photos probably courtesy not only me but one of my daughters.
I found the area of Spain I was in – Zaragosa – was still on the old siesta lifestyle and fell into it with great delight. Now that we’re retired, we’ve made it our own.
Please do yourself a favor and go, if at all possible. I treasure the short trips I had to Europe and the conversations with the locals. In Germany on an earlier trip, I fell in with a group of German firefighters and was treated like royalty. The food and drink at their favorite little gasthauses – unbelievably delicious!
I will be in Vienna later this week – it’s a work thing. I have friends who live there, and will get a nice tour courtesy of them. And yes, I do cherish those moments. I got into international travel a bit later in life than intended, but I have never been disappointed.
I definitely have some nice photos for the next month’s foto flog. Stay tuned….