Like everyone else, I carry a camera when I travel. I'm pretty conflicted about actually using it, though: the constant click and whirr of all those shutters at scenic spots is like a plague of locusts, and sometimes I feel like knocking out gently removing the camera from the compulsive photographer's hands and demand suggest kindly that he or she look at whatever it is in real time, at least to start.
I do like to shoot from our hotel window. Sometimes what's right in front is interesting and engaging, and sometimes it's a brick wall. You know, like real life.
This is what got me started: the view from our room the Albergo Accademia Villa Maravege, Venice. It's also a reminder of how much more organic and alive non-digital photos are.
In Bologna, Italy
In Assisi, Italy
In Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre, Italy
Assisi again. Technically, not from the window of our room; this is from the lobby.
I altered the image to use in this collage; the door opens and closes so the butterfly man can get out.
In Arcos de la Frontera, Andalucia, Spain
In Bucerias, Mexico
From the Hotel D'Avagour, Dinan, Brittany, France
From the Hotel Le Cep, Beaune, Burgundy, France.
From the apartment we rented at 7 Rue Livingstone, Montmartre, Paris...
Found a 1930's postcard with pretty much the same view. Cool.
From the Keoio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo
From the Hilton Financial District, San Francisco. That's my home town, but we were great consumers of SF hotels while we were living in the Sierra hinterboonies.
From the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
We paid a small fortune for this view from an eminently forgettable hotel in Manhattan's Murray Hill ...
I like this version better.
From the Hotel Arigone in Olomouc, Czech Republic, just last Saturday.
From the Marriott across the street from the Prague airport, later that same day.
My favorite view of all, from the bedroom window at home this morning. I was up at the literal crack of dawn, still synched to European time and ready for a shot of Becharovka.
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