Trabants

According to Wikipedia:

The Trabant /trəˈbɑːnt/ is a car that was produced by former East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Sachsen. It was the most common vehicle in East Germany, and was also exported to countries both inside and outside the communist bloc.

Thy annual Trebant Rally began at the Spy Museum in DC today. It was the principal reason for today's outing, the earlier National Building Museum post reflects a side trip (all of four blocks).  Most with the 5D Mk III.

Factory Authorized Service

 Spies perhaps?

A Mini Woodie interloper

Cooler atop the Mini

Ris...

at the Ritz. Was in DC, wound up at the bar at Ris at the Ritz. The kitchen shots feature Ris herself, from behind, of course. All with the Fuji X100.

The bar, oof on purpose for a change.

The kitchen in color

The kitchen in B&W

Backend

The backend to a buisness trip to Austria was an extended weekend in Tusacny, more speciifcally the Chianti (Classico) region just south of Floence.  A decently well but wrongly planned trip resulted in miserable logistics in and out and too high an expectation for solo driving on the regions complex secondary roads. After a quick and non-productive drive to what is tagged as the least tourist-laden of the Tusan hill towns (Volterra), I headed to Greve for lunch and more tourists.  After that I got smart and styed close the to the Villa Il Poggiale (highly recommended), where I was staying, in what is probably best described as a Florence suburb, San Casciano Val Di Pesa. Most of the photos were taken within a mile or so of the Villa.

My favorite snap from the weekend is below, click on it or here to be zoomed off to the SmugMug gallery.

Post posting

When I posted the Ellicott City snaps earlier, I noticed I had not posted anything in almost a month and a half. Mostly due to the tendonitis outbreak I guess.  Anyway here are a few from Fort Delaware in mid-July and a door from down the street later the same day.

Fort Delaware laundry

ibid in B&W 

Fort Delaware libraryibid B&WFort Delaware hallway

Buthcher's Hill door

Ellicott City

Finally, despite the rain, I made it for a walk in Ellicott City.  Limited to the Fuji and 35mm becuase of tendonitis. First post being about the only decent shot of some musicans. Quick post here as the guy in the back asked if these would be on the web. So here is one, not so sure there are anymore of these guys worth posting or even one that includes the third guy out of the frame to the right. More a in a while.

Main Street musicians

8298 Main

A few more...

The typical Ellicott City snap

Stairs to the B&O

Apparently a typical Main Street stairway The elevator

New web site

as things continue to get less and less organized here, it seems to me that a more, today use the word of the year, curated site is need that is simply focused on my core interest.  So a new site featuring just the best of the fine art images is forthcomming.  It is mostly up structurally, although the inital content needs to made to conform to the notion of rigoroius curation and the technically it is running under the now hoary sprayedink.com domain.  For now the way to get there is nashtastic.com/nashtastic.  

Here is an iPad screen shot of the home page.  Click on the image to have your browser take you there.

Might print a few of these...

Small book, Tunbridge Luthern Church — Rugby, ND.  First and last gallery images are the front and back cover respectively. Done in LR4 this time instead of Aperture so a bit unfamiliar with the new book capabilities. Click on snap to zoom off to the candiate snaps, click on a thumbnail in the gallery for a manual slide show.

Tunbridge Luthern Church

 

The Saint

Hotel, Canal Street, NOLA, next to the Ritz. Marriott Autograph, reasonably priced, highly recommended — perhaps also my best iPhone snap to date. Certainly the first one to experience any dodging and burning.