CFFC: Vertical Challenge
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week has the theme columns and vertical lines.
Read More CFFC: Vertical ChallengeCee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week has the theme columns and vertical lines.
Read More CFFC: Vertical ChallengeThe Dohany St. Synagogue, also known as the Great Synagogue, in Budapest, Hungary, is the largest synagogue in Europe and the 4th largest in the world. It can accommodate close to 3,000 worshippers. The synagogue was built between 1854 and 1859 in the Moorish Revival style, incorporating decoration based on Islamic models from North Africa […]
Read More Monday Window: Dohany St. SynagogueIn my former home town of Des Plaines, Illinois, they are constantly putting up more condo buildings, especially near downtown where the commuter train station is. Last year, right around the time we moved to Arlington Heights, they razed a whole section of downtown buildings to make way for – you guessed it – yet […]
Read More Thursday Doors: Bygone Doors & GatesBecause we’re not going anywhere right now, I have compiled a collection of doors I have photographed during recent travels for Norm’s Thursday Doors. In fact, I don’t think I’ve shared these doors before! (Well, maybe a few of them.) Three doors at the Louvre in Paris, France: Aswan, Egypt: Store fronts and stadium Lotus […]
Read More Thursday Doors: Doors on My TravelsCee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is about pointing your camera upward!
Read More CFFC: UpwardFor Mind Over Memory’s Sculpture Saturday, here are some sculptures I captured during Open House Chicago last October. Street art At Zen Buddhist Temple Sculpted steins at Dank Haus At Elks War Memorial At Wintrust Bank, Old Town
Read More Sculpture Saturday: Open House Chicago 2019Hanukkah overlapped with Christmas this year and at North School Park in Arlington Heights, we met a rabbi at the Hanukkah (Chanukah) display of a menorah lit up for the 5th day of Hanukkah. (It’s hard to see but the light immediately to the left of the middle candle, called the shamas, is also lit.) […]
Read More #JanuarySquare 9: Hanukkah LightsMind Over Memory has a photo challenge called Sculpture Saturday. Here a few photos of sculptures I’ve taken over the last few months.
Read More Sculpture SaturdayJuly 2-3, 2019 We arrived in Regensburg by bus, where our new ship was waiting for us. We had been on the Viking Gefjon up until our arrival in Nuremberg, but the ship could not proceed south on the Danube because of a broken lock! So a sister ship, the Viking Sigyn, which was coming […]
Read More Thursday Doors: Walking Tour of RegensburgNancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week challenge has the topic signs. Here are some signs taken at Open House Chicago on Saturday. Open House Chicago is an annual event that takes place on a weekend in mid-October, in which over 300 buildings around the city open their doors to the public. Docents inside answer questions […]
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