The Death March at Auschwitz
The largest of the SS concentration camps existed at the Auschwitz complex – a network of 2 large camps and 45 other satellite camps within a couple of miles of each other. The seed was sown at what is known…
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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…
Eastern European Bar Scene (Budapest, Hungary)
Imagine yourself in an alternate edgy futuristic society in the year 2050. A Blade Runner – Altered Carbon – 5th Element mash up for your cityscape. Imagine, getting off work at 6pm one cold, dark, winter evening, hopping on…
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…
From Virginia to Auschwitz
On July 24th, 1912, the first International Conference on Eugenics was held in London[1]. A veritable who’s who attended – from Winston Churchill to Alexander Graham Bell, to the famed author, H. G. Wells, who staunchly supported the “sterilization of…
Itinerary for Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland
How LongOver approximately 10 days, we drove through parts of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and touched south-western Poland for one sole purpose – to visit the camps at Auschwitz. The Czech Republic and Hungary have quite a few stunners…
A Case for Uber (or Lyft)
It was 4:00 pm in New York on a muggy August Friday afternoon in 2014. I had a flight to catch later that evening from JFK back to San Francisco after spending a week at our NYC offices. I was…
An Ode to the Fuji X-T20
Well, this is not an ode exactly – my lyrical leanings aren’t anything to write about. But I felt like waxing poetic nonetheless about the newest acquisition in the Rowdy Planet camera gear arsenal. A few months ago, we purchased…
Sarajevo Rose
It was 1993. Our dorm in India had just installed a 10 foot satellite dish to catch the US cable channels and it was welcome change from the 1.5 channels of State run Doordarshan and it’s melancholia. CNN had just become…
A walk around Bruges (Brugge)
A quick gallery from our walk near and around the Sint Annakirk neighborhood Bruges (Brugge) on a cloudy, yet pleasant, autumn morning.