We wrapped up a four day stay in Mendoza, Argentina today by taking a cooking class at the Familia Zuccardi winery in Maipu. We started by making bread dough, then making stuffed bread after it has risen for awhile. To be honest, our first bread was pretty dense and not very good… 🙁 We also […]
Walking and Tango in Buenos Aires
We were joined in Buenos Aires yesterday by Evelyn’s sister, Pauline and her friend, Amy (upper left image above). We spent much of their first day on a Free City Walk tour of the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires, starting at Teatro Colón and ending at the well known Recoleta Cemetery. We learned fun and […]
New York and Iceland Galleries
We have now updated our gallery for images from our recent trip to New York City and Iceland. You can find the gallery for all our travels outside Ecuador here or by clicking the ‘Travel’ tab on the top of any page on this site. The New York City gallery can be reached here. Images from […]
Wrapping Up New York Again
Our time in New York City is coming to a close. Today we walked more of downtown, came across a kid’s skating rink, a small park devoted to gay & lesbian couples, and went to the Mecca of Apple Users everywhere — the 5th Ave Apple store. We were glad we didn’t actually have anything […]
White Thanksgiving
Finally! The snow we have been expecting for the past two weeks in Iceland! Only one problem… we are now in New Jersey rather than Iceland… 🙂 We returned to New Jersey to spend Thanksgiving with our long-time friends again, only to discover it snowing here, and much colder than it was in Iceland during […]
Iceland 11 – Wrap-up With Thermal Vents
Today was a fairly short shooting session in the Reykjanes Peninsula located 45 minutes west of Reykjavik. They say that weather changes rapidly in Iceland,so you have to be prepared. The cold wind was gusting, and we were repeatedly struck by rain, hail, then more rain, however there was wonderful low angle light. I got […]
Iceland 10 – Waterfalls
After a late night editing aurora photos, we got off to a leisurely start today. We began by visiting the same mountain and waterfall (Kirkjufellsfoss) where we had been the night before for the aurora session. The place looked so different in the day that we didn’t even realize it was the same place until […]
Iceland 9 – Major Aurora!
Success! We really came to Iceland to see a good aurora borealis show. After 11 days of solid overcast and frequent rain, we were beginning to think we would have to settle with that little distant bit of Northern Lights color we saw on Nov 15. The forecast for tonight was clear from 10PM to […]
Iceland 8 – Icelandic Horses
After the original photo tour with Iurie was complete, we hired Johnathan Esper for a private 3 day tour extension. He had been the co-leader of the initial tour, and is an excellent photographer and leader, so we decided hiring him would be better than blundering around the island on our own. A few hours […]
Iceland 7 – Geyser and Waterfalls
We started today at a geyser field on the Golden Circle, which were reminiscent of Yellowstone in the US, though much smaller. There were busloads of people wandering through, making the photography a bit tricky. From the parking lot markings though, I am glad I am not here in the summer, when there were spots […]