We took a 15 minute train ride to Koog Zaandijk, famous, apparently, for its windmills. Cute place, a bit like a Dutch Williamsburg and not a bit like Dutch Wonderland.
Monthly Archives: July 2012
I have been traveling in the Netherlands with a stopover in Iceland, thus the Kaffitár. Look for more images from the Lowlands coming soon. Aside from the coffee shop in Reykjavik, all of these shots are from Nijmegen.
The annual Arts Fest in State College has come and gone. We went to the late night concert by the 80s cover band “Velveeta.” It was a little cheesy.
From my “Some of My Favorites” collection on flickr, this is the entrance to “The Press Club” wine bar in San Francisco.
This is the building in which my office is housed. It was originally built in 1937 (see image below) and was a woman’s residence hall and was named after Frances Washburn Atherton, the wife of the 4th president of Penn State. In 1997 construction began on creating office space within […]
5 am gets earlier each year I get older. My son wants to come with me tomorrow so I will do it all over again then.
This year I read a number of articles about proper techniques for taking pictures of fireworks. One key element that I could not control was location. Family obligations kept us a little further away so I included a stretch of beach with some people in the distant foreground. The wind […]
On July 2, 1776 the Second Continental Congress passed the resolution of independence, officially severing ties of the thirteen original colonies from the British crown. It was only on the 4th of July that Declaration of Independence, a document explaining the prior vote, was approved. I hope that this week […]