Saying Goodbye to Winter

 

Van Gogh Museum. Vincent Van Gogh. Early Spring, 1888.

Virtual Rootstech Starts Tomorrow

The annual Rootstech Conference starts tomorrow, and unlike prior years, the sessions are free and available online. There's a wealth of content available, just sign up on rootstech.org.

Curious and Hopeful

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Kathmandu, Nepal. 25 Feb 2018.

The shot above captures a school group piling through a narrow doorway in the Patan Museum in Lalitpur, Nepal. I had to move off to the side to let them pass. Their laughter and curious faces caught my attention.

The museum is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site at Patan Durbar Square in a city neighboring Kathmandu. The square and surrounding area was heavily damaged in the 2015 Nepal Earthquake. I visited Nepal for a conference three years ago this week. The portions of the city still showed significant impacts from the earthquake.  

Crystal Universe

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Singapore, 19 Feb 2018.

This is another throwback travel memory, from three years ago when I was able to visit the ArtScience Museum in Singapore. I've shared this a few times on Instagram. The shot is from a unique LED installation called Crystal Universe as part of the permanent FutureWorld at the museum. I think I got lucky with this shot, capturing the expanse of the lights that you can walk through, with a glimpse of the girl looking up from inside the display. The ArtScience Museum is one I've visited a few times, and hope to see again in a return trip to Singapore, perhaps in 2022.

One Year Ago

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Temple Bar, Dublin. 18 Feb 2020.

This shot is from the end of my last European trip before COVID. A colleague and I had a pint in a pub in Dublin, listening to a bit of live music before meeting up with Irish Internet folks for dinner across the Liffey. On this particular trip I had been in Amsterdam, lectured at Leiden University, visited the Mauritshuis Museum, delivered a training in Tallinn, Estonia, and stopped back through Dublin on the way home. I don't necessarily miss sitting on planes, but I do miss the experiences of travel, the conversations with friends and colleagues in interesting places, and the opportunities to enjoy time as captured in the photo above. One day we'll do it again.