ADVENTURES
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Bacalhôa Buddha Eden, Bombarral
September 19, 2020
You can view my images of Bacalhôa Buddha Eden, Bombarral, Portugal here.
All photos were taken with a Canon 5D Mk3 and EF 16-35 f/4 L IS lens.
Among the Buddhas, Pagodas, Terracotta statues and other sculptures carefully placed among the vegetation, it is estimated that more than six thousand…
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Batalha Monastery 2020
September 10, 2020
You can view my images of the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória, Batalha, Portugal here.
All images were taken on a Canon 5DsR with an EF 50mm f/1.4 lens.
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Óbidos
August 3, 2020
Some of the pictures taken at Óbidos taken on August 3, 2020, can be viewed here.
Óbidos is a pretty town in the Oeste region of Portual, some 90km north of Lisbon.
All images were taken on a Canon 5DsR with a EF 50mm f/1,4 USM lens.
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Huge waves at Praia do Norte, Nazaré
November 21, 2019
Some of the pictures taken at Praia do Norte, Nazaré taken on November 20, 2019 can be viewed here
The height of some of the waves was greater than 15m….
All images were taken hand-held on a Canon 1Dx Mk2 with a 300mm f/2,8 IS lens and Extender 2x Mk3.…
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Train station at São Mamede, Bombarral
September 8, 2018
You can view the photographs taken at São Mamede by clicking here. All these photographs were taken on my iPhone 7.
The station was opened on August 1, 1887 and is on the railway line which ran between Torres Vedras and Leiria by the Royal Portuguese Railway Company.
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Derelict Pottery near Alcobaça
August 16, 2018
You can view the images taken at this derelict pottery near Alcobaça here. These images were taken on a Canon 5D Mk3 with an EF 50mm f/1.4 USM or EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM lens
While I was walking around a small village to the east of Alcobaça I came across…
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Estación Canfranc
August 1, 2018
You can view my images of the old, derelict railway station at Canfranc here.
All images were taken on a Canon 5D Mk3 with either an EF 16-35mm f/4L, EF24-70mm f/2.8 L Mk2 or EF 70-200 f/2.8L Mk2 IS lens.
Located at more than 1.000 meters above sea level in…
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Batalha Monastery
February 25, 2018
You can view my images of the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória (Batalha Monastery) here.
All images were taken on a Canon 1Dx Mk2 with either an EF 16-35mm f/4L or EF 70-200 f/2.8L Mk2 IS lens.
The monastery was built to thank the Virgin Mary for the Portuguese…
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Grumpy Waves
February 16, 2018
Some images of waves taken whilst at Praia do Norte, Nazaré can be seen here.
The height of the waves was in the region of 4-5m.
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Alcobaça Monastery - #2
October 13, 2017
You can see images from my trip to the Monastery the day after here. These images were taken without a tripod using a Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8 L Mk2 IS lens
I wanted to get close up on some of the statues inside the monastery, hence using the 70-200 lens.…
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Alcobaça Monastery
October 12, 2017
You can view my images of Alcobaça Monastery here. These images were taken with a Canon EF 16-35 f/4 L IS lens.
The Royal Monastery in Alcobaça was founded by the first Portuguese King, Afonso Henriques in 1153 and it maintained a close association with the Kings of Portugal throughout…
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Sanatorium near Nancy, France
September 27, 2017
The images taken at the Sanatorium can be viewed here
The Sanatorium was originally built for Professor Paul Spillmann in 1899, with a capacity for 30 patients. The building is located 7km from Nancy, France.
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The first patients arrived in 1902. A few years later, the property was enlarged to…
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Berlin Hbf
September 11, 2017
A selection of images showing Series 143, 182, 442 and ICE locomotives taken during a recent trip to Berlin when I visited the central railway station, here…
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Skomer Island
September 11, 2017
Images of puffins, shearwaters and other birds and can be found here
Skomer is an island off the coast of Pembrokeshire in west Wales. The island has an area of 2.92 km2; its highest point is 79m above sea level at Gorse Hill, while the majority of the island sits…
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KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau
September 10, 2017
Images of Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau can be viewed here . WARNING: this link contains images of the former Auschwitz concentration camp which some people might find distressing
KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau was part of a network of Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by Hitler’s Third Reich in areas annexed…
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Oradour-sur-Glane, France.
September 10, 2017
Images of Oradour-sur-Glane can be viewed here
On 10 June, the 2nd SS Panzer division ‘Das Reich’ sealed off Oradour-sur-Glane and ordered 642 inhabitants – and anyone who happened to be in or near the town – to assemble in the village square to have their identity papers examined. The…
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Vogelsang-Zehdenick
September 10, 2017
Images of Vogelsang-Zehdenick can be viewed here, and a BBC News article regarding Vogelsang can be read here
Vogelsang is a small hamlet 65km northeast of Berlin, with a few houses for one hundred inhabitants, a railway station, and a forest. A big, dark forest that houses a sinister secret.…
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Berlin-Siemensbahn
September 5, 2017
Images from Siemensbahn line can be viewed here
The name ‘Siemensbahn’ goes back to the German company Siemens & Halske who built the railway line in Berlin between
1927 and 1929.
The Siemensbahn started at Jungfernheide station, where it had a connection to the U- and S-bahn, on the U7/S41/S42…
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Berlin-Pankow-Heinersdorf
August 25, 2017
View images of Pankow-Heinersdorf here.
Bahnbetriebswerk Pankow-Heinersdorf is located right next to the S-Bahn station on the S2 and S8 lines.
Bult in 1893 by the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal State railway (Königlich Preußische und Großherzoglich Hessischen Staatseisenbahnen) the main building originally housed up to 24 engines.
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SS-Brotfabrik Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen
November 20, 2016
Photographs of SS-Brotfabrik site can be viewed here
In 1939, prisoners from KZ-Sachsenhausen were forced to build a modern bakery to the north of Oranienburg at Lehnitz Lock, for the SS holding company, Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke.
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Owing to war related shortages in sourcing the correct baking materials, bread production did not…
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