Tagged With "View from the Chair"
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Re: View From The Chair Photography
Brilliant photos, VFTC! Welcome to TravelGumbo. We look forward to seeing and hearing more from in the coming weeks and months!
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Re: View From The Chair Photography
Amazing photography! Love the top picture especially. Look forward to seeing more.
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Re: View From The Chair Photography
Welcome aboard! An unusual story, and some very unusual and beautiful photographs.
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Re: View From The Chair Photography
You certainly have a good eye for what makes a photo exceptional. I look forward to seeing more of your talent on these pages.
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Re: View From The Chair Photography
It is always a pleasure to see things from the perspective of others. You have captured that brilliantly for all of us to enjoy. Welcome to TG.
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Re: Visiting Oslo? You can go today...or yesterday
Thanks, I enjoyed comparing my own photos to the historic ones
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Re: Viewing the Northern Lights: Tips and Techniques
Thanks. Some wonderful advice given. Love to see some more pix if you have some. And maybe some idea of exposure and time used to get your best pix. Interesting blog.
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Re: Viewing the Northern Lights: Tips and Techniques
Me, too! Spent 9 days in Iceland a few years ago waiting for the clouds to clear, and I realize that if they had, I had very little idea of how best to photograph them!
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Re: Viewing the Northern Lights: Tips and Techniques
I wished 'd known this on my first adventure to see the Northern Lights in Norway, suffice to say those photos weren't great at all. Fantastic tips to keep in mind when I do venture to see them again.
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Re: Viewing the Northern Lights: Tips and Techniques
Having grown up in Canada, I recall some spectacular displays of the Northern Lights, especially when I was young. What always impresses me is how they seem alive. I need to head to Northern Canada sometime in the next few years to see if I can get some photos of the lights. Great piece! Great photos! Thanks for all the advice.
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Re: Viewing the Northern Lights: Tips and Techniques
excellent post and pics...thanks for the photography tips too, especially with a subject like the Northern Lights
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Re: Oct. 9, 2019: Space Needle at Night, Seattle, Washington
I always enjoy seeing it while in the area, especially at night. Thanks for the comment and glad you like it too!
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Re: Where in the World is TravelGumbo #366
A very unique chair and dressing table crafted by a very famous company....
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Re: Where in the World is TravelGumbo #366
A few more pieces of furniture. A wood carved lion chair and a pedestal clock...
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Re: February 17, 2020: San Francisco Views
Go to Fishermans Wharf. Rent a Bicycle. Ride across the Golden Gate Bridge. Stop at all viewing spots. On to Sausalito. Stop for Coffee and a cake. Sit on the sea wall and watch the Fishing Boats cleaning their nets. The Seagulls will steal your piece of cake when you're not looking . Back on the Bicycles and on to Tiburon using the Cycle Tracks. Find the Ferry Terminal then back home to base. Wonderful days excersise !
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Re: Hotel desks disappearing in mobile age
I like having a desk in my hotel room. A sofa or easy chair would work, but I dislike working in bed. I hope we're given some options.
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Re: The Lucky Chair in Victoria by the Sea, P.E.I.
Interesting! Did the chair bring you luck yet? ;-)
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Jan. 1, 2014: A Bird on the Beach
I think updates of this picture should be a recurring reminder of the seasons. Add coats to the chair, take them away. Add hot beverages, change to cold. And in fits of summer euphoria, add bathing suits, take them away... I'll be watching!
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Jan. 1, 2014: A Bird on the Beach
I'd volunteer for the assignment, but the picture dates to 2008, and I'm sure the owner of the chair has moved it....
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Re: Biltmore-House A Place of Fairy Tales & Magic – The Biltmore Estate
I could see myself lost in a book, cozy in a chair with a leg up on a arm in that library with a fire crackling away.. yes I could.
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Tunis attack spurs both cancellations and support
In the wake of the terrorist attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunisia, in which 20 tourists were killed, two trends have emerged. MSC Cruises (most of the victims were passengers on the MSC Splendida) and Costa (a division of Carnival) have...
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Viewing the Northern Lights: Tips and Techniques
When you see the Northern Lights for the first time, they seem unreal. Almost magical, maybe even scary to some. The Aurora Borealis is one of the most spectacular natural phenomena you can observe and well worth a journey to the northern parts of the...
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32 years later, Marriott opens its 1000th Courtyard
Hard to believe there was a time before Hilton Garden Inn or Holiday Inn Express. Back in those days over 30 years ago, Marriott pioneered the idea of a hotel aimed at busy people traveling, often sales people or businessmen on the...
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Boeing's 'Cuddle Seat' tackles the economy snooze
A new Boeing patent promises a better sleep situation for economy passengers. For those who can't afford the lie-flat seats in business or first, sleep is often an issue. It's not easy finding a position in which you can lean or curl or contort...
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Unusual Hotel Rooms
There's millions of hotel rooms around the world and most are fairly standard. Bed of varying size and comfort, bathroom with show/tub combo, maybe a desk, maybe a comfortable chair in which to sit. Most rooms just differ by their size and...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, March 3, 2015: Chicago by Night
City skylines can look the same after a while, but seeing them at night is a different experience again. As part of a USA trip, I wanted to visit as many iconic skyscrapers as I could. The Sears Tower in Chicago was on my list and I...
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Airline scheduling: Hurry up and wait, or run like crazy?
Have you ever stopped to wonder, while planning a trip, how your airline’s schedule was planned? Especially when it seems you’re about to be condemned to a headlong half-marathon across the airport to a flight that leaves all-too-soon, or...
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Google's Street View takes on the Loch Ness Monster
Whether for fun, fantasy or serious purpose, Google recently mounted one of its Street View cameras on a boat and teamed with a diving team to explore he surface of Scotland's Loch Ness and its famously elusive (and unlikely) underwater resident....
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Where in the World is TravelGumbo (#223)
A new travel puzzle is posted for the week. Clues are posted daily so play along and see if you can solve where our mystery destination is this week.
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Yellowstone: Old Faithful Inn & Geyser
PortMoresby arrives in Yellowstone and begins her visit at the logical place, Old Faithful Geyser and its companion, the Old Faithful Inn.
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Empire State Building - The Experience
Samantha shares her Empire State Building experience with us, including some great views of the building as well as from it!
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Do you see what I mean ?
Robert Cranwell likes to look at the little things when he travels in nature and explains why -- you will too once you've read his post.
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Pinewood Estate: 25 Years of Christmas
Kai Rambow takes us on a Christmas wonderland tour of an amazing Florida estate.
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Norwegian new CEO aims at profit
With a new management team in place, Norwegian makes moves toward fuller planes and higher prices.
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Ernest Hemingway Home, Key West (Where Gumbo Was #353)
Gumbo was visiting Ernest Hemingway's home in Old Key West. The home is nicely preserved including with original furniture, memorabilia displays and descendants of the author's six-toed cat.
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Maymont Mansion, Richmond, Virginia (Where Gumbo was #366)
Gumbo was visiting home of James and Sallie Dooley, known as Maymont. The mansion is located at 1700 Hampton Street, Richmond, Virginia.
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February 17, 2020: San Francisco Views
See why Travel Rob enjoys the views of San Francisco from the water
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Tamarindo, Costa Rica: Winter Heat and Beautiful Beaches
Jonathan L took a trip to Tamarindo, in Costa Rica, and enjoyed a wonderful beach vacation.
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Spotted on the Road, Apple Valley MN: 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air
My family and I were visiting Apple Valley, Minnesota last week. One sunny afternoon, we decided to stop for lunch at one of our favorite restaurants. As I parked our vehicle, my son and daughter said "Dad! Check out the cool...
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Google Street View goes vertical on El Capitan
We're used to using Google's Street View tool to walk around cities all over the world, and even through locations such as airports and shopping malls, but now Google has opened a new frontier with its first vertical set, the iconic face of El Capitan...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, July 15th, 2015: Yellow Bellied Sapsucker
I was sitting in a lawn chair with camera in hand when I spotted this Woodpecker going back and forth from this tree to a stand of fir trees. It would load up on the wasps and black jackets that were attracted to the sap on this tree and...
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Chicago's History Museum knows the city's story
When it comes to the great Chicago Fire of 1871, seen in a diorama above, the Chicago History Museum knows all about it: The museum, founded in 1856, was destroyed in the fire and had to start again from scratch—only to burn again in 1874....