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Gloworama 2010
New Year’s Eve 2010 in Houston texas was the inaugural Gloworama celebration featuring images projected on the George R. Brown Convention center and an illuminated Art Car Parade. It was really...
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Arc Attack
The main thing I wanted to see at the Gloworama event was one of the performances by Arc Attack. Imagine two custom engineered hand built Tesla Coils that throw out electrical arcs up to twelve feet...
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Lens Lust
I popped in to my local crack camera dealer just to have a look around. I wasn’t really shopping all that hard. I mean, there are things I am keeping an eye out for, but mostly I like to browse and...
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Arrival – Barcelona
We made it to Barcelona without a hitch. The only real bump in the road was that we arrived to the hotel around 11:00 am Barcelona time and the room wasn’t ready for us to check in yet. After a long...
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Barcelona – Day 2
As the weather sites have all been saying for the last few weeks, today is a day of heavy rain. I’d hoped the forecast would change as we got closer to arrival, but it did not. Fortunately, we packed...
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Rain On La Rambla
Rain or no rain, we’re here to enjoy ourselves. We walked down La Rambla and Cynthia spotted me with he umbrella while I took a few photos with the 85mm f/1.4 lens.
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Barcelona – Day 3 – Part 1
The sun came out today. After a full day of rain yesterday we were very happy to see it. We got up and headed out for some breakfast and then walked down La Rambla to the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia aka...
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Barcelona – Day 3 – Part 2
After collecting ourselves back at the hotel room we headed out and braved the metro to go see La Sagrada Familia, a cathedral designed by Antoni Gaudi. Construction began in 1882 and is not expected...
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Valencia – Day 1
The last day in Barcelona yesterday was good. but the weather was the pits. We saw some sights and enjoyed some good food, but the photo ops were pretty much non-existent. Despite our overall good...
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Valencia – Day 2
After such a great day yesterday we were a bit disappointed to wake up to rain in Valencia. Not a lot of it, but enough to dampen our spirits somewhat. We grabbed some breakfast here at the hotel and...
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Valencia – Day 3
The sun came out today in all its glory. Yay! We got up and had breakfast and then made our way to Gullivar Park and then on to The City Of Arts And Sciences, the fantastic complex of buildings...
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Valencia – Nic De Foc (Night Of Fire)
This is what it has all been building up to. The final night of Las Fallas. The first event we wanted to see was the Cabalgata del Fuego (Fire Parade). It’s hard to explain, but basically the Falleras...
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Valencia – Nic De Foc – Crema
All those falls so beautiful, so incredible, so expensive to build. Tonight they burn. The Crema is the big finish to the event that is Las Fallas. We set out around 10:30 to stake out a falla to watch...
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Valencia – The City Of Arts And Sciences
The City Of Arts And Sciences (Valencian: Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Spanish: Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias) is an amazing architectural complex designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix...
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Return To Barcelona
Valencia all wrapped up and tied in a fiery bow we made our way back to Barcelona. We didn’t have much sleep so were pretty tired for the 4 hour train ride. Once we got checked into the hotel our...
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Barcelona – Montserrat
For our second day back in Barcelona we decided to head off to Santa Maria de Montserrat which is only about an hour outside the city by train. Santa Maria de Montserrat is a Benedictine abbey located...
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Barcelona – Tibidabo And Park Guell
It’s a little on the cold side, but the sun was out when we woke up with some clouds here and there. We decided to make our way to Tibidabo, the tallest point overlooking the city of Barcelona. The...
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Barcelona – Our Last Day
Our last day in Barcelona. We’re pretty wiped out. We managed to master the mass transit, but we still logged some miles on our aging tootsies. Cynthia and I both have blisters on our feet. Cynthia has...
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Backyard Birding Report – April 20th, 2011
We’ve not spotted a single hummingbird so far this spring. BUT, we’ve spotted two kinds of birds not previously seen in our yard. We’ve seen a few Indigo Buntings, but I’ve not managed to get any...
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Sun Halo – May 4, 2011
Spotted a halo around the sun on May 4th. I’ve seen them around a full moon before, but not around the sun. By obscuring the sun with my hand or my index finger I was able to shoot some reasonably good...
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