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waiting at the Delhi station for the train to Agra

Transport: Ways of Getting from Here to There

February 25, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 7 Comments

Planes, trains and automobiles. Not to mention bicycles, buses and boats. Planes. “Do we really want to get on a plane whose company logo is a flying white elephant?” I […]

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Collections from Around the World, Friendly Friday Photo Challenges
standing stones at Chiricahua National Monument in Arizona

Standing Stones From Around the World

February 23, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 10 Comments

I’ve been racking my brains for a topic that starts with S. At first the only thing I came up with was ‘Sketches of Stones’ but then I thought Stonehenge, […]

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Collections from Around the World, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
Here another set of really 'red' rocks, this near Cafayate in Argentina.

The Colour Red Around the World 2

February 22, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

A quick tour of reds from around the world. Mexico has red hot chile peppers! And these are habaneros which are the hottest of the bunch! And then there is the red […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Collections from Around the World
Moody sunset at Long Beach on Vancouver Island, 1974

A Photographic Journey, 1973-1979

February 5, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 10 Comments

I had started my art college photography course with an ancient bellows camera but was soon coveting the other students’ substantially more advanced cameras. On a student budget it took […]

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Collections from Around the World, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
mural of a horse race in Bucerias, Mexico

Artworks of Horses from Around the World

February 3, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

A collection of artworks of horses from around the world. A little revolutionary stands in front of a statue of Pancho Villa riding in on a galloping horse. The statue […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Collections from Around the World
old Kodak bellows camera shown from the side

A Photographic Journey, 1972

February 2, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 21 Comments

This wondrous Kodak is the camera I used for my first real travel experience – a trip to Denmark in 1965. You can read about that experience which includes my first […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
pierced red metal heart and wood sculpture / red berries against rusty corrugated tin wall; two photos next to each other in my photo previewer

2020 Photos in Review

January 8, 2021by Albatz Travel Adventures 10 Comments

Let’s face it, I have been somewhat of a Grinch this Christmas. All over the internet everyone was writing ‘Merry Christmas’ and I was thinking “What’s so merry about it?” […]

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BC, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
Poinsettia in Snapseed

Red & Green Poinsettias for Christmas

December 16, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

Poinsettia, Flor de Nochebuena, Cuetlaxóchitl – this beautiful plant has many names. Poinsettias are native to the tropical highlands of Mexico. In the wild they grow into 10-foot-high bushes with explosions of […]

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Friendly Friday Photo Challenges, Mexico, Traditions & Festivals
small the 'Blue Hour' at a bird sanctuary in Kelowna, Canada

Out in the Blue Hour in BC’s Okanogan, January 2020

December 4, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

Late last year my little camera took back control of the white balance settings – I used them all the time as its auto white balance was horrible, especially in […]

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BC, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge
large-leafed plant curling in and around itself

Searching for Wabi-Sabi in Japan

December 3, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 13 Comments

Tina of the Lens-Artists Challenge introduced me to a completely new word/concept this week: Wabi-sabi, the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection. When I thought back to the times […]

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Japan, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge

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