It’s Warm and Easy in Tbilisi (Re-post from Feb 2012)

I started A Traveler’s Tale in July 2011.  As a new blogger in WordPress, not too many knew about this site yet and I was still struggling to understand how to best position… Continue reading →

Foggy Sighnaghi

Back to the Clouds After leaving Tsinandali, we drove for around an hour through urban centers and sleepy villages in the lowlands of Kakheti then gradually went uphill, seemingly towards the clouds once… Continue reading →

By the River Mtkvari 5

I took this photo beneath the Peace Bridge, a modern pedestrian bridge at the Old Tbilisi section of the Georgian capital.  I included a section of the steel beam of the new bridge (upper… Continue reading →

By the River Mtkvari 4

Here’s a brighter version of a fisherman along Mtkvari River.  This one was taken on the same morning near Old Tbilisi but at a later time when the sun has risen a bit… Continue reading →

By the River Mtkvari 3

“Fishing is not always about the catch – it’s about the solitude, the quiet, the exercise of preparing the lure/bait, throwing it into the water and waiting. Thinking occurs, problems are solved, heart… Continue reading →

By the River Mtkvari 2

I wanted to emphasize both the bright morning sunlight and the colorful bank of Mtkvari River in this photo so I composed it in such a way that one side is glary (somewhat… Continue reading →

By the River Mtkvari 1

This photo is part of a set of photos of the fishermen I chanced upon one early morning along the banks of Mtkvari River near the Old Tbilisi section of the Georgian capital… Continue reading →

Mirrored 4

He shook his head when I approached him along the bank of Mtkvari River and asked if he spoke English, so I gestured that I wanted to take his picture to which he… Continue reading →

Mirrored 3

The Mtkvari River flows from the Caucasus Mountains where it was named Cyrus by the Greeks; flows through Turkey where it’s called Kura; through  Georgia where its called Mtkvari; and then through Azerbaijan where it’s name is Kür and where it receives the Aras River as a tributary; thus travelling a total of 1,515… Continue reading →

Mirrored 1

We will leave my ‘green’ photos for a while to visit the other photography projects  I did in Georgia, the country.  Last year I posted a series on medieval churches and monasteries of… Continue reading →