Istanbul

Yeah, still on the move... Last weekend we hopped to Istanbul to visit Nico for the weekend. We had a fantastic weather and great company. We did the usual Istanbul tour of churches, mosqs, palaces, cisterns, bazaars, kebabs and pubs.

Karye Church

Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosq surrounded by Marmara sea and the Golden Horn

Topkapi Palace and the Basilica Cistern

Niko and Didem at one of the food'n drinks place we visited in the French street of Beyoglu

More pics here.

Concert in Caesarea

Last night we went to a Israeli-Spanish music and dance show in Caesarea. Our company had booked the roman amphitheater for the occasion and the show was great. It was a fusion of traditional spanish guitar music with a lot of heteroclyte percussions, all in a very "ethnic" style. It's quite hard to describe but we had a great time.



Additionaly to the pictures from yesterday I also (finaly) posted Bangkok and Sri-Lanka pictures on Zenfolio.

Bangkok

I left Bangalore Friday night through the new airport. My flight happened to be only the second leaving from this airport ever. I was kind of anxious things would go bad with the airport opening but I made it only 2 hours late to Bangkok.
The new airport is far north from the city but it took us only 75 minutes to get there ( we had planned for 2 hours). It seemed all cops of Karnataka had decided they wanted to be there, and obviously too many of them can only create traffic jams which they were successful at. Once arrived at the airport it was like a full battalion of 2000 cops with bellies and wooden sticks roaming around a bit lost with that "Idunowhatamdoinherebutamhere" look in the eyes.

The building itself is gigantic, ultra modern, and looking great, nice duty free shops and cafes in the international area so once the workers will be trained it will be fine. Sree even succeeded at getting me interviewed about what I though about the new airport ! ;)

Once in Bangkok, I checked in my hotel by the river, and as I arrived early my room wasn't ready so I got upgraded to the before last floor, with complimentary business lounge, great view unlimited booze etc... Ok I took advantage of the deal quite a bit ! And I love The View:


During the 3 last days, I took a lot the shuttle boats cruising on the river to go sightseeing around the city. The main temples and the royal palace are really very nice and I was pleasantly surprised. The rest of my time I've been walking in markets and narrow streets enjoying the city and its great spicy food.

What Pho Temple

Who said HOT! ?

Obviously I didn't find enough time to sort out all the pictures from Sri Lanka and here, plus the laptop screen is giving artificially warm color tones and I don't like developing the pictures on it so I'll do all this when I am back home (maybe tomorrow :).

Sri Lanka trip

I am back ! Eyes full of beautiful landscapes and very happy, that was a great suggestion from Mrinal to go there for the weekend. I flew to Colombo Friday night after parking the scooter at the airport. After a short flight, I took a cab to my hotel, and I was surprised when getting out of the cab by an instant fog on my glasses: the air was quite hot and over saturated by humidity even in the middle of the night.
I had convinced my driver to drive me around for the weekend (not too hard) for a reasonable price (harder), so he came back early the next morning and from there we drove to Kandy, located in the middle of the Island. The traffic was bad (surprise...) but we managed to sustain a steady 30km/h... for the next 140km. We stopped on the way at an elephant hatchery in Pinawala, we conveniently arrived at bath time, and this will be one of the nicest memories I'll keep from that trip. Herds of elephant playing in the river, being washed, splashing spraying, it was beautiful and fun.


Then we stopped at Kandy's botanical gardens, it was a refreshing taste of the biodiversity in Sri-Lanka's forests and a very quiet and peaceful place, plus it was very large. I got countless pictures of trees, but this giant tree covering an area of 50x50 meters was rather impressive.


Then we stopped at the temple in Kandy after a late lunch from market fruits (rambutans, mangos, bananas, coco water). This is the temple hosting "the tooth" which is considered to be Buddha's remains and is one if not the holiest relic of Buddhism.


After a long way back to the hotel, I had an orgy of delicious curried seafood for a ridiculously cheap price, I just wish I was more hungry then. No pictures I was way too busy with foods all over from the tip of my fingers to my lips.

The next day we went on a tour of the city which was nice but not as exciting as the day before besides that I got booted from every single place for taking pictures. There had been a bombing from the Tamil Tigers next to my hotel the day I arrived with a large number of casualties (10 deaths 75 injured) and an upcoming Buddhist festival had the army on their teeth.

On the way back to the airport we had lunch at the driver's sister place where we were invited for some traditional Sri-Lankan food: "Rice and curry" as my driver was saying. I got a very warm welcome and got away only with the promises to stay in touch and to come back to visit with M.


Once at the airport I succeeded in getting swapped from an indirect flight with a long connection to a direct flight in first class without any fee and having to insist, so it closed the trip very happily.

I am writing all this waiting for the weather to clear up so I can drive back to the hotel without getting soaked. And I know I am slacking, pictures are not yet uploaded on Zenfolio...

Flying for the weekend

As usual when I travel to India for work, I take advantage of a weekend in the middle to visit some place not too far from Bangalore. That way I traveled to Cochi, Delhi, Agra, Madurai, Munnar, Madras and Pondichery during my other trips, via car, bus train and local airlines. This time I decided to fly to Colombo in Sri Lanka, it's realy close and plenty of things to see and picture.

India, Cricket and IPL

It is difficult to talk about Indian culture without talking about food and spirituality (I probably got the order right) but the third, maybe second item on the list is definitely Cricket with a capital C. Cricket is here what Football is to Latin America: almost everything.
I know my interest into sports is usually pretty limited outside of world cup this or that where I'll watch a game or two with friends because it's fun. So during my first trips here I kind of watched this passion for cricket with amusement more than anything else. This time I made the step, thanks to IPL and my colleague Mrinal.

IPL ? This is some kind of Indian championship of Cricket that is brand new from this year. The nice thing about it (for me) is that the games are played in less than 3 hours, instead of 2 to 5 days !!! So following and understanding the game is not as demanding for an ignorant like me. Obviously many are shouting "Sacrilege", the game is loosing its soul, etc, etc... They even have lightly dressed (for some teams) Pom Pom Girls ! Scandalous ! I'll pass the topic but it's of a big interest for tabloids and many in a quite conservative country in regards of legs exhibition (outside of Bollywood).

Why starting a new league of Cricket in a country that has been playing the game for what seems forever ? Well this is my own interpretation, but last year there was the first world championship of that new fast kind of Cricket, and after loosing miserably at the standard world championship India won that one. So I suppose it was the right time to start a league of the same game. The amount of money that is revolving around is probably the second reason.

So what's this game ? I'll assume that, like me you're totally ignorant and know only that cricket and baseball are games where people are slacking on a field with a bat and a ball. Well, that's not this far from the truth, but there is more about it, I actually found myself enjoying watching it for some time on TV and bitching about advertising interruptions (and Indian advertising is quite entertaining to me). So you got 2 teams of 11 guys, 1 bat and 1 ball. Each team will throw the ball 20x6 times the second starting when the first is done (6 balls is an "Over"), while the other tries to slam the ball away with the bat enough to be able to run back and forth as much as they can between the batsman and the ball-thrower position until the other team brings the ball back (where another of your teammates runs to exchange position with you). If you exchange position once, you score 1 point, if you exchange 2,3 times you score 2 or 3 (3 is quite rare). If you throw the ball out of the field before any of your opponent catches it, but it bounced on the ground first you score 4 and if there was no bounce you score 6. If an opponent catches the ball in the field before it hits the ground you're out. and another of your teammates takes your spot. It's fairly simple but there are lots of subtleties and nice things.
The most elegant thing in cricket is the way they throw the ball, it is quite impressive, and there are guys that throw this piece of wood and leather consistently above 140km/h, other that spin it more like a ping pong ball, other that rub it so hard against their pant that they manage to get it asymmetrical and follow weird trajectories, etc... Besides that some guys on the field do pretty impressive dives to catch the ball in flight, and the batsman can show some nice skills, but nothing that me ignorant French would find as athletic as the throw.

There is quite some strategy involved in selecting who is throwing when and who is batting, etc... and it succeeds at making a 3h game quite entertaining. You can also learn the referee gesture which in some case would look like a dance, lurk on the pom pom girls, watch the enthusiasm of your colleagues in front of the TV and enjoy a Kingfisher, the local beer, and so successful that the owner also has an airline and sponsors almost half of the teams of the IPL.

Cricket bat and ball

The 3 standing poles are the point to bring back the ball before the batter completes his run, if you make them fall before he gets back he's out (or if the thrower manages to slam them down with the ball directly).

If you want to know more about the game, and its British roots, that just commonwealth countries are playing it etc... have a look at the wikipedia entry.

And this entry was completed while listening to Linda Lemay singing about the damned French with her delicious accent. Enjoy (no relationship whatsoever with cricket, don't search;).

Digital UV photography

I was answering Jyby's question when I realized it was getting too long and could make an entry by itself.

So UV photography can be done with digital cameras but you need one that has a sensor that records UV radiation, so that does not have a UV-block filter in front of it. Mine is in that case, most other need to go through a workshop to tear apart the filter. For all normal applications not having this filter is actually a burden and many consider it a weakness of the camera (I need to use UV/IR block filters when taking regular pictures).

Then you need a way to block all visible light and IR, which is what the Baader-U filter does (the one I have). It works by having many coating layers that get the visible light and IR to interfere with themselves and cancel themselves (filtering by interference). It does not change the wavelength of light rays that go through just reflects and cancels the ones above 390nm and below 320nm wavelength. You can look up some infos here: Baader U-filter.

On top of that regular lenses have coatings that block the UV, as old film was quite sensitive to UV they needed to prevent pollution by UV radiation (which converge differently than visible light so it makes normal images appear blurry if they are polluted by UV). This is one of the reason most photographers were adding a UV-block filter in front of their lenses in the past, now some still do but it's mostly to avoid scratching the front of the lens accidentally, filters being relatively cheap and expendable. So you can not use modern regular lenses for UV photography, they will usually not let enough UV radiation go through and they also tend to have too many glass element that contribute even further to the filtering of the UV. There are crystal lenses that transmit UV very well but those are usually insanely priced and limited to very specific applications (labs, forensics, military...). Another option is to put a very old lens that doesn't have all these modern coatings, which is what I did (I use a lens from 1951), or to take a lens that has few glass element and re polish its front element to eliminate the coating.

On top of all this, human eye doesn't see UV so if you have a SLR you can not see what you are putting in the picture when the UV-pass filter is on (unless it provides "live-view". With a rangefinder you don't have the problem because you're not looking through the lens (but if you are limited by the quality of the parallax correction of your viewfinder).

Yeah I had a lot of fun gathering all the gear and info to do that, there is an excellent site that explains some of this and contains hundreds of sorted UV pictures of flowers: Naturfotograf

UV Flowers

Last weekend I spent some time on M's balcony taking pictures of flowers. I had bought a while back some UV-pass filter blocking all wavelengths besides UV just for that purpose as some flowers are supposed to show patterns invisible to the naked eye. I ended up spending a good 2 hours going on the balcony before finding some that were showing something different in UV but in the mean time I got quite a few other nice flower pictures in visible light and IR as well.

Petunias (UV) note the black stripes radiating from the center

Petunias (visible) just white

Orchis (visile light)

And Forth

I am leaving this weekend for India where I'll spend the next 3 weeks in Bangalore. More indian news to come soon ! I'll also be stopping for a weekend in Bangkok on my way back. Expect some news here during the trips.

Back

I flew back from the US last week after 3 days in San Francisco for work and a 3 days weekend in New York city. I had great weather in California and even better in NYC. I walked a lot through both cities, with Rajani in SF and with Aamer and friends in NYC and took many pictures of bridges as you can see here:

Golden Gate, San Francisco


Brooklyn Bridge, New York City

For more pictures, you can go to the usual "cremerie" :). Now I am waiting for the Indian Embassy to stamp my passport to go back to Bangalore.

Hello from California

After an uneventful but long travel, here I am, in Sunnyvale CA for a few days of meetings.

Comic books list

This is not so much of a blog entry, but I figured that having my list online would help me and others when purchasing comics for me :p.
So here we go:

Alef-Thau (Jodorwsky): l’integrale 1
La brousse en folie (Berger): 8
Carmen + Travis (Duval): 1,2
Carmen Mc Callum (Duval): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Carnets d’Orient (Fernandez): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
La caste des meta barons (Jodorwsky): l’integrale
Le Chat du Rabin (Joan Sfar): 1x2, 2x2, 3x2, 4x2, 5
Code Mac Callum (Duval): 1,2
Le combat ordinaire (Larcenet): 1,2,3
Complainte des landes perdues (Dufaux): 1,2,3,4,5
Chroniques de la lune noire (Froideval): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Chroniques de la lune noire - Ghorgor Bey (Froideval): 1
Le cycle de Cyann (Bourgeon): 1,2,3,4
Le cycle de Cyann : La cle des confins (Bourgeon)
Le decalogue (Giroud): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Le decalogue – le XI eme commandement (Giroud)
Djinn (Dufaux): 1,2,3,4,5,6
Druuna (Serpieri): L’integrale
Les forets d’opale (Arleston): 1,2,3,4,5
Gaston (Franquin): 19
Gorn (Tiburce Oger): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Le grand mort (Loisel): 1,
Le grand pouvoir du Chninkel (Van Hamme)
HK (Morvan): 1.1, 1.2
Kookaburra (Crisse): 1,2,3,4,5
Kookaburra universe (Crisse): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Lincoln (Jouvray): 1,2
Les maitres cartographes (Glaudel): l’integrale
Maus (Art spiegelman): 1,2
Les passagers du vent (Bourgeon): 1,2,3,4,5
Persepolis (Satrapi): 1,2,3
Poulet aux prunes (Satrapi)
La quete de l’oiseau du temps (Loisel): 1,2,3,4,5,6
Tetralogie le Sommeil du monstre (Bilal): 1,2,3,4
Thorgal (Van Hamme): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27, 28,29,29bis
Travis (Duval): 1,2,3,4,5,6.1,6.2,7,8x2
Travis Karmatronics (Duval): 1
Le triangle Secret (Convard): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Le triangle secret INRI (Convard): 1,2,3,4
Dans le secret du triangle (Convard)
La trilogie Nikopol (Bilal)
Hors jeu (Bilal)
Le troisieme testament (Dorison): 1,2,3,4
Universal war 1 (Bajram): 1,2,3,4,5,6
Vlad (Swolfs): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Xoco (Palma): 1,2,3
Yiu (Tehy) : 1,2,3,4,5
Yiu premieres missions (Tehy): 1,2,3,4

US comics
Daredevil : The Devil Inside and Out – 1
Moon Knight: The Bottom – 1

Hyperactive March

This is it, March is gone, and I barely have seen it pass in a blink. During almost the whole month I have been going around with visitors, enjoying their company, showing them great places and making them meet each other. It first started with the great Fifille, followed one week after by Thomas, then by Michelle's Dad and Aamer that came to work one week with me (he ended up staying two). One of the achievements was our day in Jerusalem that all these people so unlikely to meet spent together.



Working during the week, visiting during the weekends... in order Nazareth, Kfar Nahum, Ramat Gader, Akko, Jerusalem, Ein Gedi, the Dead sea, Massada, and Jerash in Jordan.

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem.
Aamer succeeded in going in for the evening's prayer, and Fifille and Thomas succeeded on sunday morning where I had been failing forever, getting on the Temple Mount.

Dead sea and haze, from Massada

Jerash main street, Jordan

I am too lazy to tell you all the stories but one that will remain is that Michelle's dad really would have been a great archeologist. He found (and notified the sites authorities) two roman pots, one in Caesarea and one in Beit Shean, and while we were visiting Jerash his agile eye spotted roman glass between 2 fallen columns. A few hours later, after having been all around the site we had a hand full of pieces of opalescent glass up to 2cm on the side. We couldn't believe how much of it was left around.

Last weekend, we still went for a short visit in Beit Shearim, a 2200 years old Jewish necropolis not far from Haifa, and we rested :).

Eagle on the Lion's sarcophagus

You can find plenty of pictures on my Zenfolio in these galleries: Fifille's visit, Dead Sea, Jerash, Beit Shearim

Purim

Yesterday we had a Purim party at work, some of us took advantage of the makeup stand in the cafeteria to improve our costumes. As you can see we enjoyed it quite a bit.



I have also a large backlog of pictures taken during the various sightiseeing trips while Fifille was here that you'll probably see sometimes in the next few weeks.

Picture Galleries

Well, it's way too slow when I include Zenfolio galleries on the blog, so I'll keep linking with the old method.
Two weeks ago we celebrated Leeor and Lilach's engagement at the local Irish pub and you can see some of the drunkards here.


The next day we went to visit Ein Afek, a local swamp that clearly reminded us that spring was already started. The pictures look pretty unoriginal I know but remember they were taken in the middle east, not somewhere in Europe.

Jerusalem shooting

Fifille arrived tuesday night this week and we've been quite busy sightseeing rather than paying attention to the news. Last friday we were over at Waffa's place and she told us about a shooting at a jewish religious school (Yeshiva) in Jerusalem the day before. We quickly checked the news, and answered one of Waffa's main concerns. Was the shooter, that killed 8 adolescent, an Israeli arab ? It seems that yes he was, and therefore it increased Waffa's fears... She knows that something like that will increase even further the pressure on them, and from what it seems that's the current concern of a large number of Israeli arabs: becoming victims for retaliation, or getting their rights severed.

Anyways, the slaughter was terrible and shoked the whole country. There is a lot of anger going around and I really can't see things getting any better from there especially that the current situation was already quite tense...

Will it blend ?

That has to be the best advertising campaign I've seen to date. They take their blender, and blend stuff with it, by example here we have a piece of Apple-geek-tech.

Everything goes through it, from a can of coke to canned spam, baseball, golf balls, handles, lightbulbs, bic lighters, lightsticks, videocamera, you name it they tried.

And the best part of it, is Michelle actually owns one, I now just have to convince her to let me play a bit with it !!!!!

Embedding slideshows - Ein Hod

Saturday we went again to Ein Hod, but this time before everything was closed and we didn't miss the village entrance. We had a very nice afternoon, visiting art galleries, and enjoying local brews eating home made pizzas with live blues. Life is good over here :).

Trying to embed directly Zenfolio slideshows into the blog, for the lazy ones that don't feel like going to visit the galleries :). Edit: I removed the gallery it was slowing down the blog wayyyy too much.


It doesn't work that well for now, but Zenfolio doesn't expect its users to embed their slideshows in other pages so for now I doubt I'll be able to do any better. Let me know if you prefer the slideshows that way, or the old fashioned way.

Valentines

I recieved beautifull roses for Valentines this year, here is a picture of them... in Infra-Red light:

Panoramas

As I don't have a wide angle (I resisted the urge to buy one until now), when I face a nice scenary I end up taking multiple shots hoping that one day I won't be too lazy and will stitch it together. Well, sometimes it happens, and here are 2 panoramas. The first one is taken from "La Grande Motte" In Tignes, France, looking towards the "Mont Blanc":

The second one is the river and Charles bridge in Prague (In both case I suggest to look at the large version to see something).

Patriots

As I was saying a couple of days ago, the tension is raising on the northern side of Israel. A battery of Patriots (those relatively inefficient anti-aircraft anti-missile US defense systems) got deployed in Haifa according to Haaretz. I suppose it's meant to comfort the locals more than really meant to provide any real protection. Anyway, since I've been here bad stuff always came from where I expected the least so I suppose nothing's gonna happen.

Car bombings

Imad Mughniyah died yesterday night in the explosion of his car in Damascus, he

headed Hezbollah's operations branch serving in a role similar to chief of staff, and had been wanted by Israel and the United States for years due to his role in numerous bombings, hijackings and abductions in which hundreds of people were killed.

Israel denied involvment but got fingerpointed immediately (probably rightfully). It is quite interresting to read the comments on Haaretz article to realize how many people this death made happy, and how much vengeance is prefered over justice. Obviously justice was impossible as he was a clandestine and kind of protected by Syrian state, but does it render the use of the same low methods as the "terrorists" acceptable ? Unfortunately many seem to think so.

Why am I posting this rant ? Well Hezbollah has said they would avenge, and the last time there was an escalation with them I spent a "Katyusha" summer. Just a few weeks after an incident at the Lebanese border that saw one death and the political tension raising to terrible levels between the Hezbollah and the Lebanese government, I just hope ther won't be any escalation (they seem to use Israel as a common ennemy to unite each others when things go really wrong)...
Anyway, the situation around here is sad, the "peace talks" are going at the speed of an arthritic snail, Gaza is locked and boiling, suicide bombings are restarting in Israel, Iran is as radical as ever, and Mossad still assassinating.
Hopefully the sun is shining and spring is starting, so I can forget all this as soon as I look through the window.

Prague

We had originally planned to travel to Istanbul that weekend, but Nico decided to go to Australia so we picked our second choice (that was really not too hard) and traveled to Prague. This was a weekend optimized trip, so we spent thursday and sunday night in the airplane and two days in Prague.
We got a really nice weather, cool and shun shine. Friday was not too busy, which let us enjoy a slightly less crowded town. I don't really know how to describe the city, goth-geous or gor-thic, but we both enjoyed it. We walked so much that our legs were hurting at the end of the trip :).
I took countless pictures in this photographer's dream place, met photographers all over the place, chatted with a few, and spent time watching all these stands selling old black and white postcards (so I converted a lot of pictures to B&W).


When we were not lurkking around we were listening to the jazz groups playing in the street and stopping either for fast-Czek-food or slow fancy food: we needed the energy.

Vladimir Pinta, we even bought one of his albums, I don't think he can look bad on a picture.


Bratwurste in the streets


At Kampa park, finest dining in town

We had some bad luck with our visit of the castle, it was closed over the weekend for some election, but we still enjoyed the view from morning till after dawn.

The restaurant we planned to go at Nebozizek was also closed that day, this was the day...

This will be enough for pictures on the blog, you can go to my zenfolio for more, and I'll probably keep posting more during this week as I still have like 100 to process..

The lost artist village

We decided to go visit a nearby artist village called Ein Hod. We stopped on top of the Carmel in Dalyat for some excellent Druze food (okras, dolmas, mjadara) on the way there. We ended up arriving in Ein Hod neighborhood around 3:30pm (yeah that's late but we had a lazy saturday). Once there, I don't know how it happened but we just could not find the village, we had a strawl around 2 tiny villages that were nowhere close to an artist place, more like a dead ultra-religious area but with an original synagogue.


Once the sun started to set we took the car back home and... we spotted Ein Hod right by the road, we were probably absorbed in some very important debate or something like that. Anyway we went around the place in half an hour and kept repeating ourselves "We have to come back here". The place is really cute, and the few artis workshops that were still open were worth it, so next time we'll go early enough!

Weekend in the desert

Friday morning we drove south to Ein Advat, a national park located in the middle of the Negev desert, between Ber Sheva and Mitzpe Ramon (by Sde Boker kibbutz). We were lucky to have a sunny Friday and we enjoyed the almost empty park throughout the afternoon. It is located in a deep canyon where a small stream flows.


It feels like an island of life in the middle of a hostile desertic environment. It reminded me all the post apocalyptic movies like Mad Max where you always find a settlement of survivors hidden in a green canyon in the middle of the desert. Well it could be there. We were the last out of the park, which let us meet a few not so wild ibex (some kind of local mountain goats).


We then drove through the large crater and stopped a few times before sunset to enjoy the scenery. We were stunned by the size of the petrified trees laying down by the gravel road, somewhere lost in the crater in the middle of coloured sands.


We spent the night over at kibbutz En Gedi, by the dead sea. On Saturday we hiked in the En Gedi park, following streams of water this time in the deep valleys of the Judean desert. The weather was not as nice as Friday but we enjoyed the fresh atmosphere. We also had the company of a rock climber ibex that did a skill demonstration just for us, while we were playing with marmots.
The pictures are on Zenfolio as usual, but for now the En Gedi ones are missing (I've been slacking I know).

Winter sun in Akko

We spent this saturday in Akko with Alex, visiting from Oregon. It was a nice sunny and windy day. We enjoyed the view from the walls and in the harbour before relaxing with a narguila playing sheshbesh. The light was really great, I took most shots in the market, but my favorite for the day is this one:

Rust and Blue

Rosh Hanikra

On a sunny Friday afternoon we drove north to the Lebanese border to visit Rosh Hanikra caves. There is not much to say besides the site is beautiful, and that I did lots of pictures of which you can find a sample on Zenfolio.

Ski in Tignes

This is pretty representative of our first week into 2008. Ski, Snow and Sun.

Happy New Year 2008