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iPhone Friday

A moment from attending a Night Photography workshop in Vermont with Loren Fisher.

My apologies for the intermittent posting over the past week or so. Currently, I’m attending a Night Photography workshop in Vermont taught by the wonderful Loren Fisher. I’m very much enjoying this, but it did require me to get a week’s worth of work completed before I took time off starting Tuesday.

While iPhone photography is not the medium of choice for capturing lightpainting or great Milky Way shots, here’s a quick snap to tease…

Rusty Truck

I took this shot as I was capturing a 30 second exposure with my Canon R5 (I will share from those shots later). As Loren was painting the light on this truck, this shot worked out pretty well and I like the sense of vintage that black and white presents here.

Much more to come later…some of the shots came out pretty well.

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Explore iPhone Friday featuring one of our Cardigan Welsh Corgis. A nice day for herding and capturing memories with my camera.

It may have been a slightly inconsistent week for posting content, as sometimes work gets in the way of life. Today, I did make it out to my wife’s herding lesson with our wonderful Cardigan boy, Stuff. As it was a rather breezy, but nonetheless lovely day, I did a little exploring with one camera and came back to take some iPhone shots.

Here’s one of those shots…

A Nice Day for Herding

Stuff is bringing the sheep around (probably not the correct herding term) as part of his training. Despite being small of stature, Cardigan Welsh Corgis can herd animals much larger than themselves, as Stuff has even worked with cattle.

He’s a good boy and had a nice treat during the ride home.

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Yes, I love travel and scenic locations, particularly Iceland, which remains my top choice for landscapes. And there’s no ignoring Skogafoss!

It seems like this series of posts has been well-traveled over the past number of months (use tag to travel). There are just so many great places and people to visit on this planet of ours! For pure landscape, I’ll admit that Iceland is still tops on my list!

Here’s another magnificent moment in Iceland…

Skogafoss Rainbow

Skogafoss is a stunning waterfall in this land of many great waterfalls. It’s also visited quite a bit, as its location is close to the ring road and not too far from Reykjavik. Every time that I come here, the waterfall presents itself in a unique way for that day, varying based on time of year, rainfall, melt-off, and many other factors.

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The city of Rotterdam has a lot of gems, including this futuristic architecture from 1977!

Some weeks I simply get stuck in a single country while going through my photos. I guess it’s the Netherlands for this week, as this installment of iPhone Friday gets us to Rotterdam. During a visit in 2017, I found myself walking through the city of my birth. There’s always something new to see in the city!

Here’s one of my favorite views that you don’t see everywhere…

Plan C

Although these houses were already 40 years old at the time of this photo, they still look futuristic. Architect Piet Blom came up with this design, of which there are several locations. The first set were built in the city of Helmond in 1972, and these in Rotterdam started in 1977. The Rotterdam collection has 38 cubes and 2 super-cubes, all of which are attached to each other.

As they were (and are) quite the novelty, residents were often asked by passers-by to let them see the inside. So one of the residents opened their house as a “show cube”, and makes a living offering tours of their interesting abode. I have taken the tour and can tell you that hanging art on the walls requires additional attachment points!

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In this episode, we’re looking at some ancient graffiti in the tomb of Ramses IV in the Valley of the Kings

Yes, folks, this Friday’s post is another one from Egypt, as there are a lot of iPhone shots from that trip. In the previous Egypt-based post of iPhone Friday from May 16, 2025, we visited Luxor Temple, which was stunning. This week, I’m taking you back to the Valley of the Kings, where we were in another iPhone Friday from May 9, 2025.

Here’s a view from the entrance part of another tomb…

Ancient Graffiti

This is the entrance of the tomb of Ramses IV in the Valley of the Kings. What caught my attention here is the graffiti that we see to the right of the cartouche of Ramses. To my somewhat trained eye, it appears to be a Coptic text, which does challenge me to see if I can translate it.

Of course, if you have Coptic skills…please share!

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A moment at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, one of my favorite local spots for appreciating nature.

After last week’s image from our trip to Egypt this year, it’s time for a photo that is a little closer to home. As a matter of fact, it’s just the next town over! New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is among my top choices for a nice day of visiting, taking in Nature’s beauty and grounding myself.

Here’s a capture from last year February…

Quiet Beauty

This statue always draws my attention, where she stands among the wonderful plants with that stare into the far distance. With hair looking like it has grapes braided in and a facial expression of deep contemplation, I can’t help but wonder what she might be thinking.

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In this installment we focus on Luxor Temple at night, a unique atmosphere created by dusk and darkness.

It feels like an eternity since I last posted an image from our amazing vacation in Egypt this year. Of course, time is relative, as the true eternity belongs to antiquity. This time I’m going back to one of the early stops in our travels, the stunning city of Luxor.

Here’s a lovely view…

Luxor Temple at Night

Getting to visit this temple complex at night is a privilege. The dusk and darker times provide an additional element of mystery and impressive atmosphere. In this view, we’re looking back at one of the colonnades toward Abu Haggag Mosque. This mosque is part of the temple complex.

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This week’s edition revisits a trip to Egypt, highlighting the usefulness of smartphones for capturing interior shots in low light, especially in crowded tombs.

For this week’s edition, I’m taking you back to this year’s trip to Egypt. As I’ve mentioned, a good smartphone can be really useful for getting interior shots, where the lighting might not be ideal. Especially, when you’re in a crowded tomb, such as the case here, it’s a good shortcut over taking the time for a proper exposure with a ‘real’ camera.

Here’s a look inside one of the tombs…

Toward the Afterlife

In this lovely scene we witness part of the preparation for the Afterlife, done with appropriate tenderness. Of course, it’s always good for the pharaoh to get some assistance on the way and have a good relationship with Osiris.

I’m curious how many among you can identify the pharaoh, whose tomb this is. Of course, you could just read the cartouche, or you may have visited it yourself.

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Sometimes all it takes is stopping by the side of the road to appreciate the stunning desert landscapes and warm light just before sunset.

This week’s edition takes me back to February of 2023, when I spent some quality time in Valley of Fire state park in Nevada. Arriving from the East coast at Las Vegas airport, I hopped in my rental car and drove toward Overton to check into my hotel. As it was still early in the day, it was exploration time!

Here’s one of the roadside vistas…

Desert Vista

As you can see, there is great landscape just about everywhere in this area, as I literally pull to the side of the road to take in this view. As it was January 31, sunset was on the early side, which made for wonderful, warm light across the desert floor.

Just another great moment to take in the view! Enjoy!

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Let’s go back to a photo from a 2017 trip to Rome, specifically a classic shot outside the Colosseum.

As I looked for an image to use for this week’s installment, I came across some shots from our trip to Rome in 2017. The amusing part is that I was almost misled by the Mac OS Photo app, as it bundled my photos shot with my Fuji camera with my iPhone shots. Of course, metadata saved me!

So here’s a view in Rome…

Roma Classica

Of course, this is a classic tourist shot outside the Colosseum. What I like about this image is the sense of scale as there are people visible on the second level on the left in the image.

This also reminds me to go back through all of these vacation images to put together a more consistent set of posts about these locales. In the mean time take a look at a post from 2017, ‘A Walk across the Forum – pt.3‘which happens to be my most successful post ever thanks to WordPress highlighting it.