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Weekly Photo Challenge: Heritage — Dutch Clogs (Klompen)
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Heritage. During our recent trip to Amsterdam, we visited a clogs workshop. Take a look at these beautiful clogs. Don’t you want to bring a pair home? To wear or not to wear? That’s the question! Although clogs are worn in many cultures around the world: the Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Swedes…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare (2)-Architecture Without Architects: Santorini, a Greek Island
This post is my second response to Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare. Please also see my first response: Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare –Architecture Without Architects: Telč, a City in Czech Republic, and my very old posts in another earlier Blog Exploring Turkey and Greece – Santorini. The four colorful pictures posted here were taken by my friend Link…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare –Architecture Without Architects: Telč, a City in Czech Republic
This post is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare I just bought a book named ” Architecture Without Architects.” By Bernard Rudofsky, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965. It is a very good book, providing a backdrop in understanding about Vernacular Architecture. It is easy-to-read with lots of B&W pictures. This book…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure The SFMOMA has just reopened after three years of renovation. As a member of SFMOMA for many years, I am very excited of its new look and expansion. Due to work, I was only able to visit the museum twice on Thursday nights. Both visits were…
Weekly Photo Challenge : “Spare”
“Spare” in Mother Nature, can be experienced during my travels in South America.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Now
This post is in responses to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Now Now is the time to approach the end of the year. Now is the time to reflect what I did this year. Now is the time to think of new year resolution. Now is the time to look out for opportunities. Now is the time…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Gathering
Weekly Photo Challenge: Gathering. This is the theme of this week. I found two travel photos to share. One of them shows a gathering of the actors after a show in Yunnan, China. The other one shows group of ladies all dressed up to celebrate a festival in Valencia, Spain. Both are pictures of fun…
Weekly Photo Challenge ” Vivid”: My trip to England, Wales and Scotland #1 The Rows!
We are now traveling in Europe. Today I learned something new. In the Chester City of England, we saw a number of buildings with a unique architectural design: ” the Rows”. These are half-timbered buildings with rows of shops in the ground and upper floor built around the 13th century. The patterns are vivid and sharp…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge — My Spain Trip #5 Montserrat
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge. “Photos are visual spaces where shapes and lines, objects, and people come together.” ~ Ben Huberman~ I really like this topic. To me, it is not only a photo challenge but a philosophical one. Let us look at these pictures I took at Montserrat, a multi-peaked…
Weekly Photo Challenge – Angular _My Spain Trip #4 -Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge- Angular. The picture I posted here is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which I visited last month. The museum was designed by the American-Canadian architect Frank Gehry. From the Museum’s website: “Hailed as the most important structure of its time when it opened in 1997, Frank Gehry’s…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art (1): Santorini, to dream, to relax and explore.
This is in response to this Week’s Photo Challenge: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/cover-art/. There are so many choices in my mind! This is one of the pictures that came to my mind immediately: The cute island Santorini, in Greece. I did visit this beautiful island with family and friends, and published a book named Turkey and Greece Delights,…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Endurance
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Endurance It is not hard to find examples of “endurance” from my travel experience. But I think this is the one that I really endured to the greatest extent up to my maximum limit. It was during my last trip to South America in December…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Humanity
This is in response to Thirdeyemom’s Photo Challenge: Humanity. I have followed Thirdeyemom’s blog for a while, primarily of her “humanity” approach. I did not travel as much, but like Thirdeyemom, I love to study different cultures and connections with people. For the purpose of this Challenge, I reviewed my travel websites and my blogs….
Weekly Photo Challenge- Dialogue
In response to Frederic Biver’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue, this is my entry. Delightful desserts round in shape.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Extra, Extra
In response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Extra, Extra, here are the two pictures I chose for the entries, The first picture was taken in front of the de young Museum in San Francisco. A young lady was walking towards the entrance of the museum. The poster is big, but she is small. The…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Window – “Along the Fifth Avenue, NYC”
This post is in responses to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Window This is my favorite subject! I do have many choices in my collection of “windows”. Remember I had some discussions with some of you about the windows of Belvedere Palace in Vienna? Then everywhere I go, I always take pictures of windows which may be…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting – My Yunnan Trip # 18 –Tiger Leaping Gorge
This is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting. The above two pictures were taken inside the bus on our way from Lijiang to the Tiger Leaping Gorge, The views were gorgeous. Seeing and hearing the thunderous rushing waters slam into sharp, large rocks, I could feel the power of nature. While some travelers felt very…
Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says – My Yunnan Trip # 17 – The Ancient Writing or Drawing on the Walls of the Lijiang Old Town
This is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: the Sign Says In my Yunnan Trip series, I mentioned about the city Lijiang, which is the most impressive one. I do have fsome interesting things to share with you in my future posts. What I am posting today are a few ancient writing symbols written…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern (2) – Colorful Transportation in Yunnan – My Yunnan Trip # 13
This is my second post in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge – Pattern What are these colorful patterns? They are patterns on the colorful fabrics which mount the “chairs” for travelers who cannot do the hiking themselves in places like Shangrila’s Tiger Leaping Gorge. These chairs would be carried by two strong men who would…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern – Dali Catholic Church, a Beautiful Combination of Western and Eastern Architecture – My Yunnan Trip # 11
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge – Pattern This post was already posted yesterday on my other Blog named Falling in Love with Arts. I am re-posting it here in order to categorize all my Yunnan posts in one place. I tried to re-blog yesterday and again WordPress messed up my photos. They…
Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above #2 – What is the Duckie? Why is it a Fad in Hong Kong?
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge – from above I just reblogged another post and thought I could add-on to it. But WordPress messed up all the pictures and contents when it is reblogged. I may as well write another post. I am interested in the Duckie because my friends from Hong Kong…
Weekly Photo Challenge – “from above”- My Yunnan Trip #8
Koi Good Fortune, Success, Prosperity, Longevity, Courage, Ambition, and Perseverance This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge – from above This picture was taken in a restaurant in Daly, Yunnan. The restaurant had a big pond. When I looked down, wow….so many koi! Have you ever seen so many koi? I haven’t. This was my first time! Enjoy the…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture – My Yunnan Trip #2
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture. I just came back from a 9 days’ trip to Yunnan, which is “a province of the People’s Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately 394,000 square kilometers (152,000 sq mi) and with a population of 45.7 million (2009). The capital of the province is Kunming. The…
My South America Trip #22 ; Weekly Photo Challenge – Lost in the Details; Iphoneography – Monday: Nature; Say Cheese! March is Phoneography Month
As you can see, the posts of my South America trip seem never end! Just when I wanted to stop and turn to the attention of other subject matter, I read a post from a fellow blogger, and realized there is a new term Iphoneography! Hey, this is exactly my club, and I should join…
Weekly Photo Challenge: “Forward” — My South America Trip #21 – The Metropolitan Cathedral in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge : Forward of WordPress. I thought I have concluded my South America trip, but I haven’t. Churches, temples, mosques, are the places of worship, and most of them I visited, are ancient or historic in their architectural style. This is the first time I visited a…
Weekly Photo Challenge – My 2012 in Pictures
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: my 2012 in pictures. In 2012, I have adopted a new hobby and a new passion: Blogging! The slideshow below shows all the six active blogs that I created in 2012 on WordPress. You can see the captions and a short description in each picture. In…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise – The Beautiful Iguazu Falls (My South America Trip #1)
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge – Surprise. As I mentioned in my previous post, I just came back from a three-weeks’ trip to South America. This was a trip that we all considered as the most beautiful one, with the most beautiful sceneries. We traveled with a group of friends who…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful – a time to be thankful, and a time for reflections – to my fellow bloggers, family and friends
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge : Thankful Slideshow This is our Thanksgiving long weekend, a time to be thankful, and a time for reflections. It is indeed a very timely and appropriate title for this week’s photo challenge. What should I be thankful for? What do these photos in the…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Green – The California Academy of Sciences, the Greenest Museum in the World
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Green Below is a picture of the California Academy of Sciences building facing the Music Concourse. I took this photo from the Tower Observation Deck of the de Young Museum in San Francisco. This picture on the left is a view from the Deck of the Music Concourse…
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