It was a quiet morning on Fogo Island, Newfoundland. * All the photos below are part of my Fine Art America gallery, available as prints. Just click on them for a larger format and more details:
This rural and quite remote place in Newfoundland is a dream location for people who want to relax and get out from a busy modern life, but also for artists and photographers.
Don’t take me wrong though. Fogo Island life is quite busy with a lot of fishing activity – they also have in industrial fishery. But in the weekend everything and everybody is at rest, abiding to the weekend rules.
That weekend the Atlantic Ocean water of Fogo coves was like a mirror – what a beauty!
This is how the fishery looks like Sunday morning:
Some fishing boats rest on wooden wharfs,
While, some others, on the water:
And as you probably expect, it was also the laundry day at Fogo
Even the church was quiet early morning before the service hours:
Wandering about all the lobster fishing? You will see that that made no exception… All the wooden traps were at rest on the side of the water as well. That gave me the opportunity to photograph them and play with them as paintings in the digital media 🙂 Here they are as picturesque as they can be:
Well, once again I adore Newfoundland and especially Fogo Island 🙂
These pictures of the quiet morning in Fogo Island are also available as art prints at Fine Art America. Click on the images for more options on types of prints, sizes and prices.
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Who said Mexicans were poor…??
This is a view from the back of a classic Mercedes Benz car, cruising one of the narrow downhill streets in Guanajuato, Mexico. Well, who said the Mexicans were poor?
I actually saw them coming from the top. It was a little unusual to see such a car going down on those narrow streets. They were also holding an umbrella to protect them from the sun. I cheap substitute for a real convertible top? Nevertheless, Mexicans are creative 🙂
The image with the front view of the people is not for sale (other than for editorial purpose). However the photo taken from the back, is available as art print in Fine Art America – my Guanajuato gallery.
Donaueschingen Danube River Source – A place worth visiting.
The main image of this post features “Donau Quelle” which is the German for Danube River Spring. For those who don’t know, Danube is the second biggest river in Europe, after Volga. It starts in the Black Forest in Germany and ends in the Black Sea, through the Danube Delta in Romania. From the source, the river flows for a distance of 2850 km (1771 miles) and goes through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine.
I always wanted to see the source of it. The time arrived in 2011, when my husband and I went to visit Germany.
Donau Quelle – Danube River Spring
The spring resides on the domain of the Fürstenberg family, where there is also a castle with the same name and a cathedral. The zone is partially under construction and I couldn’t get any decent shots of the castle. Too bad, but my target was to see the source anyway…
The water goes from here to the small river (Breg), which joins another river (Brigach) 1 km farther. From there it becomes the actual Danube.
Donaueschingen
The closest place to the source is Donaueschingen town. I speak a little German, but not enough, so what I could find out was that the name of the town could be translated as Danube confluence. And this is what it actually was. Here are two pictures of this town’s red roofs, viewed from above.
Donaueschingen is a very nice old German town with some new updated modern architecture and lifestyle.
All these pictures are available as art prints for wall and home decor in my Germany gallery. Just click on them to see all the options. If you are like me and want to have the Danube river spring image as a poster in your home, this is how it will look like:
Oh, we really liked vising Germany Stay tuned for more photos to come! 🙂
For the fun of challenges: FOWC with Fandango — Target