Here’s a gallery of photos I took in Chicago recently. Why have I still not posted other photos I took in October(ish)? Something to do with laziness, business, and no doubt many other -nesses. One day…

I spent Labor day weekend in good company in Chicago, IL. Among other things, we spent some time at the Chicago Jazz Festival, which was classy, and went to a seedy blues joint, which was raunchy. Here’s the full gallery of photos from that trip; below are some photos of other-than-photographic merit.

And also this one, which does have photographic merit. Click on the panorama for higher resolution:

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Some of the days were rainy, but Chicagoans are resilient, and they do like their jazz:

Final post from this Colorado trip, promise. I’ve wanted to take a startrail photo for quite a while, and this trip I finally dragged a tripod along on our hike and got on it. Unfortunately, when we were backpacking we only got one night of clear skies, and there wasn’t really a spectacular view. But hey, the next one I take will be in a nicer view, and I’ll let it run longer. Here’s the final photo (click on it for a larger version):

I put the camera on a tripod, set it for 30-second exposures at f/3.5 (ISO 800), set it on continuous shooting mode, and locked the remote control. I left the camera for 105 frames, or about 53 minutes. I then put all the photos together on my computer using this neat Startrails program by Achim Schaller.

Here’s the same photo in the original colors:

I just put up a few more photos from my trip to Colorado. Here’s the whole gallery.

Click on the panorama for a larger version:

I flew all the way back from Colorado to California in a plane that fits all of 19 passengers:

I happen to have spent Fourth of July in the charming town of Silverton, CO (population 531 or 50, depending on who you ask), camping by a very cold river, which I nevertheless swam in. It was a blast.

Here’s a photo gallery, and below are some selections:

The gunfighter club fired their guns happily and often, and these two really didn’t appreciate it.

I don’t know about you, but I had a pretty spiffy spring break. Huzzah! Here are a few photos from that trip, from Bryce Canyon National Park, Durango, CO, and some places along the way.

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Here are a few panoramas I took during the trip; click on them for higher resolution:

In a recurring experience or dream or journey or illusion, I woke up in San Francisco again one morning. It was rather nice, this time including the weather. I got to see Alcatraz and Marin county before I once again woke up down in Riverside. Life’s all about journeys, isn’t it?

Gallery here

State of the art Operating Room at Alcatraz Penitentiary

I recently took a trip up to Oregon and Norcal; here are the pictures. We visited the Trinity Alps, Crater Lake National Park, then drove down most of the Oregon coast. A final few days we spent in Redwoods State Park up in Norcal and a few days in Point Lobos. Here are some pictures, hope you like them.

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You wake up at LAX. Pacific. You wake up at O’hare. Pacific, mountain, central. Eastern? Lose an hour, gain an hour. Central. You walk around and take some pictures and then drive drive drive away. Lose an hour, gain an hour. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?

Photos (from Chicago and Chelsea, MI)

Bergama

Meet Assa, who finds a place for us, get dinner with him, bet four Lira on Fenerbahce beating Besiktas 3-1, lose those four Lira (they won 2-0, it was a great game), night. Pergamom, Red Basilica, Asclepium, shuttle to otogar, buy tickets to Çanakkale, shuttle back because the bus doesn’t leave for another three hours or something, internet café, shuttle to otogar, bus to Çanakkale.

Çanakkale

Sleep. Gallipoli tour, forget camera at restaurant, get it in the evening, long chat with the 55ish year old aussie couple (horses, traveling, war, his stories – arrested in Burma, Maharaja’s palace, smuggling stuff Germany to Pakistan..), night. Troy tour, bus to Istanbul.

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And that’s that for the summer trip.