Atienza castle. Small medieval castle featured in Game of thrones series.

I am a sucker for the apps that saturate and brighten colors.

Stopped on the side of the road to take this shot. Of course I did not have my zoom lens with me.

Even though the main reason I like to travel is to use my cameras, sometimes the best shots come from my phone. Phones these days are pretty good, though.

As the title of this note says, this was shot from the Space Needle in Seattle. A lot of blue in it.

This is a hi-res (61mb) image, so it may take a while to load. It was edited with Luminar 4, using their Golden Hour 1 filter.

Pope Francis on Sunday asked for prayers to accompany him on what he called his “penitential” pilgrimage to Canada.

Before stepping foot in Saudi Arabia, President Joe Biden knew there would be trouble. He decided to face the blowback anyway.

Archimandrite Agathonikos bows before the silver-covered icon of the Virgin Mary to offer prayers for an end to the war between “peoples of the same religion” in Ukraine. Until the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox faithful visiting Cyprus would come daily to venerate the relic.

The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international travelers test negative for COVID-19 within a day before boarding a flight to the United States.