Just a few of my travel pictures
This posting includes images shot or submitted in 2023. These images are monthly club “Challenges”which were mainly processing ones: Process an image five different ways, Process an image both in colour and b&w, (note the original image of the boardwalk and iceberg are club member photos) and finally the dreaded “self portrait”.
This posting includes images shot or submitted in 2023. These images are monthly club “Challenges” and include the following subjects: Autumn Splendor, Land/Sea/Air and Macro.
This posting includes images shot or submitted in 2023. Included in this set of images was a trip to Ranney Gorge, Sheffield Park and a day shooing around Tamworth (with club members Dave and Ken).
This posting includes images shot or submitted in 2023. Included in this set of images was a trip to the city of Gananoque, Napanee, Ohara Mills Farm a “local farm and a get to know your club members Photo Scavenger Hunt in Kingston.
This posting includes images shot or submitted in 2022. These images are monthly club “Challenges” and include the following subjects: Low and High Keys, Macro, Monochrome, Product Design, Silhouettes, Snow/Ice and Automotive.
This posting includes images shot or submitted in 2022. These images are monthly club “Challenges” and include the following subjects: Borders, County Collectibles (we were in Italy at the time so images are from there), Food, Green, Panorama Landscapes and Older Hits.
This posting includes images shot or submitted in 2022. Included in this set of images was a trip to Sandbanks Park (in the county), a waterfalls circuit, a photo scavenger hunt and a visit of old photos.
This posting includes images shot or submitted in 2022. Included in this set of images was a trip to Beaver Meadows (in the county), Hyuk’s Point (winter), Little Cataraqui Park a local farm and a night shoot in Belleville.
As Michael diligently, painstakingly, nostalgically revisits all the images from our year down under, he is discovering many photos which were not originally posted. As he updates the photo galleries, I have been updating the posts with the new content.
And this is a new post with a couple of people shots which don’t belong in the other posts – so I am adding this new post in the correct timeline. For anyone interested, you can go back and check out the updated photo galleries… Use the ‘Past Posts’ section – down on the right hand navigation, under 2007. I am working chronologically and at this point I have made it to April 3 with my updates, and I will keep ticking along…. anything renamed as ‘AYDU…’ (A Year Down Under) has been updated.
Cheers – and here we are…. or here we were!
After a full 3 + weeks of Italy, we were about to head home. But not before we took out the garbage 🙂 ! Between different types of recycle, green bin, and regular garbage, every day something is collected. Or you can take your waste to the local drop off place at your own discretion – which is what we chose to do. So I made the trip down to the local repository with our various types of rubbish.
We had time for a coffee and croissant one last time and then headed back to collect all our bags. We were on the 3rd floor with no elevator, so a couple of trips down the stairs was required. And that’s when we made the big faux pas!!!! Sometimes life happens in slow motion – and it did then. Michael had a set of bags down the stairs and I was bringing out the next set so that he didn’t leave the others unattended too long. And that’s when we both saw the door close behind me…. and of course it automatically locked. I missed grabbing it by the tiniest margin – but that was too much. Luckily Michael had his phone with him. We called Derek in a panic and he was able to connect with the owner. We were very fortunate that she was in town that morning and she was able to come over and rescue us. And that is why we always we plan on leaving early for important flights!
We caught the ferry no problem, although one departure later than first planned. We had one last view of the Rialto bridge and the canals of Venice as we took the trip around the island and into the airport. A very unique way to depart from a very unique place.
The flight home was much calmer than the flight over, although the plane was full of coughing people – especially the woman behind us. We masked up whenever we weren’t eating, but the mandate had just dropped and many were without masks, including our backdoor hacking neighbour. Back home Freda had made great friends with Picasso, well as much as anyone can make friends with a feral princess cat. The next morning Freda headed back on the road home to Winnipeg and county life resumed. But two days later neither of us were surprised when both Michael and I tested positive for covid. It is now December and we are well over it, but I do seem to have a touch of ‘long covid’ as I find I am needing my inhaler a couple times a day – something I haven’t needed in years. All part of our new normal I suppose.
And so our Travel Renaissance was complete.
