The best of 2016 in 50 images. Culling is no joke! If you haven’t, go through your collection of images from the past year and pick out your top 50 images (or less, if you are feeling particularly ambitious.) Celebrate your successes! Whether you met your ultimate goal or not, I can guarantee that if […]
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The day after Thanksgiving, we decided to head into the city for a day of museums, instead of shopping. Judging by the business of the Natural History Museum, many other people had the same idea. After touring most of the museum, we all agreed that the gem and mineral section (not pictured) was our absolute
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I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, & the independance of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital. … for tho’ there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease & less misery. –Paris Sep. 6. 1785, letter to Baron von Geismar The East coast is rich
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While trip planning I usually Google for “must-dos” in whatever city we are head to, then pick a few things from the top of the list and a few from the middle to get a good feeling for what is most popular and what might be largely undiscovered gems. Hollywood Cemetery was pretty high up
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When I travel I either photograph my family, relatively unposed, as we explore a destination or take pictures of scenes that I come across. For the sessions on travel photography that I taught at Clickaway, I was struggling with how to use a model in a way that was relatively authentic to my normal approach
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During our Spring Break trip to Nashville and Kentucky, we stopped at the Jim Beam Distillery for a tour. Kind of a dubious activity with children, but they enjoyed it much more than I thought they would! We got to see the mash process in craft and industrial format, sampled Knob Creek straight out of the
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I’ve seen a lot of the West coast, quite a bit of Texas, and having lived in Alabama for close to a year now, a good amount of the South. I had not, however, visited many of the interior states. In order to remedy that, I arranged our Spring Break trip to Nashville and Lexington/Louisville and
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Stay in a private residence when traveling with kids. Hotel living can be simple. There is an ease to knowing that hotel management is available 24 hours a day. However, staying in a private residence is my favorite form of accommodation when traveling with kids. When you rent an apartment or home, you generally have
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Travel. It’s one of those activities that exhausts me from beginning to end, and I question my sanity while planning, traveling and recovering, but for me, a life lived within a radius of a few hundred miles would feel incomplete. Experiences that my family have had traveling have given us a new appreciation for the
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When you move frequently, low priced international moving companies become your friends and the definition of home becomes something fluid and amorphous. Not every location that you live in becomes a home, but many do and the traditional definition of a single, solitary place of home is harder to hold on to. My husband and
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They’re beach babies. Give them sand and a stick and they’re happy for hours. Pin It
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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable, and, unreasonable ways.” The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851 New Orleans has a long, long history. The French Quarter was kid friendly at the hours that we were there, but by the time we left around
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The day after Thanksgiving we packed up the family and headed down to Gulfport Mississippi for a quick weekend getaway. I found the most adorable cottage on Airbnb and, in a small way, it felt like we were back in Europe, traveling and staying in homes. With this Airbnb experience, though, there were no
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In mid December our good friends invited us up to their town to watch part of the celebrations of the festival of St. Lucia, the patron saint of Belpasso. The festivities continued throughout the day, but we watched the portion during which the statue of St. Lucia was moved from inside of the church, to the
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So, so cold. The high was 30 degrees and the baby refused to keep his hat or gloves on. We had left the stroller at the apartment in order to avoid lugging it up and down stairs, so we didn’t even have the rain screen as an option to keep him out of the
Adventure. Memory-making. Or, maybe…. freezing off our fingers and noses. That is a succinct explanation of our trip out to Versailles. The high for the day was not much above 30 degrees and there was a biting, strong wind with a steady heavy drizzle. As we got off the train the wind whipped right through our
The day after Christmas we had a tour that promised we would see Paris like a Parisian. We walked through a few less touristy arrondissements and a typical market street. Our guide also took us to a fantastic cafe and a wonderful small cafe/antique shop. Each was only a short stop as the tour
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After an early breakfast of Kouignettes, eggs and sausages we headed out on the metro to the Paris suburbs to spend Christmas day at Disneyland. It was chilly, but luckily the only rain fell while we were inside of the Small World ride and the boys all had a fantastic day.
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On drizzly, chilly Christmas Eve we took the Eurostar from London to Paris. I’ve said it again, and I still wholeheartedly believe it, train travel is where it’s at- especially if you’re bringing along the kids. Traveling under the Channel really was a non-event, but still fun to be able to say that we did.
The day started with a fantastic audio tour of the Westminster Abbey, then a short walk across to Buckingham Palace, a few wishes in the fountain and a walk through Green Park to get to the metro. After nap time we headed out for a reservation at the London Eye. The views that the wheel
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On this day we visited the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum and then walked through Hyde Park to visit the Albert Memorial and the geese, ducks and swans, before catching the metro back to our apartment for a nap. Later, we hopped on a double-decker city bus to Regent Street and gave the kids
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The weekend before Christmas we hopped on a plane (as much as you just ‘hop on a plane’ with three small children…) and headed out for a holiday in London and Paris. I’ll be sharing several posts that explain our travels in images. First up, we have a day walking along the Thames and exploring
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We joined a 9 hour (ambitious, weren’t we?) tour to Gozo. First, we boarded a bus with about 22 other tourists and drove to the port where we waited for the next ferry across the bay to Gozo, the second largest Maltese island. After we completed the crossing and boarded a new bus we drove
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We just returned from a long weekend in Malta! Traveling and taking advantage of our location is a huge priority while we’re living here in Sicily and so, despite some trepidation about traveling with 3 small boys, we packed up and jetted off. Our hotel was an all inclusive in a quiet area of Northern
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