by admin | Dec 2, 2019 | Featured, Photos
Christmas markets in Vienna are a centuries-old tradition dating back to 1298. From mid-November to 25 December, many of Vienna’s most beautiful and famous squares are transformed into traditional Christmas markets. They lend a festive atmosphere to warm the...
by admin | Nov 12, 2019 | Featured, Photos
Autumn is my absolute favourite season, photography-wise. Much like the season of Spring, there is an explosion of colour everywhere. Nature sheds its cape of green for the more subtle hues of yellow and orange or blazing red. The days are shorter and it is not yet...
by Rodolfo quevenco | Oct 21, 2019 | Featured, Photos, Writings
They come in all sizes, colours, styles and materials yet serve the same purpose – as an entrance to an establishment, building, business, house or residence. I’m talking about doors. It has always fascinated me how much time and artistic efforts were...
by Rodolfo quevenco | Oct 13, 2019 | Travel, Writings
It’s been an annual tradition of the Vienna English Speaking Catholic Community to go on a Marian pilgrimage every October. The destination has for the past years always been either to Mariazell in the Styrian Alps or to Klein Mariazell in the Vienna woods. For...
by Rodolfo quevenco | Oct 9, 2019 | Photos, Writings
We spent three days in Turin in August — as a side trip really from Milan and Lake Como — and discovered much to our (pleasant) surprise that Turin has much, much more to offer than just the Shroud and football. Shades of Turin by Rodolfo Quevenco on...
by Rodolfo quevenco | Oct 5, 2019 | Photos, Writings
I recently completed a three-part photo series on churches and cathedrals all done on the Exposure platform. It was a project that you can literally say took years in the making and one that sort of happened by chance. Through the years, I’ve noticed that...
by Rodolfo quevenco | Jun 5, 2019 | Featured
For visitors to Hamburg and even for most Hamburgers, city life revolves around the harbour, most commonly known as the Hamburg Hafen. And probably the best-known building in the Hafen is the Elbphilharmonie, fondly called “Elbie” by the locals. Accompany...
by Rodolfo quevenco | May 14, 2019 | Featured, Photos, Travel
We arrived Dublin on a typical Irish spring day – grey, wet, cold and windy. As we got off the blue Air Coach bus and dragged our suitcase through O’Çonelly Street, one could already feel an energy in the air that cannot be dampened by either chill or...
by Rodolfo quevenco | May 13, 2019 | Photos, Travel
A photo travelogue of our pilgrimage trip through Jordan and Israel visiting the holy sites of Christianity. A pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a trip that most Catholics dream of taking at least once in their lifetime. Journeying through a Holy Land by Rodolfo Quevenco...
by Rodolfo quevenco | May 9, 2019 | Photos, Travel
It’s when one leaves the city and veer off the major roads towards the countryside that the natural beauty of Ireland truly shines. We were, of course, blessed with sun the whole day through — a rarity in Ireland we soon learned, no matter what season you...
