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Dunnottar Castle

Albert — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:32:57 +0000

Dunnottar Castle is such an awesome place to visit. Just south of Aberdeen in Scotland. Walking around you can just imagine what it must have been like in its hayday.

Trying something new here. This is an HDR image (3 exposures) then final treatment with some textures.

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Fisherman’s Wharf

Albert — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:57:26 +0000

San Francisco

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A day at the Towe Auto Museum

Albert — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:03:01 +0000

The Towe Auto Museum is the home to many vintage cars. A great place to visit if you are a car nut, or like to take pictures of pretty shiny things.

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Sacramento Reflections

Albert — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:26:57 +0000

Two modern, but famous, buildings in Sacramento. Taken just before sunset. The wind had died down and the reflections were just spectacular.

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Wells Fargo & Co.

Albert — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:05:31 +0000

The old Wells Fargo & Co. building in Old Sacramento just oozes history.

On July 1, 1861, Wells Fargo took over direct management of the trans-Missouri Pony Express line. This building was the end point of the Pony Express and mail was take from here to river boats, moored just one block away, which carried the mail to San Francisco.

Wells Fargo is also famous for its association with the six-horse stagecoach which stemmed from Wells Fargo’s real history of using, owning, guarding, and operating them. So it is fitting to see a coach (one horse) here in front of this historic building.

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Join me for Coffee

Albert — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:55:18 +0000

Early morning in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. It was still cold, but promised to be a nice day. The Dutch LOVE their coffee. Drinking a cup of coffee with someone dear is a great national past time. As a consequence, Holland is full of cafes and coffee shops. This is one with an outside patio where you can sit and watch the world go by.

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Footdee

Albert — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:42:04 +0000

This front door is from Scotland. The small fishing village of Footdee can be found at the mouth of Aberdeen (Scotland) harbour. Footdee is locally pronounced as “fittie”. It is a collection of old cottages originaly housed by fishermen and their families. Walking around this area, which is only two streets lined with picturesque cottages, it is not hard to imagine how it must have once been.

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Relics of the past

Albert — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:05:53 +0000

This door is found in the town of Sofala, located approximately 250km north-west of Sydney, New South Wales. It lies along the Turon river and dates back to 1851 when gold was found at Summerhill Creek. There are still people living in Sofala, but not many and the town has a number of these houses and shacks that have almost fallen down.

Another relic in Sofala. Note the greeting above the door. The “Welcome Stranger” is also the name given to the largest gold nugget in the world (look it up) which was found in Australia in 1869. It weighed 3523.5 troy ounces.

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Black Gold

Albert — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:58:17 +0000

This one of the most picturesque places I’ve ever been. The town of Ouro Preto, meaning Black Gold, is a town in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a former colonial mining town located in the Serra do Espinhaço mountains.

Ouro Preto has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its outstanding Baroque architecture. This is an extremely picturesque place with small, hilly, streets and houses with wrought iron hand rails and decorative trimmings. This front door (and windows) is a very typical one.

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Crooked

Albert — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:48:43 +0000

If you look closely at this building, you’ll see that nothing is plumb! Many of these building date back to the 1600s so it is perhaps no surprise that things have settled here and there!

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