Tag: Photography

• July 16, 2026

  #61: Milwaukee

  The area known as Milwaukee in present day Wisconsin was first inhabited by Native Americans – primarily the Algonquian peoples – prior to the arrival of French explorers in the 17th century.  The city became incorporated in 1846 and quickly became a destination for immigrants seeking to escape the German revolutions of 1848-1849.  Interestingly enough,…
• April 12, 2026

  #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…
• February 19, 2026

  #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,…
• December 28, 2025

  #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…
• November 29, 2025

  #56: The Heart of the Alps

  Success was found in Zurich, Switzerland in Blog #45, but unfortunately there was a bust in Hallstatt, Austria in Blog #48.  What do you say we return to Europe and give Austria a second chance?  After all, large foreign countries are no different from the United States in the sense that there are multiple regions…
• August 15, 2025

  #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…
• July 12, 2025

  #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…
• April 25, 2025

  #50: Oklahoma City: 30 Years Later

  “But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world.  A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.” -William Cowper The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, and the temperature is rising.  Spring is in the air.  The annual excitement surrounding the end of winter goes back thousands…
• February 8, 2025

  #48: Hallstatt

  One or two pages worth of an internet query and it’s easy to understand why nearly 10,000 tourists flock to a town of barely 800 residents on a daily basis each summer.  The fairytale Austrian village of Hallstatt has quite the reputation:  “The most beautiful village in the world”, “One of the world’s prettiest places”,…
• October 4, 2024

  #43: City of Roses

  The city of Portland, Oregon was the second in a multi-part Pacific Northwest travel series I undertook in 2024, with the first being Seattle, as told in Blog #35: Emerald City.  Both trips were just as much social experiments as they were cities I had always wanted to explore.  Sadly, both were also equally disappointing…