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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…

Old computer monitors on the walls of the ruin pub, Szimpla Kert, Budapest

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…

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…

Arbeit Macht Frei - Work Will Set You Free - a sign you see as you enter Auschwitz.

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…

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

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…