Berlin is amazing! I visited it last year during my German-Austrian ‘Guten Tag! Deutsch Time’ Nona Hora EuroTrip and loved to walk its busy open-sky streets. I am currently working on my next travel photo book, looking through Berlin cityscape and street photography and finding some interesting photos I have not shared with you yet. Click on image to view …
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This is the second part of my photo session with celebrities from Madame Tussauds Hollywood Wax Museum. Find a Photo Trivia question at the bottom of this page. Tip: This is a wax copy of an original movie still which became a best-selling poster and turned the actress into an instant pin-up girl. The film raised her stature as a …
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In 2009, in addition to existing Hollywood Wax Museum, a new $60 million showcase of Madame Tussauds Hollywood Wax Museum was opened on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Over a hundred life-size celebrity wax figures, including Hollywood Icons, Movie Stars and Directors, TV Stars, Pop Stars and Sport Stars are displayed in themed layouts of a new museum. The layouts …
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“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” ― Marilyn Monroe 53 years ago, on February 8, 1960, Marilyn Monroe was awarded the Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. By that time, a blonde actress, who started her carrier as a parachute inspector (a brunette parachute inspector), had become not only …
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This is the second set of photos from my New Year’s Eve in New York trip. As I have told before, my hopes for a walk in White Christmasy New York were dashed last year. The weather in NYC in the last 5 days of the year was horrible. On the only sunny day I walked by Rockefeller Center Ice …
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Happy Old/Orthodox New Year 2013! Not everybody celebrates New Year today… But, this is still ‘the most wonderful time of the year‘,- talking about 71 Degrees Fahrenheit (+21 Celsius) in Atlanta in the middle of January :) This post, however, is about my trip to New York City in “real new year’s” eve – during last five days of December …
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This is the second part of the Photo Essay Sapa Vietnam and Its Tribes. During my two days trip to Sapa I rented a vintage Soviet motorcycle “Minsk” and explored the city and its outskirts. Please find more photos from this trip in the following posts: Shocking Asia Shared Souls. Portraits of Vietnam Portraits of Vietnam (Part 2) Photo Essay: …
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Happy 12-12-12 Day! Best wishes of Good Times and Memories to all on the road and those who are planning their next adventure! Today my good memories come from Sapa, Vietnam, and this post has been scheduled to go live at 12 hrs 12 mins 12 secs :) Sa Pa is a town in northwest Viet Nam. It lies in …
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When I think of Laos, I do not think of monks and temples, I think of people riding two-wheelers with an open umbrella in a hand. Wherever you go in Luang Prabang, you see girls and women riding scooters, motorbikes, and bicycles with open umbrellas in hands. No matter what the weather, in sunny, rainy and cloudy days nobody wears …
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On My Shelves is a photo project via Instagram smartphone app. This is the third season of the series. Please click here to read the introduction post with project details or click here to check out the entire series. To be continued… Please excuse the quality, all photos have been taken via Instagram app on Samsung T679 Exhibit II Android …
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On December 3, 2007 during my trip to London, England I took several photos of the Big Ben. The “captured” time on the Clock Tower was Noon… English word Noon is derived from Latin word Nones – the Ninth Hour, what is Nona Hora in Latin. However, Nona Hora, the Ninth Hour, signifies much more than Noon. The 9th hour …
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On My Shelves is a photo project via Instagram smartphone app. This is the second season of the series. Please click here to read the introduction post with project details or click here to check out the entire series. To be continued… Please excuse the quality, all photos have been taken via Instagram app on Samsung T679 Exhibit II Android …
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