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Post Category → Pic du Jour

On the Lake Geneva Shoreline

posted in Pic du Jour, Switzerland on January 17, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 1 Comment

A ray of sunshine over Lac Leman, in Lausanne.

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Soldiers and Street Art, Bogota

posted in Pic du Jour, Street Art on January 16, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 3 Comments

Blending into a city’s background.

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Calm Before a Storm, Nice

posted in Pic du Jour on January 15, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 2 Comments

Sticking with the photo bombing gull theme.

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Full Moon, Nice

posted in Birds, Pic du Jour on January 14, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 2 Comments

Photo-bombed by a gull.

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Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala

posted in Pic du Jour, Uganda on January 12, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 3 Comments

The atrium at the Imperial Royale Hotel in the Ugandan capital Kampala.

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Urban Ballads, Bogota

posted in Colombia, Photography, Pic du Jour on January 11, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 2 Comments

From a series illustrating the interaction between people and street art in urban settings.

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11 Photos of David Bowie by Mick Rock

posted in Music & Sound, Photography, Pic du Jour on January 10, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 4 Comments

Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do.

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Sunrise, western Slovakia

posted in In Transit, Pic du Jour, Slovakia on January 9, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 3 Comments

I search for images of transit in periods when I’m stationary. This was near the border with Austria just after sunrise, looking north from the EC 106. ~~ Today’s Pic du Jour, the site’s 5th (!) straight, was snapped on 5 September 2020.

My 25 Best Bird Photos of 2025

posted in Birds, Featured, Pic du Jour on January 8, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 23 Comments

My favorite bird photographs from the past year, captured in France, Portugal, Italy and Slovenia.

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Punched in the Crotch by a 4 1/2 Foot Tall Woman in Potosi

posted in Bolivia, Featured, Photography, Pic du Jour, Vignettes on January 7, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

The one about the smack down at the hand of a great-grandmother wrapped in brightly colored clothes.

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Oil and Violence

posted in Climate Change, Pic du Jour, Street Art, Trump on January 6, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 4 Comments

Donald Trump said it plainly, straight into the cameras that were streaming his words around the world: the move against Nicolás Maduro is an oil grab. And, most often throughout the history of the last two centuries, where there is oil, there is violence. Too often the two are inextricably linked.

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Man Carrying Four Mannequins, Quito

posted in Ecuador, Photography, Pic du Jour on January 5, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

That’s pretty much all there is to say about this image.

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Christmas Lights, Ljubljana

posted in Photography, Pic du Jour, Slovenia on December 25, 2025 by Bob Ramsak 4 Comments

Holiday lights and a beggar on ÄŒopova Street, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 15-Dec-2015.

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Bogota Day-sleeper

posted in Colombia, Photography, Pic du Jour on December 13, 2025 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

Even in the middle of the day, a person doesn’t have to sleep alone on the street in Bogota.

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Nine Early Winter Outdoor Still Lifes, Ohio

posted in Pic du Jour, USA on December 23, 2024 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

At the Cleveland Metroparks North Chagrin Reservation, in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.

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Mailboxes, Ventimiglia

posted in In Transit, Italy, Pic du Jour on February 4, 2024 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

Ventimiglia train station, 4 February 2024.

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This is BobRamsak.com, a public notebook by Bob Ramsak.

I’m a long-time journalist, photographer and researcher driven by passions for environmental, social and refugee justice. I’ve visited 62 countries and write something and make pictures (almost) every day. This site is a notebook and photolog where I track and (sometimes) comment on those interests, journal my travels and log my current obsessions. At the moment the most dominant one is my renewed passion for birding and bird photography.

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