Tag: Photography
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#63: The Smallest State
At just over 1,000 square miles of land area, Rhode Island is the smallest of the 50 states in America. Yet despite its size, Rhode Island and its capital city of Providence have much to offer. Providence in particular carries the stereotypical New England college town vibe with its colonial era homes, adapted and reused…
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#59: Farewell NYC (Part II)
This is a continuation of Blog #58: Farewell NYC (Part I). New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it-once you have lived in New York and it…
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#58: Farewell NYC (Part I)
“One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” -Georgia O’Keeffe Three years ago I was walking along the cobblestone roads that line the affluent Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C. when the most enchantingly curious scene unfolded: A man had his car pulled over on the side of the street,…
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#57: Swarovski
This blog is a continuation of #56: The Heart of the Alps in which we visited Innsbruck, Austria. To begin, a relevant and humorous scene from the popular series Yellowstone: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tprs0QrUthg In the early 1890s, Daniel Swarovski registered a patent for a state-of-the-art machine designed to cut crystal with unprecedented precision. Born into a glass…
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#53: You Better Belize It (Part III: San Pedro)
This is the final in a three-part series that began with Blog #51: You Better Belize It (Part I: Mainland) and continued with Blog #52: You Better Belize It (Part II: Hopkins). Madonna’s famed hit La Isla Bonita (Spanish for “The Beautiful Island”) makes multiple references to the whimsical island of San Pedro, a place…
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#52: You Better Belize It (Part II: Hopkins)
This is a continuation of Blog #51: You Better Belize It (Part I: Mainland). The mainland portion of Belize, as we discovered in Blog #51, is a jungle replete with ancient Maya relics. Majestic temples rise from the rainforest floor while spooky caves littered with human skeletons stretch deep below the surface. Lest we forget…
