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Posters in Belfast have poems about planting: 'Seeds grow in the cupped hands of patient children and shoot from inside pockets, out of sleeves and collars'

Ireland, a Nation of Story Tellers and Poets (and Pubs)

January 28, 2023by Albatz Travel Adventures 19 Comments

‘This is my HOMELAND’, a home on the bleak landscape of the Donegal Peninsula in the Republic of Ireland. Ireland is a nation of story tellers and poets. It started early […]

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Ireland, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
Graffiti textured plastered wall in Chittor, India

Graffiti Textures from Around the World

October 13, 2022by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

A collection of graffiti textures from around the world. Rusty graffiti abstract on a hoarding in Madrid, Spain. Plaster wall incised with graffiti in Chittor, India. Not graffiti per se […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Collections from Around the World
Mural of an exotic woman in a parking lot in the Downtown Eastside

In Search of Street Art in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver

November 1, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

My studio mate and I were moaning about how much we miss travelling.  Then I told her about my project to go on photo walks around the murals of the […]

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Vancouver Street Art in 2020

September 8, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 21 Comments

This week the Friendly Friday Challenge is Street Art.  I figured I would find examples of illegal and unsanctioned Street Art from my early ‘safe’ COVID walks that took me mostly through […]

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BC, Friendly Friday Photo Challenges, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
Protest graffiti: En todo Mexico seguimos siendo Ayotzinapa / In all Mexico we continue to feel Ayotzinapa. The '43' missing students are incorporated into the M and E of MEXICO.

Protests on Old Stone Posts Lining the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City

May 31, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 4 Comments

New protest graffiti springs up on the old stone posts that line the Paseo de la Reforma (Promenade of Reform) in Mexico City. Mexico, lindo y que herido / Mexico, beautiful and […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Mexico
Ogham writing on stones on the Dingle Peninsula, Ireland

Cosmic Challenge: Written in Stone

March 25, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

I have so many stones with writing on them that I don’t know where to start! Perhaps with two from the north India where Islamic design often features Arabic script. […]

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Collections from Around the World
Adrienne paints her name on a rusting shipwreck on the Aran Island of Inisheer in Ireland

WPC: Putting Your Name on Things

January 6, 2017by Albatz Travel Adventures 4 Comments

Is the need to place your name on a flat surface an universal phenomenon? Damaged arbutus bark at Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver, Canada. Graffiti on the wall of a cave […]

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Collections from Around the World, Weekly Photo Challenge
playing with my scribble painting in Photoshop

Mixed Media Struggle 1: Using Photoshop to Second Guess Myself on a Problem Painting

October 2, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

In my second class my ‘scribble’ painting had taken off in the wrong direction. My original plan was to feature a larger scribbled swoop on top of the scribble image […]

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