Favorite Photo of 2016 Inspired by some colleagues, I’ve been thinking about my best photos of 2016. I don’t know if this one is my best, but it’s definitely my favorite of the year… I love the movement in the shot — the surfers running out into the cold water to surf under a perfect sunset….
Most of the time, my teammates at Automattic work from the comforts of our respective homes in San Diego, Philadelphia, Virginia, Tel Aviv, Vienna, and other locations around the world — but a few times a year, we travel to the same location to get some face-to-face time and work together on various projects. Earlier…
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. ~Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek Rhodes Santorini Mykonos Navplion Athens
Château de Versailles
Nice, France Monaco
Rome Florence Venice
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Santiago de Compostela But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations. ~ Gwyn Thomas
But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old…
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one‘s resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions…Everything comes from the great book of nature. ~ Antoni Gaudi Antoni Gaudí