By Lad Sessions | Travel Photography
The small city of Lexington, located in the western Valley of Virginia, has two cemeteries. One is Oak Grove, about eleven acres in extent, located prominently on Main Street. The second one, Evergreen, is half the size and down a back road. Oak Grove is far better known, even famous. It was formerly called the […]
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By Pascal Ravach | Travel Photography
(The title came to me from an Asian movie I like a lot, « Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring again »… not for « blockbusters fans », since it is so slow… but wonderful in its meditative state). Type “Thailand temples” in a search engine, and you’ll get zillions of photos, each one more […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
The French have an expression which says “tell it with flowers!”. After a number of posts of mutiple scenic locations, I thought the timing was right to display a few pictures of flowers as a way to put an end to the grim times of the ‘rona, the dark times of winter and celebrate spring. […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Art exhibitions aside, few attractions seem to disappoint as much as museums, especially those we grew up with and re-visit only to find them renovated and dumbed-down to appeal to an average age of under ten and IQ close to room temperature. London’s Science and Natural History Museums are no longer exciting and involving. Their […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
While the island of Sicily is “technically” part of Italy, it is somewhat a world of its own. If there is one word which can characterize it in my mind, it is contrast. To begin with, it has historically been occupied by numerous populations, Greeks, Romans, Saracens, Normands, you name it. Geographically, it is a […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
How do you do visual justice to so much creative genius? I’ve just come back from a few blissful days in Tuscany – more on this in a later post – part of which was devoted to the visit of the Leonardo museum in Vinci, just West of Florence. This quick post is devoted […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Twelve Spitfires deserved their own post – it’s a lot to take in. There are at least six more dotted around the museum area. But Duxford has lots more to offer, a huge collection of aircraft from the RAF and Fleet Air Arm, plus lots of what the Americans call “War Birds”. It’s a huge […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
For the first time in preservation history, the Imperial War Museum at Duxford is hosting twelve Spitfires in an open hangar setting. The twelve are by no means the only Spitfires left in existence, but these represent all of the significant marques, developed during World War 2. They are all highlights in their own right, […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
Autoworld, the Brussels automobile exhibition hall, is back with a couple of exciting exhibitions, one about the celebration of the first hundred years of the famous Belgian race track at Spa Francorchamps, and another which displays a spectacular number of “super cars”. On the race car front, there are a few cars from the seventies […]
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By Paul Barclay | Travel Photography
My apologies to everyone for dropping out for so long. I hope to get this series back in gear as well as bring new images from the summer in the next few months. The sub-title for this article is; “A Day of Tourism!” Because, aside from the natural wonders of Southern Arizona, there are some […]
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