I had planned the trip so I would hop around the islands with ferries, not bridges; on the way to catch the ferry at Uig, I was able to stop at Portree
While in London I had met someone who offered to introduce me to Glasgow, so I collected my car a day early and headed down the A9 instead of going down the Great Glen along Loch Ness and on to Mallaig as originally planned.
The A9 is »
I originally arrived Inverness last week, on the connecting flight from Amsterdam with Delta/KLM. Very nice airport, but a ways out of town. Bus proved very effective for getting into town, but I left my gloves on the bus and over the next few days, the staff of the »
I think this is the third try to take photos from the train in the UK. Previously some combination of not sitting by the window, window too dirty, train moving too fast, lack of clear views ahead, had conspired to make it a fruitless exercise. This time I was »
I came down to London on Friday on the Caledonian Sleeper. Great to able to travel down at night, although probably would have been a better night’s sleep if I’d not thought a seat would be adequate. And no, I didn’t try for any photographs. I was in the »
Here we are again at the cottage by Lake Michigan, near Michillinda. This is the one owned by Jill’s cousin, where this photograph originated. When we arrived, we headed down to the strip of beach there, and this is the view as you head down the steps to »
It was late by the time I got home, so this wasn’t the first thing I saw, and this is the back garden anyway, so obviously not the very first thing to see. Next morning, thinking of breakfast, there is no escape.
But then I waited a few weeks to actually take this photo as »
Yes, we were on a workshop in Connemara, but that’s no reason not to take in some of the biggest sights in western Ireland. The Cliffs of Moher were quite a trek from our base west of Galway, on the north side of Galway Bay. The famous cliffs themselves »
Another day in the Connemara workshop with David Ward and we stopped for lunch on the road from Leeann to Lough Nafooey. The box lunches, provided by David’s partner Saskia, were always fabulous. As each person finished eating, the cameras started coming out while we were waiting, and soon »
I was fortunate to be able to sign up for a workshop (photo tour really) in Connemara, Ireland with David Ward. Fortunate, because this is the third or fourth time I’ve tried for one of his workshops, but previously was always too late and it was already fully booked.
Because »
