Category: Travel and places
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Sunrise photowalk along the new Modiin city center boulevard
Years under construction I’ve been watching the Modiin city centre slowly take shape over the last four years. I captured the development’s progress on and off in my photographs, many of which are on Flickr 👉 2015-12-22 Directing construction 2015-12-15 Construction one morning 2017-01-07 Exploring an evolving site 2018-06-09 Modiin City Centre construction update Taking…
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Vicarious adventures with GoPro
One of my new favourite YouTube channels is the GoPro channel. It’s an awesome channel for vicarious adventures, and some great music I wasn’t aware of. One of my favourite videos is this promo of the GoPro HERO6: The track in this video is A Moment Apart by Odesza, and it’s my morning work anthem…
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4th of July for everyone, except for Americans
Our son came to me this morning, and asked me this: Is it the 4th of July for everyone, or just in America? Me: Well, everyone has the 4th of July. It’s just a bigger deal for people in the United States. I checked my watch, and noticed that it was 06:49 (we’re UTC+3) Me:…
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Penguins on ice
We’re at the tail end of our Australian visit. I have a pretty large collection of photos from our trip which I’ll probably share soonish. In the meantime, here’s a fun photo of penguins at the Sea Life Aquarium in Melbourne.
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Storm rolling over the Hong Kong airport
I’m travelling to Australia with our soon for a family event. We’re travelling through Hong Kong, and this storm had rolled over the airport. It’s pretty spectacular!
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Fireworks for Israel 71st Independence Day Celebrations
We celebrated 71 years of Israel’s independence earlier this month. We joined thousands of Modiin’s residents to watch a fireworks display in the park. It was a spectacular display, as usual, and we enjoyed all three parts of the show. I took my tripod with me to attempt some longer exposure photography of the fireworks.…
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Seeing the sights in Tel Aviv and Jaffa
I recently wrote about my day trip to Jerusalem with my friend during a short vacation. On the next day we took a day trip to see the sights in Tel Aviv and Jaffa. We started off in Jaffa, with a late breakfast at Doctor Shakshuka, generally a great place to enjoy, well, shakshuka. From…
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A trip down memory lane to Stonehenge
My daughter and I watched this Vox video about Stonehenge over lunch today, and it reminded me of my visit to the UK and Ireland in April 2004: I found my photos from way back then (in full 640 x 480 resolution⭐️), and was able to impress my daughter by showing her my photos of…
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