Monthly Archives: March 2015

Monochrome Madness 2-4: Missions in Monochrome — Mission San Jose

Posted on March 31, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

Leanne Cole has suggested the theme of MM for her Monochrome Madness Challenge 2-4 and so I have decided to add another posting in my series on California Missions that I have been calling Missions in Monochrome. Today we will … Continue reading →

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Monochrome Madness 2-3: Back to Florence

Posted on March 23, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

For week 2-3 of Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness Challenge I decided to go back to our travels in Italy in 2009. In fact, this shot was taken at the foot of the Ponte Santa Trinita in Florence just a couple … Continue reading →

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Hawaii 2015: St Augustine by-the-sea Catholic Church in Waikiki

Posted on March 17, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

On the day after our family wedding several of us who were staying at various Waikiki hotels got together to attend Mass at 5pm and then go out to dinner at a nearby restaurant. My wife and I only had … Continue reading →

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Monochrome Madness 2-2

Posted on March 16, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

For my entry this week to Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness Challenge I thought I would go back to some of the photos I took on our travels in Italy in 2009. And so I selected this shot of the Ponte … Continue reading →

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Hawaii 2015: The Honolulu Memorial and the War in the Marianas

Posted on March 15, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

This is the second of two postings on the lessons in history and geography we learned from studying the mosaic galleries in the Honolulu Memorial at Punchbowl Cemetery (See here for my first posting in the series). The focus here … Continue reading →

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Monochrome Madness 2-1

Posted on March 9, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

My wife and I visited Fremont, California a couple of weeks ago and walked along the shores of Lake Elizabeth where I took this shot. It will be my entry to this week’s Monochrome Madness Challenge over on Leanne Cole’s … Continue reading →

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Hawaii 2015: The Honolulu Memorial and the War in the Pacific

Posted on March 8, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

We received lessons in history and geography last January when we visited the mosaic galleries at the Honolulu Memorial in Punchbowl Cemetery. This posting will cover the Allied military operations against Japan from December 1941 through February 1944.

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Hawaii 2015: The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

Posted on March 7, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

On one day during our 8-day stay in Hawaii this past January we visited the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Punchbowl Crater. The cemetery is also known as Punchbowl Cemetery and was established in 1949 to honor those … Continue reading →

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Week 52 of Monochrome Madness

Posted on March 3, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

One year ago Laura Macky, a California photographer, and Leanne Cole, an Australian photographer, got together to produce a weekly challenge that they called the Monochrome Madness Challenge. Leanne has asked those of us who participated during the year to … Continue reading →

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Hawaii 2015: How Woodblock Prints are Made

Posted on March 1, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

In my previous posting I wrote about the “who,” the “what” and the “why” of Japanese woodblock printmaking. As we walked out of the gallery in the Honolulu Museum of Art that is devoted to Japanese woodblock prints we came … Continue reading →

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