Mittlerweile bin ich nun schon zwei Wochen in Chicago und habe mich schon ein bisschen eingelebt. Ich kenne meine momentane Heimatadresse, hab einigermaßen verstanden, wie man sich hier in der Stadt und Umgebung mit den verschiedensten ‚Öffis’ bewegt, kann meine neue Telefonnummer schon (fast) auswendig und fühle mich schon ein wenig zu Hause hier, in Amerikas Drittgrößter Stadt (nach New York City und Los Angeles).
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Il Rogolone - the Lensbaby Blog Circle meets Traveling Burnside Project
Just as many of my fellow photographers do, I have a thing for old trees, I love their textured barks, their gravity, their endurance and their sturdiness and sheer survival – and so when I read about the oldest oak of Northern Italy within an hour’s drive of our summer cottage at Lake Como I knew I had found the goal for this day’s excursion.
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Traveling Burnside Project - Verzasca
In April, Lensbaby launched the Traveling Burnside Project, where you could try this new lens for two weeks. At the moment a lot of these burnsides travel all over the world - and for two weeks a Burnside 35 was with me.
Originally I know the Verzasca from my large format colleagues as a location for SW Fine Art Photography.
When studying and searching for routes in Google Maps (I have to admit, I sometimes do that along my morning coffee to cultivate my wanderlust a bit 😊 - formerly with atlases and road maps, today with the phone) I stumbled over this little place: Lavertezzo, a village at the Verzasca - and a little foraging revealed very quickly:
this something for me, I want to go there, too.
The Traveling Burnside Project was also a bit of a hitch to put that wish into action now - and so I found myself one morning in the small village of Lavertezzo to explore this beautiful river.
The first glance, however, was rather full of horror: everywhere I saw people with towels and picnic baskets! The river was literally besieged by bathing people, so apparently the Verzasca is not only a destination for photographers, but also for ordinary swimmers (something that always surprises me 😊)
So I went straight up the river until I could not see (or hear) the bathers any more - I did not have to go far, after a few meters I was on my own. ... and what a wonderful river landscapeI found! The textures of the stones, the many colors, the turquoise water with rapids and swirls: that was something to marvel about. And I saw quite perfectly, that one can take pictures here without end.
For the Burnside project, I did not want to work in black and white this time, so I packed the ND filter and practically did not take it off anymore.
However, I have to admit that I have only explored a tiny piece of the river, just around Lavertezzo a few hundred meters upriver and downriver - that certainly will not do justice to this landscape. Actually I think I would have to go there again for a few days, to see other corners as well (sounds like a plan for 2019?)
Kubareise Teil 4 - Boxen in Trinidad
Am Ende eines freien Nachmittags saß ich eine ganze Weile an einem kleinen Platz und war in erster Linie froh, dass die Hitze ein wenig nachließ und ich ein wenig Zeit und Muße für mich hatte. Nach und nach füllte sich der Platz mit Jugendlichen,
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Der letzte Sonnenaufgang am Malecón
Sonnenaufgang am Malecón, Havannas Uferpromenade - dafür hat sich das Aufstehen gelohnt!
Wie auch sonst immer auf dieser Reise, das Morgenlicht war ganz besonders schön und so war ich sehr sehr viele Male schon weit vor dem Frühstück mit der Kamera unterwegs.
Am Ende dieses Tages ging es wieder nach Hause.