Poznań Town Hall

Posted on August 3rd, 2021 under Poland. Tags: buildings, Nikon NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50 Z50, poznan. Comments Off on Poznań Old Town

I went walking through the town of Kunoy on the Faroe Islands after driving through a 1988 tunnel that was drilled through a mountainside at a cost of millions so that the 64 villagers would no longer need to take a ferry. I didn’t see any of the villagers on this day. But this whimbrel and its mate didn’t want me there. They must have had a nest somewhere.

Posted on August 1st, 2021 under Faroe Islands. Tags: NIKKOR Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50 Z50, wildlife. Comments Off on Whimbrel

Syðrugøta (Faroe Islands) on July 16, 2021

The one festival that wasn’t supposed to be canceled this summer was the G! Festival in the Faroe Islands. Well, this is what the festival looked like on what was to be day two. Very peaceful. As if nothing was supposed to happen here.

The festival was canceled less than a week before due to Covid fears. The country was approaching a 7-day average of new cases that may have hit (are you ready for this?) double digits. That’s right the average had gone up to 7 new cases a day when they said this outdoor festival couldn’t happen. A ridiculous reason to cancel an outdoor event in my opinion, especially since most of the country is vaccinated, vaccination or a negative test was required for entry, and there has been a grand total of one, yes only one, death due to Covid in the Faroe Islands in the past year and a half. Meanwhile, instead of going to the festival, you could walk into a small, indoor bar (without any checking of vaccine status or a recent negative Covid test result) on the Faroe Islands and drink right next to 10 or 20 other people for hours before watching live music that went on indoors from midnight until 4 a.m.!

Anyway, I’m sorry the festival didn’t happen, but I’m really glad I got to visit the Faroe Islands.

Posted on July 30th, 2021 under Faroe Islands. Tags: beach, landscape, Nikon NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50 Z50. Comments Off on 2021 G! Festival

Scottish Highlands

Posted on July 29th, 2021 under Scotland. Tags: Isle of Skye & The Highlands Tour, Nikon NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50 Z50. Comments Off on Highland cattle

Mad Ferret @ Stramash

@MadFerretBand @StramashEdin

I thought that one of the disappointing things about going to Scotland this summer was that it would be the only place I visited without any live music (due to Covid restrictions, which are generally less in Europe than in the USA unless you are in the UK). However, during a tour I was on to the Isle of Skye, my tour guide played a great band from his hometown called “Mad Ferret”. He sort of DJed the songs he played on the bus and mentioned that Mad Ferret was playing the following night in Edinburgh. I went online and quickly grabbed up tickets for us before it sold out. The show ended up being the first allowed live music in Edinburgh in almost 18 months, and virtually everyone there was seeing live music for the first time in ages and freaking out. An amazing evening!

Posted on July 28th, 2021 under Scotland. Tags: concert photography, Edinburgh, mad ferret, Nikon NIKKOR Z 20mm f/1.8 S, Nikon Z 50 Z50. Comments Off on Mad Ferret @ Stramash