I enjoy playing with filters in Photoshop or Affinity Photo to make photos look like paintings. Most of my efforts are pathetic failures, though every now and then, I come up with a “painting” I rather like.
Cherry Creek flows through Denver, giving its name to an upmarket urban neighborhood as it passes by. The creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, which eventually flows into the Missouri.
For those of you familiar with Hoi An, I am in the Cam An area looking north. The bridge is Hai Ba Trung road; the beach highway to Da Nang is to the right and downtown and Hoi An Old Town are to the left.
I am not sure what kind of fishing this boat is used for. It probably stays close to the coast, and may never get out of the estuary where it is resting in this photo. It’s rigged with at least one light, which suggests it is out at night.
It’s time to take a break from Europe and post a few recent images from home in Vietnam.
Planty Park? The Polish name seems to mean park of plants, or something to that effect. You’d think the city would have come up with something more evocative of Kraków’s distinguished past, but so be it. This marvelous urban green way is one of features that gives Kraków its captivating charm.
Like many ancient and medieval European cities, for many years, the historic urban core of Kraków was enclosed by a defensive wall and a moat. Eventually, as artillery that could fire explosive projectiles replaced catapults hurling stones, walls lost their defensive edge and cities began to remove them. In the 1800s, Kraków replaced its wall and moat with a green beltway that rings the city’s Old Town.
Today Planty Park is a beautiful common space with lengthy walkways shaded by stately trees. While it never felt crowded to me, the park was full of people, from locals going about their business to visitors with cameras. A place for strolling, quality thinking time, meeting friends, texting, or catching some morning rays.
Finally, when you have walked your fill or gotten where you are going, the city is never far away.
Maybe it’s just me, but if those were my little girls, I would think twice about letting them be surrounded by dozens and dozens of pigeons, which are not necessarily the nicest or the cleanest birds in the world.
Completed in 1619, the Church of Saints Peter and Paul is an example of the Baroque style, Kraków’s first structure built in this style. The group in front of the church appears to be Polish high school students on a field trip. Lucky kids, busy teachers.
