Today’s Friday Photo is from a few weeks ago, when Marc, our friend Will, and I took a trip up to Baltimore, Maryland to visit the area’s only anarchist/communist bookstore, Red Emma’s. It’s a great bookstore/coffee shop, and it’s in the beautiful Mount Vernon area of Baltimore. This great old building was right around the corner and I couldn’t resist taking a shot.
Today’s photo is from my recent trip to France. I only spent a few days in Paris, but I stopped by a few of the major sites that I had not visited before, one of which was Notre Dame. Since I had the unfortunate situation of being in Paris in August (the most-visited city in the world during its busiest tourist month), the line to get in was at least 25 minutes long and the cathedral itself was packed, but I still managed to get some good shots.
Today’s #FriFotos theme is “Flags”, and I thought I would share a few of my flag-related photos. Plus, this has given me a chance to use a line from one of my favourite Eddie Izzard shows as a title, which is a good enough reason to make this post in itself. I’m going to include not only photos of flags from overseas, but also those taken here at home in the states, and even a few amusing ones from reenactments!
Enjoy the photos!
Today’s Friday Photo is one of my favourite shots, and it fits the #FriFotos theme of “Flags”!
I took this shot while on a boat cruise of the Thunersee/Lake Thun in the Berner Oberland region of Switzerland. I was returning to Gimmelwald after spending the morning watching a military parade and tank demonstration (one of my I can’t resist military stuff when I travel), and I decided to take a boat back to Interlaken from Thun, rather than a train. It was a great decision and resulted in many of my best shots from the entire trip, including this one.
Last Saturday my friend Kate (a talented painter) and I went on a short road trip. Kate had contacted me with the kind of vague instructions I love to get: “Anyone want to shoot some foliage with me? I need to get out of the city.”
Challenge accepted, as they say.
Today’s photo is of a field that used to be in a beautiful natural area near our apartment. Sadly, it has since been razed for development. A natural area that was full of trees, small hills, lots of vegetation, and even a pond, has been dug up, flattened, and reshaped into a very unnatural-looking park which also has, ironically, a few trees, some small hills, and a pond. Today’s photo is in memory of what the space used to be.
Last Thursday I was inspired by Woman Seeks World’s post about Arlington Cemetery, and I decided to head a few stops up on the metro to take a few photos of my own. I took quite a few shots and am still going through them all, but here are a few of the “early cuts”. I hope you enjoy them and I’ll be posting more of these soon.
