Website Update - 2024 Portfolio
Once again, if you want to skip the blog post click here to go directly to Dan’s Photos>Annual Portfolios where you can just click on the 2024 Portfolio image and start browsing. Once into the page you can click on any of the tiles to get to a gallery that will show each image individually and, more importantly, larger. You can scroll through the images using the arrows to the left or right. At the bottom of the portfolio page is a View More button that takes you to even more images (read: a lot more) from 2024, some of which are variations on images in the main gallery.
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, 2024 was the year that Ann and I finally got around to doing what we’ve been trying to do in Europe - take photography trips the way we want to do them. No more COVID, no more registration issues with the bimobil and no more moving from one country to another and all that entails to get in the way. As a result, we managed to pack in a lot of photography during the year, to include a couple of our beloved “trips.”
It started with shorter weekend trips at the end of 2023 and into early 2024, which included a lot of cold days and barren winter forests.
Those weekend trips were preparation for our first week-long test run in the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park in Germany. It was still not quite spring time, but it gave us some familiarity with living in the bimobil (lots learned from that trip) and helped us shake off a bit of photography rust. It’s one thing to do out photographing for a couple of hours on a weekend, another thing to do it day in and day out several days in a row.
That was a good warm-up for our 3-week spring trip to Sweden where there were plenty of opportunities to make good photographs. Naturally, we were a bit overwhelmed and sometimes didn’t feel we did the landscape justice, but it was exactly what we love doing - getting out, exploring and photographing.
The 2024 annual portfolio includes a few images from our short trip to Ireland (like I said, it was a good year for traveling), though not taken in the bimobil, but with good friends. Face it, Ann and I are rarely without our cameras when we’re on the road.
That was followed a couple of months later by our second 3-week trip, this time through England and Scotland in the fall. That trip is where many of the portfolio images come from because, despite the un-cooperating conditions, we managed a fair bit of photography.
In short, there are a lot of images in the 2024 portfolio. So take your time and enjoy them. I certainly did while I was making them. Hopefully we can keep traveling and photographing in 2025!