Tag Archives: Travel Theme

May 2, 2013

5-2-13 Travel Theme: Light

In what seems to be on the verge of becoming a trend I present my second take on Ailsa’s Travel Theme just before the deadline.

The theme this week was light. Here are two views of light taken from the Saugerties Lighthouse on the Hudson. This first one was taken on the evening of January 6, 2012.

I took this one the morning of January 7, 2012.

As always, a few other views.

Travel Theme: Light | The Backpack Monologues

Travel Theme: Light | Its In The Picture – 365

Travel Theme: Light | Geophilia

Lights across the World | dadirridreaming

Travel Theme: Light | Chronicles of Illusions

Weekly Photo Challenge: CULTURE / Travel Theme: LIGHT | Travels and Trifles

Travel theme: Light | litterthoughts

Travel Theme: Light | Across the Bored

Travel theme: Light | Confuzzledom

Travel Theme: Light | lena de almeida

Travel Theme: Light. | Converse And A Hoodie

Travel Theme: Light | Wind Against Current

15 comments | tags: Ailsa, Hudson River, postaday2013, Saugerties Lighthouse, Sunrise, Sunset, Travel Theme, Weekly Photo Challenge. | posted in Photography

April 12, 2013

4-12-13 Travel Theme: Benches (Road To Nowhere Edition)

By Robert S Johnson

Maybe you wonder where you are
I don’t care
Here is where time is on our side
Take you there…take you there

We’re on a road to nowhere
We’re on a road to nowhere
We’re on a road to nowhere

BYRNE, DAVID / WEYMOUTH, TINA / FRANTZ, CHRIS / HARRISON, JERRY

Ailsa’s theme this week is Benches. I hiked down a trail along the Hudson heading towards Hastings-On-Hudson and came into this clearing. I fell in love with this seemingly random placed bench.

A few other views.

Travel theme: Benches | Wings to Fly

http://wtofly.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/travel-theme-benches/

http://mrscarmichael.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/travel-theme-benches/

Travel Theme: Benches | lyndamichele

Travel Theme: Benches | StandingStill

http://cinova.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/travel-theme-benches/

http://bambangpriantono.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/travel-theme-benches-bangku/

http://ididitforjohnny.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/travel-theme-benches/

Travel Theme: Benches | Wind Against Current

http://www.ceephotography.com/2013/04/12/travel-theme-benches/

Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Benches | Travel Monkey

12 comments | tags: Benches, Hastings-on-Hudson, Hudson River, postaday2013, The Talking Heads, Travel Theme, Weekly Photo Challenge. | posted in Photography

April 8, 2013

4-8-13 Weekly Photo Challenge: Colors (#2)

By Robert S Johnson

All colors made me happy: even gray.
My eyes were such that literally they
Took photographs. Whenever I’d permit,
Or, with a silent shiver, order it,
Whatever in my field of vision dwelt–
An indoor scene, hickory leaves, the svelte
Stilettos of a frozen stillicide–
Was printed on my eyelids’ nether side
Where it would tarry for an hour or two,
And while this lasted all I had to do
Was close my eyes to reproduce the leaves,
Or indoor scene, or trophies of the eaves.

Nabokov

I took my first pass at this weeks Travel Theme: color here. I thought I should take another run and go in a completely different direction. If you have been reading the Quotidian Hudson for a while you know that I am a fan of graffiti and have a love of 5Pointz.

Here are a few tiny examples of the work there.

and here are a few other views…

26 comments | tags: 5Pointz, Color, Graffiti, Hudson River, Long Island City Queens, Nabokov, postaday2013, Travel Theme, Weekly Photo Challenge. | posted in Photography

April 6, 2013

4-6-13 Travel Theme: Pale

By Robert S Johnson

Ailsa’s theme this week is Pale

Wellfleet, Cahoon Hollow, May 6, 2009

2 comments | tags: Beach, Dune, Fog, Hudson River, Ocean, postaday2013, Travel Theme, Weekly Photo Challenge., Wellfleet Massachusetts | posted in Photography

April 2, 2013

4-2-13 – Travel Theme: Smoke And Mirrors

By Robert S Johnson

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats

Too noble to neglect

Deceived me into thinking

I had something to protect

Good and bad,

I define these terms

Quite clear, no doubt somehow

Ahh, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now

Bob Dylan

Ailsa’s Travel Theme this week is: Smoke and Mirrors. So many ways to go…especially in a city like New York.

Here are a few mirrors I found…The first is similar to one of Ailsa’s

This being NYC, smoke was not too difficult either…

and then of course…

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin’ it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise
Bring your alibis

Don Henley, Glenn Frey. Don Felder.

finally some other viewpoints:

Travel Theme: Smoke and Mirrors | LoganBruin–An Unauthorized Autobiography

http://mannalexandra.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/travel-theme-smoke-and-mirrors/

Travel Theme: Smoke and Mirrors | To Mother Earth, with Love

Travel theme: Smoke and Mirrors | Figments of a DuTchess

Travel theme: Smoke and Mirrors | patriciaddrury

Travel theme: Smoke and Mirrors by Brad | writing to freedom

travel theme: smoke & mirrors | whatever a moon has always meant

http://windagainstcurrent.com/2013/03/30/travel-theme-smoke-and-mirrors/

4 comments | tags: Hotel California, Hudson River, New York City, postaday2013, smoke, The Eagles, Travel Theme, Weekly Photo Challenge. | posted in Photography

March 24, 2013

3-24-13 (Really 3-23-13) {Travel Theme: Time #2} [Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense]

By Robert S Johnson

Okay…if at first, second, third, fourth, you don’t succeed – in the words of Samuel Beckett “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again, Fail again”

Actually this attempted post is filling both themes don’t you think? It is taking a massive amount of time and here I am in yesterday’s future still trying .

It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Smiling faces I can see
But not for me
I sit and watch
As tears go by

My riches can’t buy everything
I want to hear the children sing
All I hear is the sound
Of rain falling on the ground
I sit and watch
As tears go by

It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Doin’ things I used to do
They think are new
I sit and watch
As tears go by

M Jagger/K Richards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhPPJ5dolxU

I took these shots at Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery in Wellfleet MA in 2009. It is located on the corner of Rt 6 and Cahoon Hallow Road just across from PJ’s Family Restaurant, should you ever be in the area.

Hey, this (or some variant) is where we all end up the future. We all run out of time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chz9u78fZyQ

I know that many of the folks I pinged back from Ailsa’s (Check out other views here) Travel Theme received the pings as did many from the Weekly Photo Challenge: Future Tense…but I am pinging again so you can see them!

http://ouchmybackhurts.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/time-ailsas-wtt/

http://lonnalisawilliams.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/time-is-like-a-river/

http://cinova.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/travel-theme-time/

http://ilargia64.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/just-a-frozen-moment/

http://windagainstcurrent.com/2013/03/22/weekly-photo-challenge-travel-theme-time-future-tense/

Weekly photo challenge: Future Tense and Time | Sounds like wish

TIME – Ailsa’s WTT | Ouch!! My back hurts!!

22 comments | tags: Cape Cod, Cemetery, Marianne Faithfull, Photograph, postaday2013, Samuel Beckett, The Rolling Stones, Travel Theme, Weekly Photo Challenge. | posted in Photography

February 17, 2013

2-17-13 Travel Theme: Mountains

By Robert S Johnson

Ailsa’s theme this week is mountains

Mountains come in many shapes and sizes both in reality and metaphorically. Metaphorically I ran into a mountain today when I finally installed Photoshop CS6 only to discover that my computer’s graphics card can not handle it and Apple tells me that I cannot upgrade the card. That was a mountain to conquer to get today’s images.

Reality? The first shot is from 2009 on our way to the Newburgh to Beacon Hudson Swim looking over West Point and the Hudson…

The next three are from the hike to the Boiling Lake in Dominica…

My guide

Boiling Lake

6 comments | tags: Boiling Lake, Dominica, Hudson River, Mountain, Photoshop, postaday2013, Travel Theme, Weekly Photo Challenge., West Point | posted in Photography

February 6, 2013

2-6-13 Travel Theme: (The) Shadow (Knows) #2

By Robert S Johnson

“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”

Albert Camus

I wanted to revisit Ailsa’s travel theme this week and take it in a completely different direction then my first attempt.

These are shadows you can find around the city of New York.

Lower East Side – Urban Garden

Lincoln Center

Side question. Any one else getting spam bombed today? Akismet has caught 38 but 14 have gotten through so far

12 comments | tags: Albert Camus, Coney Island, Hudson River, Lincoln Center, New York City, postaday2013, shadows, Travel Theme, Urban garden | posted in Photography

February 4, 2013

2-4-13 Travel Theme: Shadow

By Robert S Johnson

It has been a very long last few days so I thought to ease into Ailsa’s theme of shadows this week with a few simple shadow self-portraits. I don’t do these very often but nothing wrong with a little celebration of self every now and again. As long as you don’t begin to think you are all that…

It occurs to me that I should have moved the watermark…next time, I guess.

8 comments | tags: Hudson River, New York City, postaday2013, self-esteem, Self-Portrait, shadows, Travel Theme, Weekly Photo Challenge. | posted in Photography

January 19, 2013

1-19-13 Travel Theme: UP

By Robert S Johnson

Ailsa’s travel theme this week is up. I had hoped to go deep into the files for this one but, no such luck. I know I have prints of many places and ideas that fit the theme but I could not find them. It did make me realize though that my preference, is for me to get up as high as possible and shoot down. I can’t say why that is so but it was an interesting thing to observe. All of the shots used for this post are from 2013.

Apropos of nothing, a lovely lagniappe of my day was the chance to have a drink with Andra Watkins, The Accidental Cootchie Mama her own bad self, and her charming and erudite husband, MTM. They are in NYC on business and were kind enough to call me and spend some time.

Up we go: