Walking around in a far away city with a camera is always good. Even more if the city is photogenic. However, when you are far far away, you probably don’t have a tripod with you. So you have to resolve to other means of stabilisation. Or not?
When I came out of a coffee shop ( coffee, nothing else, eh! ), I was greeted with this view of Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kiev. The same spot of the now famous Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004.
We probably all know what a church looks like inside, even if sometimes it’s only from a distant memory. Some churches look really simple, some look more elaborate. All of them have their photogenic properties. When you go to Eastern Europe, you will most certainly run into a kind of church that shows much and at the same time little on the outside.
In Ukraine I ran into this church. It looks pretty simple, well kept and not very wealthy. Until you look up and see that golden dome up there.
Shopping is always fun. Well, at least if it is not endless trying and rejecting shoes, clothes etc, that is. One can learn or understand a lot of a country by going to its markets. In the north of Holland in the city of Leeuwarden there is a market every week on Friday. The space taken by it is free on the other days of the week. Over the years, the weekly market has been moved around from time to time to make place for construction or other festivities.
This time I was in Leeuwarden and the market is back to where it was when I grew up. The cheese stand decorated with its pricing and presentation of all the different cheeses on sale. In the stand on the street, the pieces of cheese are vacuum sealed against weather and fingers.
Goodbye my friend… Summer’s on its way out. Again. It looks like it was only yesterday that the leaves coloured the trees slightly green. Now is already the time for the leaves to go and bother people with gardens and lawns.
One thing is sure, Winnipeg gets a winter every year. That was also what attracted me to it in the first place: 4 complete seasons in a year. Well, if you count the two weeks of spring and fall as a season, that is. Also, this year I neglected to go out “enough” to enjoy each season. Big mistake. So I tried to
Sometimes, the skies seem to be upset. Nothing you can do or hope for is going to happen. You need 3 more months of summer, but the end of summer is in sight. The sky is there to make sure you got the message. A few weeks ago I went out with friends on a mission called “storm chasing”.
While we didn’t exactly get what we were hoping for (tornadoes), we also did not come up empty handed. The key is in the perseverance. We went out to south-west Manitoba, hunting for a storm that seemed promising for tornado activity.