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The Ghost Town Picture Series — Part 2


Ghost Town

Taking a break during this five-week Ghost Town Series. Week 1, Article 2. Figured out the secret location yet?

Ghost Town
Ghost Town
Ghost Town

Black & White photo tips:

Black & White Photography—It’s All in the Color!

More Fun with Color Filtering for Black & White Photography

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Fun Photo Friday — Tenerife and La Laguna Favorites 3


La Concepción

This week’s Fun Photo Friday not only concludes our journey to Tenerife, but also that six-week long journey I’ve been presenting to you for the better part of the last year. I hope you’ve enjoyed the many sights ranging from Romania, to Egypt, to Africa. A hint as to what’s coming up in the near future: We just completed another six-week journey, and before that we travelled extensively in Southeast Asia with several weeks spent in India. But before I get to those, I may have to throw a bone to my firearms fans and do some much anticipated gun reviews. I’ll let you know how I decide to proceed soon. Right now I’m leaning toward a black & white series on a particularly interesting ghost town we recently visited. So my options. Decisions, decisions. Until next week, here are today’s Fun Photo Friday selections:

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 Canary Islands — Tenerife; Walking San Cristóbal de La Laguna


Iglesia de la Concepción (Church of the Immaculate Conception)

Time for a European-style pasty break, and Ursula found us a wonderful little stop. We were accompanied on this little excursion by my bridge partner aboard NCL Dawn, so we had a three-way share of delights. If you’re going to pin me down as to the particular pastry shop, I’ll tell you that I believe it was Café Palmelita (Google rating 4.2 out of 6,117 reviews). I’ll begin by showing you the display case of goodies that awaited us:

La Laguna pastry shop

Here we had some great pastries:

La Laguna pastry shop

And wonderful coffee:

La Laguna pastry shop

After that it was time to hit the streets of the old section of San Cristobal de La Laguna:

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