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Welcome to my (kind of) Scrapbook of happenings... thoughts... discoveries... Neville
One happy snow man. 
Photo by Dmitry Galin

One happy snow man. 

Photo by Dmitry Galin

Tamara takes a moment at Gaudis Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain.
Still incomplete, construction of this basilica and church started in 1882. Designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, who died in 1926.

Tamara takes a moment at Gaudis Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain.

Still incomplete, construction of this basilica and church started in 1882. Designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, who died in 1926.

Reading a book in Barcelona, Spain.
Photo by Yvan Rodic

Reading a book in Barcelona, Spain.

Photo by Yvan Rodic

Walking to school during a snowfall, with the help of a crossing guard, in Springfield, Illinois earlier this month. 
Photo: Seth Perlman - AP

Walking to school during a snowfall, with the help of a crossing guard, in Springfield, Illinois earlier this month. 

Photo: Seth Perlman - AP

The Danish are cool. Why? Because they love their bicycles; riding them even in the middle of winter. They commute to and from work and go to parties on their bikes, no matter what the weather. 
And they do it in style. Just like these two women in Søtorvet, Copenhagen.
Photograph by Franz-Michael S. Mellbin / Flickr

The Danish are cool. Why? Because they love their bicycles; riding them even in the middle of winter. They commute to and from work and go to parties on their bikes, no matter what the weather. 

And they do it in style. Just like these two women in Søtorvet, Copenhagen.

Photograph by Franz-Michael S. Mellbin / Flickr

A lone Tamborillero crossing a street in San Sebastian, Spain.
Because of rain, many events for El Dia Grande, the day for Sebastian feasts, were cancelled. 
Photo: Alvaro Barrientos - AP

A lone Tamborillero crossing a street in San Sebastian, Spain.

Because of rain, many events for El Dia Grande, the day for Sebastian feasts, were cancelled. 

Photo: Alvaro Barrientos - AP

Somewhere in the French Alps… a scene from La Grande Odyssee sled dogs race, near Mont-Cenis Path.
The race takes 11 days, crossing the Alps for more than 621 miles. 
Photographer Denis Balibouse took this long exposure with a fisheye lens.

Somewhere in the French Alps… a scene from La Grande Odyssee sled dogs race, near Mont-Cenis Path.

The race takes 11 days, crossing the Alps for more than 621 miles. 

Photographer Denis Balibouse took this long exposure with a fisheye lens.

Somewhere on top of the Golden Gate Bridge…
Source unknown

Somewhere on top of the Golden Gate Bridge…

Source unknown

An interesting, but brief, Q&A with Italian photographer Camilla Alibrandi is featured on The Sartorialist. 
She describes her individual style, like wearing a strapless dress while she’s working… “It makes me feel safe and secure to think that others may understand me better through the image I put forth.”
It’s always good to find someone whose proud of their own individuality and expression of it.

An interesting, but brief, Q&A with Italian photographer Camilla Alibrandi is featured on The Sartorialist

She describes her individual style, like wearing a strapless dress while she’s working… “It makes me feel safe and secure to think that others may understand me better through the image I put forth.”

It’s always good to find someone whose proud of their own individuality and expression of it.

At the Jardins du Trocadero in Paris… a self portrait by photographer, Nastia Sokolova.

At the Jardins du Trocadero in Paris… a self portrait by photographer, Nastia Sokolova.

True Love in Pictures is a photography project both Garance Doré and Scott Schuman participated in for Tiffany & Co. 
Using Instagram, they have created interesting, and romantic results. 

True Love in Pictures is a photography project both Garance Doré and Scott Schuman participated in for Tiffany & Co. 

Using Instagram, they have created interesting, and romantic results. 

Lily Collins looks amazing as Snow White in Mirror Mirror, a Relativity Media feature due out this March. 
Lily previously played Sandra Bullock’s daughter in The Blind Side and is the daughter of singer / songwriter Phil Collins. 
The Hollywood Reporter has exclusive photos.

Lily Collins looks amazing as Snow White in Mirror Mirror, a Relativity Media feature due out this March. 

Lily previously played Sandra Bullock’s daughter in The Blind Side and is the daughter of singer / songwriter Phil Collins. 

The Hollywood Reporter has exclusive photos.

In Wengen, Switzerland, the Jungfrau mountain in the Swiss Alps is illuminated by the national flag to celebrate the centenary of the Jungfrau mountain railway. 
The railway station, at Jungfraujoch, is called the “Top of Europe” since it’s the highest railway station in Europe.
The station has an ice palace, and a short elevator ride up to the Sphinx observatory will provide an awesome, up close view of the Aletsch Glacier. And on a clear day, you can see as far as France, Germany and Italy. 
Lighting artist - Gerry Hofstetter / Photo by Alessandro Della Bella - Keystone

In Wengen, Switzerland, the Jungfrau mountain in the Swiss Alps is illuminated by the national flag to celebrate the centenary of the Jungfrau mountain railway. 

The railway station, at Jungfraujoch, is called the “Top of Europe” since it’s the highest railway station in Europe.

The station has an ice palace, and a short elevator ride up to the Sphinx observatory will provide an awesome, up close view of the Aletsch Glacier. And on a clear day, you can see as far as France, Germany and Italy. 

Lighting artist - Gerry Hofstetter / Photo by Alessandro Della Bella - Keystone

Love this photo of a “very happy married couple” in a “truly modern wedding” at a Starbucks in Texas. 
Photo by Mary Rambin

Love this photo of a “very happy married couple” in a “truly modern wedding” at a Starbucks in Texas. 

Photo by Mary Rambin

From a car window in Ontario, Canada - a wet street scene.
Photograph by Frederic Mercnik / National Geographic

From a car window in Ontario, Canada - a wet street scene.

Photograph by Frederic Mercnik / National Geographic