Hanels' Travels and Photography

Ancient vehicle from Swiss transport Museum

Travel your way

Travel your way There are many photographs on travels in our collection, but the collection below is the one, I chose for this context Travel by road Have you been to the Swiss museum of transport. In school days, they used to take us there to teach us about …

Travel your way- contest, deadline and nominiees

Dear Everyone I promised the nominees of Travel your way and of course my entry, which will follow My Nominees are Vladimir Brezina of Wind against current (thought of you strongly, Euopre has today one of its strongest storms!! Janaline of Janaline’s world journey Abu Zar of http://zarabu.wordpress.com/ Travelita …

Horizon from Gemmipass- Weekly Photo Challenge

This weeks’ photo challenge is about Horizons. Just back from the mountains, sharing with you the beautiful – a bit dizzy- horizon from and to 2350 m height. Horizons of and from Gemmipass, Valais, Switzerland Entering Leukerbad: Gemmipass The Gemmipass lies in Leukerbad, a small town in …

Autumn Holidays in Leukerbad, Valais?

Autumn Holidays in Leukerbad? You are choosing Autumn holidays for your family or as twosome? You don’t know where to go? It should be sunny? You should be able to enjoy some outdoors, at least to some extent? Leukerbad – Hot water springs at 36 C, Gemmipass Trekking …

The hue of you – weekly photo challenge

Hues, which define me Are there any colors, which can define us? Will the favorite colors always remain the same? Blue, then black and then again an array of colors have accompanied me throughout and thus to me this is a variable throughout times! Below are a few favorite colors …

Images in mirrors

Images in Mirrors Ever noted the interesting images, created in the mirrors of the glass panes of buildings or the car? Just inspired, here sharing with you some -unexpected- images Foto 1: Gruyerer land through the mirror Foto 2-4: Images in Hong Kong’s buildings …

Travel theme: Brown

Ailsa chose brown as the travel theme this week, not making it very easy to choose the photographs for this challenge! Travel Theme: Brown – hard to choose and yet in abundance around us! Here is, what I found for you in my collection: Brown in nature – …

Hong Kong Skyline: Blue hour photography

Ming Gullo, the photographer at A View with Ming, wrote an article on the fundamentals of color and photography, from temperature and white balance to hue, saturation, lightness, and contrast. To practice color photography, she introduced the “Blue hour photography”, not to be confused by the Golden hour! During …

Postcard From… Lahore

My account of our visit to Lahore over new year last year appeared as a guest post on Emily Luxton’s Blog. It has turned out quite long, but at times it is difficult to shorten all you have experienced! Thank you for bearing with me for the length of the …

Abu Dhabi Grand Mosque & Eid ul Azha, Photo essay

Originally posted on Following the trail of Ibn Battuta:
Tomorrow is the 2nd highest festival of the Islamic Calender, the Eid ul Azha. At this occasion, I decided to present a photo essay of the Abhu Dhabi Grand Mosque, after an introductory blogpost yesterday Abu Dhabi Grand Mosque It is…

Infinite – Weekly Photo Challenge: Ibn Battuta Hotel, Dubai

For this week’s challenge, Infinite, I found this photo from the Ibn Battuta Gate Hotel Ibn Battuta Gate Hotel, Dubai – infinite corridor Related Post: Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite Photo Essay: stop over in Dubai Dubai, a city with many faces

Good morning in Waldviertel, Austria //Weekly photo challenge

This week’s photo challenge is “Good Morning” Waldviertel- an Austrian region The Waldviertel (Forest Quarter) is the northwestern region of the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is bounded to the south by the Danube, to the southwest by Upper Austria, to the northwest and the north by the …

Como at the lake – too beautiful to be missed!

Before I tell you more how beautiful Como is, here is a news to share: Finally – our own domain! With 6 months my hands at blogging, I have decided that I love to blog, like to get inspired and hopefully inspire you! Enjoy the blog, support by sharing and …

Indulge and enjoy – Swiss chocolate, of course!

On Friday my husband came home with a box of Luxury Swiss chocolates! Läderach is one of the luxury chocolates, and now they came up with fluffed up cream inside- either unflavored or flavored with strawberry and lemon. They just melted away bursting a variety of tastes to …

Capture the colours of 2013

Capture the Colour 2013 – Photo Contest Being the procrastinator of all times, I had been putting off to compile my selection of the photos for the “Capture the colour” Contest. The task was to choose one picture for each color, which was tough, given that I had such a …

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