Friday night the sky lit up at sunset. Joan and I headed to North Beach in San Clemente, where I captured this shot from the lawn in front of the Ole Hanson Beach Club, using my iPhone 4. Day 273 of Project 365.
Create Amazing Infographics About Your iPhone Photos
August 11, 2011 By 3 Comments
Infographics have become a popular way to convey a lot of information in a concise form. Rich with data, they leverage graphics to provide context to the numbers. Now a clever Swedish company called Dear Future Astronaut has released a $0.99 iPhone app that will analyze your photos and produce a beautiful infographic analysis. I [...]
Day 19 in Paris: Love, Locked
July 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you look closely, you’ll find our lock on this bridge near Notre Dame. This is a wonderfully odd real-world meme. The story I heard from a guy in our cooking glass (who has lived here in Paris for the past nine years) was that the guy who started this was despondant over unrequited love. [...]
Day 17 in Paris: Old Bones in the Catacombs
July 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
On our 17th day in Paris, we visited the Catacombs. There’s a formal name for this which eludes me, because this is actually a cemetery of sorts. It was created in the late 1700′s when overcrowding at the graveyards which traditionally surrounded each church became a serious health problem. The catacombs were a network of [...]
Day 16 in Paris: Opera Garnier
July 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
On our 16th day in Paris, we visited the amazing Opera Garnier. This Grand Foyer was designed with the thought that during intermission, the “performance” of life goes on… so why not provide a suitable stage to showcase the performance? Joan and I liked the Opera Garnier better than Chateau Versailles — which was great, [...]
Day 15 in Paris: Cooking Class
July 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
On our 15th day in Paris, we took a cooking class at La Cuisine Paris. They have classes in both French and English (we chose English) and in a variety of formats. We cooked a simple, traditional French meal: Agneau a l’ail, romarin et moutarde Ecrase de pomme de terre au piment d’Espelette Crepe aux [...]
Day 14 in Paris: A Day Trip to Giverny
July 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Giverny is a worthwhile day trip from Paris. You can tour Monet’s house, his studio, and the gardens and ponds immortalized by so many of this impressionist’s great works. While this may not the best photo I took today, it epitomizes the scenes painted by Monet and serves as a perfect “bookmark” for our day [...]
Day 13 in Paris: Le Refuge du Passé
July 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This little restaurant was well off the beaten path with incredible food. I highly recommend it, but don’t take my word for it. You can read from the over 240 reviews of Le Refuge du Passé at The Fork. This was one of the only photos I took today. It was a day of rest for [...]
France, Day 11: A Trip to Mont Saint-Michel
July 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This shot was taken at about 9:50 pm and the sun was still up. Mont St-Michel was an island, but is now connected to mainland France by the narrow causeway you see in the foreground. We spent the evening wandering the medieval streets and steps of St-Michel. One word describes it: magical. I chose this [...]
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