Animals, Mostly Birds
Taking photos of animals is always fun and can sometimes be a challenge. Birds, for example, are probably the trickiest as sometimes you just have to be lucky. For example, the egret landing on water in the third row of images below, was pure luck, with feet just about to touch glassy water. Sometimes when you click for a photo, you have to just hope for the best. Same for the blue heron in the top row of photos, this taken up at Stanford Dish in Palo Alto, California. The birds are motionless …
Bonefro, Italy
At one point in my life, during and after college, I was a professional freelance musician playing violin and viola in various ensembles in Southern California. One of my Italian colleagues from this time founded a chamber music festival in Bonefro, Italy called the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival. It was a three week intensive session for conservatory level string players from around the world performing chamber music and taking lessons with its faculty. Bonefro is a small and ancient town dating back nearly 2,000 years with a population of roughly 1,000 people and situated in the agricultural …