My flight home from Boston took me over the salt ponds yesterday. I won't pretend to understand the cycles they go through. Sometimes they're dull looking, and other times they bloom in glorious colors.
I love it when the salt ponds put on a show like yesterday.
This is not me. And this is not my twitter account. I don't tweet (but Alicia and her Twitter compadres keep threatening to create a ghost-written Twitter account for me). In hindsight, I think I'd prefer the make-believe Twitter account over this real one. Sigh...
If you want to know who I am and who I'm not, I suggest you look at this blog post from 2010.
I spent last week attending a class on VMware vCloud Suite 5.1-- awesome class. Afterwards Alicia suggested that I visit the Garden of the Gods before the sun set. When I got there, I quickly understood why she urged me to go. It was simultaneously beautiful and fascinating and oh-so-photo-worthy.
But was I up to the task? There I was with my handy iPhone popping off shots, but I found myself wondering how to do a respectable job of capturing the beauty in photos. I often find that I need to make adjustments when photographing different places. Usually I can make minor adjustments, and I can make those adjustments quickly based on previous similar environments.
But Garden of the Gods was unlike any place I've photographed before. It was an exciting challenge for me because the clock was ticking, so I had to rush to find things I thought would make for good photos and make technical adjustments to how I took the photos.
This was a rushed project for me, but I had fun learning on the fly and I think the photos did a reasonable job of capturing what I saw.
After spending a week outside London with friends, Alicia and I took the train to Scotland. We spent our days there traveling through Glasgow, Edinburgh, the Isle of Skye, and driving the length of the numerous lochs. We saw castles, fairy pools, and only one day of rain.
A month ago I spent a week training a customer in Wiesbaden, Germany. The weekdays were largely consumed with work, but I was able to spend the day I arrived seeing the sights. Here's a recap of my jet lagged tour of Wiesbaden.
I spent last week attending a class in Munich. I took advantage of the proximity to nearby countries. This trip I popped through Austria and Switzerland, but my real goal was to visit Liechtenstein for the first time.
