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Mezquita-Catedral, Cordoba, Spain, 2001, originally uploaded by john m flores. The Mezquita-Catedral (Mosque-Cathedral) in Cordoba was my first real exposure to Moorish architecture and it blew me away. The place has been there for centuries, and has been a house of worship for two of the world’s great religions. The area in this photo features…
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Somewhere in Spain, 2001, originally uploaded by john m flores. After the Jerez GP, I rode east towards Granada and the famed Alhambra. I rode beautiful secluded mountain roads like this. I had never imagined Spain to be a place of such rugged beauty.
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Cordoba, Spain, 2001, originally uploaded by john m flores. Shot with a Pentax MX. Film. Old school and an old school, in a manner of speaking.
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Corning Glass Museum, Corning NY, originally uploaded by john m flores. Winter is…bringing long-forgotten photos into the light…
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L’Alpe D’Huez, 2004 Tour de France, originally uploaded by john m flores.
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Moto Guzzi Norge relaxes by the campfire, originally uploaded by john m flores.
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Gifts from a Good Samaratin, originally uploaded by john m flores. Working on my next motorcycle travel story for RoadRUNNER Magazine. I’ve got my GPS tracks and my copious notes, but very often it’s the photographs that trigger memories and ideas. Via Flickr:“There was a gusting and a lashing and a generally perturbed wind last…
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Oh Escher Where Art Thou?, originally uploaded by john m flores. Via Flickr:Dresden. For many, the name of this city conjures up vivid images of the Allied bombing of this “Florence of the Elbe” and the hell-on-earth firestorms that followed. Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five gives a vivid, first-hand account of this dark point in the history…
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The low winter sun takes the edge off the chill. In the background is my Moby Dick, a sign and building that I will hunt down until I get a photo that I am happy with. This gentleman on the bicycle has no clue that he stands between and my enemy.