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Cockatoo Island

Posted in Uncategorized on 14-June-2010 | Leave a Comment »

Cockatoo Island Originally uploaded by David Mark Erickson I spend my birthday on Cockatoo Island which is located in Sydney Harbor. A former shipyard, it has been converted into an open public space. The old industrial buildings have been converted into housing art spaces creating a ginormous modern art museum and urban playground. I’ve posted [...]

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I’m Back

Posted in news on 28-December-2009 | 1 Comment »

To commemorate my return to posting on my blog, I have some photos from my time in Israel. In a bit I will post some comments on my absence from blogging as well as sharing some experiences from my time in Syria and Israel to date. Tomorrow (Tue the 29th) I will travel to Tel [...]

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Travel Note: Head Space

Posted in Uncategorized on 16-December-2009 | 3 Comments »

The News Of My Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated. Especially so since there has not been any news of such kind. Rather, I have not been posting much since leaving Athens. To be frank, have been (still am) in a bit of a weird head space and not really feeling all that up to sharing [...]

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Travel Note: Athens

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Athens, demonstration, Greece, Grigoropoulos, photojournalism, police, riots on 5-December-2009 | Leave a Comment »

Getting to Athens has been an interesting experience, but I made it safe and sound although a bit wet as the weather has turned a bit. While Athens may be a big destination for a normal tourist I am really here for one just reason: to cover the demonstrations (riots) to commemorate the one year [...]

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Travel Note: Day Trip to Pejë

Posted in Uncategorized on 22-November-2009 | 2 Comments »

Me and a couple of the fellas from the guesthouse I am staying at in Prishtina took a day trip to Pejë (also known as Peć) on Saturday. Pejë is in the Western part of Kosovo and takes about 1:30 minutes to get to by bus. While there, we visited the Dečani Monastery and Rugova [...]

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Travel Note: Ljunljana to Rovinj

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Croatia, Ljubljana, rijeka, rovinj, Slovenia on 6-November-2009 | Leave a Comment »

Just a quick note as I sit in a cafe waiting in rainy Rijeka to catch my bus to Rovinj. Had a minor delay in Ljubljana … Forgot my phone at my friends house in Ljubljana so had to go back and ended up spending the night. Lucky for me since my photographer friend Jaka, [...]

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Photoshoot w/ Tabu

Posted in Uncategorized on 2-November-2009 | Leave a Comment »

I was invited by a friend of a friend to tag along on a photo shoot yeasterday with the local band Tabu. We went out into the Slovenian countryside near Postojna. The weather could not have been more perfect, except it was really, really cold! I have to say that band members did a great [...]

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Travel Note: Not Enough Hours

Posted in Uncategorized on 28-October-2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m in Ljubljana now and I am totally enchanted by this city. I don’t think I could give a higher recommendation to another European city, of which I have traveled to many. Moscow, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Rome, Bratislava, Prague, Barcelona, Brussels, Dublin, Budapest – all have so much to offer, but nothing quite pulls [...]

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A funny thing on the train

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Croatia, Hungary, train, Zagreb on 21-October-2009 | 1 Comment »

First little funny “incident” on the trip: Turns out that I was sitting in the first class compartment all the way through Hungary and did not even know it! The Hungarian train conducted never said a word, but the Croatian conducter, while very polite, was firm about the fact that I needed to move. Fortunatly, [...]

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