Category: Charleston

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year to you all! Thanks for stopping by last year and I hope you’ll be coming back this year! Hopefully we will see some cool new and old places and all of our resolutions come true! Smile

Couple nights ago we ate dinner at the Noisy Oyster in Charleston SC. This place is located on the corner of East Bay street and Market street and it is nothing to look at from outside. Very kind of blah corner building, especially with all of their windows closed for the winter season. But you go in and it is a very different story, I tried to capture it from my seat, see it for yourself.

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S.N.O.B.

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It is a cool name, isn’t it, SNOB. Sounds like a nice place to have a dinner. It definitely looked cool in late evening and fairly photogenic. I’m usually not into fine dining when traveling, don’t have right attire and usually don’t want to spend a lot, but this place, according to their web site is super cool and prices are not so high. Hmm, maybe next time in Charleston I’ll actually go in and taste their food.

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Daughters of Confederacy

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I’m counting days, no wait, hours till vacation, just  couple days, 16 hours and off for couple weeks. I’m sure most you folks who take some time off at the end of December are anxious to get there as well. I’m going to try and go back to Charleston for couple days. Eat some oysters and hopefully see some fireworks.

This is where Market street starts, it is a market, with all kind of crafts, arts and many other goodies.

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Good Morning Charleston

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Did I already say somewhere that Charleston is awesome?  Couple weeks ago we scored great deal at Mills House hotel in historic downtown, only a few minutes walk to the Battery Street. So naturally, I dragged my lovely wife out of bed for some sunrise photos. She doesn’t mind, she likes to get up early. It was a start to a very nice day, I wish we had more days like this down there. We both agreed that it would be a good place to live.

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Holidays are Coming

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5k Mistletoe

Last night we had some reasons for a little celebration and Champaign was our choice of beverage. Good and tasty one. So this morning I had a bit of hangover. Did I mention that this morning was an annual YMCA Mistletoe 5K run that I signed up to do? Hehe, well, if you were there and saw huffing, puffing red faced guy – that was me. But knowing that the last 5K I ran was about 3 years ago, on the same occasion, that time accompanying my daughter on her ‘Girls on the Run” program, I did pretty darn good, somewhere under 28 minutes (just learned exact time – 27:04). I guess huffing and puffing gave me some speed boost. Oh yeah, and the hangover, nowhere to be found.

Christmas Tree Season is Here

For the next 4 weeks everywhere you go, you are going to hear holiday music and a lot of Christmas decorations and trees. Last year I started taking photos of different Christmas trees, you can check one in Marco Island, this one in Tysons Corner and this one at Reagan National. I don’t see anything wrong with continuing with this little collection and shoot more of them.

Today’s Christmas tree is coming to us from the lobby of Mills House hotel in downtown Charleston. I had to wait for almost 10 minutes till a few folks finish with their long southern goodbyes and clear the space between me and the tree. I’m polite type of fella, I didn’t want to shoo them away. So I was finally taking it and this lady walked into the frame. I could crop her out in the final image, but decided against it, she is not really recognizable and it shows that this is not a staged type of photo.

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