Szentendrei Door

While we (MJ, Kris, Scott and I) were in Hungary, we stopped by this little artist village for an afternoon.  It had a bunch of very small streets, alleys, and foot paths between buildings that are not in a logical pattern.  Most of the buildings are homes with unique entrances like this one.  I stopped to take so many photos, I lost the rest of our group.  They kept going (I was supposed to catch up) and after 5 minutes I was lost in these little streets.  I thought I knew what direction they went, but I was wrong.  So I wandered around for another 30 minutes before they found me…..  They grabbed an outdoor spot at a café and saw me walking by.  Honestly, I knew I wasn’t in trouble because we had a time and place to meet later for our trip back to Budapest, but I wasn’t sure I’d find them before that.  It all worked out and we had an amazing lunch at this cafe (see some iPhone food photos of the lunch below).

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Castle Lager

Here is another South Africa photo for you, but not probably what you expected.  This is Castle beer which is sold everywhere in South Africa.  Based on what I saw, it has to be the bestselling beer in the country.  Castle Brewery (@castlelagersa) was founded in Johannesburg South Africa in 1894.  Today it is part of South African Breweries (SAB), which is owned by Anheuser-Busch.  My opinion…. it’s pretty good beer      

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Beer

In the last few months I’ve had some outstanding trips to Barbados, Wisconsin, Seattle, and Sedona.   Because of that, I haven’t rotated by photos much.  You’ve gotten a healthy dose of photos from Barbados and Seattle specifically.  But Sedona is going to start making a run towards the top.  With that in mind, I have another Barbados photo for you tonight.  Here is a photo I took on Pebbles Beach in the Carlisle Bay area.

By the way, this was a great local beer.  

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10 Saints Beer

Tonight I have something different for you.  When we were in Barbados, we found this fairly new beer that is made on the island.  It was first brewed in 2009 by 10 Saints Brewery Company.  The beer is unique because it is aged for 90 days in Mount Gay ‘Special Reserve’ Rum casks.  By the way, Mount Gay Rum is made in Barbados as well.  This gave the beer a very smooth taste and made it our beer of choice all week.  It is named 10 Saints because of the 10 Parishes (like counties in the United States) in Barbados are named after saints.   

Anyway, I did an impromptu product photo shoot towards the end of the week.  I cleared an area of the beach near our hotel, with the ocean and sailboats in the background.  I took two bottles and let them sweat a little in the Caribbean sun.  Then I laid on my stomach to get the camera as low as possible for this shot.   And I attempted to bounce the sunlight back at the bottles.  

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NEWS:

Recently I was contacted by a research doctor at the University of Pittsburgh about using one of my photos for an upcoming conference.  We negotiated a little and came to an agreement.  So now my photo of PNC Park is being used for the annual Pheno 2015 conference poster.  The conference gathers international physicists working on the phenomenology of elementary particles, cosmology, and astrophysics.  Don’t ask me what any of that means…..  The cool thing about this is the poster will be mailed and electronically sent to potential attendees around the world.  You can see the poster below.