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When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees.
Getting There!
With my ProPhoto7 theme busted, I’ve moved over to Imagely and am slowly adjusting the settings to get my site back to something useful....
Coming Soon!
Well, it had to happen sooner or later. My ProPhoto7 theme stopped working and now I have to go find a new theme and...
Fall Sunrise on the Buffalo River
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Hawksbill Crag on a Fall Afternoon
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Churchill Place, Canary Wharf
On a recent visit to London, my son wanted to try the new Elizabeth Line Crossrail line. We jumped on at Paddington and hopped...
Exit – The Color Factory, Houston
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Dunes – Silver: Mesquite Flat
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Kicking Horse NB Purple Orange
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La Salumeria – The Butcher
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McWay Falls at Daybreak
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The Eiffel Tower Through a Metro Window
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2021 – Red Pill or Blue Pill?
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Black Friday 2020
A little late to the party this year. It’s been that kind of year. I just thought I’d post my favorite photo editing software...
Joshua Tree – yucca brevifolia
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Fall Foliage in Arkansas
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Green Shutters, Faubourg Marigny, 2017
Green Shutters is an image I captured while wandering with my wife in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans in July 2017. The...
Our Lady of Loreto, Goliad, TX
The statue of Our Lady of Loreto watches over visitors to the chapel, dedicated in Her name, in Goliad, Texas. The chapel dates back...
Beatty Road Sunrise, Death Valley
This image, taken from Beatty Road, is from my very first visit to Death Valley. Visiting in the fall of 1995, I recall going...
Calgary Tower Blues
What could be better than standing on the sidewalk outside the Calgary Tower on an early March evening? Anything. Literally anything. That could be...
Signs of Life
As Texas reels once more from a reliance on faith over science, my image, Signs of Life, refers not to the re-opening of the...
White Sands National Park
When I visited the White Sands National Park it was still the White Sands National Monument. What’s the difference? I had to look this...
Hyatt Place, Chicago/Downtown
In April 2016, I chaperoned on my son’s high school band trip. We stayed at the Hyatt Place, Chicago/Downtown. 300 high school kids in...
Angkor Wat Main Complex in 1993
I’m guessing I visited the Angkor Wat main complex in 1993. I base this guess on the slides in my library that precede and...
Is my computer monitor broken?
The locked doors should have told me I wasn’t going to find who I was looking for. But I held my fob to the...
Goat Mountain reflected in Goat Pond
Goat Mountain lies about 10 miles south south east of Canmore in Alberta, Canada. Of course, if you’re Canadian, since 1977 that’ll be about...
Happy New Year 2020!
A short post to which everyone out there a very Happy New Year 2020. Yes, the photo below is a hand-held shot. I’ve long...
Agathla Peak / El Capitan
When you look at Google Maps, Agathla Peak first appears as El Capitan. El Capitan is the Spanish name, Agathla Peak the anglicized version...
A corridor at Angkor Wat
I only spent a few days at Angkor Wat and that was back in the early 1990s. It’s one of those places and times...
No Roman Road
I was wondering what to title this image. It’s a view east along Northshore Road in the Lake Mead Recreational Area. As I was...
Pine Mountain, Wyoming
Here’s another photo I took with the iPhone 11 Pro Max on my flight back from Calgary the other week. The landscape feature at...
West Butte Montana
Last week I had to be in Calgary for not the happiest of reasons. Most of my Calgary trips are strictly business, up on...
Upskirting Lady Liberty
These feel like weird times we’re living through, don’t they? Over the last few years what we took to be societal norms seem to...
Wild Question Marks and devious semikoli
Wild Question Marks and devious semikoli March 15, 2019 Photo Story Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and beautifully presented. A...
Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek
Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek March 14, 2019 Photo Story Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and beautifully...
The headline of Alphabet Village and the subline
The headline of Alphabet Village and the subline March 13, 2019 Photo Story Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and beautifully...
She had a last view back on the skyline
She had a last view back on the skyline March 12, 2019 Photo Story Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and...
When she reached the first hills of the italic
When she reached the first hills of the italic March 11, 2019 Photo Story Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and...
A small river named Duden flows by their place
A small river named Duden flows by their place March 10, 2019 Photo Story Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and...
Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the semantics
Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the semantics March 9, 2019 Photo Story Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and beautifully...
Far far away behind the word mountains
Far far away behind the word mountains March 8, 2019 Photo Story Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and beautifully presented....
From the countries Vokalia and Consonantia
From the countries Vokalia and Consonantia March 7, 2019 Photo Story Build an elegantly modern, responsive website that’s creative, accessible and beautifully presented. A...
Happy New Year – 2019!
Well here we are in 2019. If you were in New York for the celebrations, then you got wet and the fireworks were a...
London Buses on Whitehall in the Rain
A final post for 2018. I recently resumed scanning my slide collection – digitalization in the parlance of today. One of my recent finds...
Long Point Light
I haven’t posted anything for a while now – funny how time gets away from you. This is a scan of a slide I...
Dawn at Morro Bay
In Dawn at Morro Bay, I captured a fleeting moment in time of surreal light. The effect lasted five minutes or less and then...
Portal in the Parc André Citroën
What does a city do when a major manufacturer moves to a new location and their old factories become derelict? If that city is...
Bumper Cars
When was the first time you tried the bumper cars at the fair or carnival? I must have been around nine or ten years...
Wind Farms off US-84
I’ve often flown over the wind farms of the Texas panhandle. The other weekend I had an opportunity to drive through some of them....
Welcome to Katy
“Welcome to Katy” says the sign on the water tower in the background at right in this image of the UP 5950. The red...
Rough Ride
Well, the 2017 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo comes to a close tonight and I’m sure more than a few cowboys and cowgirls will...
Chevron Towers
A couple of weeks ago Super Bowl 51 was played at NRG Park in Houston. In the years I’ve lived in the area, the...
Using Lightroom Smart Collections
Last week I needed to figure out which of my photos I had published and which I had still waiting to go. I did...
The Open Road
Growing up in rural, southern England, I got used to narrow, winding roads. My first exposure to long, dead straight roads was in Libya,...
Happy New Year!
Well, 2016 is behind us at last, now on to 2017! 2016 was not my personal favorite year, with my mother passing away, my...
Bass Harbor Head Light
The Bass Harbor Head Light is perhaps the most photographed of the Maine lighthouses. Built in 1858, this lighthouse marks the entrance to Blue...
Curtis Island Light, Maine
The Curtis Island Light marks the south side of Camden Harbor, Maine. Built in 1896. this light replaces a light built in 1835 by...
My #Supermoonfail
Updated November 15th. I didn’t like the photo I used so I replaced it with a shot I took this evening. Since today marked...
Orland Fall Foliage
I woke this morning to a sombre grey day. It’s fall here in the USA and it’s not just the political season that is...
Where can I find photos for my blog?
Where can I find photos for my blog or website? You’ve crafted your blog post and now your need to illustrate it. “Where can...
St. Peter Street Balcony – Photo
I was playing around with an image I captured of a St. Peter Street balcony in Photoshop (CC 2015.5) today, messing around with some...
Early Morning, Cayucos Pier – Daily Photo
Early morning, Cayucos Pier, California. I guess 8:53 am counts as early for a November Saturday morning in this part of the world as...
Cars on Bixby Bridge at Sunset – Daily Photo
At the time of writing, fire crews are working around the clock battling the Soberanes wildfire to the south-east of Bixby Bridge and slowly...
Under Cayucos Pier – Daily Photo
It’s been a while since I last posted to my blog – busy days and nights. Earlier today I was scrolling through a Lightroom...
Deux Chevaux á Paris – Daily Photo
In my youth, Citroën made such unique cars. Quintessentially French in design, nothing else on the road looked like them or drove like them....
The Coliseum at Night – Daily Photo
The Coliseum at Night, or should that be the Colosseum at Night? As a Brit in America I’m used to the potato – potato...
Contrail – Daily Photo
I took today’s photo, Contrail, through the window of a Qatar Airways jet on a flight from Doha to JFK, New York. According to...
Dhow Bow – Daily Photo
Today’s photo is the bow of a dhow moored in a marina in Doha, Qatar. Although built in a traditional style, complete with outhouse...
George R. Brown Air Vents – Daily Photo
For today’s photo I chose an image of one set of air vents at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, TX....
Bailing out – Daily Photo
Does one ‘bale out’ or ‘bail out’? In this case, the man in the photo is bailing out as in he is using a...
Sunset at the Artists Palette – Daily Photo
Sunset at the Artists Palette was taken in Death Valley National Park. The aim was to capture the ‘starburst’ as the sun kissed the...
Jamestown Windmill – Daily Photo
The Jamestown Windmill is a 30-foot tall smock mill built in 1787. If you’re passing through Jamestown, Rhode Island, and you’ve a passing interest...
Pump It – Daily Photo
Pump It, not the song by the Black Eyed Peas, but oil. When I was looking at this photo that song was running through...
Death Valley Health Center – Daily Photo
Sometimes a sign is too good to pass up. When I passed the ‘Death Valley Health Center’ sign in Shoshone I just had to...
The Empty Chair – Daily Photo
The Empty Chair is a recurring theme throughout literature. I think I first became aware of it when I studied Macbeth at High School....
The Only Way Is Up – Daily Photo
‘The only way is up’ wrote Johnny Henderson and George Jackson. I wondered if they’d stood at the foot of the Key West Lighthouse...
Waiting for a Zabriskie Sunrise – Daily Photo
The Zabriskie Sunrise, that time of day when the sun directly illuminates Manly Beacon and the badlands that surround it. Its a very short...
Post Oak Reflection – Daily Photo
Post Oak Reflection is an image of the facades of townhouses at 3050 Post Oak in Houston, reflected in the pond across the street....
History is Myth – Daily Photo
‘History is Myth’, proclaims this mural from the mid-1990s. Officially the mural was called, ‘Venice Reconstituted’ and was painted in 1989. The full mural...
The Magnificent Eight – Daily Photo
The Magnificent Eight is what I’m calling this San Diego mural. I’ve no idea what it was really called or who it was by...
Joyce Davis 1930 – 2016
Yesterday my mother passed away. She was 86. The last years of her life were stolen from her and her family by dementia. It...
The Silver Lining – Daily Photo
The Silver Lining was a jewelry cart in the Westfield Horton Plaza in San Diego. In this photo, three sailors peruse rings. Well, two...
Black Door Lemon Wall – Daily Photo
‘Black Door Lemon Wall’ is a photo I took while wandering around the French Quarter in New Orleans. The warm colors of the buildings...
Carmel Mission – Daily Photo
From yesterday’s photo of the church of the Immaculate Conception in San Diego to the Carmel Mission, up the coast aways in Carmel. The...
Immaculate Conception San Diego – Daily Photo
Today’s photo is of the bell tower at the church of the Immaculate Conception in San Diego, California, for no real reason other than...
Seattle Space Needle – Daily Photo
I came across this image of the Seattle Space Needle while browsing for something else recently. It was taken just before sunset on Fuji...
Sunset at Morro Rock – Daily Photo
Sunset at Morro Rock, the Pacific Ocean gently stroking the shore, the slenderest crescent of moon hanging delicately in the sky as the day...
Pismo Surfer 2 – Daily Photo
Pismo Surfer 2 was surfing on the other side of the pier. Whereas yesterday’s Pismo Surfer was surfing away from the pier, this one...
Pismo Surfer – Daily Photo
Pismo Surfer was taken from the pier at Pismo Beach. I am not a surfer. I’m a lousy swimmer at the best of times...
Morro Rock – Daily Photo
There comes a time driving either north or south on California Route 1 where you round a bend and Morro Rock just slaps you...
Red and Yellow Crates – Daily Photo
I was drawn to the colors of these red and yellow crates I found lying in an alley behind a restaurant.
Corallina Cove Sunset – Daily Photo
Actually a tad north of Corallina Cove, sunset on the California coast. Corallina Bay is actually behind the people on the bluff left of...
Pulteney Bridge – Daily Photo
Pulteney Bridge in Bath, England, was built in 1774. It’s one of only four bridges in the world to have shops across the full...
Tagrifet Gate – Daily Photo
In today’s photo, a group of work colleagues approach the gate on the western wall of Tagrifet Fort. I previously posted a photo of...
Triple Falls – Daily Photo
Triple Falls, in North West Arkansas, would have been more appropriately named Trickle Falls on the day I visited. Below average rainfall meant that...
Kings River Falls – Daily Photo
The Kings River Falls are located near Witter in North West Arkansas. There wasn’t that much water flowing over the falls when I visited....
Marshall Point Lighthouse – Daily Photo
Lobsters and Lighthouses, two excellent reasons to visit Maine. This is the Marshall Point Lighthouse which signals the eastern side of the southern entrance...
Chandler River Twilight – Daily Photo
The Chandler River at twilight. When I took this I was on my way to Lubec, the easternmost settlement in the United States. I...
Bixby Bridge Sunset – Daily Photo
Bixby Bridge is one of those must stop locations on California Route 1. About 12 miles south of Carmel or 10-ish miles north of...
Miller Time – Daily Photo
Miller Time is the result of one of those, “I wonder what would happen in I…..”. In this case, having downed a few Miller...
Blowing in the Wind – Daily Photo
Blowing in the wind: I can still hear the sound even though it was many years ago. This was a supply tent, slowly being...
Morning at Lake Hartwell – Daily Photo
Morning at Lake Hartwell, a perfectly still, calm, chilly fall morning as I recall. I took this from the parking lot of my hotel...
Washington Barn – Daily Photo
Washington Barn, or perhaps dilapidated Washington House comes from an image I took in ’95 somewhere out around Snoqualmie / NorthBend in Washington State....
Musée d’Orsay – Daily Photo
The Musée d’Orsay in Paris is one of my favorite galleries. The building dates from around 1900 but, as a mainline train station, it...
Seine Twilight – Daily Photo
For Valentines Day I thought I’d post a picture of Paris, the City of Lights. Seine Twilight is a view over the River Seine...
French Quarter Door – Daily Photo
Today’s photo is of a New Orleans French Quarter Door. Or is is a window? This is one of four similar doors at 612...
Reverend Zombies House of Voodoo – Daily Photo
Reverend Zombies House of Voodoo can be found at 723 St. Peter Street in the New Orleans French Quarter. I’ve never been inside but...
Angkor Face – Daily Photo
Today’s daily photo, Angkor Face, is quite obviously from Angkor in Cambodia. At this point I don’t know which temple complex this face is...
Daily Photo – Deer with Bluebonnets
Today is Ash Wednesday, the traditional start of Lent. Many observant Christians forgo some luxury for Lent and for many, particularly Catholics, giving up...
Daily Photo – Will Ferrell, King of Bacchus 2012
So today is Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day, Mardi Gras, Carnival. In 2012, Will Ferrell was the King of the Bacchus parade in New Orleans...
Daily Photo – Endymion Shield
The Krewe of Endymion parade through the streets of New Orleans on the Saturday before Mardi Gras. This year the krewe turned 50. I...
Daily Photo – Upham Sunset
That 21 Pilots Song, “Stressed Out” made me think about the simpler times in my life. Upham Sunset is a view across the fields...
Daily Photo – BP Motor Spirit
I saw this old BP Motor Spirit sign at the Cotswold Motor Museum. Perhaps this image stood out to me today as I was...
Daily Photo – Bomber Command Memorial
The Bomber Command Memorial was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 June 2012. Perhaps it was covered in a large white sheet and...
Daily Photo – Coldstream Guard
This Coldstream Guard was on duty at Buckingham Palace. You can tell he’s a Coldstream Guard from the pairs of buttons on his tunic....
Daily Photo – Boy with Jar and Stool
Thought I’d channel my inner Cartier-Bresson and post a photo I took in Phnom-Penh that I call Boy with Jar and Stool. I’m the...
Daily Photo – Galleries Lafayette Dome
The Galleries Lafayette dome is just something you don’t expect to see in a department store. I think only the French have the audacity...
Daily Photo – Mobil Regular
It’s been a while since any Mobil Regular flowed through these pumps. Their rusted, worn appearance contrasts with the spruced up former gas and...
Daily Photo – Hope Floats Star Biscuit Co. Sign
I thought this was just a faded advertisement for the Star Biscuit Co. when I photographed it. I thought it was a faded sign...
Daily Photo – The Watcher
The Watcher sees all from his perch above the river, life in all its forms streaming by outside his window. It was hot in...
Daily Photo – Waiting for the Sunrise
There were eight in our group – waiting for the sunrise at the Stovepipe Wells Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park. The aim...
Daily Photo – Sunset at the Racetrack
Shortly before I visited the Racetrack Playa for the first time, the mystery of the moving stones had been solved – ice, apparently. Thanks...
Daily Photo – Thirty Years at the Artists Palette
“Thirty years I’ve been coming here and I’ve never seen anyone on the pastels”, complained an ornery gent as we returned to the parking...
Daily Photo – Desert Tree
This desert tree was in a shallow wadi in the Haruj area of Libya. 25-years later, I wonder if it’s still there. You can...
Daily Photo – Bishop Flare
I titled this image ‘Bishop Flare’ because it obviously shows flare and it was taken near the town of Bishop in California. Taken relatively...
Daily Photo – From the Racetrack Road
The racetrack road runs south from Ubehebe Crater to the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park. It’s a rough, washboarded road and can...
Daily Photo – St. Elizabeth
Back in the fall of 1995 I spent an afternoon wandering around San Francisco. Today, I’d call that photo walking. Back then, I was...
Daily Photo – Teakettle Junction
How Teakettle Junction got it’s name has been lost to history but, by virtue of the name, it’s almost obligatory to bring your own...
Daily Photo – Tunisian Desert Sunset
This photo of a Tunisian Desert Sunset was taken in Tunisia – quel surprise! I only spent a couple of months in the Tunisian...
Daily Photo – Phuket Sunset
Today’s photo, Phuket Sunset moves away from the recent desert theme to an ocean one but stays with the lack of green in the...
Daily Photo – Approaching Tagrifet
So here’s a shot of us approaching Tagrifet, looking through a window in the same Twin Otter featured in yesterday’s post. Can’t say I...
Daily Photo – Desert Takeoff
I recently came across this image of our re-supply DeHavilland Twin Otter in a desert takeoff from our camp air strip in the Haruj...
Daily Photo – Montmartre Window Box
Having lived in Paris for two years it’s certainly one of my most favorite cities. Much more compact that London, I find it to...
Daily Photo – Inside the Louvre Pyramid
You can’t miss I.M. Pei’s pyramid entrance to the Louvre museum. I think it works architecturally simply because it is so out of place...
Daily Photo – Reading in the Park
I was recently playing at scanning some of my black and white negatives and came across this charming image I took some time late...
Daily Photo – Sunset on the Rue de la Huchette
With my family, we were ambling back towards our hotel having just left Notre Dame when I saw the setting sun glancing off these...
Daily Photo – Threshing About
I took today’s photo, Threshing About, from a boat, steaming down the Li River in China. I’m not sure who had the harder job...
Daily Photo – Breezy Day
I look at images such as today’s photo of a breezy day taken in 1990 or 1991 with bitter sweet feelings. Breezy days, where...
Daily Photo – Stovepipe Wells Sand Dunes
The Stovepipe Wells sand dunes are a well known feature and every photographer in the valley stops there sooner or later. Most photographers trek...
Daily Photo – Upper Titus Canyon
Titus Canyon Road is a one-way drive for most of it’s length. You can drive from the valley to where the canyon exits but...
Daily Photo – Folded Rocks at the Entrance to Titus Canyon
If you drive the Titus Canyon Road in Death Valley National Park, about a quarter mile after you pass through the remains of Leadfield...
Daily Photo – Leathercraft of Marlborough
There are lots of ‘Marlboroughs’ around the world. This one is in Wiltshire, England, where I went to school. RC & J Upton Leathercraft...
Daily Photo – Titus Canyon Road
I love deserts. I lived for five years in the Libyan Desert in Libya and Tunisia and spent a further six months in the...
Daily Photo – 811 Main at Night
I’ve always been fascinated by tall buildings. Today’s daily photo is of 811 Main St. Houston, TX at night, taken during a photowalk a...
Daily Photo – Tree on the Horizon
The last few days here in my corner of Texas have been gray and overcast so I went looking for an image that reminded...
Daily Photo – Done Surfing
Another photo from my recent trip to California. For the first part of the trip we stayed at The Inn at the Cove in...
Daily Photo – Moro Moon
This is an image of the moon reflected in the sand at Moro Bay. I’d joined my friend James Brandon on a photo trip...
Daily Photo – Mesquite Flat
The perspective is deceptive and the effort it took to climb this dune in Mesquite Flat, Desert Valley, is not represented in this serene...
Re-Learning the Ropes
I feel like I’m re-learning the ropes of blogging these days, hence the photo below. I took it a while back on board the...
Window In Time
A window in time, literally. I captured this view through the clock face at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris on the fifth floor, in...
Badwater Sunrise
“There’s a bad moon on the rise” “There’s a bad moon on the rise” rolls the lyric of the old Creedence Clearwater Revival song....
Here Come The Lads
It’s May Madness! While people across the US are familiar with March Madness, as a parent in Texas we also get to enjoy May...
Memorial Day
What is Memorial Day? Memorial Day is a day set aside to honor all members of the US military that have died in service....
Still at Badwater
Dawn at Badwater A few wisps of cloud hung in the air to the North but to the South there was zip, nada, nothing;...
Badwater at Dawn
Badwater. The name says all you need to know about the place, Badwater. According to the GPS on this image, the elevation here is...
Better Black and White Photos with Topaz
This is a short article on better black and white photos with Topaz Black and White Effects. Why Black and White? We live in...
Lady Be Good – Day 8, April 12, 1943
This is the last in my series of posts on the story of the Lady Be Good. Toner’s Diary: MONDAY, April 12, 1943 No...
Lady Be Good – Day 7, April 11, 1943
Continuing with my series of posts on the story of the Lady Be Good. Toner’s Diary: SUNDAY, April 11, 1943 Still waiting for help,...
Lady Be Good – Day 6, April 10, 1943
Continuing with my series of posts on the story of the Lady Be Good. Toner’s Diary: SATURDAY, April. 10, 1943 Still having prayer meetings...
Lady Be Good – Day 5, April 9, 1943
Continuing with my series of posts on the story of the Lady Be Good. Toner’s Diary: FRIDAY, April 9, 1943 Shelley, Rip, Moore separate...
Lady Be Good – Day 4, April 8, 1943
Continuing with my series of posts on the story of the Lady Be Good. Toner’s Diary: THURSDAY, April 8, 1943 Hit Sand Dunes, very...
Lady be Good – Day 3, April 7, 1943
Continuing with my sequence of posts on the story of the Lady Be Good,
Lady Be Good – Day 2, April 6, 1943
For the second day, the eight members of the crew of the Lady Be Good that had formed up after bailing out continued their...
Lady Be Good – Day 1, April 5, 1943
With the aircraft almost out of fuel and just flying on one engine, the crew of the Lady Be Good baled out into the...
Lady Be Good – The Story Begins
Since I recently posted some detail shots of the Lady Be Good some of my readers have asked to see more of my images
ALCLAD 24S-T Markings on The Lady Be Good
At the request of one of my readers I'm posting three photos showing the ALCLAD 24S-T markings on the Lady Be Good.
Leadfield – Death Valley
In it's heyday, Leadfield had a population of about 300. Its heyday lasted less than a year as it was built on a fraud.
View From Red Pass – Death Valley
Today's photo is the view to the North-West from Red Pass on the Titus Canyon Road (though perhaps that should really be the tight-ass...
Tucki Mountain Sunrise – Death Valley
But as I turned onto the Beatty Road I suspected there might be an image looking West as the rays of sunlight crept...
Wildrose Canyon – Death Valley
There's a 4.2 mile trail from the Charcoal Kilns that leads up above Wildrose Canyon to Wildrose Peak, a climb of 2,200 feet.
Charcoal Kilns – Death Valley
These Charcoal Kilns are actually in Wildrose Canyon which is on the western side of the Panamint Range that itself forms the western edge...
Cottonball Basin – Death Valley
Today's photos is from Cottonball Basin, Death Valley, California. It's a shot I took around sunset while visiting the valley recently.
Darwin Falls – Death Valley
I'd heard of Darwin Falls in Death Valley but never been there on previous visits so decided this was the time.
Timeless – Li River Settlement
Whenever I look at this photo I think of the (near) timelessness in this view of a Li River Settlement.
Hiding Out
It must seem like I've been hiding out for the last couple of weeks since my last post was back on the 9th.
Jade Ripples
Perhaps the last image I'll post of these men on bamboo rafts on the Li River near Guilin in China.
Now where did I put that thing?
I think we've all had that experience of knowing exactly where we put something and then not being able to find it there when...
Punting on the Li River
Continuing with scanned photos from my China trip in 1991, I present 'Punting on the Li River'.
Cormorant Fisherman 2
Today's photo is of another cormorant fisherman, heading off to his chosen fishing location.
Li River Scene 7
It must have been the Chinese equivalent of siesta time when I captured this Li River scene.
Daily Photo – Bamboo Raft Vendor
That's a vendor on a bamboo raft, not someone trying to sell bamboo rafts. In this photo, taken on the Li River near Guilin...
Daily Photo – Burdened
This scene of three Chinese farm workers burdened with produce on baskets suspended from yokes would be timeless but for their clothes.
Daily Photo – Wading in the Li River
I wonder what this man was wading in the Li River for. Moments earlier he'd been boldly striding through the water. Now, he was...
Daily Photo – Li River Scene 6
In today's photo from the Li River near Guilin in China our boat is approaching a curve to the left.
Daily Photo – Two Trees
These two trees just stood out on the banks of the Li River as my boat cruised on by.
Daily Photo – Li River Scene 5
Today I've another view of the Li River - two photos, first in black and white and second in color.
Daily Photo – Beachcomber 2
Here's a wider shot of yesterday's Beachcomber showing the person in relation to the landscape. We've actually cruised on so it's not quite the...
Daily Photo – Beachcomber
I still can't fathom what this beachcomber was looking for. He/She was patiently turning over rocks on the bank of the Li River near...
Daily Photo – Li River Scene 4
Today's image is another general view of the scenery of the Li River near Guilin in China.
Daily Photo – Laundromat
When was the last time you used a laundromat? For me it would be March 1998 just after moving to Paris and before getting...
Daily Photo – Cormorant Fisherman
The cormorant fisherman is a feature of the Li River and other rivers near Guilin in China.
Daily Photo – Willow Harvesters
A short distance from the river weed harvester I spied these willow harvesters moored beneath a tree on the river bank.
Daily Photo – Harvesting River Weed
I still find myself amazed at the stability of the bamboo rafts used in China such as this one being used by a man...
Daily Photo – Buffalo Grazing
In today's scene you see three water buffalo grazing by the side of the Li River. In the distance, the karst limestone peaks emerge...
Daily Photo – Li River Cave
One of the benefits of cruising the Li River, or any river for that matter where you can get out of the cabin, is...
Daily Photo – Li River Scene 3
Since it's December 3rd, I thought I'd post my 3rd Li River Scene from near Guilin in China.
Daily Photo – Li River Scene 2
So here's another Li River Scene, taken a little downstream from yesterday's image, closer to the cliff in the distance in the right in...
Daily Photo – Li River Scene
Today's photo is a more general Li River scene with the karst limestone formations stretching into the haze in the distance.
Daily Photo – Sitting High and Dry
As we cruised along the Li River, near Guilin in China, we passed this boat sitting high and dry out of the water.
Daily Photo – The Fan Salesman
The fan salesman was just one of many river vendors who drew up alongside our boat was we cruised the Li River near Guilin,...
Daily Photo – Reflections
I shot these reflections from the cruiser on the Li River near Guilin in China.
Daily Photo – Chinese Mill House
So I don't know but I do assume that the building here is some sort of mill house on the banks of the Li...
Daily Photo – Charging Ahead
I didn't take may photos when I was in Shanghai but 'Charging Ahead' is one of the few shots I did take.
Daily Photo – Chang Hong Light Factory
I never did get my 'Double-Fish Light' from the Chang Hong Light Factory, nor the 'Shang Ming Light' from the Zhang Jiang Light Factory.
Daily Photo – Hawkeye
I titled this photo 'Hawkeye' for fairly obvious reasons, and also based on my assumption that this is some sort of bird of prey.
Daily Photo – Just Another Cat Photo
Today's image is just another cat photo - or maybe it isn't. I find the skill of these artisans to be quite amazing.
Daily Photo – Loaded
I was toying with titling today's photo 'Yokel' but decided on 'Loaded' instead. Both are applicable in this case.
Daily Photo – Crossing Over
I found the adaptation to the canal bridge in today's photo to be a wonderfully simple solution to aiding people with bicycles crossing over...
Daily Photo – Through the Portal
For me, it was like looking through the portal to a hidden world. Much like my photo of the woman washing her hair, I...
Daily Photo – I Want To Go Left!
'I want to go left!', is what I imagine the lady in today's photo is trying to communicate. Meanwhile, her husband lounges at the...
Daily Photo – Wash Rinse Repeat
'Wash rinse repeat' is the age old maxim of shampoo sellers trying to get you to use more shampoo than you need.
Daily Photo – Washing Up
It looks to me as though this lady is doing her washing up in the river flowing past her door - Suzhou, China, 1991....
Daily Photo – A River Runs Through It
'A river runs through it' is what you can imagine happening to these houses if the river rises another six inches or so.
Daily Photo – Full Steam Ahead!
I love the energy of today's photo, 'Full Steam Ahead'. It points to the vibrancy of the Chinese economy back in 1991 and underscores...
Daily Photo – Shifting Loads
'Shifting Loads' in two senses as in 1) moving a lot of stuff and 2) that stuff moving about on the transport. Today's photo...
Daily Photo – Suzhou River Scene
Although I titled today's photos 'Suzhou River Scene' they should perhaps more accurately be titled 'Suzhou Canal Scene' for most of the waterways in...
Daily Photo – Have Duck Will Travel
'Have duck will travel', is perhaps not a commonly heard phrase but one I feel appropriate for today's photo.
Daily Photo – Suzhou Garden
No trip to China is complete without a trip to a Suzhou garden or two (or three, or four, or... you get where I'm...
Daily Photo – Concentration
As a tourist, I felt a touch self conscious at observing these artisans at work. Their concentration despite the distraction was admirable.
Daily Photo – Chinese F150
Back in 1991 in China, this appeared to me to be the Chinese F150 - the 1 manpower, bicycle pickup.
Daily Photo – Artisan at Work
I found it fascinating to peek inside this world. In this photo of an artisan at work, a lady fixes a clay leaf and...
Daily Photo – Hanging Out in Suzhou
I took this photo of five men hanging out in Suzhou by the same lake as yesterday's angling photo but it's not the same...
Daily Photo – Angling in Suzhou
After a couple of hours, our boring diesel train pulled in to Suzhou and we were taken by bus to a hotel by a...
Daily Photo – Getting Hitched
I saw this wonderful piece of machinery reversing down the track and I thought it was getting hitched to the locomotive-less carriages on the...
Daily Photo – Nanjing Intersection
I took this photo of an Nanjing Intersection from my hotel room in the city back in 1991. I'd be very surprised if the...
Daily Photo – The Most Charming Ancient Capital
The legend, 'The most charming ancient capital - Xian' is written in seven languages on this poster, with English coming in last place.
Daily Photo – Bicycle Repair Men
I would imagine that there's a considerable need for bicycle repair men in China. Maybe these days there are more cars on the road,...
Daily Photo – Sidecar Motorcycle
I've ridden numerous motorcycles over the years but I've never ridden a sidecar motorcycle, either as the driver of the motorcycle or as the...
Daily Photo – Balancing Act
'Balancing Act' is another photo taken on the streets of Xi'an, China, not far from the beer distributor.
Daily Photo – Would you like a beer, Ma’am?
'Would you like a beer, Ma'am?' was almost certainly NOT what the boy was asking the lady I assume to be his mother. I...
Daily Photo – Pssst, Wanna Buy a Fox Fur?
'Pssst, Wanna buy a fox fur?' is what I imagined the boy emerging from behind the row of fox pelts (at least, I think...
Daily Photo – Say Cheese!
The expression, 'Say Cheese' is guaranteed to bring you all sorts of forced expressions but rarely a genuine smile. Thankfully, I never learned any...
Daily Photo – Waiting in Xi’an
Today's photo is of a man waiting in Xi'an. I've no idea what he was waiting for, most likely transport of some sort.
Daily Photo – Small Wild Goose Pagoda
Which building in China has withstood over 70 earthquakes? That would be the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, China, built in 707 A.D....
Daily Photo – View from a DUKW
With news today that a London Duck tours DUKW caught fire and sank in the River Thames, I thought I'd post a view from...
Daily Photo – Mummy’s Little Helper
I don't for a minute think that my photo, 'Mummy's Little Helper' shows child labor in a pottery factory. I think it just shows...
Daily Photo – Temple of Heaven Cleaner
This Temple of Heaven cleaner is watching my fellow tourists keenly - as if daring one of them to drop some litter! Her tools...
Daily Photo – Temple of Heaven
So where do you go in Beijing on the first sunny day of your visit? You could do worse than the Temple of Heaven.
Daily Photo – If Walls Could Talk
'If walls could talk' was a phrase I used to hear quite often, referring to the silent witnesses to all that goes on within...
Daily Photo – Engine of Growth
I saw these engines everywhere I went in China in 1991 which is why I titled this photo, 'Engine of Growth'. I saw this...
Daily Photo – Forbidden Decay
I've titled today's photo 'Forbidden Decay' because it shows one small corner of the Forbidden City under repair in 1991.
Daily Photo – Welcome Everyone!
'Welcome Everyone, to the Forbidden City' is what I imagine Chairman Mao's portrait is saying to the visitors streaming over the bridge and in...
Daily Photo – Hold on Tight!
Today's photo, 'Hold on Tight' was taken in Tienanmen Square in 1991. I'm not sure what the boy was watching - perhaps all us...
Daily Photo – Roof Detail
Today's photo is of some roof detail at the Ming Dynasty Tombs near Beijing.
Daily Photo – No Drawing
There's a couple of things I find amusing about the 'No Drawing' sign at the Stele Pavilion at the Ming Dynasty Tombs outside Beijing.
Daily Photo – How to Keep Your Hat On
Today's photo, taken on the 'Spirit Way' to the Ming Dynasty Tombs outside Beijing shows a novel way to keep your hat on -...
Daily Photo – The Great Wall in the Mist
On the day I visited the Great Wall outside Beijing the smog was replaced by regular, wet, mist. Being with a tour group there...
Daily Photo – Didn’t fancy walking then?
"Didn't fancy walking then?" is what I imagine the policeman standing on the left is saying to the policeman on the bike.
Daily Photo – Hey You!
My last photo was of a green lady. Today's is of a man in green. I've titled it 'Hey You!' because of the two...
Daily Photo – The Other Statue of Liberty
Standing at the western end of the Ile aux Cygnes is the other Statue of Liberty. As it stands now, it's eyes look towards...
Daily Photo – Popeye
'Popeye' is the name of the boat in the lower right corner of this image of a Paris Metro train passing over the Bir...
Daily Photo – Entrance to the Louvre
So I.M. Pei's pyramid houses one entrance to the Louvre. You only have to join the line here once in your life to think...
Daily Photo – The Louvre Pyramid
I have to say, the Louvre pyramid has always been there for my visits - which means my first visit to the Louvre was...
Daily Photo – Cour Napoleon
The courtyard of the Louvre where the famous I.M. Pei pyramids sit is officially the Cour Napoleon. Today's photos were taken around 10:30 pm...
Daily Photo – The Palais d l’Institut at Night
The Palais d l'Institut in Paris is the home of the Institut de France that groups five académies with perhaps the most well known...
Daily Photo – Pont Alexander III
So this is a bit of a cheat but a useful photo tip. Below is another photo of the Pont Alexander III at dusk...
Daily Photo – Dusk on the Seine
Today's photo is one I took from the Pont de la Concorde of dusk on the Seine. It's a classic view with the Pont...
Daily Photo – Cycling Through the Elysian Fields
The Elysian Fields in Greek Mythology were the resting place of the blessed dead - the heroic and the virtuous. So is the lady...
Daily Photo – Karst Limestone Island
So one last photo of a karst limestone island from Phang Nga Bay and then off to new locations. Well, two actually, a black-and-white...
Daily Photo – Back to the Boat
Having explored another hong it was time to paddle back to the boat once more. The rain had moved out some time prior but...
Daily Photo – Islands in Phang Nga Bay
There must be a bazillion islands in Phang Nga Bay, some of them habitable, most of them not and, of course, the one featured...
Daily Photo – Living on the Edge
Not living on the edge as in poverty, or as in all the violence that seems to envelope the world these days though there...
Daily Photo – Rain in Phang Nga Bay
As I mentioned yesterday, the rain in Phang Nga Bay was a short lived event. In today's photo the visibility is opening up though...
Daily Photo – Shower in Phang Nga Bay
The overcast skies and the anxious look to the right by my fellow passenger (yesterday's photo) heralded the arrival of a shower in Phang...
Daily Photo – To the Boat!
Emerging from the hong into Phang Nga Bay it became clear we needed to get to the boat, and quickly.
Daily Photo – Emerging from a Hong
Emerging from the serene jade green of the hong, it was a tad surprising to see the overcast skies of the world outside.
Daily Photo – The Way Out
In most cases, the way out of a hong is just the reverse of the way in but some have more than one route.
Daily Photo – Honging Out
I titled today's photo, 'Honging out' as that's essentially what we did once inside the hongs.
Daily Photo – Still Inside a Hong
Today's photo is a vertical framing taken inside a hong. I think it better demonstrates the scale of the space.
Daily Photo – Inside a Hong
Having arrived on location we inflated the canoes, left the mother-ship, paddled through the cave and found ourselves inside a hong.
Daily Photo – The Way In
Having cruised into Phang Nga Bay, our captain took us to our first island. We would visit several that day. Today's photo shows the...
Daily Photo – Into Phang Nga Bay
Having arrived in Bangkok I transferred to Phuket and from there took a trip into Phang Nga Bay.
Daily Photo – A Passage to Bangkok
As night follows day, a sunrise follows a sunset. Today's sunrise photo titled, 'A passage to Bangkok', was taken from a Thai Airways 747.
Daily Photo – Calanscio Sunset
I must have been standing on a dune ridge, possibly the one behind the camp, to get this shot I've titled, 'Calanscio Sunset'.
Daily Photo – A New Home Away From Home
When the wind died down and the dust cleared away we were all settled in a new home away from home.
Daily Photo – Wacky Races
The very first camp move I participated in back in 1984 was described by one of my colleagues as being like 'Wacky Races' the...
Daily Photo – Out of Nowhere
A surveyor's Land Rover emerges seemingly out of nowhere during our sand storm camp move in the Calanscio Sand Sea.
Daily Photo – Into the Unknown
It looks in today's shot as though these trucks are heading into the unknown. Why would we move camp in a sand storm?
Daily Photo – Scrap Heap
This scrap heap, photographed on a blustery day was at our first camp in the Calanscio Sand Sea.
Daily Photo – Desert Bloom
I took this photo of a desert bloom in 1990, in western Libya, near the scene of one of our Land Rover crashes.
Daily Photo – Shifting Sands
While the mechanics were recovering our crashed Land Rover I took this photo of the shifting sands on the dune our driver had used...
Daily Photo – Ouch!
Of course,we couldn't leave our wrecked Land Rover in the dunes, we had to recover it. Some joker had written 'Ouch!!' on the door...
Daily Photo – Not Quite As Far As The Wright Flyer
After this hard landing, today's photo shows this flight was not quite as far as the Wright Flyer. And I wouldn't say the flight...
Daily Photo – A Hard Landing
Now jumping back to the Calanscio Sand Sea in eastern Libya in 1991 for a photo of a hard landing.
Daily Photo – Learning to Fly
For today's photo I'm going back to 1990 and the sand dunes I worked in western Libya and where one of our drivers was...
Daily Photo – Desert Mechanics
Here's one of our desert mechanics and his helper under the water tanker in yesterday's photo.
Daily Photo – Desert Workshop
Today's photo is of our mechanics' desert workshop. Here these five or six guys would keep out fleet of 30 or more Land Rovers...
Daily Photo – Cleared for Takeoff
In today's photo, a migrating bird (I'm not an ornithologist) stands on our landing strip, wings outstretched as if cleared for takeoff.
Daily Photo – The Last Load
Two versions today, a black and white and a color rendering of the same scene titles, 'The Last Load'.
Daily Photo – Dune Shooting
Here's another view of the crew dune shooting. The vibs are pretty much in the same location as yesterday's photo.
Daily Photo – Facing a Wall of Sand
Having assembled as they were in yesterday's photo, our vibs were now facing a wall of sand.
Daily Photo – Over Here!
Standing near the top of a ridge of dunes, I'm looking down as an observer gesticulates, 'Over Here!' to the drivers of the third...
Daily Photo – Wrecked MAN
Today's photo is of the cab of the wrecked MAN truck I referred to in my post on the exploded propane bottle.
Daily Photo – Almost Break Time
Here's another photo of the front crew for whom it is almost break time. The line continues over the dunes in the distance but...
Daily Photo – Exploded Propane Bottle
If you've ever wondered what an exploded propane bottle would look like, here's your answer.
Daily Photo – Front Crew
So Front Crew laid the geophones. As this photo from January 1991, shows, while the sun may be beating down, it's not always hot...
Daily Photo – Waiting on No. 5
Everyone is waiting on No. 5 to get into position for the next sweep. Nos. 1, 6, and 2 (hidden behind 5) are ready...
Daily Photo – Gritty
Back to the seismic survey in the Calanscio Sand Sea for today's photo I've titles, 'Gritty'.
Daily Photo – Crossing the Alps
Hannibal did it by Elephant but I find it easier by aircraft - crossing the Alps that is. In this photo from 1991 everything...
Daily Photo – Maltese Tanker
I've no idea if the ship in this photo is a Maltese Tanker or not - actually I seriously doubt it was flagged in...
Daily Photo – Line Truck Descending a Dune
This AWD Bedford Line Truck was one of two we had on the crew for moving people and gear.
Daily Photo – Waiting
The photo below is part of our 'Front Crew' waiting for another load of geophones, cables and boxes to be delivered.
Daily Photo – Dune Shaking
Today's photo, 'Dune Shaking' was taken close to the location of yesterday's. It shows a side view of the four vibrators with the dunes...
Daily Photo – Calanscio Vibroseis
Today's photo, 'Calanscio Vibroseis' shows our seismic line stretching out from one set of dunes and across a plain towards another distant dune line.
Daily Photo – Calanscio Sunrise
The rising sun breaks above the horizon of the Calanscio Sand Sea in this photo from December 1990.
Daily Photo – Follow the Leader
Following on from yesterday's Land Rover shadow shot is today's shot of our playing follow the leader as we race the setting sun on...
Daily Photo – Sunset Drive
I took this photo of the shadow of our Land Rover on this sunset drive back to camp. We always wanted to be back...
Daily Photo – Making Tracks
Back to Libya - I spent almost five years there in total. Today's photo I've titles, 'Making Tracks'.
Daily Photo – Cigarette Break
Today's photo shows a tram driver taking a cigarette break. The number 11 tram to Rehalp sits outside Oerlikon station in this overhead shot...
Daily Photo – Oerlikon East
Today's photo is a view to the east over Oerlikon from my room at the Swissotel. Maybe it's because our normal viewpoint is from...
Daily Photo – Oerlikon, 1:45 pm
Since Oerlikon lies between Zurich airport and downtown Zurich, in Switzerland, I'm guessing the time on the clock in the image is accurate.
Daily Photo – More Manila Sunset
Here's a tighter framing of the Manila sunset I posted yesterday. I think this must have been my last night in Manila on this...
Daily Photo – Sunset Over Manila Harbor
I believe someone once told me I hadn't lived till I'd seen the sunset over Manila Harbor. Well, one evening in 1990 I got...
Daily Photo – Mindoro
Mindoro is a contraction of the Spanish 'Mina de Oro' or goldmine, not that there's ever been a big discovery here but panners do...
Daily Photo – Committed
At this point in time, the diver is committed. Not as committed as a sky diver at a similar point, but he can't go...
Daily Photo – Family Business
Showing your kids the ropes is a staple of the family business, but perhaps this guy is taking the concept a tad too far.
Daily Photo – Paradise Air Grumman Goose
Here's a different photo of the Paradise Air Grumman Goose I posted a few days back. From the shadows on the hills in the...
Daily Photo – Cock Fight
So my recent posts about the apple and bee game were a side show to the main event which was a cock fight.
Daily Photo – Keep Your Eye on the Ball
'Keep your eye on the ball' was the advice I recall my games master giving us at grammar school as we were instructed in...
Daily Photo – Winning Hand
I'm not sure if this guy's nonchalance comes from his having a winning hand or if he's a banker and not actually playing the...
Daily Photo – Apples and Bees
The title of this photo comes from the apples and bees on the game board. It's a gambling game that, like roulette, is based...
Daily Photo – Beach Living
Most people I know tend to think of beach living as something glamorous - a get away from it all, carefree type of life....
Daily Photo – Encenada Beach Resort
I've no idea how I wound up at the Encenada Beach Resort in 1990. I mean, I know how I got there. I took...
Daily Photo – Grumman Goose
I took this photo of what I believe to be a Grumman Goose in 1990 in Puerta Galera in the Philippines.
Daily Photo – Checkpoint Wadi
I titled today's photo 'Checkpoint Wadi' because when we moved into this concession in western Libya in 1990, this was one of the few...
Daily Photo – Desert Enclosures
I passed these desert enclosures on the way back to camp one evening. Typically you wanted to be back in camp before sundown as...
Daily Photo – The End of the Line
So here's a wider shot of the end of the line. Well, not the end actually, more of a hiatus. The line continued up...
Daily Photo – Shaking the Foothills
In today's shot the four seismic vibrators are working their way, single file, along a bulldozed track and shaking the foothills of the escarpment.
Daily Photo – Approaching the Escarpment
Although this looks at first glance to be an aerial shot, I'm actually standing on the on terra firma for this shot of our...
Daily Photo – Things are Looking Down
Things are looking down or, perhaps more appropriately, I'm looking down on things. Western Libya, 1990, and four Birdwagen Mark III's with Failing Y1100...
Daily Photo – Jebel Shaking
When you stand relatively close to a seismic vibrator you can literally feel the earth shaking. I don't know if you could feel this...
Daily Photo – Road Construction Next 5 Miles
Actually I've no idea whether or not this road construction next 5 miles tag is accurate or not. It's often hard to tell distance...
Daily Photo – Ripping the Earth a New One
Today's photo is of a Cat D8 (or D9, I'm not an aficionado) ripping the earth a new one - road that is.
Daily Photo – I’ve Been Spotted
I've titled the last in my camel series, 'I've been spotted'. The camel has wandered further away from me to the north-east but in...
Daily Photo – Alone in a Sea of Sand
Here's perhaps my favorite photo of my series of a camel, alone in a sea of sand. If you saw the first in the...
Daily Photo – A Camel in the Dunes
Here's another photo of a camel in the dunes. This camel has decided not to attempt to climb the slip face of the line...
Daily Photo – Along Came a Camel
I was in the dunes one afternoon, about to head back to camp when along came a camel into my field of view.
Daily Photo – Which Way Now?
Which Way now? Forward is not an option. I've a vague thought in the back of my mind that I hiked up this escarpment...
Daily Photo – On the Edge
So here I am, standing on the edge of this escarpment in western Libya, miles from anywhere. Up ahead is the surveyor's offsider, standing...
Daily Photo – Life on Mars
Not really life on Mars but if you wanted to fake a Mars landing you could do worse than this part of western Libya....
Daily Photo – Multi-Chambered Cave Dwelling
This multi-chambered cave dwelling is the last in this series. Again, taken in the same area of Libya as the others I've posted recently.
Daily Photo – Another Room With A View
Here's another room with a view from a cave dwelling in western Libya. It may be from the second chamber of the four chamber...
Daily Photo – Four Chamber Dwelling
I don't think this four chamber dwelling was in the Lookout but it was certainly close by. I didn't have a flash with me...
Daily Photo – A Room With A View
Today's photo, titled, 'A Room With a View' is, I believe from inside the cave dwelling near the center of the hilltop in my...
Daily Photo – Lookout Dwelling
Today's photo is of a dwelling in the lookout hill I posted yesterday. I'm not expert in these things but I think what we're...
Daily Photo – The Lookout
If you look closely at the right end of the rocky outcrop of top of this hill you'll notice two black spots. These are...
Daily Photo – Medic’s Tent
In all probability today's photo, 'Medic's Tent' was taken on the same blustery day as yesterday's photo.
Daily Photo – A Blustery Day
Not every day in Libya was blue skies and calm, it's just that I didn't take my camera out so much when the wind...
Daily Photo – Desert Sunset
A good desert sunset was a rarity, best I can recall, but every now and then a cloud formation would be in the right...
Daily Photo – Recording Flycamp
Today's photo is a view about 135° anti-clockwise from yesterday's. It's of a recording flycamp in western Libya in 1990.
Daily Photo – Approaching Sunset
I spent a fair bunch of time trying to title today's photo before settling on 'approaching sunset'. This was taken somewhere in western Libya...
Daily Photo – Four in a Row
Four in a Row is an expanded view of yesterday's photo (and also the photo I processed in the soon to be released Topaz...
Daily Photo – Seismic Vibrator
Today's photo is of a seismic vibrator - a Failing Y1100 on a Birdwagen Mark III hydraulic 4-wheel drive buggy.
Daily Photo – Me And My Land Rover
Me and my Land Rover or my Land Rover and I? Probably the latter if I could be bothered to reach for one of...
Daily Photo – Another Day, Another Wadi
Not really another day, another wadi, more the same day and the same wadi as yesterday's image. Today's photo shows the wadi stretching into...
Daily Photo – Daffodils
William Wordsworth's poem, commonly known as 'Daffodils' was first written in 1804 and revised in 1815. It's the opening lines that inspired my title...
Daily Photo – The Only Way Is Up
Here's a broader view of yesterday's photo. From here, the only way is up! With the surveyor standing by the blue Land Rover, you...
Daily Photo – Surveying the Escarpment
The last two day's I've posted photos looking down on a bulldozer cutting a trail down an escarpment in western Libya. Today's photo is...
Daily Photo – Dozing Off
Today I've a different angle on yesterday's photo that I've title, 'Dozing Off'. It better shows what was in front of the bulldozer as...
Daily Photo – Cutting Through
Today's photo is of a Caterpillar D8 (or D9, I'm not a Cat expert) cutting through the top of an escarpment to create a...
Daily Photo – Desert Flotsam
Today's photo doesn't actually follow on from yesterday's Desert Shipwreck image but given the content I though Desert Flotsam was an appropriate title and...
Daily Photo – Desert Shipwreck
If the camel is the ship of the desert then I think my title for today's photo - Desert Shipwreck - is appropriate. I...
Daily Photo – Not the Best Place to Break Down
In the bottom of a wadi like this is not the best place to break down. Actually, I've no recollection of breaking down. I'm...
Daily Photo – Libyan Commute
I never really enjoyed staying in Tripoli. I much preferred being in the desert. We used a variety of methods for our Libyan commute...
Daily Photo – Strolling into Antenna City
I titled this shot 'Strolling into Antenna City' for somewhat obvious reasons. I still don't think I've seen such a density of TV antennas...
Daily Photo – Maltese Angler
I don't really know where I took this photo of a Maltese Angler but he was somewhere on the Tigné Seafront. I was drawn...
Daily Photo – Valletta from Sliema
I took today's photo early in 1990 in Malta. It's a view of Valletta from Sliema taken from near the Sliema Ferry.
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Daily Photo – The Philadelphia in Aldbourne Square
Today's photo is another shot of the Philadelphia in Aldbourne Square. There's also a black and white rendering below the color one.
Daily Photo – The Philadelphia at the Crown, Aldbourne
Today's photo is a reworking of The Philadelphia at the Crown, Aldbourne, a version of which I previously posted in August, 2011.
Daily Photo – Crofton Pump House and Chimney
The Crofton pump house and chimney were built in 1807 and started working in 1809. I think the patches on the wall were where...
Daily Photo – Crofton Beam Engines
I thought I'd post a photo I took of the beams of the Crofton Beam Engines. These are the oldest working steam engines in...
Daily Photo – Tower Bridge Steam Engine
Today's photo is of a Tower Bridge Steam Engine. One of two identical engines, it is housed under the south approach to the bridge....
Daily Photo – 925 Years of Construction
Today's photo shows 925 years of construction in just one frame.
Daily Photo – North-West from Tower Bridge (again)
Being lazy, here's a vertical interpretation of the view to the north-west from Tower Bridge.
Daily Photo – North-West from Tower Bridge
Continuing with my series of images of London, here's a view North West from Tower Bridge. Like the photo of to the west, this...
Daily Photo – West from Tower Bridge
Today's photo shows the view west from Tower Bridge from the west walkway, in counterpoint to yesterday's view to the east.
Daily Photo – East from Tower Bridge
Today I provide two interpretations of the view to the east from Tower Bridge. The first is a color HDR, the second a black...
Daily Photo – Liddington from Upham (again)
I decided to rework a photo I posted a little over a year ago titled Liddington from Upham. Feel free to compare the two...
Daily Photo – Windsor from Legoland
I took this photo of Windsor from Legoland as we were leaving in the evening. I really don't think this view has changed much...
Daily Photo – Through a Window
I took this shot through a window a couple of years back at Legoland Windsor, in the UK.
Daily Photo – A Foggy Night in Hong Kong
I'd arrived in Hong Kong on a foggy day and it was a foggy night in Hong Kong as I got ready to leave.
Daily Photo – Royal Viking Sun
Today's photo is of the Royal Viking Sun, berthed in Kowloon in 1989. The Royal Viking Sun was built in 1988, one year earlier,...
Daily Photo – Bank of China Facade Detail
Today's photo is a detail of part of the northwest facade of the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong. Best I can tell...
Daily Photo – Mandarin Oriental
Today's image is a view most likely taken from near the intersection of Garden Road and Queensway showing the dome of the Legislative Council...
Daily Photo – Lippo Center Tower 2
I'm guessing I simply spun around from where I too yesterday's shot of the Bank of China Tower to get this shot of the...
Daily Photo – More of the Bank of China Tower
I turned my camera horizontal once more and took a wider shot of the east face of the Bank of China Tower. Even back...
Daily Photo – Bank of China Tower
I must have wandered south along Cotton Tree drive and crossed over Queensway since my next photos were of the Bank of China Tower....
Daily Photo – Lippo Center and Admiralty
Today's photo is of the Lippo Center and Admiralty Center Tower - Lippo Center Tower 2, to be precise - on Hong Kong island.
Daily Photo – Exchange Square Block 1 and 2
At some point I took a ferry from Kowloon to Hong Kong island to wander among the high-rises near the waterfront and found myself...
Daily Photo – The Cacophony of Commerce
In the blurb on yesterday's photo I mentioned how the serene scene of a foggy Victoria Harbour was misleading because of the cacophony of...
Daily Photo – A Foggy Day in Hong Kong
I wasn't really prepared for a foggy day in Hong Kong. The photo below is from somewhere on the Kowloon waterfront near Salisbury Garden...
Daily Photo – Blackfin Sundowners
I titled this shot 'Blackfin Sundowners' for somewhat obvious reasons - the prominent Blackfin on the sail of the largest boat and the fact...
Daily Photo – Heading Home
Three school girls heading home somewhere near Kota Kinabalu. From the shadows it's clearly close to sunset as these thee girls pick their way...
Daily Photo – Still Waiting
Fishermen still waiting for the right conditions to launch and cast their nets. The nets look quite large rolled up and stowed on the...
Daily Photo – The Waiting Game
In today's photo, two fishermen play the waiting game shortly after sunrise somewhere near Kota Kinabalu. I've no idea what they were waiting for...
Daily Photo – Faulty Shoreline
I took this photo I've titled Faulty Shoreline somewhere near the the Shangri-La's Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa in Kota Kinabalu but I can't...
Daily Photo – Descending Mount Kinabalu
Today's photo shows a fellow trekker descending Mount Kinabalu on a section of the trail above Laban Rata. It's the last photo I took...
Daily Photo – The Road to Kota Kinabalu
The road to Kota Kinabalu is clearly visible in today's image, etched into the side of the ridge near the base of the photo....
Daily Photo – Rejoining the Pack
After a while spend wandering off-trail we decided it was time we were rejoining the pack. The tops of the clouds in this photo...
Daily Photo – Admiring the View
But that was all ahead of me. Here I was admiring the view myself and trying not to think about climbing down that massive...
Daily Photo – What Not to Wear
Clearly up here on the exposed granodiorite at the summit of Mount Kinabalu, a grey windbreaker definitely falls into the what not to wear...
Daily Photo – Looking Down on Laban Rata
Having posted some photos a few days back looking up towards the summit of Mount Kinabalu from the resthouse at Laban Rata, today's photo...
Daily Photo – Taking a Rest
The photo below shows my Italian and Norwegian climbing buddies taking a rest somewhere near the summit of Mount Kinabalu.
Daily Photo – On Mount Kinabalu
I'd like to say today's photo is looking back to the summit of Mount Kinabalu but I can't be sure it is.
Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu’s Shadow
Below I've posted another photo of Mount Kinabalu's Shadow. Taken a short while after the one I posted a few days ago...
Daily Photo – Sunrise on Mount Kinabalu
This is the only photo of the sunrise on Mount Kinabalu that includes the sun in the shot!
Daily Photo – The Shadow of Mount Kinabalu
It was time to turn my camera to the west, and there I saw the shadow of Mount Kinabalu cast upon the early morning...
Daily Photo – South-West from the Summit of Mount Kinabalu
Today's photo is a view to the south-west from the summit of Mount Kinabalu, taken shortly after sunrise.
Daily Photo – South from the Summit of Mount Kinabalu
As the sun rose into the morning sky, I took this shot in a southerly direction from the summit of Mount Kinabalu.
Daily Photo – On the Summit of Mount Kinabalu
In the cold morning air on the summit of Mount Kinabalu we watched the sun rise and the colors of morning change all around...
Daily Photo – Sunrise on Mount Kinabalu
In this shot, the weak early morning rays are just starting to clearly illuminate the east facing rocks at the summit of Mount Kinabalu...
Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu Sunrise
I think I left Laban Rata at 3:30 a.m. to head up to the summit of Mount Kinabalu. There was already a string of...
Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu Sunset 4
So here's the last of the Mount Kinabalu sunset series. The sun has now slipped below the horizon, it's passing marked by the display...
Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu Sunset 3
Here's the third in my series of four sunset images from Laban Rata, Mount Kinabalu, taken during my trek up the mountain in August...
Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu Sunset 2
In the mid-ground you can clearly make out the coastline at Kota Kinabalu, some 37 miles (60 km) distant from Laban Rata on Mount...
Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu Sunset
In this shot, the sun hangs just above the horizon of the South China Sea. About a quarter of the way up the frame...
Daily Photo – Shooting the Sunset at Laban Rata
In the photo below a fellow traveler is capturing the sun setting into the South China Sea as we watched from the helipad at...
Daily Photo – The View South from Laban Rata
With the sun continuing to descend in the west, I headed back to Laban Rata. Today's photo was a view south, over the top...
Daily Photo – The Peaks above Laban Rata
On the trail above Laban Rata I took this image as the sun dipped lower in the sky. You might be able to make...
Daily Photo – Laban Rata Resthouse
The Laban Rata Resthouse was my destination for day one. As you can see from the shadows in the photo below, I got there...
Daily Photo – Around Laban Rata
It was quite a relief to emerge from the trees and arrive at Laban Rata. The angle of the path reduced and the stairway...
Daily Photo – Granodiorite Peaks
Mount Kinabalu is formed from granodiorite. This is an intrusive igneous rock, very similar to granite but with a different proportion of plagioclase and...
Daily Photo – From the Laban Rata Trail
I took the photo below on my ascent to Laban Rata. Ascent, that is, as in climbing the stairs rather than something more skillful.
Daily Photo – The Climb to Laban Rata
Laban Rata is pretty much at the altitude where the vegetation peters out and the base granite starts. The trek there is through the...
Daily Photo – Mount Kinabalu
This is a view of Mount Kinabalu taken from the Park HQ in the evening. The sun has already set on the Park HQ...
Daily Photo – Selamat Datang
The shack on the landing is a fuel depot for the longboats of the community. What I still fund curious is that 'Slow Down'...
Daily Photo – Soon Hong No. 7
Just like those bigger riverboats, the Soon Hong No. 7 carried a spare drive shaft and propeller. I still don't know how they would...
Daily Photo – Last Mulu Cave Photo
This photo was taken close by the location of yesterday's flowstone photo. One feature in this photo that I remain curious about is the...
Daily Photo – More Flowstone
If I were shooting this today, I'd try to get a person or something else in the shot to provide some scale. I'd also...
Daily Photo – Mulu Flowstone
The photo below is of some flowstone in a cave in Mulu. Flowstone is formed from calcite where water flows down a wall. As...
Daily Photo – Lincoln’s Profile at Deer Cave
As you walk around a bend in the trail on your way of of Deer Cave, you're presented with this profile of Abraham Lincoln.
Daily Photo – Deer Cave
The shot below is perhaps the classic Deer Cave shot. Mine is actually a seven-shot HDR - seven slides scanned and merged in Photomatix...
Daily Photo – Inside Deer Cave
As we went further into the massive passage that is Deer Cave, I turned back and go this shot back to the entrance.
Daily Photo – Deer Cave, Mulu
Deer Cave boasts some impressive measurements - passage length of over 4 kilometers with a one kilometer stretch with a width of 174 m...
Daily Photo – Dry Riverbed
The day after we watched the bats stream out of the Mulu caves my guide took me to Deer Cave. On the way we...
Daily Photo – Bats of Mulu at Dusk
As the sun disappeared below the horizon we turned our eyes back to the hills, watching and waiting. And then we started to see...
Daily Photo – Mulu Rainbow
Waiting for the sun to set and the bats of Mulu to take flight, mother nature treated us to this wonderful rainbow as a...
Daily Photo – Heading Downriver
The trail we were following to get to our bat flight viewing experience ran close to the cliff edge in places as you can...
Daily Photo – New Arrivals
From high on a hillside we had a great view down onto the river and the new arrivals coming upstream. This photo was taken...
Daily Photo – Commuting in Mulu
This is the same boat and same guides that brought me to Mulu from Long Terawan (and that would return me to Long Terawan...
Daily Photo – The Hills of Mulu
To the right you can see examples of the limestone cliffs that feature in this area. Up in the hills in the top left...
Daily Photo – Mulu Boat Boys
I took this photo from the banks of the Melinau River in the Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak, back in 1989.
Daily Photo – Mulu Longhouse
These buildings are multi-family dwellings with a public space along one side and private divided spaces on the other. The raised floor protects against...
Daily Photo – Gunung Mulu National Park
Above ground Gunung Mulu National Park is a network of rivers and trails cut through the rainforest. Today's photo is one view over the...
Daily Photo – Mulu Cave Exit
The reason that sprang to mind was the skull-like shape just up and right of the center of this photo. It's actually just the...
Congratulations Baltimore (and Jacoby Jones)
Photo of Richard Davis with Jacoby Jones.
Congratulations to Cicily Renee – @Photo_Wars Round 1 Winner
I'd like to give a shout out to Cicily Renee (@CicilyRenee), winner of the first round of @Photo_Wars (Beginner).
Daily Photo – Clearwater Cave Bats
Quite why these three bats chose this spot I've no idea. But apparently, every evening they'd head out to feast in the jungle and...
Daily Photo – Deeper into Clearwater Cave
In the photo below we'd progressed further into the cave and were about to lose sight of the mighty entrance we'd passed through. You...
Daily Photo – Inside Clearwater Cave
It was here that I made a mistake I was to repeat several times in the caves - I stepped off the path. The...
Daily Photo – Entrance to Clearwater Cave, Mulu
The photo below is a view of one of the entrances to Clearwater Cave. You can get an idea of the scale by noticing...
Daily Photo – Gunung Mulu National Park
Low cloud fills a valley in this photo taken in the Gunung Mulu National Park while another layer of cloud shrouds the ridge leading...
Daily Photo – Tutoh River Taxi Revisited
The answer is in the photo below. At some point in this boat's history the owners obviously decided to do away with the advanced...
Daily Photo – Melinau Longboat
I'm reasonably sure this photo was taken on the Melinau because the river is so narrow (comparatively). All-in-all it took me a day to...
Daily Photo – Tutoh River Taxi
Clearly the boat had seen better days. The windshield and side glass had long since disappeared. I wondered if in fact they had been...
Daily Photo – Log Jam
This is all well and good until a log escapes. You might not be able to see it in the image below, but at...
Daily Photo – Batam Barang Riverboats
Three riverboats sit at the jetty near the mouth of the Batam Barang in Sarawak. With the survey over and the equipment shipped out...
Daily Photo – Supply Boats on the Sungai Belait
This photo of supply boats on the Sungai Belait (Belait River) is the last slide I shot in Brunei.
Daily Photo – Jungle Reflections
As my canopy photos have shown (here and here) the canopy in the survey area in Brunei was not particularly dense hence the proliferation...
Daily Photo – Canopy Revisited
When flying over the jungle and looking down the canopy just looks like one impenetrable solid mass of green. But as this photo shows,...
Daily Photo – Wet Feet
While the bridging would keep you above the water most of the time, after a heavy rain the levels of the lakes would rise...
Daily Photo – Morning Commute
While today my morning commute is a 25 mile chore on the freeways of Houston, in 1989, as this photos shows, my commute in...
Daily Photo – Night Flood
You can't actually see the car driving through this flood in Kuala Belait, one night in 1989, but you know it's there by the...
Daily Photo – More Lake Bridging
In this photo, part of my crew heads home across a stretch of lake bridging in Brunei, 1989. The lakes were probably old sand...
Daily Photo – Jungle Railway
We wondered where this jungle railway went when we stumbled across it while laying out our survey grid. It just seemed to start in...
Daily Photo – Jungle Canopy
This image is typical of the jungle canopy - all the branches and leaves at the top of the trees and barren trunks all...
Daily Photo – Jungle LVL
Today's photo is of the recording setup for an LVL shot somewhere in the jungle of Brunei inland from Seria. The crew member in...
Daily Photo – Lake Bridging
I never got to see the bridging crews installing this lake bridging so I’ve no clue how they did it. I know in places...
Daily Photo – The Foreman
The foreman in this photo is not the onlooker on the left with his hands in his pockets but the man in the center...
Daily Photo – More Flushing
Here's another photo of a flushing team in action. While not the most pleasant of tasks, sometimes the spray of water help alleviate the...
Daily Photo – Porters
In the photo below two of the crew port a flushing pump through the jungle. They weren't the easiest things to carry. The coiled...
Daily Photo – Flushing
It didn't take a lot of horsepower to make the holes in which we set the explosives and hydrophones - just a water pump...
Daily Photo – Jungle Line
After the surveyor cut his line, a 'bridging crew' would follow along behind and cut smaller trees to form a walkway, or bridge. Typically...
Daily Photo – Jungle Quarry
Most of my LVL work was to determine and map the boundary of the organic material to the first two distinct layers of sand....
Daily Photo – Bang!
Actually, the shot below is of a pretty shoddy job. If we'd done it properly, as we did most of the time, there wouldn't...
Daily Photo – Bird on a Wire
It's trickier to find the bird sitting on the wire in this image than the two caged birds in the image I posted yesterday,...
Daily Photo – Two Caged Birds
There are two birds sitting in a cage outside one of the windows here - actually there's a second cage but I can't see...
Daily Photo – Mother and Son
A young man walks down the street accompanied by his mother. They pass workers having lunch in the cafe's. They're forced to walk in...
Daily Photo – Boat Quay
As I mentioned yesterday, about a month after I took this photo, the restoration order was published in the paper and over the next...
Daily Photo – Boat Quay and OCBC Bank Building
About a month before I took this photo this area was gazetted for preservation and transformation to new business. Now the area looks well...
Daily Photo – Telok Ayer Street
I've no idea where yesterday's photo was taken but I know that today's photo shows part of Telok Ayer Street because the street name...
Daily Photo – Derelict House
I wondered how much of the brickwork the wooden safety barrier was intended to contain, and even how sturdy the boards were. Would they...
Daily Photo – Merlion Park in 1989
The Merlion was created in 1964 for the Singapore Tourism Board. With the head of a lion and the body of a fish resting...
Daily Photo – Block 335B
Clearly the laundry-pole-out-the-window is a local cultural thing. I wonder what happens if you lose a garment? On a street like Pagoda Street you...
Daily Photo – Pagoda Street
It's interesting looking at Google Street View around here. Pagoda Street, and the whole Chinatown area, has been spruced up in the intervening years....
Daily Photo – Flags Over Pagoda Street
Below the official flag of the state flies the unofficial flag - the daily laundry. No hiding the unmentionables here! Rather, everything is put...
Daily Photo – Fine: $150
This sign was in the restroom of a bar in Chinatown, Singapore. Talking with the locals, it was aimed at the older generation of...
Daily Photo – Looking Up
Typical of the area were the laundry poles projected from the windows above the streets to dry clothes in what breeze passed by. Also...
Daily Photo – Man with a Bike
Much like KL, parts of the old city were being torn down to be replaced though there was still plenty of character in the...
Daily Photo – Singapore Rain
It was a rainy day back in August 1989 when I stepped out of the Boulevard Hotel for a wander. The church is the...
Daily Photo – Boulevard Hotel
While there I took this photo from the floor my room was on, down to the lobby area on the ground floor. The plants...
Daily Photo – Urban Renewal
Since posting yesterday's photo I've been poring over Google Maps of Kuala Lumpur trying to figure out where I took the photos. I recall...
Speedliter’s Intensive – Review of Syl Arena’s Workshop
Speedliter's Intensive! If you're going to be near those cities on those dates, I heartily recommend you register then call-in sick the day of....
Daily Photo – Moved to No. 9
I didn't have a KL agenda, I was just passing through. One night in a doss house then a bus to Singapore. KL back...
Daily Photo – Juxtaposition
On the right we have St. Paul's Church located at 56 Macalister Road, Georgetown, Penang. This church traces its history back to 1886. It's...
Daily Photo – Boat Repair
Somewhere near Pekan Teluk Bahang, I captured this image of a fisherman, working on his gear.
Daily Photo – Pekan Teluk Bahang 2
Here's another shot of the beach at Pekan Teluk Bahang, Penang, Malaysia. If you take a look at my other photo of Pekan Teluk...
Daily Photo – Pekan Teluk Bahang
I still have vague memories of the day I took off to ride around the island. I took off in an anti-clockwise direction from...
Daily Photo – Beware of Shoe Thieves
Do you remember that scene in Slumdog Millionaire when the boys are hustling at the Taj Mahal? When I looked at the scan below...
Daily Photo – Penang Buddha
I usually feel somewhat unsettled taking photos in religious spaces, always concerned I'm interrupting an worshiper event though I'm not particularly religious myself. Many...
Daily Photo – Palladium Performer 3
I just love the look on the face of the guy in the middle. While the two singers are dueting away, he's giving...
Daily Photo – Girl with Candles
One of the acts at this Penang street variety show was performed by a group including several dancers holding candles. This is my favorite...
Daily Photo – Palladium Performer 2
I've no idea what this guy was singing about but he was going at it all-in. You can see the sweat on his brow...
Daily Photo – Palladium Performer
I don't know if I just happened to be in Penang during a 'fringe' style event or if this sort of thing just goes...
Daily Photo – Georgetown Palladium
Back in October I posted a series of images from a street theater that I happened across while wandering the streets at night. I...
Daily Photo – Club Girls
I'm guessing the movie was called 'Club Girls' but I'm not really sure as the poster refers to 'Clu Girls'. There were several things...
Daily Photo – Rickshaw Driver
These tricycle rickshaws were a common sight in Georgetown back in 1989. I don't know if they still are. I don't recall ever riding...
Daily Photo – More Temple Roof Detail
Here's another image of the roof detail on this Chinese Temple in Georgetown, Penang. Again we have figures in some form of scene or...
Daily Photo – Temple Roof Detail
Now I've no idea what the story is here but it looks pretty rip-roaring to me! I'm left wondering who is the man on...
Daily Photo – The Offering
Wandering around the outside of the temple I happened across this scene of a woman making an offering to her god. Clearly this furnace...
Daily Photo – Georgetown Temple
I was always struck by the ornate roof decorations of these buildings. Like the great cathedrals in Europe, there's a lot of attention to...
Daily Photo – Sofitel Sunset
Our suite on the 15th floor had great views to the west but there were some downsides to the hotel. It's just across the...
Daily Photo – Biltmore Moonrise
With a multi-capture HDR I'd have been able to get a much crisper shot of the moon. As it is, I'm quite happy with...
Daily Photo – Biltmore Conference Center
Having dined in the Biltmore's Fontana restaurant, enjoying both the food and the service, we took a brief wander around some of the public...
Daily Photo – The Biltmore Pool
The shot below is of the pool. This is a handheld Canon S100 shot. The pool covers and area of 23,000 square-feet and holds...
Daily Photo – Biltmore Lobby
You can get a hint of the architecture in this historic hotel from this image. The wooden structure on the left is actually a...
Daily Photo – Same Beach, Different Day
I had walked back down through the park to re-take my shot of the Park Central Hotel. I then thought I'd walk back up...
Daily Photo – Airboat Captain
My airboat captain was extremely knowledgeable about the area we were traveling in and he seemed to know where the wildlife would be. He...
Daily Photo – Everglades 13
Today's photos were taken shortly after yesterday's. The difference is I framed them vertically which further emphasizes the clouds. Like all the shots in...
Daily Photo – Everglades 12
While the band of cloud above me moves out to the west, another thunderhead is rising in the east over Miami. Yesterday I posted...
Daily Photo – Everglades 11
Yesterday's photo was a view to the north. Today's swings around to the north-west. The sun is out of the frame to the left...
Daily Photo – Everglades 10
We headed over to this patch of water to see three relatively young alligators - but my photos of them suck, to put it...
Daily Photo – Everglades 9
On the horizon are two of the landmarks my captain uses to navigate - the radio mast just left of center and a cement...
Daily Photo – Everlgades 8
This clump of trees was the furthest point north and west that we went on this trip. My Captain turned opened the throttle and...
Daily Photo – Everglades 7
So this is what we were searching for in the clump of trees in the photos Everglades 5 and Everglades 6. I'm not an...
Everglades 3 revisited
Was working on some more photos today and decided to revisit Everglades 3. Below is an alternate interpretation.
Daily Photo – Everglades 6
It looked to us as though the thunder storm ahead was moving away so my pilot set the airboat in motion once more and...
Daily Photo – Everglades 5
On the horizon in the middle of this shot is a clump of trees that we were heading for but first we had to...
Daily Photo – Everglades 4
The part of the Everglades we were exploring is the Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area-Water Conservation Area 3B, according to Google Maps. Not...
Daily Photo – Everglades 3
Another thunder storm was rolling across the horizon. We could see the lightning but not hear any thunder over the roar of the 68'...
Daily Photo – Everglades 2
This is a view to the west so the Everglades is flowing from right to left across the frame. Since the Everglades is a...
Daily Photo – Everglades 1
Having crossed an expanse of inundated grassland, we turned into a firebreak canal in search of some alligators and that was when I got...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – The Beach Paradise Hotel
The Beach Paradise Hotel sits at the intersection of Ocean Drive and 6th Street in South Beach, Miami. It was looking a tad beat...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Inspiration
When we entered our hotel, a photo hanging on one of the walls of our suite gave met the answer. The photo was of...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Johnny Rockets Revisited
This series (three shot, 4EV range HDR) was actually shot with the portrait composition. It's not a crop of yesterday's image. I like the...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Johnny Rockets
Johnny Rockets is a diner chain found across the US. It's reported charm is it's 50's ambiance. I've never been into one so I...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Waldorf Towers Hotel
This building sports the rounded corners typical of many of the Art Deco buildings in South Beach. This particular building was designed by...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – The Breakwater Revisited
These past few days I've been working with a beta evaluation copy of onOne software's Perfect Photo Suite 7. I'm just sticking with the...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – The Breakwater Hotel
Next door to Ocean's Ten and the Edison is the Breakwater Hotel. It's hard to miss given the prominence of the name on the...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Chevy Bel Air
This Chevy Bel Air was parked outside the Ocean's Ten Restaurant on Ocean Drive, Miami. From the color coordination, I'm guessing the owner of...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Ocean’s Ten
I was drawn to this scene by the color matching of the restaurant's orange awnings and yellow walls with the pain scheme of the...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami – Versace House Observatory
I noticed an observatory on the top of 'The Villa by Barton G' as it is now officially titled, originally the Casa Casuarina and...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami, 1086
This property is located at the intersection of Ocean Drive and 11th Street. I was initially drawn to the portholes of the building on...
Daily Photo – 12th Street Lifeguard Station
Miami beach is dotted with these wonderful Lifeguard stations. They're named for the streets that would intersect the ocean if extended that far. That...
Daily Photo – South Beach Friday Morning
South Beach, Miami, on a Friday morning at around 9:30. Having sauntered south on Ocean Drive to about 12th street I decided to head...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami, The Edgewater
While South Beach in general and the Ocean Drive area in particular is known for its art deco architecture, The Edgewater stands out...
Daily Photo – Ocean Drive Miami, The Betsy Ross
I was inspired to take this series by a picture hanging in our hotel room. I'll post the then-and-now of that image later since...
Daily Photo – Fourteen Minutes to Fort Lauderdale
The vertical framing of this shot has changes the overall exposure with the layer of cloud above the aircraft more dark and ominous looking....
Daily Photo – Fifteen Minutes to Fort Lauderdale
But looking back I got this fantastic view of the sunlight from the setting sun streaming through the gap in the clouds with sheets...
Daily Photo – Storm over Fort Myers Part 2
The cruising speed of a Boeing 737 is a shade over 500 miles per hour (all things being equal) so we'd traveled about eight...
Daily Photo – Storm over Fort Myers
As we approached the west coast of Florida I saw a wall of cloud to the south-east, pretty much aligned with the coast, illuminated...
Daily Photo – Generations
Here's the last in this series taken at a street theater in Georgetown, Penang on August 4, 1989. The only illumination on the audience...
Daily Photo – Boys in the Crowd
There weren't any 'parental controls' at this street theater performance in Georgetown, Penang. Despite the knife and sword play on the stage no one...
Daily Photo – Watching Me Watching You
As I mentioned yesterday, because I didn't understand the play unfolding before me on the streets of Georgetown, Penang, I turned my lens on...
Daily Photo – Enthralled
Since i really didn't understand what was happening on the stage in front of me I started turning my lens on the audience. Sitting...
Daily Photo – More Penang Theatrics
I happened across this show while wandering the streets of Georgetown, Penang back in 1989. One huge benefit of street theater is that no-one...
Daily Photo – Best Seat in the House
I thought this little girl had one of the best seats in the house for this performance. There were plenty of children in attendance...
Daily Photo – Penang Street Theater
Wandering around the streets of Georgetown in the evening I happened across a theater troupe performing for an audience that had gathered in the...
Daily Photo – Georgetown Alley
Here's another alley I wandered by in Georgetown, Penang. Like my earlier alley photo, while there are signs of life in this alley, there's...
Daily Photo – Georgetown Street
I loved the faded glory feel of Georgetown, Penang. While still a commercial hub, it's present status is somewhere below where it was when...
Daily Photo – Penang Street Market
Despite the showers that kept rolling through, this market in Georgetown, Penang continued. The colorful umbrellas served alternately to provide shade from the sun...
Daily Photo – Penang Alley
Of course, my visit was over 20 years ago, but I doubt Georgetown has changed much in that time. It was certainly a very...
Daily Photo – Protected Area
There are keep out signs and keep out signs. This is one of the most unambiguous I've ever seen. What I like about it...
Daily Photo – P307
It was, as you can see, a grey day. The large vessel and the large cranes lurking in the haze are in Butterworth. Apparently,...
Daily Photo – Spraying Farewell
I guess you could get to the Phi Phi Islands by sea plane but boat is the norm. And that's the normal way to...
Daily Photo – Undercut
On the way back to Koh Phi Phi Don from Koh Phi Phi Ley, having cruised by one of the caves from which the...
Daily Photo – Swift’s Cave
This overhang in the limestone rack face was a significant swift nesting site. Out of harvesting season, there was no one working on this...
Daily Photo – Phuket Ferry
The ferry also stops by some of the local attractions on it's way into the islands. Here it's pulling up to the limestone cliffs...
Daily Photo – Snorkeling
Back in the late 80's when I made this trip, I couldn't swim. It would be another couple of months before I learned -...
Daily Photo – Koh Phi Phi Ley
I'm going to go out on a limb with the name of this photo. I'm about 80% sure it's somewhere on Koh Phi Phi...
Daily Photo – Fishing Boats off Phi Phi Island
I can't actually place where I took this photo but I'm thinking it's more likely Koh Phi Phi Ley than Koh Phi Phi Don,...
Daily Photo – Red Umbrella
Here's another 'street' image I took on Koh Phi Phi Don. I was most likely wandering around the isthmus in search or food, or...
Daily Photo – Boy Running
I took this shot while wandering across the isthmus between Ton Sai Bay and Loh Dalam Bay on Koh Phi Phi Don. The boy...
Daily Photo – Loh Dalam Bay 3
If you're stuck in your office and it's grey/cold/wet or otherwise unpleasant or dull, then kick back and imagine you're on this beach with...
Daily Photo – Day Trippers
The normal method of transport if you want to go the Koh Phi Phi Ley or one of the remote beaches on Koh Phi...
Daily Photo – Odd Man Out
I spotted these fish from the jetty in Ton Sai Bay on Koh Phi Phi Don. What struck me was the one yellow-banded fish...
Daily Photo – Heading Out
I love the tight crop on this image that eliminates the sky and thereby accentuates the height of the limestone cliffs. You can just...
Daily Photo – Morning in Ton Sai Bay 2
You can typically find several shots from a single location if you take the time to look around. You should also take advantage of...
Daily Photo – Morning in Ton Sai Bay
If I ever get the opportunity to reshoot this, I'd do it differently.
Daily Photo – 9/11 Memorial – North Pool
All proceeds from the sale of this image will be donated to the 9/11 Memorial.
Daily Photo – Loh Dalam Bay Sunset
Having captured yesterday's shot of the dipping sun illuminating the fishing boat in Loh Dalam Bay I faced my camera the other way towards...
Daily Photo – Loh Dalam Bay 2
Having photographed the fishing boats tied up in Ton Sai Bay I walked back across the isthmus to Loh Dalam Bay and took this...
Daily Photo – Ton Sai Boats
Having captured yesterday's shot I walked out along the jetty to get a different angle on the fishing boats - a tighter framing. Below...
Daily Photo – Ton Sai Jetty
Below is a view of how the jetty in Ton Sai Bay on Koh Phi Phi Don used to look. The crystal clear aqua...
Daily Photo – Ton Sai Bay
Across the isthmus from Loh Dalam Bay on Koh Phi Phi Don is Ton Sai Bay. The water here is deeper so has a...
Daily Photo – Loh Dalam Refractions
Taken from the lookout on the eastern part of the island, the ship is beached on the sandy isthmus that joins the two parts...
Daily Photo – Loh Dalam Bay
Loh Dalam Bay is on the north side of the sandy isthmus that connects the two limestone outcrops that form Phi Phi Don. This...
Daily Photo – Koh Phi Phi Don
Back in the late 80's there wasn't a whole bunch of development on Koh Phi Phi Don, the largest of the Phi Phi Islands....
Daily Photo – Andaman Outcrop
On this first trip to the island I took a few days and went over to Koh Phi Phi - the Phi Phi islands...
Daily Photo – Mopping Up
What do you do after a heavy storm? You mop up your courtyard, obviously (not). I was still bemused by what I was seeing,...
Daily Photo – Wat Phra Kaew After the Rain 2
Today's photo is a wider shot of the scene I posted a couple of days back of storm clouds at the Wat Phra Kaew...
Daily Photo – Wat Phra Kaew After the Rain
With the rain moving away, I continued my exploration around the pavilions of the Wat Phra Kaew which lies within the walls of the...
Daily Photo – Stormy Skies
After the rain had passed I stepped out to take more photos. Talk about a cloud as black as night! As the storm that...
Daily Photo – Statues on Guard
Once the rain had moved on, I was able to step out from my temporary shelter and resume wandering aimlessly around. I didn't have...
Daily Photo – Waiting out the Rain
Across the small courtyard some young me in military uniforms were sitting on the steps of a doorway while some cleaners were also huddled...
Daily Photo – Temple Shower
So I took the photo below during a shower while wandering around the Wat Phra kaew in Bangkok. Like pretty much everyone else, when...
Daily Photo – Restoration
Have you ever had that experience where you go somewhere hoping to get some good photos only to find the location a building site?...
Daily Photo – Bangkok Grand Palace
I snapped this image of part of the Grand Palace in Bangkok while racing up the Chao Phraya as a passenger in one of...
Daily Photo – Bangkok River Scene
Every time I've seen the Chao Phraya River its been this muddy brown color owing to all the silt washing down from the hills...
Daily Photo – Bangkok Department Store
For R&R from Brunei I'd often go to Thailand. The image below is the first of my Thailand collection, and it's of a department...
Daily Photo – Village in Brunei
So I've not been able to place this on Google Earth but it think it was somewhere off Jalan Labi which heads inland from...
Daily Photo – Jackup at Sunset 4
So here's the detail view of the classic three view coverage of a subject. The first in the series was the overview, the broad...
Daily Photo – Jackup at Sunset 3
I usually try to capture at least three views of a scene: the overview, a vignette and a detail view. Yesterday's shot was the...
Daily Photo – Brunei Sunset
The relatively short dusk duration is captured in this image with the yellows of the setting sun to the west and the darkening skies...
Daily Photo – Jackup at Sunset 2
The image below was taken a few minutes after yesterday's shot with the sun bisected on the horizon. The film stock was Fuji Provia...
Daily Photo – Jackup at Sunset
Of course, I was in Brunei to look for (more) oil. This is a shot I took of a jackup drilling rig and supply...
Daily Photo – the View Up River
In yesterday's photo I showed the scene behind our water taxi as we sped up river from Bandar Seri Begawan to Limbang. Below is...
Daily Photo – Heading Up River
I was taken with the speed delivered by these twin, 2.6 liter, V6, 175 horse-power Yamaha outboards. That was, until our Mr. Fixit started...
Daily Photo – Blowout!
I'd only been in Brunei a few days when the Rasau 17 well blew out. The escaping gas caught fire on April 25, 1989...
Daily Photo – Burnsall
In the background is the Parish Church of Saint Wilfrid while in the foreground, the River Wharfe flows beneath a five arched bridge that...
Daily Photo – Stockclose Farm
When I was younger I would fling my BMW 5-series (and younger still my Honda motorbike) down this hill and around the bend in...
Daily Photo – Water Anyone?
Curious title perhaps but the photos below are of the inside of one of our water tanks at our Schoonspruit/Skoonspruit camp! Perhaps it explains...
Daily Photo – Planes, Trains and Automobiles
This is a shot of the R719 and the railroad that runs parallel to it about 18 miles south of Bothaville in the Free...
Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Survey
This photo, looking to the west from the eastern end of the survey area shows the grid of lines we left across this area....
Daily Photo – The Alfalfa Field
Alfalfa usually has the highest feeding value of all the common hay crops and is most often used as feed for dairy cows because...
Daily Photo – Vibs at one o’clock!
On this survey we were using four Failing Y1100 vibrators mounted on International 6x6 trucks as our energy source. In this photo you can...
Daily Photo – Maize Field
As I mentioned yesterday, one advantage of flying in a helicopter that has no doors is that your can get shots like this one,...
Daily Photo – Where’d the door go?
Since our pilot had been a pilot in the SADF, he preferred to fly his helicopter with the doors off! I thought this was...
Daily Photo – Schoonspruit from the air
In this image we'd taken off from behind his red-roofed house and I was able to take this shot looking to the north, towards...
Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Entertainment
In this case a storm rolls by to our north with lightning forks illuminating the surrounding skies. You can even see a lightning trail...
Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Evening
The image below was taken about a month later but the key elements remains the same. In this photo, the sun has dipped below...
Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Sunset
Here's another of those wonderful Free State sunsets. A tree, a wind pump, telephone lines and a farm building are silhouetted against a burning...
Daily Photo – Schoonspruit Storm
I took this image at a place I’ve noted as being Schoonspruit in the Free State, back in December 1988. But it doesn’t appear...
Daily Photo – Willem Pretorius Game Park
This photo was taken a few months after the sunset photo while on a different trip. It's taken from one of the rocky outcrops...
Daily Photo – Chrysler Building
I'll be writing more on my experiences with HDR Efex Pro 2 in future posts but for now, I'm impressed with the intuitive interface...
Daily Photo – Willem Pretorius Sunset
Once again, at the right time of year, the sunsets in South Africa provide a fantastic display of color. This image is taken in...
Daily Photo – Baboon
About 30 miles south-east of Welkom you'll find the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve. I visited this reserve several times when I was working in...
Daily Photo – Bultfontein Camp
Here's a wider view of the same sunrise as in yesterday's photo. It shows our camp site at Bultfontein.
Daily Photo – Bultfontein Sunrise
After Heuningspruit we found ourselves camped near Bultfontein. This was almost certainly taken with my Tamron 500mm mirror lens as my records show the...
Daily Photo – Heuningspruit Sunrise
Heuningspruit is a really small town, if it even qualifies as a town, about 18 miles north-east of Kroonstad in the Free State. I...
Daily Photo – Free State near Bethlehem
Look closely and you can see our camp pretty much centered side to side and just below the horizon. This view is almost certainly...
Daily Photo – Theunissen Sunset
If you look at yesterday's image you can see the telegraph pole to the left of center. Taken on the same day but with...
Daily Photo – Theunissen Camp
Still in the Free State, the Theunissen camp once again provided some wonderful sunsets. Plus, here we were actually camped on some higher ground...
Daily Photo – Bothaville Sunset 3
As you can see, the ground in the camp was quite waterlogged, though this wasn't the worst camp site flood by quite some measure....
Daily Photo – Sand River Crossing
I think there's something old-worldly, even timeless, about this image of a ford on the Sand River in South Africa.
Daily Photo – Bothaville Sunset
Here's another autumn sunset taken in March 1988 near Bothaville in South Africa.
Daily Photo – Let There Be Light!
This photo shows the afternoon sunlight streaming through the afternoon rain clouds.
Daily Photo – Four Barrows
So the Four Barrows are on the ridge that separates Aldbourne Warren from North Farm. In this photo you can only see three of...
Daily Photo – Copse near Upham
The North Wessex Downs are the creation of some faceless, nameless, bureaucrat collecting together as a group downland better known by their local names...
Daily Photo – Aldbourne Warren 2
Here's a wider view (despite being taken with a telephoto lens) of Aldbourne Warren. This was taken from close by the location of yesterday's...
Daily Photo – Aldbourne from the North West
Here's a view of Aldbourne from the north-west. The track descends to the left an later passes the site of the Old Barn. If...
Daily Photo – Old Barn
A little less than a mile north of Aldbourne along the B4192 there's a turn-off to the west. A short way along this track...
Daily Photo – Aldbourne Warren
As with Hellscombe Cottage there's a cottage at Aldbourne Warren that also sits snug to the base of the hill to their east. There...
Daily Photo – Hellscombe Cottage
Clearly I would not have been able to repeat this shot in the summer since the leaves on the trees would obscure the cottage...
Daily Photo – Hellscombe
Quite why this particular combe picked up the moniker of Hellscombe is lost to me. It doesn't look particularly hellish.
Daily Photo – North Farm
Late winter and the grasses are recovering, still no leaves on the trees but the fields are being prepared for spring wheat.
Daily Photo – Windsurfing at Sunset Beach
A little way north up the Atlantic Coast from Cape Town is the beach community of Sunset Beach. On the day we went up...
Daily Photo – Harrowing Time
Late afternoon and a farm worker pulls a harrow across a field before a stand of trees. The trees all tilt to the right...
Daily Photo – Delmas Sunset
This sunset was taken from our camp near Delmas which is about 40 miles east of Johannesburg. Looking back, I don't recall mosquitoes being...
Daily Photo – Graskop Waterfall
This photo is also an HDR from three slide scans. Again, I'd retained in my slide collection three versions of this scene, each about...
Daily Photo – Graskop Stream
This photo is actually an HDR made from three different slides. I happened to have a -1, 0, +1 EV set of three slides...
Daily Photo – The Three Rondavels
Of course, no great natural vista is truly complete without some form of man-made scar and this is no exception - the radio mast...
Daily Photo – Blyde River Nature Reserve
I drove this route a few times looking at my photo collection but my slides of the views from God's Window don't do justice...
Daily Photo – The Drakensberg
The Drakensberg, or Dragon Mountains, is the highest mountain range in South Africa, rising to 3,482 m (11,424 ft) at their highest point. The...
Daily Photo – Victoria Falls from Zambia
From the Zambian side, looking to the west, you can see much further along the falls than you can from the Zimbabwe side since...
Daily Photo – Entering Zambia
From the Vic Falls Visitor Center in Zimbabwe to the eastern end of the falls in Zambia is about a mile-and-a-half along the road...
Daily Photo – Victoria Falls from the Air
In this image we're technically over Zambia, looking west to Zimbabwe at the top of the photo. The cloud of spray at the top...
Daily Photo – Victoria Falls from Zimbabwe
I took this photo from one of the viewpoints just north of the Victoria Falls Visitor's Center. I don't recall the Visitor's Center so...
Daily Photo – Pointe du Hoc
Since today marks the 78th anniversary of D-Day I thought I'd post an image of one of the D-Day battlefields, the Pointe du Hoc.
Transit of Venus
When I got home tonight I was hoping to see the transit of Venus but the skies to the west were cloudy and the...
Daily Photo – One more Giraffe
The ancient Greeks and Romans knew of giraffes and according to rumors on the internet, thought that they were a cross between a camel...
Daily Photo – Fox at Lunch
Later in the day the remains had been taken over by some lions. A male lion dozed in some grass nearby while four females...
Daily Photo – Lunching Hyena
While to some this may seem sad, I view it more as nature recycling. In it's death it's providing sustenance to the host of...
Daily Photo – Two Giraffes
This shot of two giraffes at dusk was captured at Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana. Again, the is a scan of a slide.
Daily Photo – Giraffe at Sundown
Again, this is from a scan of a slide. Were I shooting this today I'd be very tempted to capture it in HDR and...
Daily Photo – Spear Fishing
I'm guessing from this guy's attire that neither crocodiles nor hippos get excited at the color red.
Daily Photo – Impala
I took this picture of an Impala as we were driving towards a watering hole to watch the animals arrive at dusk. Like a...
Daily Photo – Lebowa Sunset
I captured this sunset a week or two after I crashed the boss's car. I was struck by the cloud formation at the higher...
Daily Photo – Shattered Windshield
Whomp! I hit the cow pretty much dead center. It's legs bucked and it's body rolled up the hood and into the windshield. I...
Daily Photo – Matla Power Station
I took this shot of the Matla Power Station just after sunset when we were camped at Trichardt, about 80 miles east-southeast of Johannesburg...
Daily Photo – Meisho Maru No. 38
At 3:00 am on the morning of November 16, 1982, the crew of the Meisho Maru No. 38 issued an emergency call for help....
Daily Photo – Outside Oudtshoorn
This image reminds me of the photo I posted of the Kingston Range. On that post I included a poem by Thomas Hardy. Hardy...
Daily Photo – Port Elizabeth Anglers
What I find curious now though, is the dude in the sports coat and jeans. I'm guessing the waves crash against the rocks sending...
Daily Photo – Isandlwana from Rorke’s Drift
On one of these vacations I determined to drive to Rorke's Drift which lies broadly between Johannesburg and Durban. Like driving in New England,...
Daily Photo – Campbell
I'd been humming along the dirt road that runs through the lower part of the frame when suddenly the hood (bonnet) of my Hilux...
Daily Photo – Taung Sunset
With the near daily storms that passed in the afternoons, we were often treated to wonderful sunsets like this one. The sun has just...
Daily Photo – Reivilo Clouds
As my faded memory recalls, pretty much every afternoon at around 3:00 pm, the clouds would build us and a series of thunder storms...
Daily Photo – Above Glen Prosen
As I recall, this was a view to the east across the Angus Glens. I think the glen running through this image is Glen...
Daily Photo – Glen Prosen
Having completed the task we decided to take a day off and hike around Glen Prosen. It was a glorious day and we left...
Daily Photo – Ghadames Passage
Doorways and window openings are set in the whitewashed walls. Periodically there are gaps in the roof that allow the passages to breathe and...
Daily Photo – Inside Old Ghadames
Order a print of this photo So yesterday’s photo was looking at old Ghadames from the outside in. Apart from the shadow of the...
Daily Photo – Old Ghadames
This photo was taken from just outside the old wall, near the water pool. The white tower and dome is part of one of...
Daily Photo – Just Plain Gravel!
What this photo actually shows is a stretch of the Libyan-Algerian border about 90 miles (140 km) south of Ghadames. Libya is on the...
Daily Photo – Plain Drilling
Where my previous drilling photos were located near the center of Concession 20 and in the northern part, this one (I'm fairly sure from...
Daily Photo – Palm Tree and Jebel
On windless days there'd often be nothing to hear but the sound of your brain over-driving your ear drums to try and pick up...
Daily Photo – Jebel Drilling
This wadi had obviously seen some reliable moister over the years judging by the palm tree. There's also some scrubby bushes around. The surface...
Daily Photo – Marsh Benham
The summer house sits on a small island with the river threading around it. I can imagine when it was new it was a...
Daily Photo – Norwegian Blue
I love the way the sun is lighting up the snow on the distant mountains, their ruggedness being apparent from the lines of light...
Daily Photo – Boats at Midnight
Consequently we ended up down at the harbor at midnight, which is when I captured the image above. The low angle of the sun,...
Daily Photo – Oslo Sculpture
I've no idea what this piece is called, nor who the artist is, nor anything else about the piece. I'd love to know more...
Daily Photo – Jungfrau
Eiger is translated as Ogre, Mönch as Monk and Jungfrau as Virgin (or Maiden). The Junfrau is the highest at 4158m, then the Mönch...
Daily Photo – Eiger and Mönch
Here, one of my traveling companions enjoys the fantastic scenery with the Eiger and Mönch forming the backdrop across the valley.
Daily Photo – Grinding
Order a print of this photo I’ve no idea what the Korean language on the poster says. Judging from the cross on the figures...
Daily Photo – Dune Drilling
Uphole drilling in Libya. The drill here is a Mayhew 1000 mounted on a MOL 6x6 truck.
Daily Photo – Concession 20
Order a print of this photo The movie cliché holds that a soldier’s rifle is his best friend. For most of 1985, this Land...
Daily Photo – Solar Eclipse
This is a shot of the partial solar eclipse of December 4, 1983. Well, partial from where I was in Exeter, England.
Daily Photo – Exeter Sunset
This shot was taken many years ago - 1983 actually. It's a scan of a slide. I took it from my college dorm window,...
Daily Photo – Kingston Range
The Roman Road runs straight and bare As the pale parting line in hair Across the heath.
Daily Photo – Somewhere in Arizona
I really enjoy looking at this image at 100% because it's clearly just mushed pixels, almost pointillistic in nature.
Daily Photo – Stratford Window
This shop has all you could ever want and less, from Union Jacks to red phone boxes and plates painted with the face of...
Daily Photo – London Eye – Hub and Spokes
The London Eye is a cantilevered wheel having support on only one side unlike other observation wheels in other cities. The wheel has 64...
Daily Photo – London Eye – Descent
The best images I've seen of London from the Eye have been taken soon after sunrise on a cold, crisp, cloudless, winter's morning. Great...
Daily Photo – The London Eye
The London Eye currently has EDF Energy as a sponsor. The EDF stands for Electricité de France, of course; just as 20% of the...
Daily Photo – Salisbury Cathedral
This view shows the tower and spire reaching up to the skies. It was taken from the north-west corner of the close from the...
Daily Photo – The Nave of Salisbury Cathedral
Many medieval churches can feel dark dark inside but that's not the case at all at Salisbury, the 'lightness' of the interior being one...
Daily Photo – Colonial Park Cemetery
A lone geranium plant sits below the headstone of Anna Maby, propped against the eastern wall of Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. The headstone...
Daily Photo – Arch Rock
Photo of Arch Rock, a natural formation in the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada.
Daily Photo – Nopah Range
The traditional definition of a desert is based on a (lack of) rainfall figure - less than 250 mm (10 in.) rainfall per year....
Daily Photo – Slide
Instead, slides now are plastic tubes. This has the advantage of preventing your precious little one from falling over the edge on the way...
Daily Photo – Ten Minutes to New Orleans
With the sun setting on the horizon and thunder clouds rising into the distant evening sky, Lake Verret is about to slip under the...
Daily Photo – Sunrise Cyclist
I arrived before sun up and for quite a while I was alone, the only sound the chirping of birds and the occasional splash...
Daily Photo – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum was located in Cleveland ostensibly because DJ Alan Freed coined the term 'Rock and Roll'...
Daily Photo – The Painters
I was drawn to this image by the strong colors - the red of the brick, the green of the siding on the building...
Daily Photo – Free Stamp
Walking around to the other side, the stamp reads, 'FREE', which is intriguing, because it couldn't possibly have been free. It must have cost...
Daily Photo – Stamp in a Park
I always find public art fascinating. While walking from the Ritz-Carlton in Cleveland to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, I'd...
Daily Photo – Carter Road Lift Bridge
The two bridges in this view span the river at Carter Road. The blue bridge is active and carries the road traffic. The rusting...
Daily Photo – Windsor Castle
Coming back later in the afternoon we were presented with this view of Windsor Castle from the river.
Daily Photo – Grand Rapids Reflections
I've long been fascinated by reflections. I'm like a child seeing itself in a mirror for the first time and trying to make sense...
Daily Photo – Grand Rapids Sunset
What I liked particularly about this scene was the strip of cloud obscuring the sun. Below the cloud, the sun is casting radiant colors...
Daily Photo – Pearl Street Rapid
I took this image from the eastern side of the Grand River, just north of the Pearl Street Bridge. I didn't have my tripod...
Daily Photo – South from the Top of the Rock
I took this photo South from 30 Rock when I was in New York with my family last summer.
Daily Photo – Liddington from Upham
This view is from near the top of Upham hill looking north over Aldbourne Warren in the foreground, and Liddington Warren in the mid-ground...
Daily Photo – Tracks in Barley Field
I took this shot of tractor tracks in a field of barley looking across a valley in the Marlborough Downs of Wiltshire, England. The...
Daily Photo – British Airways Boeing 777
Last summer I took this shot of a British Airways 777 heading west in a cloud-free sky over the Marlborough Downs. I know it's...
Daily Photo – London from Tower Bridge
Great view of the City of London taken from the western walkway of Tower Bridge.
Daily Photo – Virgin Balloon
My wife and I thought it ironic that we should see a Virgin balloon having flown Virgin Atlantic but we were both thankful that...
Daily Photo – Rooftop Deck at The Betsy
The Betsy Hotel has a neat rooftop deck for guests. From the loungers you can look out over the top of the palm trees...
Daily Photo – The Betsy Ross Hotel
About a year ago, my wife had to travel to Miami and I tagged along for the ride. We stayed at the Betsy Hotel...
Daily Photo – Hilton Americas, Houston
This is a shot of the rear of the hotel. I like the strong lines in the architecture here. Since I like saturated colors,...
Daily Photo – DE238 USS Stewart
The Destroyer Escort 238 USS Stewart was commissioned into active service on May 31, 1943 having been constructed at the Brown Shipbuilding Yards in...
Daily Photo – St. Martins, Round Top, Texas
St. Martins sits on state highway 237S, about three miles south-west of Round Top, Texas. It's billed on a sign by the road as...
Daily Photo – BB-35 USS Texas
Like the Elissa, the USS Texas is no longer seaworthy. She lies in a berth off the Houston ship channel just north of the...
Daily Photo – Ropes
The Elissa is a three-masted, iron-hulled barque built in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1877. She was rescued from destruction in a Greek Shipyard in 1975...
Daily Photo – Cinderella Castle
During the day, Cinderella Castle is a backdrop to the many performances that are staged in front of it. At night, the castle becomes...
Daily Photo – The Six Pence Pub
The Six Pence Pub sits on Bull Street at East Perry Lane in Savannah, Georgia. It's just a couple of blocks south of Chippewa...
Daily Photo – Harbor Town
Harbour Town is a marina/shopping/restaurant area of the Sea Pines zone on Calibogue Sound at the southern end of Hilton Head island, South Carolina....
Daily Photo – Texaco Station
This old Texaco Station sits at the intersection of routes 178 and 303 (Ace Basin Pkwy and Green Pond Hwy) near Green Pond, South...
Daily Photo – Flags of Fort Sumter
The five flags below the current US flag in this image represent the five flags that flew over the fort during the Civil War.
Daily Photo – Tomcat on the Yorktown
The first Tomcats entered service in 1972 and they were retired from service in 2006. The two Pratt & Whitney TF-30 turbofans with afterburners...
Daily Photo – USS Yorktown
The USS Yorktown (CV-10) was the tenth aircraft carrier to serve in the US Navy. Commissioned in April 1943, she saw action in the...
Daily Photo – Lone Star
Taken around 3:00pm on a late January afternoon, the trees are all devoid of leaves. The sun was still high enough in the sky...
Daily Photo – Dawn in the Oilfield
This 'nodding donkey' was whirring away on the beach near High Island in Texas. The sun is still a 33 minutes away from breaking...
Daily Photo – Abandoned Row-Boat
Unlike yesterday’s image, this one took a bit more effort. I didn’t see the abandoned row-boat when I pulled the car off the road,...
Daily Photo – Maine Stream
I took this photo back in the fall of 2010 when making a run-and-gun trip though Maine. Its another road-side photo. I’ve no idea...
Daily Photo – Camp Fire Embers
Since yesterday was Mardi Gras, that makes today Ash Wednesday, so here’s a photo of some ashes. OK so that’s a bit weak, I...
Daily Photo – Carrollton Princess
Today is Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday. This image is still my favorite Mardi Gras photo to date, though the trombone player cuts a close...
Daily Photo – Night Rider
While it can be hard to spot the beads and throws during the day, it becomes many times harder at night. Still, with many...
Daily Photo – Between Parades
What does one do in the gap between parades? On several days through the parade season more than one parade will travel along parts...
Daily Photo – One of the Crowd
You don't have to get dressed up to enjoy Mardi Gras but I guess there are some that can't resist. This lady is certainly...
Daily Photo – Krewe of Mid-City
And no, I've no idea what the lady in the Drew Brees shirt is doing nor exactly what the police officer is looking at.
Daily Photo – Krewe of King Arthur
This lady was riding with the Krewe of King Arthur in their 2009 parade. Her costume and face paint are resplendent with these traditional...
Daily Photo – The Trombone Player
I can’t look a the this image without wondering what was the joke? What was it this guy saw or heard that so obviously...
Daily Photo – The Throw-In
From this guy’s pose, I’d reckon he’s played soccer at some time. This isn’t your ‘quarterback’ throwing position, it’s your ‘throw-in from the sidelines’...
Daily Photo – Waiting for a Parade
I'd love to know who invented the parade ladder but I suspect that many will claim the title and all will be correct. These...
Daily Photo – Throw Me Something Mister!
As I've mentioned before, Mardi Gras is a great family occasion. This image exemplifies that.
Daily Photo – Buffalo Soldier
This Buffalo Soldier was riding with his colleagues in the leading units of the Krewe of Pontchartrain parade in 2009.
Daily Photo – The Sousaphone Player
A parade is not a parade without music! Interspersed between the floats are marching bands, in the most part from High Schools. Accompanied by...
Daily Photo – Fleur-de-Lys Spangled Banner
2010 was the first year I actually noticed these ‘only in Louisiana’ variations on Old Glory – the flag of the United States. This...
Daily Photo – Endymion Officer 2010
In this image, an officer of the Endymion Krewe heads towards his horse having secured some prized Endymion footballs for his sons. He holds...
Daily Photo – Endymion Flambeau 2010
I thought I lead off with this image of one of the Flambeau carriers from the 2010 Endymion parade. This was taken...
Daily Photo – Farm on FM 521
What first struck me about this scene was the crop spraying plane that was buzzing around. I didn’t get a useable shot of the...
Daily Photo – Palacios Harbor
I was struck by the lemon-yellow building in this scene. It sits at the entrance to the leisure boat marina in Palacios, Texas. In...
Daily Photo – Surfside Beach
This was the scene around lunchtime on a Thursday near the end of May.
Daily Photo – Cows in a River
One of the cows is adventurously sampling the tree while the others seem to be waiting for her opinion. Is it better than the...
Daily Photo – Swirling Waters
Without having said what this was an image of, it's difficult to know. It could just as easily be a shot of some metamorphosed...
Daily Photo – Trash Cans
It's said that the eye is immediately drawn to red items. I think that's certainly the case in this image where I find my...
Daily Photo – Joshua Tree
I spotted this particular specimen having left Grand Canyon West, gotten back onto Pierce Ferry Road, and heading north to Pearce Ferry and South...
Daily Photo – Grand Canyon Helicopter
It's called Guano Point because some intrepid explorer noticed a bunch of bats flying in and out of caves in the canyon walls. So...
Daily Photo – The Eagle
The Skywalk is built on Eagle Point and the rock formation in the center of this image is why it has that name.
Daily Photo – Grand Canyon Skywalk
Here's a wide angle view of the Grand Canyon Skywalk
Daily Photo – Opening Day on The Grand Canyon Skywalk
This image was taken after I took my walk. The bridge extends 70ft out from the canyon wall and the vertical drop at that...
Daily Photo – Dante’s View, One Mile Above Badwater
Great image of the view looking down on Badwater from Dante's View, Death Valley.
Daily Photo – Dante’s View
Arguably the best viewpoint in the Death Valley National Park is Dante’s View. Although only about a mile east-south-east from Badwater, it’s more than...
Daily Photo – The View from Artists Drive
The view above is the one I had ahead of me across Death Valley having exited Artist's Drive canyon and making my way back...
Daily Photo – Artist’s Drive in Death Valley
Great view of Artist's Drive, Death Valley. This is the view you catch in your rear view mirror as you approach the end of...
Daily Photo – Artist’s Palette in Death Valley
Artist’s Palette in Death Valleyis accessible from a one-way road about nine miles north of Badwater. You have to be careful if there is...
Daily Photo – Badwater, lowest point in the US!
So I think it’s obligatory to visit Badwater if you’re in Death Valley. Badwater is the lowest point in the USA at 282ft (85m)...
Daily Photo – Salt Flat
From a distance, the salt flats at Badwater Basin in Death Valley look quite, well, flat. Indeed, if you visit Badwater and walk out...
Daily Photo – Salt River
This photo was taken where the West Side Roadcrosses the salt creek that flows (when it rains) from north to south along the valley....
Daily Photo – Alluvial Fan
A little further north on the West Side Road, I captured this view east across Badwater Basin of an alluvial fan at the base...
Daily Photo – Johnson Canyon
This view of Death Valley was taken from near the intersection of the West Side Road and the track that leads up into Johnson...
Daily Photo – Desert Storm
So if you saw yesterday’s photo looking south along West Side Road, this one was taken five minutes earlier, but looking north rather than...
Daily Photo – West Side Road
So the only previous time I’d been to Death Valley, I stayed to the blacktop. But this time, this time I thought I’d try...
Daily Photo – Ashford Mill
The ruins of Ashford Mill sit just south of Route 178 at the southern end of Death Valley in California and about 25 miles...
Daily Photo – Rainbow Vista
Another of my images from the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, about 55 miles northeast of Las Vegas. This is Rainbow Vista....
Daily Photo – Elephant Rock
So one of the most novel rock formations in the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada is Elephant Rock – to the extent...
Daily Photo – Bowl of Fire (detail)
So yesterday I posted a wide angle (17mm) shot of the Bowl of Fireand today I’m posting a detail. If you look at yesterday’s...
Daily Photo – Bowl of Fire (wide)
This is a wide angle view of the Bowl of Fire. As the crow flies, it’s about 30 miles east of Las Vegas to...
Daily Photo – Northshore Road
This image was taken looking east along North Shore Road in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. There are some spectacular desert vistas along...
Daily Photo – Memorial to Captain Clark
This image is of the memorial to Captain John Clark. Clark was a Civil War veteran who moved to California after the end of...
Daily Photo – Las Vegas at Dusk
Ever since I had my own transport, I’ve taken off on these solo journeys – by car or motorcycle – to see what I...
On 3rd Generation Digital Cameras
Travel Photographer Richard Davis takes up the recent discussions on the imminent demise of the DLSR and wonders about what changes are also coming...
Daily Photo – Hoover Dam from the Air
Of course, no visit to the Hoover Dam is complete without an aerial view. Now you can get a view from the Mike O’Callaghan...
Daily Photo – The Winged Figures of the Republic
Despite the austere times of the Great Depression, public art works were still funded. Across the road from the Hoover Dam Visitor Center one...
Daily Photo – Nevada Powerplant at Hoover Dam
So I’ll post a few more Hoover Dam photos this week, then move on. This is a view of the Nevada Powerplant that one...
Daily Photo – Looking Down the Hoover Dam
So, continuing with the theme from yesterday, this is what it’s like to look down the face of the Hoover Dam. The Colorado River...
Daily Photo – Pleasure Boat on Lake Mead
I took this photo of a pleasure boat on Lake Mead back in 2006. The white layer of rock shows just how low the...
Daily Photo – Meteor Crater, Arizona
One of my goals for 2012 is to post a photo daily. It’s the first of the year so this is the first photo!...
Do you stop and smell the roses?
So I follow a bunch of Photographers over on Google+, one of them being Brian Matiash. Brian had a post recently where he stated...
Sunrise, Miami
Back in March of this year, my wife took a business trip to Miami, Florida and I tagged along for a break. We thought...
Holiday Gear Guide – 10 under $100
So as we come to the end of the year, Scott Kelby posted his annual holiday gear guide so I thought I’d present mine....
Fire One!
So I’d planned to write this post about the USS Cavalla, on display in Seawolf Park, Galveston, Texas, accompanied by a series of photos...
The Dawn of a New Era in Photography
On October 19, 2011, Ren Ng and his team at Lytro ushered in a new era in photography with the introduction of the Lytro...
Remembrance Day
For the Fallen, by Robret Laurance Binyon With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh...
Chasing Waterfalls
This past weekend we put out clocks back to standard time here in the USA. The ritual that, for many, confirms autumn is here...
It’s Halloween Again!
Wow, it’s Halloween again, already! As if to underline the point, a cold front has just swept through Texas bringing highs only in the...
What’s the difference between and alligator and a crocodile?
I recently camped out at Brazos Bend state park, a little under an hour’s drive from my home. I hadn’t been there in a...
The shot that got away!
Writing on Google+ on September 19th, Scott Kelby displayed a photo of a football game where someone had walked between him and his subject...
Memories of Hurricane Ike
It was a dark and stormy night No, really, it was. Three years ago, on the 7th anniversary of 9/11, my family was among...
Root Memorial Square, Houston, Texas.
Worldwide Photowalk October 1 and 2 Scott Kelby’s Fourth Annual Worldwide Photowalk is slated to take place in various places around the world on...
Coate Water – Then and Now
Pretty much every year, usually around July 4th, I head with my family back to the home country. As my children grow, each trip...
Photography in the rain!
Grand Rapids A few weeks back, my wife, son and I traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Our trip did not get off to the...
Which Ezybox?
Traveling Lighting Kit In my traveling lighting kit I have both the 24” x 24” and 30” x 30” Lastolite Ezybox softboxes. “So what’s...
Traction Engine – Burrell 3413, ‘The Philadelphia’
Steam Engines My recent trip back to England seems to have been dominated by steam engines. I saw the steam engines that used to...
Off Camera Flash – take your master flash off your camera!
OCF33 E-TTL Cords One of the tools I recently added to my lighting kit was an OCF33 E-TTL Cord and it’s quickly becoming my...
Photographing Fireworks – without the tripod!
July 4th is fast approaching and many people in the US are starting to think about how to photograph fireworks. Of the blogs I...
Summertime and the neighborhood pools are open!
When my wife Karen and I built our house we decided not to build a pool. It seems not a year passes by in...
Memorial Day
To those who have served, are serving, and will serve to protect my way of life and defend the freedoms I enjoy (and take...
Print Shop Now Open!
I’m glad to announce that my print shop is now open for business! Initially serving customers in the US and Canada, I hope to...
Mother’s Day
After some false starts I’ve re-commenced scanning my Mother’s old Kodachrome slides – images taken in the 60’s and 70’s with a Kodak 126...
The Flash Bus Tour 2011 – Houston
Back in January, David (The Strobist) Hobby and Joe (Numnuts) McNally announced their Flash Bus 2011 Tour – a six-week, 29-city bus tour around...
iPad Camera Connection Kit and CF cards
Back on December 19 of last year I was lamenting the changes in iPad iOS 4.2 that lowered the power to the power to...
Back to the Lady Be Good, once more
My first book, ‘The Lady Be Good, Images from 1990 – 1991’ has been revised and the Second Edition is now available through Blurb...
Maine Gallery
In October 2010, I had the opportunity to spend 3 days traveling down the Maine coastline. I started at the eastern most point in...
Congratulations Green Bay!
Well. another Super Bowl has come and gone and this year’s champs are the Green Bay Packers. At least Pittsburgh made a game of...
Editing down the collection
So I was reading Terry White’s guest blog on Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider today about his workflow and found his comments on editing down...
Sunrise at High Island, Texas
Sunday January 2nd was my 48th birthday. As a present, my family graciously gave me the day off. I had previously decided I would...
14 minutes with Scott Kelby and Joe McNally
Over on Scott Kelby’s blog today is a link to a really interesting conversation between Scott Kelby and Joe McNally. Sans interviewer, the pair...
More iPad woes – ‘Cannot Use Device’
Hey iPad Camera Connection Kit Users – been seeing this screen lately? I wrote in an earlier post back in May of my experiences...
The Lady Be Good – my first photobook
So, after several weeks and several false starts my first book is now available! You can preview and order it below. The ‘Lady Be...
Thanksgiving 2010
Once again I’m traveling and once again I’m relying on my iPad. Following a conversation with David Ziser I purchased a Delkin Devices card...
The Maine Event – Day Four
So my Maine Event came to a close today in a damp and soggy fashion. It was raining quite hard before sun up so...
The Maine Event – Day Three
So here we are, Day Three. I haven’t found a better WordPress app so I’m stuck with the eponymous app and hoping I don’t...
The Maine Event – Day Two
So now I’m not liking this WordPress app for the iPad. It just lost my almost completed post! Just lost it a second time,...
The Maine Event – Day One
Yesterday I flew into Boston with my wife, Karen. Karen is attending a conference and I decided to rent a car to drive to...
Joe McNally – Premier Edutainer!
I finally got the opportunity to spend two days in the company on Joe McNally at a seminar arranged by Sharlie Douglas of Nikon...
Zenit UPA 5M Enlarger
Over the Labor Day weekend I was trying to catch up on some of my personal photos and came across this image I took...
Posterize…
I was working on some client files over the weekend when the ‘accident’ above occurred. I was in Photoshop CS5 and going to add...
Hurricane Katrina
Five years ago this morning, hurricane Katrina made landfall near the Louisiana-Mississippi border as at Category 3 with sustained winds at 120 mph. With...
It’s HOT in Texas!
It’s HOT in Texas at this time of the year! Having lived in the Houston area for all but two of the last 15...
Photographing Interiors
I recently had the opportunity to photograph the interior of a house decorated by my wife, Karen Davis, of Karen Davis Design. The house...
Hobby Airport
I recently flew from Houston to New Orleans on Southwest Airlines, just so I could have the pleasure of driving from New Orleans back...
Laser Tag
A few weeks back my son, Evan, turned 9. To celebrate we hosted a group of his friends at the Times Square entertainment complex...
Migrecover
So this is the only Mig I could find in my archives – a Mig 17A on display at the The Mighty Eighth Air...
iPad Camera Connection Kit
My iPad Camera Connection Kit, like the other peripherals I ordered, arrived before my iPad. Having received my iPad last Friday I’ve been able...
Blogging by iPad
The iPad I had ordered finally arrived today. I guess for Apple, late April means the last day. My wife, Karen, was at home...
The nightmare continues…
I have to say that everyone I have dealt with at Dell has been courteous and professional, they just haven’t solved the problem with...
Stop: 0x00000124, A nightmare on Windows 7
So Photoshop CS5 is just around the corner – mid-May (like the nebulous late-April shipping date for the iPad I ordered) so I thought...
Wood Street, 1967
I’ve spent some more time looking at my mother’s slides and uncovered this gem from 1967. It shows Wood Street in Swindon, Wiltshire. Taken...
To Flash or not to Flash?
So I’m not going to write here about strobes or speedlites à la Strobist or Joe McNally, I’m going to write about Adobe Flash...
First Camera
Darren Rouse over at Digital Photography School recently asked the question, “What was your first photography experience?”. My first experience was borrowing my mother’s...
The Louvre, Paris
I spent the bulk of 1998 and 1999 living in Paris, France. For the first time since 1985 I didn’t own a car. I...
Campbell, South Africa
In 1986, having received a sentence of 5-years suspended for 5-years having been caught brewing beer in Libya, I was assigned to South Africa. In January...
Bodø, Norway
In the summer of 1985 I took off for a rail trip around Europe with a close friend. Having traveled around German, Austria, Switzerland,...
Uphole rig, Libya
When I first went to Libya in 1984 I was an ‘Assistant Seismologist’. My job function was to determine the static corrections needed to...
The ‘Lady Be Good’, Libya
In 1990-91 I was fortunate enough to be assigned to work in the Calanscio sand sea in the Libyan Desert. Fortunate because a little...
