sonny photos

Rome Airport

My first time, shame I don't actually have the time to go and see Rome
I'm here for about 4 hours  ( in the airport ) to catch a connecting flight to Trieste
So after a movie and a bit of hanging around, I'm back on a plane Bye Rome airport ( you are in desperate need of more power point for people with their laptops ) Oh my, I had no idea it was this close to the sea, and look. . . there's a little 1-2 foot Mediterranean wave out there ( airport lefts ? )

En-route to Rome

So ofcourse I'm going to take cloud pictures one of the big lakes getting close to Rome

Bye Bye Belgium

Onlyin Belgium one day , and I'm off again.Good too, as it has rained the whole time I was back

Strawberries

On the way home from Hilda's I just could not resist and get some strawberries from the farm as well, as they were a lot cheaper than at the markets or shop

Yippeee

While I was in the tree Hilda fixed my shorts for me, Yippee, been trying to get around to doing it for 10 days now. Thanks Hilda

Back in Belgium it is Cherry time

We start this post with an empty bucket.
I landed in Cologne, Germany and from there had a 2 and a half hour drive back home, but passing near Lubbeek on the way , I just had to stop at Hilda and Wim's place. Hilda has been emailing me pictures of delicious looking cherries the past week, with one sentence. Come and pluck them. So , how could I resist We set up the ladder ( the deal was , I could take anything above head high, so she could still pluck the lower ones without needing to get on a ladder, and rightly so, as the top of the tree's branches is covered with cherries So up I go Strange, does not look that tall from this angle Look how many rain clouds in the background and we finish with a 3/4 bucket. I had to get down, as I was eating myself sick, 3 for the bucket one for the mouth, 4 for the bucket one for the mouth, three more for the bucket and one for me, and on it went like that, still I started feeling a bit sick :-)

Daniel Sannwald

Daniel was also in Dubrovnik all week, and had a photo exhibition on in the same place Tomislav did. And when the driver picked me up this morning, Daniel was already in the car, and bound for the same plane. So I turn the camera on to him for a quick chat

ok, back to the clouds

The first two shots are taken without a polarizing filter where as this and the next two are I don't know why I am getting these dark patches
But it is either the fact that it is a cheap ( bought in Hong Kong ) filter or something to do with the plastic window on the inside of the plane combined with the thick glass window, or maybe a combination of the two
so back to no filter
now I also mixed these shots up, some are taken with the G10 and some with Eos MK 2, can you spot the difference ? Deutschland coming close to Cologne ( Koln )

Take off Dubrovnik airport

Funny how the line of clouds line up with the runway
looks like a nice little tucked away beach on the bottom of the road to the airport, well worth a closer inspection if I make it this way again Dubrovnik form the air. At the last minute, I changed my window seat to the other side of the plane, glad I did , as otherwise would have been looking at just the sea
Now I added x's to this photo , to try and illustrate how the city was completely surrounded by the serbian army with artillery and there was a naval boat also firing from the sea, hiding behind the island, so no one from the city could target the boat. Here is a small article from the New York Times at the time
I was going to keep posting cloud pictures, untill I stumbled upon these
Innocent women and children died for no reason, as Dubrovnik had no military base and was of no military significance, so for the people living here , it was such a shock, like Sarajevo, it was normal one day and then wake up in the morning next day, the dawn of a long war zone

Time to leave Dubrovnik

Up early this morning, no time to do anything today, like jump in this pool from my balcony, was thinking about it, but driver is already here to pick me up at 06:55 am At the airport I find this picture of the hotel I was staying at, that's my room , 2nd from the left building a new terminal, not ready yet, maybe I'll be back here next year ?