Lokrum

Here's my last photo of the Dubrovnik area, this time the island of Lokrum, just off the coast of Dubrovnik. It's visible in last week's photo.

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Dubrovnik Harbor (2)

For the Sunday Scans meme, here's another slide of the Dubrovnik harbor.

I'll post more about the island in the background next week.

Dubrovnik Harbor (1)

For the Sunday Scans meme, here's a scanned slide of the beautiful Dubrovnik harbor.

I'm very pleased with how these 34-year-old slides have held up, and with how well they've scanned using my inexpensive home scanner. At this point, I've got all the photos I've ever taken scanned in fairly high resolution, and copied to the netbook I use for blogging.

Dubrovnik - Rector's Palace

I hope you're enjoying the old Dubrovnik slides, because here's another one. It's one of the few from within the city that's worth posting, the Rector's Palace. I was an inexperienced photographer at this point in my young life, so many of the city shots are marginal, but this one was okay after a little work with the GIMP photo editing program.

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Dubrovnik Cannon

Continuing with my old photos of Dubrovnik for Sunday Scans, here's another looking seaward, showing some of the city's protection against sea raiders.

I wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of that!

Dubrovnik Seaside Walls

For this week's Sunday Scans, here's another photo from the beautiful city of Dubrovnik back in 1977, showing the city walls on the seaward side.

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Dubrovnik Rooftops

Continuing with my series from Dubrovnik for the new Sunday Scans meme, here is a photo taken within the city walls, probably taken from the walls themselves although I don't remember that level of detail. This is a scanned slide from the summer of 1977, when I was just getting into photography and was only 11 years old.

Kaori asked whether I was on a plane for last weeks aerial view of the city. I was actually on a cable car that went up into the mountains in the distance in this photo. I have no idea whether that cable car still runs or not - after all, this was 34 years ago and the region has been through some unpleasant times since then! I have very fond memories of this vacation - it stands out as one of my favorite places I've ever been.

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Old Scan - Dubrovnik

For Sunday Scans, here's an old scan of the city of Dubrovnik, in what was then Yugoslavia and is now Croatia. We were there when I was a kid back in 1977, and for the next few weeks I'll be posting the few photos that are worth publishing from that trip, which are all scanned from slides. I have fond memories of this trip; I was very sad during the 1990s wars when I read that the city was being shelled. I'd love to go back again.

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