http://dsphotographic.com/index.php Travel photography from around the world by Manchester photographer Darby Sawchuk. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:55:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to a busy schedule, it has taken me a while to put up my photos of Riga, Latvia, but here they are! As with my photos of Vilnius, Lithuania, I have not yet included descriptions or keywords for the galleries - they will be added later. For now, you ... http://dsphotographic.com/index.php/2008/06/photos-of-riga-latvia/ Julius von Bismarck, a student from Berlin, has come up with a clever hack of his old Minolta SLR so that instead of capturing an image, it projects one. Dubbed the Image Fulgurator, it's not just any old projector. It's controlled by a sensor which syncs the projection with flashes ... http://dsphotographic.com/index.php/2008/06/behold-the-image-fulgurator/ After last night's glitches were ironed out by a moment of clarity, I can now happily report that my gallery of photos of Vilnius, Lithuania is now up and ready for your viewing pleasure. I got off to a rocky start in Vilnius with a cab driver and B&B manager both ... http://dsphotographic.com/index.php/2008/06/photos-of-vilnius-lithuania/ Between addressing mysteriously non-functional contact forms on this site and pulling my hair out because of a massive amount of corrupt image files, I've managed to upload a group of galleries of photos from Vilnius Lithuania. There is plenty more where that came from and sometime tomorrow (depending on where ... http://dsphotographic.com/index.php/2008/06/baltics-photos-trickling-in/ I'm back from my trip to the Baltics and I had a blast. My backlog of photos to be processed just got that much bigger... But of course, I'm not here in Manchester for long. Tomorrow, I'm heading off to Calgary, my former home. I have a week there where I ... http://dsphotographic.com/index.php/2008/05/briefly-home-in-manchester/ As of May 3rd, I will be away from home and travelling through the Baltic states. I begin my journey in Vilnius, Lithuania, then I head North through Latvia and, last but not least, I visit Estonia. I will depart from Tallinn and return home to Manchester on May 19th. Once ... http://dsphotographic.com/index.php/2008/05/off-to-the-baltics/ In honour of a wee trip recently made to Northeast England and its beautiful scenery, I have posted a small I have posted a small gallery of images that feature the Angel of the North. This sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley and located in Gateshead (near Newcastle) was controversial when it ... http://dsphotographic.com/index.php/2008/04/photos-of-the-angel-of-the-north/ Here's just what everyone needs on a Sunday morning: some great aerial photos of islands from National Geographic. I have to say, Bora Bora looks like something out of a dream. Palau too. If I win the lottery anytime soon, I think some island hopping might be in order. http://dsphotographic.com/index.php/2008/03/aerial-photos-of-islands/ It's time to continue some travels through Asia. When last I left you, we were in Ayuthaya. Well, we're still there with the latest batch of photos to be added to the gallery. This time I have uploaded photos of Wat Phra Ram, another of the fine temple ruins in the ... http://dsphotographic.com/index.php/2008/03/photos-of-wat-phra-ram/ My apologies to everyone who has tried to visit dsphotographic.com in the last couple of days. Some Tazmanian devil must have broken into my hosting company's server room and wreaked some havoc... A couple files got modified, but I've tracked down the bugs and things seem to be running smoothly once ... http://dsphotographic.com/index.php/2008/02/site-problems/