DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Oxford College

Seney Hall
Allen Memorial United Methodist Church
Humanities Hall

DAILY PHOTO: Monastery of the Holy Spirit, Conyers

Center: the monastery’s church
Barn: now a museum, a predecessor where it stood was the monks’ living quarters.
Inside the museum; a display describing a day in the life of a monk.
Outside the church

PROMPT: Explore

What’s the best way to explore a new city?

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On foot, with few objectives locked in, and with a willingness to adjust to opportunity.

In other words, you should never be so obsessed with what a place once was that you miss that it still is — i.e. jumping around from ruin to ruin and never interacting with living natives.

DAILY PHOTO: Palace of Culture Rafaél Uribe 

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Photograph taken across Botero Plaza of the Palace of Culture Rafaél Uribe in Medellin, Colombia.

DAILY PHOTO: Colorful Shopfront in Guatapé

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Photograph of a colorful shop front with cherry blossoms and striped doors in Guatapé, Colombia.

DAILY PHOTO: Church of Santo Domingo, Cartagena

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Photograph of the Claustro De Santo Domingo in Cartagena, Colombia, catching the early morning sunlight.

DAILY PHOTO: Santuario Nuestra Señora del Carmen

Photograph of a side-view of Santuario Nuestra Señora del Carmen in Bogota, Colombia.
Photograph of the front of Santuario Nuestra Señora del Carmen in Bogota, Colombia.

DAILY PHOTO: Zipaquira Street Art

A mural on a wall in Zipaquira, Colombia.
Drawing of a lady's face on a restaurant in Zipaquira.
Building painted in murals by the train station in Zipaquira, Colombia.

DAILY PHOTO: Zaftig Ladies of Fernando Botero

Photograph of a prone woman in Botero Plaza in Medellin, Colombia.
Photograph of a supine woman in San Antonio Park of Medellin, Colombia.
Photograph of a woman on a bull at Botero Plaza in Medellin.
Photograph of a standing woman taken in Botero Plaza, Medellin.

DAILY PHOTO: Embalse Peñol-Guatapé

Photograph taken from a boat on El embalse Peñol-Guatapé (the reservoir lake near Guatape) in Antioquia, Colombia.
Photograph taken from a boat on El embalse Peñol-Guatapé (the reservoir lake near Guatape) in Antioquia, Colombia.
Photograph taken from a boat on El embalse Peñol-Guatapé (the reservoir lake near Guatape) in Antioquia, Colombia.