There is something extra special about shooting in a famous location - you know the backdrop is going to be stunning and it will certainly be a change from a shrub or a garage door. However, the issue with shooting somewhere like the Hofburg Palace in Vienna - where these photos were taken - is that there are people EVERYWHERE. One of the best tricks to make sure people are not in your shot is to shoot first thing in the morning but since our schedule in Vienna did not allow for that, we ended up being very strategic and I am actually quite pleased with how they came out. Oh, and I can not believe this is the first time I am formally showing you this green Laser Cut Scalloped Trim Belted Dress. It made the list of my favorite purchased of 2019 but I realized has ...
Ancient Egypt’s Philae Temple
One of my favorite places we visited in Aswan was Philae Temple and looking back on it now, I think it was because of the water approach. Philae is an island in Lake Nasser, not far from the Aswan dam, and can only be accessed by boat. When it was built 2,000 years ago in honour of the god Isis it was located by the First Cataract and marked the Southern most part of Egypt. Today the Egyptian border extends 315 miles further south.Over the centuries not only Isis was worshiped in this sacred space but also Osiris, Nephthys, Hathor, Khnum and Satet. And as we saw in a few of the temples we visited over the course of Egyptian adventure, while the temple was started by Egyptian pharaohs it was completed completed by the Roman Emperors. What was unusual though was in spots the Egyptian ...
Best Dressed This Awards Season
A few weeks ago Chrissy Tiegen joked on Twitter that the SAG Awards was everyone's chance to wear their third favorite dress (the first two going to the Oscars and then the Golden Globes) and she was not wrong. Now that we are into the second week of February all of the key award shows have happened and I wanted to round up my best dressed from the shows. To be fair I chose my top five from each of the following shows, with no repeat wearers. Which sounded easy when I started but Scarlett Johansson absolutely killed the red carpets this year! Without further ado, the Best Dressed This Awards Season from The Golden Globes on January 5th, The SAG Awards on January 20th and The Academy Awards on February 10th. The Golden GlobesJennifer Aniston in Dior Couture ...
The Berchtesgaden Salt Mine Tour
Despite Salzburg wining an award for one of the best places to visit for 2020 if you are a very active travel group, like my family, after 48 hours you will be searching for things to do. Thankfully I had done my research before we arrived in Austria and realized since we were planning on spending more than few days and as it was not my parents first visit, we would likely need to leave the city proper. And this search was how I came across the Berchtesgaden Salt Mine Tour, which is actually in Germany, not Austria! Visiting the salt mines is only a half day trip from Salzburg and even though I now live in Europe it is still baffling to me how close the countries are sometimes and how easy it is to cross borders. Proof of this? This tour was actually in ...
