Ward’s Pics Debut
My new photography site, Ward’s Pics, makes its debut today. While I have enjoyed sharing with everyone my photographs on Facebook,...
INSCAPE
Today I spent the early afternoon with my very good friend Tracy at INSCAPE. Seattle’s former 1931 brick building that housed INS...
Volunteer Park
How can you not love Volunteer Park? Home of the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Home of Seattle Conservatory. Home to panoramic views of Seattle...
Downtown Seattle
Before going to INSCAPE yesterday with Tracy I walked around downtown Seattle between Pike Place Market and International District. No...
Rome, Italy
I find myself in Rome on Italy’s celebration of the end of World War I — 4 November 2010. I arrived around 6:40 in the morning whereby I...
Trani, Italy
I arrived in Trani, Italy last night by train. My good friend Dave, who I am currently staying with, met me at Foggia where we traveled...
Matera, Italy
Today Dave, his son Jay and I travelled a bit south to the town of Matera. The area has been settled since Paleolithic times with peoples...
Castel del Monte
Today included a very busy morning planning the remainder of my six days in Italy. We now have firm plans to see Naples, Pompeii, Florence,...
Torre Sansanello and Agriturismo Oh My!
After visiting Castel del Monte we met up with some other ex-pat(riots) at Torre Sansanello, a farm that is a part of the booming...
Reggia di Caserta
On my way from Trani to Naples I had a change-over in trains at Caserta. It was only happenstance that I even know about Reggia di Caserta...
Pompeii
Today I went to Pompeii on what is my second and last day in Naples. (For the curious, the ruins of the ancient city are spelled “Pompeii”...
Napoli
Napoli is a city, as many before me have iterated and I will re-iterate, that either you love or your hate. My first impressions of Napoli...
Firenze
I arrived in Firenze (Florence) from Napoli on an express train a little before 10 AM today. By 11 AM I was settled in my home away from...
Firenze vis-à-vis HDR
After what amounted to a rather dull day for photographs yesterday, I headed back out in Firenze in hopes of getting some pictures that...
Siena
Today I visited Siena (not Sienna) which is situated halfway between Firenze and Roma. It is medieval town which includes more than few...
Athens
I arrived in Athens Saturday evening after an uneventful journey by various trains and an airplane from Firenze. Again, I found it...
Dubai
My first encounter with Dubai came at night stepping off a flight on Tuesday from Athens, Greece. I, a bit weary and hyped on adrenaline,...
Ward’s Pics Get Social
While my site on my photography, Ward’s Pics, is already connected to Facebook I have decided to also do it in the reverse: connect Facebook...
Welcome 2011 to Seattle
Today I took the Edmonds to Kingston ferry and back to celebrate the New Year. It has been rather cold these past few days albeit this has...
The Piers, Seattle
Today was again another day of perfect Winter weather in Seattle. Welcome 2011, indeed! I had the honor to be downtown to photograph a...
Early Morning at GL
It is truly Winter in Seattle with all that most people attribute to this area: water-weighted washed-out colors. And as much as we might...
San Francisco Peninsula
I spent a few hours along the San Francisco Peninsula today, driving south from the Golden Gate Bridge along Highway 1. It is amazing the...
California Coast Road-trip
I drove up out of Sunnyvale taking Highway 1 once I was free of San Francisco north of Golden Gate Bridge. Highway 1, for the most part,...
Sunset over San Francisco
I happened to have the great pleasure of reconnecting with a good friend, Dave, who I have not conversed with, at least in person, in over...
Whidbey Island
A few days ago a good friend of mine, Casey Muldoon, asked me to tag along for a trip up to Fort Casey on Whidbey Island to capture some...
As Who Likes It?
Today was, well, one of those magical, bizarre, sad and wonderful days all wrapped in a bow and smothered in Seattle sanguine sunshine. Oh,...
‘Awlo, Spring!
How much better can Spring in Seattle be than to start off with a half-marathon (12-mile) run from Green Lake to Volunteer Park? The morning...
Seattle Walk About
Today I woke up with a desire to see Seattle on foot much in the way I might see any city on my travels. Naturally, when in U(niversity)...
Sunset at Discovery Park
This evening, after a day of rain and clouds, found me inside reading a book. It was with some shock, which quickly settled into delight,...
Olympic Peninsula and Ferries
Yesterday was one of those perfect days that it is hard to fully describe either in words or pictures. The weather was so clear and sunny...
LIGO
I have been wanting to visit LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) for quite some time. It is not merely a physics...
KenmoreAir
Today was a day of airplanes. Lots and lots of airplanes: that is what KenmoreAir is all about. KenmoreAir is located just a few miles north...
Nekid Solstice
Fremont was once a place within Seattle that put the hippie in grunge. Or maybe that was the grunge in hippie. Nowadays it is, like much of...
Lake Serene
Lake Serene is situated east of Seattle on Route 2 a bit past Gold Bar, WA which is itself near to Wallace Falls State Park. There is some...
Niagara Falls
On July 8th I drove up to Niagara Falls while out visiting my very good friends in Buffalo, New York. Like so many things that when in your...
Sun’licious
I took a little over a week to go and visit my friends and family back East in western and central New York including a quick trip up to...
Porta-potty: Locked and Loaded
Today was one of those days. You would think that maybe the gods would have let me pass unfettered, but sadly they seemed to have thought I...
You Have Died of Dysentery
It is a good thing to sometimes remind oneself what is only 30-minutes-and-seven-dollars-and-change away from downtown Seattle: today I...
Olympics Ad Infinitum
For those not in Seattle this past weekend you have my deepest condolences. While Saturday stays at the top of the list for pure blue skies,...
Road-tripping down US2
There is nothing quite like a road-trip to make everything a-oh-kay. Saturday proved itself to be the perfect day to jump into my car and...
Kauai, Hawaii
May we toast to here, the inbetweens, where in the crevices and the nooks and the crannies with the tumbles and some times the fumbles, goes...
Hawaii, Hawaii
Hawaii, the “big island”, lives up to its name. To the west it is tumble-weed dry, to the south lush and wet under rain forest clouds, to...
Curiously Enough
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the “internets” some weeks ago. I, on some great fluke of luck, stumbled upon a lottery to...