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Travel Theme: Merchandise

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Ailsa, at Where’s my Backpack, invites us to share our shopping experiences in our travels with the theme Merchandise. Like her, when traveling with my camera, I have much more often enjoyed photographing local merchandise than doing any shopping. Here’s a small sample of that.

Fruits and souvenirs, Siena, Italy.
Charcuterie, Greve in Chianti, Italy.
Fine glass, Venice, Italy.
Masks! Venice, Italy.
Artisanal ceramics, Jericoacoara, Brazil.
Bogolan textiles, Bamako, Mali.

 

Travel Theme: Horizons

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“Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.” (Minor White)

Pirenopolis, Brazil

Pirenopolis, Brazil

Tuscany, Italy

Tuscany, Italy

Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica, California

Check other Horizons at Ailsa’s Where’s my Backpack.

Travel Theme: Endearing

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This week, Ailsa, at Where’s My Backpack, invites us to share Endearing photos. I found the ones below pretty endearing.

We spotted each other from a distance as she strolled with her Mum through the Piazza San Marco, in Venice, Italy
This one was way too big to be bathing on such a small fountain, but look at those eyes…!
This pooch won me over when he decided it was time for a nap right in the middle of the Venice Pier.
What serious shopper wouldn’t find this endearing? “Early Bird” sculpture, Ojai, CA.
Kaya was not feeling well and just wanted some peace and quiet. Awww, baby….
This little stray cat sat next to me as we had lunch at a beach restaurant in Jericoacoara, Brazil. Who could resist those eyes?!

Travel Theme: Meeting Places

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Ailsa’s Travel Theme this week is Meeting Places.

Men meet and hangout outside the marketplace in Bamako, Mali. DSCN1058

In beautiful Siena, the Piazza Del Campo is a definite meeting place, where both locals and tourists converge to sit and talk, eat, or just admire the beauty of the place._DSC0643

Young people in Venice, Italy, get together by the water for a beer and some idle talk._DSC0509

Travel Theme: World Cups

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Ailsa’s Travel Theme this week is World Cups, so as one might expect, this Brazilian football fan immediately associated it with one of the greatest sports events in the world: FIFA’s World Cup. The tournament, which happens every four years in June/July, is being hosted by Brazil this time around, and I am here enjoying the excitement and agony of the thirty-two participating national teams and their adoring fans. As the tournament reaches its half point, sixteen teams have been eliminated and the remaining sixteen are going through the knockout phase, with nail-biting matches happening every day. The excitement is only beginning! So, what else could my take on the “World Cups” theme be?

And it is a rather biased one, I’m afraid!

Travel theme: World Cups

Travel Theme: Unexpected

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The unexpected can be unpleasant. But it can also be amusing, beautiful, funny, fun, odd…

Suspended piano and candelabra. Hollywood, CA.
Mounted police on a beach in Brazil
Beautiful lamps ornate a large tree in Venice, California.
Levitating man? Rome, Italy.
Where did this balloon come from?!

Visit Ailsa’s blog for more Unexpected.