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Matsumoto, or the Crow Castle, on a bitter cold December morning with the Japanese Alps in the backdrop.

5:00 am Walks

I am not a morning person. The early bird can take as many worms as it would like, and I wouldn’t care. Which is why, this blog title is special. There has to be something special about the location or…

Other-wordly sunset across the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro, seen from Church of our Lady of Remedy

Right Place, Right Time: The Weather

We walk thorugh photography examples of being at the right place at the right time, when it comes to weather. Photographs that get elevated because of really inclement weather.
Christmas Market in the old town center of Prague

Do you believe in Santa Claus?

As we gear up for the benevolent Santa to mine his database of kids’ privacies to deliver ads, umm, gifts to the kids, it is hard to imagine that there are others data miners who are vying for the same…

A smattering of photographers on a cold wintry morning on Charles Bridge in Prague

A Day on Prague’s Charles Bridge

In the list of iconic places to photograph across Europe, the Charles Bridge in Prague clearly ranks in the Top 10. And justifiably so, since it is a sight that one cannot forget, with its statues of saints rising impressively…

KGB Bar in Bratislava, Slovakia, with it’s mysterious smoke-filled atmosphere and communist era memorabilia.

Eastern European Bar Scene (Slovakia)

Since their Velvet Revolution and Velvet Divorce (so named, because there wasn’t a drop of blood shed this time around) in 1989, bars in Bratislava (and Slovakia, in general) have poked fun at their communist past, specifically building Soviet themed…