Category:Travel
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 area of Libya. The Haruj is a large volcanic field in central Libya and contains the remains of about 150 volcanoes. In most places the black basalt gravel covering overlays a fine yellow sand – even gypsum in some places. Breaking the surface of the basalt gravel would send up choking clouds of fine dust such […]
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 be a very walkable city. I took this photo of a window box while wandering semi-aimlessly around the Montmartre area of town, near Sacré Coeur. The original image is from 1998, scanned into Photoshop and then run through Topaz Simplify to get this effect. I don’t have a wider view of this scene but I can […]
I was recently playing at scanning some of my black and white negatives and came across this charming image I took some time late in 1998. It’s a sunny but chilly day, most likely a Sunday, and these three ladies are all engrossed in their books. You can tell it’s an ‘old’ photo as no-one has a smartphone! Take that same image today and probably two of the three would be reading on their phones. I’m struck at how most […]
With my family, we were ambling back towards our hotel having just left Notre Dame when I saw the setting sun glancing off these buildings on the Rue de la Huchette in Paris. The Rue de la Huchette is one of the oldest in Paris though the origins of the name are obscured in time. Huchette may derive from ‘hutchet’, an old term for a bugle or hunting horn, or from ‘huche’, a box for keeping bread. Today the Rue […]
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 as the stalks of rice were being cut with a hand scythe by a woman I assumed to be this man’s wife. I know nothing about rice farming, despite the city of Katy, TX, where I now live, being known for its rice harvest (now a receding memory as ever more fields are turned over to […]
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 the wind would pick up the sand and blot out the view, were few and far between thankfully. I wouldn’t refer to this as a sandstorm – those things really hurt if you got caught out in them. This was more an annoying, steady blow of sand that permeated everything. It’s such a shame what has […]