Category Archives: Travel

Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns

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This week’s Photo Challenge is “From Lines to Patterns.” I have quite a few shots that fit the category, so it’s been hard choosing. But here are some. I may post others later.

Getty Center, Main Building
Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Getty center, Los Angeles, CA
Getty Center, West Pavilion, Los Angeles
Santa Monica Pier, California
Sundays installation in honor of war casualties, Sta. Monica beach, California
Brooklyn Bridge, NY
Brooklyn Bridge, NY
“Urban Lighting” installation, by Chris Burden, at LACMA, Los Angeles

This entry is part of the Weekly Photo Challenge: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/lines-patterns/

A Word A Week Challenge: Arch

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The word “arch” sends me straight to Moorish architecture -nobody did arches like them- and to my photos from Spain, especially Andalusia.

Here are some arches from the Great Mosque of Cordoba and the Royal Alcazar of Seville. I’ve also added a couple of shots from the Casa de Pilatos, an Andalusian palace in Seville, which serves as the permanent residence of the Dukes of Medinaceli.

Royal Alcazar, Seville, Spain
Royal Alcazar, Seville, Spain
Royal Alcazar, Seville, Spain
Royal Alcazar, Seville, Spain
Casa de Pilatos, Seville, Spain
Casa de Pilatos, Seville, Spain
Great Mosque of Cordoba, Spain
Great Mosque of Cordoba, Spain
Royal Alcazar, Seville, Spain
Royal Alcazar, Seville, Spain

This entry is part of the Word A Week Challenge. For more Arches go to: http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/a-word-a-week-challenge-arch/

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

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Inside an inactive gold mine in Ouro Preto, Brazil.

Inside an inactive gold mine in Ouro Preto, Brazil.

Looking out the window of my note room in Ouro Preto, Brazil.

Looking out the window of my hotel room in Ouro Preto, Brazil.

Kaya looks out the window of our living-room in Washington, D.C.

Kaya looks out the window of our living-room in Washington, D.C.

At Ray's Restaurant at the LA County Museum of Art, the tables have little drawers. Inside them you'll find your napkin, fork and knife. Loved it!

At Ray’s Restaurant, at the LA County Museum of Art, the tables have little drawers. Inside them, you’ll find your napkin, fork and knife. Loved it!

This entry is part of Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/photo-challenge-inside/

Travel Theme: Multicoloured

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This week’s Travel Theme is “Multicoloured.” Well, I didn’t need to go very far from home for that… Most shots were taken at Venice Beach, California, most definitely a vert colorful place!

One of the many colorful buildings in Venice Beach, California.
Venice Beach, California.
Sunglasses for every taste… Venice Beach Board Walk.
Hats galore, all colors. Venice Beach, CA.
Ceramic crafts. Fortaleza, Brazil.

For more on this week’s Travel Theme go to: http://wheresmybackpack.com/2013/09/13/travel-theme-multicoloured/

Remembering 9/11

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I was in New York last Fall and visited the 9/11 Memorial, still under construction at the time. Needless to say, it was an emotional visit. Like most people in the world, I was terribly shocked and saddened by those senseless attacks. We were living in Washington, D.C. at the time, but on vacation in Brazil that day. Watching the images of the Twin Towers and the chaos in New York, as well as the Pentagon, I felt a terrible sense of loss, anguish, and, for some strange reason, guilt for not being there for my friends and colleagues in D.C.

Pelicans Over Santa Monica Bay

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I have a new passion: Brown Pelicans! They are so beautiful, so gracious. I love how they fly in perfect formation and how they plunge-dive to catch small fish, coming very close to the shore, sharing the space with swimmers and surfers. It’s an awesome spectacle. I’m glad they are no longer in extinction!

This is how the Cornell Lab of Ornithology describes the Brown Pelican:

“The Brown Pelican is a comically elegant bird with an oversized bill, sinuous neck, and big, dark body. Squadrons glide above the surf along southern and western coasts, rising and falling in a graceful echo of the waves. They feed by plunge-diving from high up, using the force of impact to stun small fish before scooping them up. They are fairly common today—an excellent example of a species’ recovery from pesticide pollution that once placed them at the brink of extinction.”

I shall improve on my shots of these lovely birds, but for now here’s some I took last Friday in Santa Monica.

Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual Point of View

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This week’s photo challenge is “An Unusual Point of View.” Here’s mine… 🙂

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Alexander Liberman’s sculpture “Phoenix” is a permanent installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA. While photographing it, my eye caught the iPad billboard in the background. I thought it might be interesting to make it part of one of the shots. 🙂

For more Unusual POV see: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/unusual/

A Word A Week Challenge: Ornate

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This week’s word challenge is “ornate.” The word made me thing immediately of Barcelona‘s beautiful –and very ornate– concert hall, the Palau de La Música Catalana. The Palau was designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and built between 1905 and 1908. It is quite stunning and I only regret not having had time to attend a concert in that magnificent venue.

http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/a-word-a-week-challenge-ornate-week-44/

Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

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This week’s photo challenge is “Sea.”

If we were to get technical, I couldn’t post anything as I don’t have photos of any of the world’s “seas.” However, since in popular language “ocean” and “sea” are used interchangeably, I will ignore that there is a difference between them and post photos of the beautiful Pacific Ocean on the California coast. 🙂

Seagull bathes in Santa Monica, CA.
Santa Monica, CA.
Santa Monica Pier.
Santa Monica, CA.
Santa Barbara, CA.

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/weekly-photo-challenge-sea/