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Project 365 – Days 26-31

On days 26-31 I spent time in my “studio”, also called a garage, doing some abstract photos using oil and water. This is a fun yet relatively easy thing to do. There’s not much equipment […]

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Project 365 – Photo a Day

As we are about to closeout another year, it is time to start plans for another year.  I have decided that I need a challenge, photographically speaking that is, and therefore in 2022 I am […]

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El Santuario de Chimayo

El Santuario de Chimayo, a small shrine located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Chimayo, New Mexico, has been a place of worship since before its construction in 1813. For generations, American Indians, Hispanics, […]

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How to Take a Silhouette Photo

I just love silhouettes – they are dramatic yet simple, and they always seem to stand out in a group of photos. And the best news? The are actually pretty easy to do! You just […]

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THE CRUISING LIFE – ELEVENTH CRUISE – PARIS

The end of the bus ride was our hotel in Paris. The Viking package included two post-cruise days which we opted to extend to four. Check-in at the hotel was like anything Viking does – […]

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FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL – PART TEN

Today is the last day of our trip. Tomorrow we endure a long flight home but today we will enjoy sightseeing with a Local Guide in Athens, the most important city in ancient Greece and […]

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FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL – PART NINE

After docking back at Pireaus, we continued to the ancient site of Corinth for a guided visit of the excavations where Apostle Paul worked for 18 months with tent makers Aquila and Priscilla. Here the […]

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FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL – PART EIGHT

Our next stop on the Footsteps of Paul Tour was a place Paul probably did not visit. We enjoyed it anyway! Santorini, one of the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea, was devastated by a […]

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FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL – PART SEVEN

This afternoon, on our Footsteps of Paul tour, we continued our cruise to Patmos, one of the Sporades. A small rugged island of the Icarian Sea, part of the Aegean. The scene of John’s banishment […]

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FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL – PART SIX

Today we docked in the Turkish port of Kusadasi. Once the ship was cleared by customs, we boarded a tour bus with a wonderful tour guide who called himself “Oz”. He had been born and […]

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