My Honey has taken up cooking as a hobby and I have become the lucky recipient of much of that goodness!

The strawberries and the grape juice make for lovely vibrant colours. The angle also allows a little bit of playing with what’s in focus and what’s not quite. :)

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Still in Paris, I’ve always been fascinated with the Metro system. It proves to be a difficult place to take pictures because the light levels are so low (I guess what should I expect from an underground tunnel?) and you’re typically moving. Rather than fight it, I figured out how to make it work for me! This picture is taken using a longer shutter speed and the few lights in the tunnel (mostly emergency lighting and traffic control, I presume) plus the movement of the train to get the light streams. Enjoy! 0 comments more ...

I made it back to Paris and the icon, of course, is the Eiffel Tower. At night, they have a rotating spotlight from the top, which is fun enough, but then on the hour, they make the Tower twinkle like a Christmas tree! Well done, I say, for “The City of Lights!” 0 comments more ...

This was just a fun composition with the candle light behind the glass. I was also trying to have the candle in focus rather than the glass in front. 0 comments more ...

This is the castle sitting on the cliffs, overlooking the sea and standing guard over Dieppe. When the city was walled, the castle had a prominent place in the wall. Today, the walls are gone (save one gate only) leaving the castle. 0 comments more ...

I went rambling through the bushes and brought home a visitor that I quickly dispatched. But first, he turned into my photo subject. As a photo subject, a bug of this size is incredibly hard to shoot — the distance between in and out of focus is a matter of millimetres. Some of my other bug pictures haven’t turned out because I can’t hold still enough! It doesn’t help either that it is near impossible to tell on the camera screen whether something this small is in focus either. But I have a winner here! 0 comments more ...

The plane touched down at Charles de Gaulle and we quickly found ourselves in Paris! Dreams come true! How could I pass up getting a picture of the Eiffel Tower, THE symbol of Paris. 0 comments more ...

For pictures alluding to open spaces and freedom, it’s hard to beat those taken from the air. The wingtip is a subtle way to add perspective and a reference point. For the curious, the river is the Seine, just north of Paris. 0 comments more ...

Sometimes wandering around Iceland, the landscape reminded of nothing familiar and was closer to how I imagined Mars. The orange rainsuits they gave us when we went horseback riding didn’t help any in that regard, but it does make us jump out in this photo.

Again, I love the feeling of openness and adventure the image inspires.

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Iceland is the land of many things, including some amazing waterfalls. There were so many things to see in Iceland, I decided to bend my rule of only one photo per day. I think this is one of three from the one day of our Icelandic adventures :) 0 comments more ...