The Georgia Aquarium has done an amazing job immersing you into the depths of the ocean and showing off its wonderful creatures. Their Ocean Voyager Exhibit, built by The Home Depot, is “one of the largest aquatic exhibits in the world and home to four Whale Sharks”. Seeing those Whale Sharks up close is worth the price of admission alone. Also, the walkway through the middle of the tank and its larger windows totally make you feel like you’re in another planet.

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African penguins at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta

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African penguins at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta.

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Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta

       With the pandemic going on I haven’t been able to visit my mother and grandmother in Atlanta in over a year. I go down to Georgia about 3-4 times a year to see them for the past 6 years, so I’m sort of burnt out with Atlanta since I’ve been there so many times. But with things kind of opening up with the vaccines, it got me thinking what would I want to visit when I finally head back down and that is most definitely the Georgia Aquarium. This aquarium is by far one of the best I have ever been too.  They did a really good job to make you feel like you’re immersed in this under water world. 

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Havana, Cuba continued

Havana, Cuba

Havana, Cuba

Havana, Cuba

Summer Recap - Washington DC sightseeing stop & University of South Carolina Graduation

        My cousin and I drove down to South Carolina for a graduation, so took the chance to make a pitstop in Washington DC to do some sightseeing.  

View of the Washington Monument from the Thomas Jefferson Monument.

Steps of the Thomas Jefferson Monument.

Hiroshima Monument.

       One of the location we made sure we visited was the Arlington National Cemetery.  As we were walking around one grave stone really stood out to us, it was the one of Sergeant Alan L Eggers.  We took the time to looking him and want found out was astonishing.  

       "Alan L Eggers (November 2, 1895 – October 3, 1968) was a sergeant in the United States Army during World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in combat near Le Catelet, France, on September 29, 1918, together with John C. Latham and Thomas E. O'Shea."

        

       "Becoming separated from their platoon by a smoke barrage, Sgt. Eggers, Sgt. John C. Latham and Cpl. Thomas E. O'Shea took cover in a shell hole well within the enemy's lines. Upon hearing a call for help from an American tank, which had become disabled 30 yards from them, the 3 soldiers left their shelter and started toward the tank, under heavy fire from German machine-guns and trench mortars. In crossing the fire-swept area Cpl. O'Shea was mortally wounded, but his companions, undeterred, proceeded to the tank, rescued a wounded officer, and assisted 2 wounded soldiers to cover in a sap of a nearby trench. Sgt. Eggers and Sgt. Latham then returned to the tank in the face of the violent fire, dismounted a Hotchkiss gun, and took it back to where the wounded men were, keeping off the enemy all day by effective use of the gun and later bringing it, with the wounded men, back to our lines under cover of darkness." - Wikipedia.

   

      Some shots I captured of my cousin at her graduation from the University of South Carolina.

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Hiking the mountains around "La Mitad del Mundo".

"A man can be himself only as long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free." - Arthur Schopenhauer

Self portrait while I was hiking the mountains around "La Mitad del Mundo" alone.  La Mitad del Mundo or the middle of the word, is located just north of of Quito, Ecuador and this is where the Equator pass.         

Weekend rock climbing trip to the Blue Mountains in Australia

           Before heading off to Australia I did a good amount of reach search about rock climbing in the Blue Mountains; I knew there was no way I would miss the opportunity of climbing in such a beautiful landscape.  In the reach search I did I found and joined a Blue Mountains Rock Climbing Facebook group.  There I posted the dates I wanted to climb and if there was any one that would be interested in getting together.  I got lucky and Damien replied to my post letting me know that his buddy Nick was visiting for those same dates on a weekend climbing trip and I could tag along with them.  So knowing I had some climbing partners I booked a hostel in Katoomba and headed off to meet up with them.
         

         After a two hour train ride from Sydney to Katoomba I went straight to my hostel where after I checked in and dropped off my bags headed out because I was to met with Damien and Nick at restaurant to get to know each others and have an idea what were the plans for the weekend.  We had a good meal and I headed back to my hostel to get some rest for the next day.
          While in the lobby of the hostel I noticed a girl was on her Mac using Lightroom.  Her images were really nice and the more I payed attention I could tell she knew what she was doing, so I decided to talk to her.  I found out her name was Melissandre, she was from France, worked as a graphic designer, was taking some time off to backpack around Australia, and her photography was beautiful (check out her work here: CelestialK).  I mentioned to Melissandre that earlier while checking in I saw a poster advertising a night time photo tour around The Three Sisters; one of the main attraction in the Blue Mountains.  The only thing the tour was the night before but we that was fine because we both had tripods and knew how to shoot at night, so we head off to The Three Sisters to play around with some night photography.

 

       At first we wanted to capture the Milk Way like the images on the poster I had seen, but it was too cloudy, so then we just started photographer anything.  Being a portrait guy I crated one of Melissandre using both our iPhones on the brightest setting as a key light to light her face.