Daily Post Photo Challenge – Dinnertime

On April 16, 2016 By Isobar ExpeditionsIn Photo Challenge6 Comments

Believe it or not, we really struggled with this particular theme, dinnertime. Do we show some cute and cuddly animal eating something? Do we show a scene from a restaurant? Do we show a meal that we’ve prepared? Obviously any of those could be relevant choices, but we wanted to think a little outside the box. After a little deliberation, we decided on a photograph taken of the fish monger in the markets of Tangier, Morocco.

We strongly considered this picture of volunteers handing out food to people who had lost their homes due to the forest fire that happened in Colorado Springs in 2012.

And just because you can’t have enough pictures of cute animals, here is one that we shared in a post about seeing wildlife recently.

This was an incredibly delicious, yet simple, squid that we had in Estepona, Spain.

Fountain Photo Challenge – Urban Fountains

On April 14, 2016 By Isobar ExpeditionsIn Photo Challenge5 Comments

A fellow blogger, Polianthus, has asked us to participate in their monthly fountain challenge and this month it is urban fountains. In looking through our pictures of fountains, we found this fountain from Granada, Spain. It is a monument depicting Christopher Columbus getting approval from Queen Isabella to try to sail around the world.

Columbus and Queen Isabella in Downtown Granada

Who Are You?

On April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 By Isobar ExpeditionsIn Photo Challenge6 Comments

Many years ago we were introduced to someone at an event and they asked us who we were. We replied with our typical answer at the time, that we were Pete and Dona and told him what our roles were at our current companies. He looked us and said, “that is what you do, not who you are, let me know about you, not your jobs”. Those words have remained with us to this day and we’ve passed that same wisdom along to our children, don’t define yourself by your career, you are much more than that.

For this week’s Daily Post Discover Challenge – Identity, we tried to envision how we could describe identity using a photograph. We looked at pictures of ourselves at different times and locations, but that isn’t who we are, it is just someplace we’ve been. The more that we thought about it, the more that we came to the conclusion that we are an accumulation of the events of our lives. So, like a river that changes its course over time, we too have changed courses many times as our lives have flowed towards the future. With that in mind, we decided to use a photo of a river near Minturn, Colorado.