Europe in 2018
Hello, all!
Winter weather is assisting me in getting caught up on photos and this blog. I just wanted to give a heads up to those of you who follow this blog for travel photos: Great things are coming your way! I went to Europe three (what is my life!?) times in 2018 and have some beautiful photos to share from the five countries I visited. This post is a sampling for you!
I am going to be posting quite a few of my 2018 portrait sessions after this (so my clients know that I’m still doing this side gig.) After that, I will have more travel posts. Get excited!!!
Happy 2019, friends!
Enjoying London, Italy, and Germany on assorted trips in 2018.
London in the spring
My first time in Malta! March, 2018
Summer in Italy
Summer in Italy
A fall day in Dublin, Ireland
Germany in October 2018
A Walk around London at Dusk
Just before the new year, I was able to take a walk around London as the sun set. I enjoyed a different angle for photos of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament than my last visit or my trip in the fall of 2015. This time I took a few (haha) photos as I explored. Hope you enjoy them!
I loved this view when I came out from the tube and saw the evening light on the clock face. When I crossed the bridge, I was struck by this doorway before turning around to check out the view across the river.
The view while walking across Westminster Bridge
The view I’d been hoping for!
There was no way I could wait out all the people gathered there to take photos, so I decided to appreciate their presence in this photo. 🙂
Poor quality photo, but I like seeing the details on this lamppost.
The Palace of Westminster
Big Ben at different angles
Christmastime with Big Ben
The view back at Big Ben as I walked toward Westminster Abbey
Central Hall Westminster
Westminster Abbey
I couldn’t get very close to this, but have appreciated this prayer on the side of Westminster Abbey since I saw it last year.
Westminster Abbey
Checking out where the Prime Minister lives… it seemed pretty secure. 🙂
Walking through the Horse Guards building.
Christmastime in London at Night
I’ve been pretty pumped about this blog post, not because there’s anything special about these photos (they’re not the best quality, what with me not having a tripod with me, nor time to fix my settings for every shot), but because London is so beautiful at Christmastime!
These photos are from a couple evenings last week when I went to a show with a friend and the following day Mom and I explored Oxford and Regent Streets after we went to a pantomime at the Palladium. I hope you enjoy this trip through part of London at Christmastime. Apologies for any incorrect information I give about the locations of where these photos were taken…
More to come soon. Happy New Year, everyone!
Taking a walk around South Bank
The London Eye and Big Ben
Somewhere near or across from South Bank
I couldn’t get enough of this view of Big Ben and Westminster Palace
I wondered why there were photographers lined up on the bridge looking this way… then I realized what a great shot it was. 🙂
I loved taking in the beauty and shopping at the Leicester Square Christmas Market next to the cinemas where all the London movie premiers take place.
Trafalgar Square, including the Norway Spruce gifted to England every year as a thank you for their help during World War II.
Covent Garden knows how to be festive.
Sights from more of Covent Garden
Mel and I enjoyed warming up in the fancy lobby of the Savoy before we went to the show.
West End is the place to go for shows!
Mel and I saw the show Beautiful, an example of store windows near Regent Street, and a church at the end of Regent Street.
Regent Street
More of Regent Street
Oxford Street
London: The Obligatory Photos
Hello again!
I’m trying to knock out these London posts so I can post more up-to-date photos soon. Most of these photos need little description since they’re the shots everyone gets when in London, so here you go!
Westminster Abbey
Outside Westminster Abbey
On the front of Westminster Abbey
This is the church where I attended Bible Study Fellowship during my trip… conveniently located between Buckingham Palace and Big Ben!
A great place to get fish ‘n chips!
On a work day, I was able to visit the building where my sister’s church meets, St. Botolph’s, Aldersgate, to get photos of the beautiful sanctuary…
Adventures in London, continued…
Good evening, all!
Some of you may have noticed I took a bit of a hiatus from blogging recently. 2015 was a rough year for me and I cut down on a few things, like blogging, to cope. My hope is to get back on track in the next few months so I can share more of my fun travels and recent photo sessions here. I hope you enjoy!
I didn’t quite finish blogging the photos from my trip to London in October of 2015, so the next few posts will be devoted to the fun that I had in England with my mom, sister, and her family.
Here are a few more photos from Windsor Castle and then some bonus photos from around my sister’s home. Stay tuned for Big Ben and Hampton Court Palace soon!
The Queen Victoria statue right outside of Windsor Castle.
Windsor Castle
It was so fun to walk this street again with fond memories of it from our visit when I was eight-years-old.
A shopping area outside the Windsor Castle train station.
It’s been a few months, but I think this is the Paddington train station. 🙂
Sundown on Farm Lane
I loved the evening light hitting the plants outside my sister’s home.
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It was a beautiful evening for a walk with my nieces!
Such a ham.
Twice the fun!
A thistle… pretty close to Scotland.
I love evening light.
Doors of Windsor
Hello, my long lost friends! In an effort to be a better teacher and good friend, I’ve cut back on blog posts recently. I do hope to wrap up sharing about my October trip and have quite a few fall family photo sessions to share with you one of these days.
I’ll start small with this little post from our visit to Windsor Castle. I’m a big fan of doors, windows, and entryways. So much so that I took enough pictures at Windsor Castle to warrant a blog post.
Here are some highlights from the largest occupied castle in the world!
I’ll start with this little recreation I attempted. The top photo is from my first visit to Windsor in 1989 with my dad on the left and our family friends, the Welches. The photo below is my nephews coming through the same gate.
My nephews hanging out with a Windsor Castle guard.
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gardens, and More…
What’s that you say? You’d like to see more phone photography from me? Well, if you insist…
While I usually prefer to only post the best of my best on this blog, I’m sort of using this as my trip log and in turn I am exposing my sometimes poor quality phone photography to you all. I’m assuming you’re not as picky as I am about such things and hopefully appreciate the glimpse of London these pics provide. After this post, I will have legit fancy camera photos to share… get excited! 🙂
We had the privilege of attending a children’s program at the famous Royal Albert Hall with my nephews.
Then we took a walk to Kensington Gardens. Fall sure is beautiful in London!
We stopped briefly to admire Kensington Palace (on right) and then continued on…
Have I mentioned that I love fall?
… to our destination. The Diana, Princess of Wales’ Memorial Playground in Kensington Gardens was so well done with lots of fun hidden gems for the kids to discover.
We had an adventurous trip home in the rain, taking many steps deep into the underground to catch the tube then a bus home.
Finally got a sister photo!
The next day Mom and I took the boys to Windsor Castle on the train.
Windsor Castle
Things you don’t see in every McDonalds…
Things you don’t see in every train station (and why small change is helpful here)…
A Sunday in London (from an iPhone)
Hi there!
I’m behind on blog posts (story of my life), but wanted to check in from my visit in the UK. Woohoo for Fall Break and a sister who lives in London! I’ve been out a few times without my fancy camera and haven’t had much editing time, so this post won’t have the highest quality of photos, but I figured you all won’t care about that as much as I do.
So here you have my first day in London, as seen from my iPhone. Fancy pics will be coming soon!
I arrived to a wall of welcome signs!
I got to meet my two-week-old niece Sunday morning!
We went to my brother-in-law and sister’s church near St. Paul’s Cathedral Sunday morning.
Apparently this place holds some history to it. 🙂
Church Building
Postman’s Park is right next to the church. I had to get a photo of this squirrel. Last spring, my Dad randomly announced “England squirrels have pointy ears” after the topic of England came up. It cracked me up, so I had to document whether or not English squirrels’ ears are different than American squirrels. I like to imagine that these ears are a bit more pointy, even if they aren’t. 🙂
This memorial display is in Postman’s Park and I found it to be such a beautiful, tragic glimpse into the past.
Here are some samples of the tiles displayed at the memorial. I was struck by the ages of the people who passed away, as well as the graphic descriptions of their passing.
Here are some samples of the tiles displayed at the memorial. I was struck by the ages of the people who passed away, as well as the graphic descriptions of their passing.
Here are some samples of the tiles displayed at the memorial. I was struck by the ages of the people who passed away, as well as the graphic descriptions of their passing.
After church, we explored a bit before catching the tube back home.
Nearby is this awesome park created from an old church building’s walls. The garden part is based on where the pews and columns were in the original church building.
Time to visit St. Paul’s Cathedral!
My nephews set this shot up all by themselves!
Mom and I with St. Paul’s behind us. We may or may not have sung a bit of “Feed the Birds” from Mary Poppins as we watched the pigeons on the steps. 🙂
Love the reflection of St. Paul’s in a nearby building.
Of course we had to get a phone booth photo! Many thanks to my mom for capturing the photo of the photo-taking. 🙂
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