TRAVELING Magazine

Our 600th post, a nice milestone, closes our photographic look at our visit to Washington DC. The feature photo is a view of the Washington Monument from across the Tidal Basin while standing on the grounds of the powerful Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. Featured are the two living persons who made the static monuments and museums come to life for us, Yona Dickmann and Gordon Ward. As we noted in recent posts, these survivors of Auschwitz and Iwo Jima, respectively, are to be remembered with fondness and respect every time we recall the power and the beauty of our nation's Capitol.

TRAVELING Magazine

TRAVELING Magazine, my cover-only publication, is a first. On this cover, the publisher of the magazine is seen parasailing over Fort Fincastle in Nassau. The parasail was on a different island, but it was my highlight of the Bahamas. The ancient fort seen here was never attacked but stood at the ready for centuries. It struck me as the most impressive place I saw on land, though the parasailing was truly the memory I will retain longest.

TRAVELING Magazine

The latest edition of TRAVELING Magazine is here. My one-page magazine cover with no text pages is published after every trip.
Here we see the desert sunset along with one of the AA pitching hopefuls I had highlighted earlier.
The next post will open a new subject.

Fall Color Magazine Cover

Moving from one fall color collection to another, pleased with the scope of the images collected in a negative-weather month of October, I decided to put out an October issue of my cover-only magazine, TRAVELING, featuring the DuPage County Forest Preserve locations which have provided the models and the backgrounds. Hope you like this issue of the magazine you can read completely in the shortest time.
More fall color tomorrow.

Springfield Illinois Magazine Cover

Our post-Europe decompression plans included an overnight trip to Springfield for a visit to Lincoln's home, the Presidential Museum, his tomb and then to New Salem, his home as a young adult. Several images were featured on these pages recently, and we have just completed the TRAVELING Magazine cover for that trip.

My favorite image of Lincoln this trip was inside the Presidential Museum and outside the tour of Lincoln's young life. The handsome, pensive young man with the crystal eyes shows all the promise of youth and all the innocence of the man who knows not where he is headed with his life. My favorite location this trip was the home Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln occupied during the years just prior to moving into the White House.

Here we see the young Mr. Lincoln daydreaming while sitting atop his future home, with a book in hand and a name plaque from his first business, a General Store in New Salem. Hope you enjoy the magazine!

Next post will be a visit to one of the two equestrian activities that brightened up a pair of Sundays here in mid-October.

Baltic Sea Magazine Cover

My August TRAVELING Magazine cover bases itself on the skyline of Old Town Tallinn. Readers of my blogs during the report on the Europe trip will recall my love for the feeling of freedom in the beautiful city. Above Tallinn is a Russian Church from St. Petersburg, clashed by the ominous sign from the gate of the concentration camp we visited outside Berlin.

Freedom became the key word to the magazine cover and it became the key memory for the trip. As always, it was wonderful to come home to the Land of the Free, the United States.

London Magazine Cover

Recently finished my retrospective look at the Europe trip, and as I have posted earlier, I am publishing my newest issue of TRAVELING Magazine, my original single-page, cover-only collector's edition. Today we see the London issue, including the side trip to Paris.

Image-wise, my memories revolve around Windsor Castle, reputedly the favorite home of Queen Elizabeth II, see here in a view that features the family residence area. Towering over the Castle is a Redcoat-clad, Bearskin-hat wearing Scots Guard on duty at Windsor as well as the Tower of London and Buckingham Palace. An Eiffel Tower elevator pass refers to the Chunnel trip and whirlwind tour of Paris.

Another TRAVELING Magazine in the next post, featuring the Baltic Sea Cruise.