Toronto — There are days when we could all use some emotional brilliance. Days when we are oblivious to others’ emotions, and to our own. Days when we shove it all away in boxes, and just focus on getting throu...
Köln — Those distinctions never really made sense to me. I’m self taught. My stuff is being distributed by an agency. I have made money from photography. How much? Not even a sizable portion of my overall in...
Lasa shi — On croira que les aventures avec l’inacceptation d’autrui remontent à cette époque où les premiers Hommes contemplèrent leurs reflets dans l’eau. Ce choc narcissique mettra en concurrence ces Hommes q...
Ikeda — You have to die a few times before you can really live.1 I struggle with Junes, I realise that now. One year ago I was lost in the routine of work-life, days felt the same, meetings covered the s...
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Kamakura-shi — The Beerman sleeps. He orders a beer and then sits and sleeps in this shaded cafe, one of my favorite cafes of the many cafes here, all within which I have spent considerable time during these last mo...
Lake stevens — I go biking quite a lot, especially during the summer. Usually I stick to my normal routine, which consists of a library visit, an iced Starbucks coffee, and sitting under my favorite tree, just think...
Guatemala — I was born in the valley where nobody could love. Be forgotten was the only choice we had. Nobody could know your name, nobody was interested on it… You had to decide if the correct way was happine...
Lucknow — It is perhaps silly of me that I keep coming to this one single thought, of holding it all and never letting go; but the more heart warming thing is that I keep receiving these beautifully untouched, ...
Saskatoon — Music It is the one thing That everyone loves, Understands. Classical, Rock, Pop, Country It makes everyone feel, Feel something. Lyrics are never necessary, Only desired, wanted, craved E...
Mountain view — There are dates that are indelible etched in my memory and will stay there forever. 26-Mar-1994, 27-Mar, 1994, 18-Jun-1945, 22-Dec-2002 Some of those dates are mine, some aren’t. Yet it those dates ...
Luang prabang — The worst thing that could happen when you got to leave your hostel dormitory at 5 am to get your train ride are people who got to leave the same hostel dormitory at 3.30 am to get whatever they need ...
Salatiga — Normalcy is good. It is order and predictability. It is a faithfulness, the world being today what it was yesterday. But then there is a special joy of putting on your mud boots because your regular ...
Lucknow — Although the embrace and the play of the first rains of the season is something one can never really forget, but even then today when the first rains of the monsoon hit my city, I just couldn’t resist...
Saskatoon — They say pictures are worth a thousand words; when in reality they are worth so much more. Some pictures go down in history, the pictures of famous moments in history that almost anyone can identify. ...
Mountain view — It was a normal day in math class. I was using a laptop for a math website, but I was off task, and searched the word “hi”. Then I found this website and decided to sign up. That was a long time ago. ...
Portland — I was walking my Mom’s little white mutt, Buddy, like I do most every lingering, cool morningtime. Buddy has diabetes, so he sticks to his schedule and often his energy wavers & wobbles, but today...
Manchester — Welcome to a small start for a much bigger ongoing project from The Writing Squad. A start of a start, a whistle for a journey, the beginning of an exploration of the lines that we travel all the tim...
San francisco — I left her at the foot of his bed. The little beeps and the machines and the tubes all doing what they could. I walked through the doors and out of the hospital. I walked to the cab and into the airpo...
Bondi beach — A regular vacation could make a real dent in your budget, especially if you have a bigger family. Between the hotel reservations, traveling costs, restaurants, shops, etc., the costs add up really qui...
London — The London photo walk was nothing short of amazing. I had an opportunity to rub shoulders with professional and amateur photographers alike and also talk to the insanely talented Trey Ratcliff who was...
Fountain valley — As I sign your yearbooks, and read the cards and letters you’ve written me, I see the upside of saying good-bye. There is an indefinite amount of goodwill, friendship, and hope that we finally can exp...
Tateyama-machi — The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.1 Reset the mind - Reset ones priorities. It takes much time, effort and patienc...
Santa rosa city — It’s three in the afternoon and we’ve just finished lunch at my brother’s house, two hours away from the chaos of central Metro Manila where I live. I’m kicking back with my phone reading through gree...
Berlin — Sometimes life provides metaphors all around.
Örebro — I’m in the park, walking underneath the chestnut trees. They have that green color that looks so impossibly new, their blooming branches swaying up and down in the breeze. Underneath them, the sun dra...
Otsu — 晴耕雨読 1 Rainy days. I stay indoors on rainy days, keeping warm and dry. I also work, doing as much as possible. I eat well too. Because when the sun shines, I’m out, off into the mountains to lose...
Hong kong — Walking from the Causeway Bay MTR station into Victoria Park it looked the same. The path was lined with representitives from the pan-democratic parties yelling in megaphones about how bad the governm...
Manila — She calls herself self-conscious because she does not consider herself artistic, not an artist even. And she calls herself an artist because what else can she call these words and images that she form...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing the new Entourage movie — based on the HBO show that ran from 2004-2011 of the same name — and you’ve either fallen in love with or felt a camaraderie for any of the ento...
Lucknow — “The sweetest melody that plays On starry nights and wintry days, Most soothing to my listening ears And calming to beleaguering fears, I call a symphony on air― The song of sweet, still silence rare....
New york — What do a woman’s face, an ad for Bank of America and a recruiting point for the Army have in common? - We were so tired, so utterly tired. A demanding day in NYC, then walking the Brooklyn Bridge (fr...
Wheatland — I joined a writing group recently and followed that up with some social media pages as well and keep being surprised by the encouragement to “tell us about you and your writing”. I am not sure why it...
Ras al-khaimah — Dubai. It’s a beautiful place really, where the coastal landscape mixes with urban living and culture from all over the world. You can’t walk ten steps without hearing a new language, without seeing a...
Fushimi-ku — Fushimi Inari Taisha (伏見稲荷大社) is the head shrine of Inari1, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari which is 233 metres above sea level, and inc...
Duluth — I spent a hot day in the sun transplanting tomatoes in my rooftop garden plot. I thought it would be fun to plant a variety of tomatoes this Spring (with short maturing dates - this being NE Minnesota...
Stockholm — Stockholm, we thought, would be a great place to travel to in Easter, plus I have some family there so we’d had a place to stay. So started a journey that would bring me closer to a family I knew ver...
Kōfu-shi — Mount Kinpu (金峰山 Kinpu-san), or Mount Kinpō (金峰山 Kinpō-san) is a mountain of the Okuchichibu Mountains, and located on the boundary of Nagano Prefecture and Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. It is one of t...
Wendell — Hey there! Welcome back to Billy’s life! It is a rare one, but isn’t everyone’s life as rare as mine? So, anyway, again, I’m sorry for not doing these daily even though I promised, but at least I’m do...
Athina — There’s an episode of Qi I love. It’s got all my favourites. Rob Brydon, funniest man in the world and a Welshman, Bill Bailey, Dave Mitchell, Jimmy Carr… and the staples, Davies and Fry. I lose i...
Somewhere — 48 hours suffice to sample Santorini wines, steer winding cliffs and wrangle with a selfie stick for the first time. #JAPANESETOURISTNEEDED #NOW. Defiant bursts of pink, beige and brown buildings bre...
Ocean city — To nearest. To dearest. To the crew. To cahoots. To the ones who’ve been there. To the ones who’ll be there. To dropping everything. To saying anything. To no judgements. To no doubts. To loyalty. To ...
Old bagan — I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Myanmar is by far one of my favourite countries! The people there are amazing and the landscape, well, you can see for yourself! Myself and Greg Annandale s...
Greenville — The older guy just sits there. He’s staring at me. His blue jeans are cast out in front of him and his knees are straight with heavy boots crossing at the end. I can tell he’s in no hurry to reply whe...
Ulaanbaatar — We met up with Haldi, our new Mongolian friend over the weekend. He was on the road with us for two days arranging a new air-conditioning for the car. This included a stop at the ‘Car Doctor’, where w...
Carnation — The Earth is filled with them, They beckon more than they seem. For all we know, it could be a secret language, from an extraterrestrial being. Actually that’s completely untrue, but each one connects...
Setagaya-ku — TPCD is part of MegaTokyo.com universe, where controlled destruction of Tokyo is required in order to rebuid. TPCD usually uses Rent-A-Zilla’s services when widespread demolition is required.
Lucknow — The right music, the one that manages to echo through your soul can move you in ways that you can’t even comprehend. When that happens, when that really happens, you can do nothing else be in sync wit...
Real — I was determined to find and shoot the Milky Way for the first time in my life last weekend. We don’t have nice big national parks near Manila, so there was no default option. I opened Google Maps, fo...
Chiang mai — On the list of things to do while in Chiang Mai was a visit to yet another one of the city’s many temples, Doi Suthep. Unlike all other temples, though, this one had the promise of a high view all ove...
Null — I wonder if it’s the tall buildings, the long streets, the hundreds of strangers that walk next to you, or the never-ending atmosphere of novelty. Or maybe it’s some kind of residual energy people &am...
Aireys inlet — Ra, god of sun and sky, and Khonsu, traveller, moon-god embraced that morning Maat Justice tenderly. And we entered the new day.
Aireys inlet — Awaiting Cleopatra in a place purely for delight: streams flow downhill. A mango grove on the upper terrace; a quadrangle of very good apples, but small. Jasmine on a ruined wall near the shore. O...
Aireys inlet — Each life on earth is ceaseless birth and death. Each day elements unite and disperse. Self is recollection, convention and habit . . . proclivity, creation, coming together and dispersing. And...
San francisco — She had an unnatural aversion to the horizontal. Which led to the usual things of course, insomnia, awkward sex but there were less obvious effects too. She never laid anything on a table, she never s...
New york — This is in the subterranean mall under Empire State Plaza in Albany, NY - a strange place indeed, at least on sundays. Brightly lit, totally deserted, with electronic cash registers of closed cafés tw...
Lake stevens — Sometimes, when I visit my favorite place in this world, when I’m wiggling my bare toes in the grass, when I’m staring up at the endless sky, when I’m laying in wildflowers, when I listen to birds’ so...
Dorchester — One memory I have of my Granddad on my Dad’s side dates, I reckon, from the early 1970s, and it’s of standing in the driveway of his bungalow at 44 Downs Way, Great Bookham (in Surrey) and admiring hi...
Singapore — Normally flight prep is relatively calm. Today, it was all very hurried (late wake up, hurried taxi, long queue). The calm came only as I was on the jetty to the plane. Now, 7 hours of forced disconn...
London — Just over 18 months ago I wrote a short moment about the Francis Crick Institute, under construction next to St Pancras Station. I reproduce below the photo I took then, to help give a better idea of...
Singapore — Whether meetings just appear from thin air, or things start going wrong… It’s like the universe conspires so that the last 24 hours before a trip, there is no calm…. Occasionally you are lucky a...
Las vegas — Lately I’ve been feeling insecure lately and not sure of how my boyfriend feels sometimes. Not in the sense of if he loves me or not because that I am sure, just if I can give him enough in every aspe...
Las vegas — Only to be saddened by the reality that I had to go to work. Work went by nice and quick. There were moments of irritation. Working in the food industry does get annoying at times but there are also s...
Wendell — Hey guys! So I’m really nervous right now because I have to make a speech. I ran for vice president of my class, and I won, so now I have to make an acceptance speech, but the problem is is that I get...
Wendell — Hey, me again. I hope you’re having a great day! If not, it’ll get better, trust me! So today I basically went to school. No big deal. Haha, although some drama did happen. My friend got into a fight ...
Aireys inlet — The Herald Sun, Rupert Murdoch’s Melbourne tabloid, is the highest-circulating daily newspaper in Australia with a readership of well over a million. Perhaps this front page headline (and lurid illus...
Baltimore — As riots and protests break out among the streets of Baltimore, many people, including President Obama, take firm action to alleviate the concerns of racial relations in the United States. Press Secr...
College station — Am I too young to begin thinking about retirement? I mean I’m not by any means ready to retire but last week I went to a Lebanese food place that offered hookah. I’ve never had more fun being producti...
Johannesburg — In a city with a deep history of apartheid, in the wake of xenophobic attacks, a group of schoolchildren remind us that “Madiba [Mandela] Taught Us Better.”
Paris — Burrata at La Bascule on a sunny Sunday afternoon, with some dry rosé, is a moment to fully live in…
Minato-ku — I stayed here only one night, but it felt longer than that… I guess it was more on how I perceived this place, being in an alternate dystopian future, a future that never happened. A future where my ...
Brighton — @33 is a haven of friendly smiles and witty banter. Not the most comfortable of hangouts to be honest (badly stuffed coffee sacks…) but it’s a minor niggle when you get to see a steady stream of eng...
Paris — Brighton > London > Brighton > Paris > Brighton in 3 days. A whirlwind of buses, tube trains, Monocle cafe, Norwegian Bakery, overground trains, cars, overnight ferries, toll booths, Mon...
Hong kong — Hong Kong produces 9,000 tons of waste a day according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The government has responded by expanding current landfill sites in Tseung Kwan O and Ta Kwu Ling for HK$...
Greenville — I couldn’t believe it either. I walk into my home with only rejection holding my hand. The reason really isn’t that big though; actually it’s rather small. but its implications could have an enormous ...
Guatemala — I’d been trying to encourage myself and stop overthinking on people who don’t deserve the most of my time, but it’s imposible. I’ve learnt that I could’ve not chosen by myself, everything is in my mi...
Antipolo — The past few weeks consisted of nothing but these two things. But at this exact moment, I am scared. I’m scared I’ve invested too much of myself in Art. I’ve read once that when you become an artist,...
Dorchester — Today - May 7th 2015 - is General Election day here in the UK. We’ve had 5 years of a Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition - the first coalition government since the Second World War - and I think...
Brighton — Brighton is full of coffee shops, like nowhere else I know in fact. There’s a sense in Brighton, that life is for enjoying whenever you can, however you can. I always say that Brighton is the place wh...
Portland — Last year there was a bit of light-hearted banter between a few of us on Hi about the correct colour for lighthouses. I started it with this post, in which I stated that IMHO a lighthouse should alwa...
Sandefjord — I’m pulled above the canopy by a youthful lust for fear. As I gain footing a small bird stages a balletic landing in the neighbouring pine crown, glancing over at me unimpressed. 10 minutes later we’...
Portland — Chesil Beach (a.k.a. Chesil Bank) is quite a sight, even on a slightly hazy day! This mound of shingle rises to the grand height of 50 feet, is over 600 feet wide in places, and stretches 18 miles no...
Wendell — May 5, 2015 Well hey there! Wow, I have no idea what to say! Well actually, that’s not true. I have a lot to say, but I’m not sure if you want to hear it or not. But regardless of whether or not you ...
Woodstock — Peace, Love, and Music. I stared out of the small mom and pop shop on the corner street in downtown Woodstock. I distinctly remember the smell of cinnamon permeating the air and I took a look left, a...
Dorchester — Although I live in a fairly rural area, with several farms nearby, I would say that I’m still fairly isolated from the whole ‘process’ of farming - the day-to-day activities required to ensure that we...
Solna — My friend has a tiny apartment. It’s hot at night with the two of us here in this small space, and I can’t get to sleep. I’m tossing and turning every few minutes and I glance over to see if I have di...
Null — Mardi 28 avril Rêvé que je faisais un compotier comme Ralouf avec des mots qui renvoyaient à des liens vers d’autres mots. C’était sans limite. J’organisais juste les mots les uns après les autres. E...
Kamakura-shi — At first I was alert. Somebody sitting on top of a high building didn’t feel right. This uneasiness quickly wore off after observing her for a bit – she was just sitting there, eating a snack and look...
Langley — I live in a state with impossible beauty. Everywhere I turn, there seems to be a new sight peeking out from behind a corner. I love to see it and be reminded of the wonder of the world I live in, and ...
Guatemala — Los mejores días de mi vida los he pasado con el dilema de saber si eres real o no, si verdaderamente el tiempo deja de correr cada vez que estamos juntos, pero toda duda se disipa cuando mis labios e...
Lucknow — I always have reverence for the books that manage to make their way to my heart. I was blessed today with one such amazing book, that I initially never really expected to outshine in the ways it did. ...
Aireys inlet — As I drove to the gym this morning along the Great Ocean Road, I spotted this solar panel about to start its day’s work. It put me in mind of, shall we say, an ‘exchange of views’ I had recently with...
New york — Nilofer Merchant on the concept of “Onlyness”: “Onlyness is that thing that only that one individual can bring to a situation. It includes the journey and passions of each human. Onlyness is fundamen...
Brandon — A friend once told me about a fable his mom read to him when he was a child. In short, there was a little boy who had a bad temper. Every time he would do something wrong, his father would hammer a n...
Katrineholm — I’m outside, brushing my teeth The air is humid and cool and wonderful it’s been raining all day and now the blues and the greens of the night are all jumbled up, bleeding into each other A light...
Wareham — When on holiday after Easter, staying in Tolpuddle in Dorset, we decided one day to drive down to the coast to the famous Lulworth Cove, which according to Wikipedia is “one of the world’s finest exam...
Huntington beach — I’ve been trying to see color where there is only monochrome. I am weary by this photo. But I have only it, for reconciliation between my imagination and my history. A panicked helicopter above ...
Tacoma — I saw a photo of three little cats sitting at a windowsill They stared, as they sat, at blossoming red roses before a teal wall
Toronto — Even its vacant lots, its construction sites, its detours… And its shiny new condos.
Toronto — Found, not posed.