Hanoi — There are only 8 meals left. Eight. Tonight’s dinner (which I will make at home), two full days of breakfast, lunch and dinner and a quick breakfast before this self-sanctioned exile is over. Discover...
Casablanca — In this article, we will delve into what’s considered a very complex and delicate subject. Rational thinking would have us treat this subject with a scientific rigor, and a clarifying methodology in a...
Seville — In Sevilla, last June, we had to pay attention whenever we walked under the orange trees, because fruits were falling off at any time. I wanted to take a picture of this one which fell on the street ...
San francisco — I wasn’t much for sleep. In fact I write this morsel close to 2am in the morning. When I was just 6, I would lay in bed— and if I had another set of legs— I’d be running in circles like a dog. I wan...
Chicago — Early 2012, I saw my world and the vision of experiencing the so called ‘greener pastures’ crumble when I got denied a visa. I can still recall that day and that feeling of shock and disappointment. T...
Great yarmouth — The east and north coasts of Norfolk are beautiful. And yes, I say that as a statement of fact, not an opinion. OK, I suppose that does sound a bit arrogant, but I would be very surprised if you cou...
Aireys inlet — “If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.” ― Rachel Carson
Aireys inlet — “In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world’s rim, you find what our sciences ...
Paris — Low echoes fall, like water dropping in a cave, from the empty windows above the street. People are sluggishly moving from room to kitchen, and back. The cafés are full—their hushed conversation escap...
Kahului — I am adrift. Unmoored from a routine that defined my very skin and bones lo these past 13 years, I am suddenly unsure how to venture from one day to the next. Yes, there is work to be done, responsi...
Ely — Scattered throughout the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness and the Quetico Provincial Park the observant wilderness traveller may notice rock painting on the granite canvases of some mysterious cl...
Duluth — Jean Redpath the great Scottish ballad singer has died. For decades I have thanked her for a bit of life-guiding wisdom. At least, I attribute it to her although I can find no written reference: “We h...
Singapore — I remember he was a very shy cat when he was a kitten. He loved cuddles. I remembered vividly that he slept in my mom’s wardrobe. She accidentally closed the wardrobe. My cousin and me didn’t know whe...
Tambopata — You can’t hear it. I know you can see it, but you can’t hear it and that is the problem. You’ve seen it before. Heard the story before, but perhaps you never stood in this exact place and heard what ...
Bourne — Leaving Martha’s Vineyard for me has always happened in stages. First there is the trip to the ferry and then the ferry ride itself, but I don’t feel that I’ve completely left until I cross over the B...
Sheringham — When I was a kid we used to go on holiday to the south coast of England every year, and the beach huts I remember from that time were all pretty dull and scruffy affairs. We hired one once, for a wee...
Sainte-catherine-de-la-jacques-cartier — I want to attach a footnote, a special punctuation mark, to everything I write, to let people know in advance that I need their forgiveness. For being proud, and lazy, and entitled. For lying withou...
Cromer — Just back from a delightful holiday in Norfolk, one of our favourite vacation destinations. It has to be said that the lack of internet access (deliberate, in the main) was very liberating, even if i...
Milan — And a flickr contact’s photos of the characters on his daily commute. Someone has told me Milan is sexy. A google image search throws too many too bright high dynamic range images of the Duomo di Mila...
Otter rock — It’s funny how what appears to be a specific moment can also be a jungle of memories and sensations that defy mere words. Let’s say I just want to focus on this snapshot, taken during my recent Oregon...
Krong kampot — Rented a scooter and drove upto Bokor mountain 45 kms from Kampot in Cambodia. Along the way it started raining and the road was getting steep. By the time I get there what started out as a glorious...
Baltimore — I recently encountered this “alt lit” thing so I’m learning about that now. http://joshspilker.com/more-thoughts-on-status-update-lit-3-other-newish-styles-of-writing/ In The New Yorker there’s a dif...
Salt lake city — I moved out of my parents’ house in January of 2008. That Christmas, all I wanted - aside from books, of course - was a set of windchimes to hang on my new front porch. Mom and Dad took their time, s...
Houston — During my last year of college, I took a creative fiction writing course on a whim. Even though I was an English major, I had never created stories since I was a child. I just enjoyed reading them thr...
Račišće — Eli kept telling me to leave my phone, rolled his eyes when I asked about the WiFi code. But when I got him to Vaja beach, I think he saw the value. A search on Pinterest with the name of the island ...
York — Cut hair. Trim nails. Pre-make recovery shake. Hydrate. Check Weather. Get dressed. Right shoe first. Stretch. Fresh Brew Espresso. Drink. Breathe. Press “begin workout” and lean into the pain.
Tokyo — When I’m tired, I want to have proper japanese food. This restaurant serves very good grilled fish with rice, miso-soupe, grating radish and side dishes.
Riverside county — We got off a car and went trekking to see a pond they made. There was’t water at all thogh. When we came back we lost a way to return, it was very scary if we couldn’t find a way until getting dark. O...
New york — “You know,” he told me as I sat in front of him in a glass covered cabin at a remote Tennessee Location. “We are not happy to offer you the position which we are interviewing“. Trying to regain my com...
Mumbai — A sudden jolt woke me up from my slumber and I found myself on a pedestrian way inside a taxi struck because the driver chose to take the foot path for an easier access to get out of the mad early mor...
Riverside county — Salad, bread, coffee, Orange juice and blueberries.
San francisco — September is an odd mark of the year. The sadness or toast to a glorious golden summer or the fear towards an end of a fiscal year. How you look at it— no matter what age— they are mixed with footba...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Guardians of the Galaxy, go on then. What have you been waiting for? This is the summer candy you’ve been waiting for! It’s not Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and it’s not T...
Amsterdam — Yesterday evening I was looking over my pictures from those few days we spent in Amsterdam, when I suddenly realised. Did you know that the corners of your mouth are upturned on every picture, Lena? W...
London — Six years of time Invested in laughter Of little children Preserving the ever after From digital to film My images on walls But it left me wondering Is this all? One shoot to go From behind the lens...
Port hadlock-irondale — Setting Sun They reach the beach logs and place their things on it. He gives her a folded page, a glass pen and purple ink. She begins to write and he moves into the trees in search of a token. He t...
Lençóis — It was almost 5pm when I walked trough the narrow path to get to your little cottage, there was a beautiful melody in the air and I knew it was you playing the accordion. As I walked inside the small...
West tisbury — When you live in a place with no street signs, directions can get a bit more poetic, “turn right on the dirt road at the top of the hill past the house where so-and-so used to live.” Even when the str...
Riverside county — We went to joshure tree national park by car. it was around 3 hours’ drive from L. A. It was my first time to visit a desert. So I thought it must have been hot, but it wasn’t. It was a rainy day. Ins...
Sueca — ARROZ S.O.S. Not quite urb-ex, more out of town-ex. The Cullera side of Sueca-ex. Factory No.2 “La Rueda.” The wheel. Through those empty black holes: corrugated drums, snapped high walkways, cab...
Burlington — One of my favorite times, before a shoot. I have SOMA FM streaming over the speakers which fill the studio space so magically. This was a shoot for my partner as ‘Cher’ with 2 of the newest costumes h...
Two harbors — This flower goes by a variety of names. Indian Pipe, Corpse plant, Death plant, Ice plant, Ghost flower, Bird’s nest, Fairy smoke, Eyebright, Fit plant, Convulsion root - The Indian pipe has the gene...
San francisco — The type designer Matthew Carter is often quoted as saying, “Type is a beautiful collection of letters, not a collection of beautiful letters,” meaning that it’s more important for the letters to func...
Rancho palos verdes — as known as glass church that a son of Frank Lloyd Wright has designed and the wall is glass that makes it buried in the forest. They had a wedding ceremony that day, we had to wait to enter the insid...
Redondo beach — We drove around Redondo beach where a friend lived, to the glass church(a famous architecture), shops(to get sunscreen) and a good restaurant at the pia. Though I really really felt sleepy in a car. W...
Aireys inlet — “What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?” ― Margaret Atwood
Austin — Everyone remembers their first time. Except me. There was the photo-story about gangs. I was in tight. Embedded before anyone used that term. We were friends actually. The time had been spent. The pr...
Oak bluffs — Summer’s end is approaching. In San Francisco there won’t be much of a change. Maybe a few less tourists, a few more college kids walking up and down the street where I live, but nothing that dramatic...
Cork — I have lived in Crosshaven all my life looking across at Currabinny Woods, a forested hillock that stoops to meet Cork Harbour on three sides. Many weekends of my childhood were spent ambling around t...
Hanoi — He suddenly pulls her close to give her a kiss. She leans in. Just before her lips meet his, she violently jerks away. “Pink!” She points to her perfectly lined lips in cotton candy pink. The brutalit...
San francisco — For years I’ve been afraid that one day I would become that person no one wants to watch movies with. And I think, finally, that day has come because I hate Chef which is not the kind of movie people...
Lawrence township — Got the news that my car died today, blew the engine- timing belt issue. Way. And I mean WAY more than I can afford to fix. The first tow was to a local place where they told me they couldn’t do anyth...
Newport beach — Images made within moments of one another. Wandering amid the masses of beach dwellers. Just shaking the dust off. A snap here, a snap there. Looking more than shooting. The distance is what is troubl...
Paris — This morning it took me 25 minutes to get to work. It’s 5 more than every mornings for the past month. No big deal. 5 minutes is nothing significant… Really? Well, see, those 5 minutes actually mea...
Bocairent — Maybe it’s my holiday reading: Antony Beevor’s The Battle for Spain on the Spanish Civil War and Curzio Malaparte’s viciously ironic rendering of liberated/‘re-occupied’ WW2 Naples in The Skin … mayb...
San francisco — I woke up at 3:32am— by little jolts, rumbling… it was hard to describe. It wasn’t your usual nauseous rolling type. Not even your 15 minute electric massage bed. Just a little shake, like mother n...
Duluth — Our guests in town today, who venture out by the the Lake, are among the most fortunate of the season. The warm 20 mph southwest wind will disheveled the best coifed hair on your head ( if you have an...
Northbrook — The two things on this planet that result in my indecipherable excitement are chocolate and loved ones. Brownie is an all-time favorite. Yes, I put on a few pounds this summer, and no, I am not going ...
New york — Let’s begin with the easy part. If you are a bibliophile in New York City, you should visit The Morgan Library and Museum. In addition to a fantastic permanent collection that has not one, but three, ...
Ambaji — A quick glance at Mahendra Agrawal depicts an image of a quintessential neighborhood photo studio lens man, whom you come across hundreds of towns across India. But the resemblance with his profession...
Quezon city — Thank God it’s a holiday today! Any extra day off from work - no matter the name, no matter the reason; whatever shape or form - I welcome with open arms, beaming with smile. The last 2 days have bee...
Capas — When we reached the mouth of Mt. Pinatubo’s crater lake, I was amazed. I was only six when its epic eruption had happened. My only vivid memory of the event was the ash fall that I had woken up to th...
Seal rock — Exploring the wild Oregon Coast with an old friend from Georgia, who used to work alongside me in my improbably tiny restaurant over twenty years ago. We caught up with another old friend, from Athens...
Örebro — It was a seemingly ordinary Tuesday evening on the 6th of May, 2008. I had gone out with a colleague after work. We sat at a street café in Bourj Hammoud, drank tea and smoked hookah as we leisuredly ...
Winter park — The chip chip chip ing of a cardinal this morning as I got my coffee. I couldn’t see it, but knew it was around. Then a bright male was at the birdbath hoping around the edge, before jumping into th...
Aireys inlet — “Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides...
New york — Thanks to a monkey bra and microclimate1, the red eye from San Francisco to JFK wasn’t nearly as bad as it usually is and by 9:30am I’m happily tucking into a Doughnut Plant doughnut 2 on the Lower Ea...
Gallup — Wanna know a secret? I blew this thing up in the middle of the road, gauges and all. An explosion of oil, pistons, rods and a layer of grime amassed by years of mechanical labor. There was the phone c...
Boise — A slow rise this lazy Saturday. Filter the cold brew coffee and dump the compost from yesterday. Walking out on the still damp lawn. A swing on the swings. Checking on the pumpkins and raspberries. Wa...
Mountain view — Checked at least 0.5 items of my todo list. I’ve been procrastinating about building my publishing portfolio and I’ve neglected doing the stuff that I know I have to do to get more competitive where I...
San francisco — What right do I have writing? I have no degree or published work. No cult or following. I even exit to the restroom when the bill comes to the table. I rarely write with that beautiful cursive I pains...
Ahmedabad — What is the value of human life in India? A New York Times or Washington Post dedicates its front page reporting what India’s newspapers hides in near its advertisements. 23 people dying after a bus f...
Two harbors — I spent the day in the woods with my brother sharing in one of his passions: preparing for his fall deer hunt. We walked trails brushing and moving a years accumulation of obstructions out of the way....
Duluth — My mother grew African Violets when I was a child. I remember how she fret over them. My father installed a shelf in an east window. There she set her violets to grow. She tended them and took such pr...
Salt lake city — Beerhive is hard to get to: it’s in the heart of downtown, on a street split by the train, where you can’t turn left if you’re coming in from the east. Parking is at a premium, especially when the wea...
Mountain view — I love learning new things. I love asking questions and I love the challenge of mastering new skills. I’ve also learned that to master web technologies you have to do it in the open, ask questions onl...
New york — Somewhere that summer, crop tops got big again. I didn’t know because I’d been gone, but even if I’d been around — would I have bothered? All I did know was what I saw. The midriffs of thousands of te...
Palo alto — Every time the car hit a bump in the road, Turtle cringed — as if the car was instead pinning her down and hitting her. Familiar surroundings gave way to foreign sights, smells, and textures, and she...
Bountiful — Freedom isn’t free.
Aireys inlet — I’ve long been attracted to the fancy that nature produces hieroglyphic writing that only the wise can read. It is surely a harmless notion, a metaphor suggesting that nature can be read in more way...
Salt lake city — I promise: caterpillars will always turn into bejeweled butterflies. I promise: hard, tight little seeds will always grow into trees to shade you. I promise: hurt will seep away into peace…one day...
Enid — Spring on the prairie, twister time in tornado alley. … Ask anyone in Oklahoma, approaching storms, can be felt, smelt, miles away. On certain afternoons, the air, quivering with energy, release...
Hanoi — Another overcast day. We ride into the old French Quarter, tasting rain drops, looking for those large fried parcels filled with —- we don’t know but we are excited to find out —- for lunch. Its onl...
Tokyo — They select and sell fresh vegetables from all over Japan, seasonings, teas from all over the world. I like the staff working there, she is so cute and friendly. The cafe Tas Yard, next to the stand, ...
Costa mesa — I thought it was over. Done. Never again. That Tuesday when I’d had enough and deleted my main email account. Severed like an artery. And then I stepped away, put the little box down and picked up a p...
Ahmedabad — Last night was the best ever gig we all had in recent times. I was cock-tailed, Swami once again proved himself to be an evergreen host, Chakru Saab strategized for his next f**k, Jignesh captured eve...
San francisco — I’m struggling. Deep breaths. I can almost hear Ken’s voice in my head: Not enough contrast, fix that M, this doesn’t work, that’s misaligned. Sketch it again. My estimated five hours has turned in...
Tokyo — Unaccompanied but-no-longer minors, hurtling towards our new homes. Twenty kilograms of life packed into a bag. We tumble off the plane into a wall of heat, the night bringing little respite. On the ...
Hanoi — I had to take Sylvia to the shop today, a monthly maintenance check and a bath. We navigated all the way there by sight —- we haven’t been to this part of town since the day I brought her home. I lef...
Salt lake city — We’re re-learning to porch-sit. Learning our new neighbors’ comings and goings. It rained all day - turns out, Utah has a monsoon season. But as we came home, the sun came out, there were magazines i...
Tie siding — This idea was presenting to me by a friend and fellow photographer after we overlapped on our current projects. My current project IS a homecoming, and each and every time I bring my camera to eye I c...
Surbiton — I’ve been a bit stuck in terms of creativity, but this afternoon, I did some papercutting. A birthday and wedding card - and it felt so nice to make something, and be creative, so maybe you just have ...
Surbiton — I wrote this reflection about my #100happydays experience but never got round to publishing this on Hi! but as the Hi! community formed a big part of my experience, I thought I should publish this, ho...
Hontangas — In this village, located in a remote place of Castilla , you can see the whole sky as you never have seen it.
Boise — To some the place where I live is small. While to others the place where I live is large. It is definitely growing and is expanding in many areas. Though it still lags behind in others. It feels the g...
Cholargos — The older you get the harder it becomes to retain information - it just spills from you head like from an overfilled glass. Note-taking is the only way to remember anything, especially the steps of a ...
Tokyo — My well-meaning friends often tell me to stop over-thinking things, over-analyzing situations, and thinking myself into a hole. They’re not wrong. Sometimes it is easier to just jump in and do somethi...
Wellington — I stared at the 4-letter acronym printed on my screen - ISFJ - the result of having done a “close enough” online version of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality test via one of the guys ...
San francisco — My grandson Huck. (To clarify… Huck is my daughters 1/2 year old dog) Will I tell him about Santa Claus? Will I carve a pumpkin and cut out a razor haired black cat? Can we both sit and watch the W...
Tie siding — Tie Siding, Wyoming 1975. As a young boy I was fascinated by the American West. My father was a rancher, so my summers were spent in rural Wyoming doing the jobs I was physically capable of; things li...