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A River Runs Through the Alps • Füssen Germany.



A River Runs Through the Alps, originally uploaded by jstraka.


A big view from a tiny tower, in a little city called Paris


Erlenbach, Germany



Erlenbach, Germany, originally uploaded by jstraka.

Believe it or not I drive right past the little pasture on the way to our house in Germany. In fact you can see this from the office window.


Trier Panorama HDR



Trier, originally uploaded by jstraka.

It was a not so nice cloudy, cold and rainy day… But there is always someway to get a great photo. The cloudy overcast rainy day gave great textures in the clouds and added a nice sheen to the paving stones.


Schloß Neuschwanstein



Schloß Neuschwanstein, originally uploaded by jstraka.

Schloß Neuschwanstein the castle that inspired Cinderella Castle @ Walt Disney World


A day at Opéra National de Paris

Opéra National de Paris, originally uploaded by jstraka.

Over Thanksgiving weekend we took the ICE train from Kaiserslautern Germany to Paris France. I knew from a previous visit I had to visit the Opéra National de Paris and get one perfect picture of the Grand Hallway.


A calm blue after the storm

Celebration, Florida movie theater after a thunderstorm.

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Sunrise the morning Liam was Born

A beautiful start to such a momentous day. It almost seems heavenly, doesn’t it?
Liam James Straka Was born later that night @ 11:18pm, October 4, 2008.
This was the view off the balcony of our 4th floor birthing suite. The room was bigger than my first apartment!

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