Time Lapse

On December 1, 2016 By Isobar ExpeditionsIn Colorado, Photo Challenge2 Comments

We don’t often take photos as a series, we tend to just point and shoot towards the objects that draw our attention. The one exception to this is with sunsets, which by now you know we truly love seeing. We will often take a series of pictures as the sun slowly descends from the sky until it finally leaves only the glow against the clouds to remind you that it was once above the horizon. For this week’s Daily Post Discover Challenge – One, Two, Three, we decided to show not just our favorite shot of a sunset, but instead show the sequence of shots that we captured. We aren’t putting every photo here, but the photos are in the order in which they were taken. This was a sunset as seen from our house, or what used to be our house, in Colorado Springs earlier this year in April.

Turned Our Attention Away from the Sunset to the Stormy Clouds that Helped Create the Sunset

Starting to Focus on the Birds in the Tree

The Sunset is Nearly Over, the Birds are Going to Bed

The Last Photo that We Took of the Sunset

It Truly is a Small World After All

On November 15, 2016 By Isobar ExpeditionsIn Photo Challenge, Walt Disney World5 Comments

The more that you travel, the smaller the world truly feels. People are more the same than they are different, there are scenes of beauty everywhere, and every culture has contributed to our collective consciousness. For this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge – Tiny, we decided to think about our world view versus just taking photos of microscopic objects. During our 20th anniversary trip to Disney World, we rode on the Small World ride, which is definitely a glamorized version of the cultures of the world. Despite the over simplified theme, the truth of the message is still worth understanding. We live in a world that is getting smaller day-by-day. Not just due to population growth, but more due to technology and the ability to share knowledge and images instantaneously around the world. It truly is a small world and we are all on the same ride together, so we need to treat everyone as though they were our neighbors. We did toss in a picture of a figurine that we purchased in France several years ago, mostly because the Christmas Markets are starting here and we have already started collecting Christmas items from each of our travels here in Germany, one of our favorite travel traditions.

Changes

On November 1, 2016 By Isobar ExpeditionsIn Colorado, Photo Challenge8 Comments

It is that time of year when everything seems to be changing. Probably even more so for us as we learn to live in a new country, but changes are always happening around us. This week’s photo challenge is Transmogrify, which is all about transformation. There are several ideas that jump to mind, a butterfly coming from a larva, a building transformed by artwork, or costumes representing the holiday season. For us, though, this time represents the transition from autumn into winter, especially as the days here in Germany tend to vary every day. So our entry for this week’s challenge is one of a transition from autumn into winter as viewed from one of our many hikes in Colorado.