Lost Aviator
We were nearing the end of the tour, when the guide stopped walking. A few people opened umbrellas against the drizzling rain. The group gathered around her, leaning in to hear another story.
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Commonwealth Graves
There are 4,648 soldiers buried in the Bayeux War Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth cemetery of the Second World War in France. There was little fighting in Bayeux, despite its strategic importance to the invasion of Normandy, so the burials come from fighting in surrounding regions.
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Barbs
Seen from atop the 30m cliffs, the surf crashes into the tip of Pointe du Hoc below. The barbed wire is to keep visitors from exploring the sheer cliff face, but in 1944, it was used by the Germans to keep invading Allied forces from advancing from the sea and capturing the huge guns emplaced here. That invasion came on the morning of June 6, 1944, at great cost to the Allies, who did not know that the guns had been moved just two days prior.
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Preflight
In the early morning light, a beautifully maintained C-47 sits on the flightline of the Cherbourg airport. We would later see it spooling up for its practice flights, in advance of the WWII-related ceremonies around the region that week.
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1 + 4
Trees along the walk to Mont Saint Michel.
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Tube Sections
Years ago, before a trip to New York City, I read about Donald Judd’s studio and efforts to preserve its contents and open it to visitors. Yesterday’s New York Times has a beautifully written story about Judd, his work and those restoration efforts, now complete.
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16
One of the many tracts of abandoned row homes in the city where 16 of 16 houses on a block are boarded up. Block after block. Street after street.
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Straight Up
At Patapsco Valley State Park, near Baltimore’s airport.
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Ceiling Light
Today’s freight train explosion happened just a few kilometers from where I live. I didn’t hear or feel the blast, but those exact same tracks run along the end of my block and the train would have passed by me a few minutes later on its way south. So it got me thinking about trains.
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Low Tide Walk
Mont Saint Michel, France
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Peeling House
From the east side of Baltimore, near Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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Green Falls
From the walkway atop the Devil’s Throat portion of the Iguazu Falls, looking south at the Argentine side.
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Luggage Cart
A single shot from my first attempt at a tilt-shift sequence. The idea was to test techniques (intervals, shutter speed, etc.) for what will eventually become a tilt-shift movie. Shot from the roof of Washington DC’s Union Station parking garage in the fall of 2010.
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Memphis in the Dark
On a rare tour, playing the barely-lit DC9, Torquil Campbell and Chris Dumont of Memphis put on an amazing show.
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Moulin
The site of an ancient windmill sits in a field near the coast, in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France. It’s just a few kilometers from the D-Day beaches. There are folks who catalogue the various windmills in the region, but I don’t know any more about this one.
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Old Meets New
Near the entrance to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
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Windmill
A farm north of Baltimore.
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Reprise
I first saw Winnipeg’s The Watchmen live in Windsor more than 20 years ago. There are very few artists that hold my attention for half that long. But the band has always been great, with a fantastic live set, and their rare December, 2012 show in Toronto was nothing less.
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Lyon Rooftops
Looking east across the city from outside the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière.
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Lit Stream
A stream through the Gunpowder Falls State Park.
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