San francisco — Today I went on a run, guided by my quest for easily won portals. I succeeded, but probably spent a good deal of my run looking mildly insane. At one point, while I was busily linking two portals by r...
Othis — Vendredi 04 juillet 2014. Rêvé que je réglais son compte à ma famille. Que je leur re-expliquait une fois encore l’état de nos relations. Épuisant. Rêvé qu’un quartier entier de Paris (le 19ème) avai...
Mitaka — Tsukemen is Japanese noodles accompanied by soup for dipping. Tsukemen TETSU http://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1320/A132002/13124489/
Jamnagar — The slow and steady decline of talented but unrecognized art form is now a reality. Very few people in Jamnagar, known for its Bandhni, are into this art. Those who still do this complicated hand made...
Jamnagar — Travel around Gujarat and you will spot a palace every 50 kilometers. While most of these palaces of erstwhile rulers are in ruins, there are still some which is standing tall. The current generation ...
Dwarka — This is Dwarka, one of the must visit for Hindus. But this place is also as badly kept as other religious/holy places. When we say holy, it means pure or divine. Divinity is reflected in cleanliness. ...
Redmond — So ready to settle down after driving from coast to coast, we chose the first apartment building we saw and didn’t look at the others. It turned out to be the best choice for our needs. We’re within w...
Packwood — Words can’t express how excited we were to cross the Oregon/Washington border via the Astoria-Megler bridge. We kept saying to each other that we couldn’t believe we were here after over 4,700 miles, ...
Chicago — What is America to you? We’d been living overseas for the last few years, but often came back to Illinois for holidays and summer vacations. We soon decided to buy a house in a quiet Chicago suburb. ...
Acton — “Recent and not so recent surveys confirm that a majority of us people over seventy-five keep surprising ourselves with happiness,” writes Roger Angell in his essay in the February 17, 2014 edition of...
Madrid — The brain can only take in so much. After some of the previous summer spent soaking in the Louvre and the Musée D’Orsay in Paris & the Uffizi gallery in Firenze it takes courage to step into a mus...
Madrid — What was it? What hit you? The light? The angels? The painstaking effort gone into making the perspective right? The fact that unicorns were mistakenly included in art inspired by the Bible because so...
London — For the second in my series on the Bloomsbury Book Benches, I’ve chosen this one, which is situated in the Brunswick Centre. This portrays the Jeeves and Wooster characters, who featured in books wri...
Ilkley — My village is in Yorkshire, England. Unbelievable. It seemed unbelievable when back in 2012 they announced the Grand Depart would be from Leeds. Unbelievable when Leeds Town Hall was draped in yell...
Tokyo — A gathering of filmmakers went on into the wee hours at this cozy izakaya in Asagaya. We were the only people left as last order for drinks was proclaimed. Just then a few regulars straggled in and on...
Chicago — I love this time of the night. No one expects anything from you at this time. You can do anything you want to your heart’s content. In fact, I’ve realized that I’m more productive after midnight. I’ve...
Xizhi district — In order to show the world their commitment to encourage good design in Taipei, Taipei City Government organized the Taipei International Design Award and invites designers around the globe to create ...
San francisco — His wife left him while she was still with him. First, for other passions, then for other men. He spent years confused by how blatant she was about it, how entitled. Then, one day the fog lifted and h...
Mariposa county — This photo is from my one-day trip to Yosemite from San Francisco. I debated for some time if it was worth it to make the trip in one day or not, since it is a four hour drive in each direction, even...
Accra — I seem to blab a lot about Accra’s Trotro and all that goes on in it. But this is because you can’t find that sort of experience anywhere else. I lie ? Check out trotrodiaries Accra’s trotro provide...
Tokyo — I bought a new manual Helios lens. It is very heavy and difficult to use but I’m enjoying it a lot and keeps surprising me. Being manual helps me to focus more my attention on taking a good photo, wit...
London — This morning I stumbled across a reference to Books About Town - a collaborative public art project organised by the National Literacy Trust and Wild in Art that is just kicking off in London. This i...
Paris — I am in Paris, one of the cities that long ago captured my heart in thought and then, again, in person. I’m happy to say this place fully lives up to the romantic fantasies the world places upon it. E...
Montreal — Creativity is an overbuzzed word in the business world. I am working at a conference that boasts itself as “a business conference somewhere between genius and insanity”. As much as I enjoy observing ...
Tokyo — The champagne is steadily flowing. The DJ is dancing along with her vinyls. The crowd is beautiful. The venue trendy. In any other city this would be a typical Friday night but it’s only Monday. In T...
Saint-denis — Mercredi 02 juillet 2014. Mal de crane fabuleux au point ou je ne sais plus si j’ai tutoyé un big chef où pas ce matin. Ce matin : Brazil+1984 au poste de garde : - Je viens voir Monsieur B. - Il vou...
Cardigan — On a break from lectures at The Do Lectures, we rode from the farm to the edge of the Welsh coast to find a wild swimming hole. We walked along the cliffs of the coast, and soon found the walk. The c...
London — London has always been a second home for me, a place and a culture that influenced me at an impressionable age, and I’ve always felt oddly at home there. And so I walked out of the train station, fre...
Leeds — The NPO moment four years ago was outside McDonald’s at Valencia’s Joaquin Sorolla railway station, hooking into their free wifi to receive two emails from Arts Council England with their National Por...
Wareham — When it’s a Challenger of course! My son and I visited The Tank Museum at Bovington in Dorset last Saturday, to go to Tankfest 2014. Among the many tanks that we saw was this one - a Challenger 1 M...
Ensenada — Awhile ago I found myself mired in the suburban sprawl of Ensenada, a city 90 minutes south of Tijuana. Somewhat unsurprisingly, it looked a lot like Mississauga. The thing about Mississauga, the cit...
Detroit — I haven’t been to Detroit since 2010 for work. This time I’m helping a friend move from Chicago. I know over the past 4 years Detroit have been slowly reviving itself. I was excited to see what change...
Washington — More than anything I remember the shoes. I was 7 years old and we were on a family road trip on the East Coast, seeing all of the historical sites, monuments, and memorials in DC, New York, and Phila...
Hong kong — I was wary about going to the protests today. My concerns were mostly because this isn’t my fight. I don’t fully understand the issues behind the protest. I am a guest here and maybe my presence maybe...
Feltham — And here is July’s picture from my London Burial Grounds calendar - showing the graveyard of Saint Mary the Virgin church in Bedfont, which sounds quaint but is actually just a stone’s throw south of...
London — Yes, I know it’s July, but June seems to have flown by in the blink of an eye and I realised this morning that I never put June’s picture up, hence this belated moment! So, here’s the June picture fr...
Mitaka — “sippo” props general store and cafe Mitaka “Mitaka pudding” “sippo” small thrift store http://www.sippo-4.com/
Dwarka — I always wonder why we still dont have clean religious places, especially the Hindu temples? Is it so tricky that we are just not capable of doing it or is there any financial constraints? Actually bo...
Porbandar — Perhaps India will be the only country that doesnt respect its history. Its historical monuments are in total neglect. Though the country has formulated Archeological Survey of India to protect its hi...
Guadalajara — There wasn’t enough time to pack well or atleast pretend to. The visa takes forever and this time it came a few hors before the flight. The truth is one can never mentally prepare to go to a new place...
Paris-1er-arrondissement — C’est une histoire qui date de quelques années. J’assistais à l’époque à une reproduction musicale d’un groupe d’amis qui jouait dans un petit bistro vers République, je leur avais promis de faire qu...
Marble canyon — When I was planning my canyons driving trip I identified 4 or 5 key locations, such as Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, where I was planning to spend majority of time. But specifics of the trip was that I w...
London — This morning on my way in to work I went to check out the newest of London Underground’s pedestrian tunnels, which has just opened below St Pancras and King’s Cross stations. I descended from the hub...
Jetpur — Hundreds and thousands of people in India toil hard for peanuts in return. But they are happy with what they have don’t need more than what they can chew. When greed supercedes need we suffer in sev...
Dwarka — A lot of wind farms around this place but I still don’t understand why alternate energy sources have not yet taken off in India. Is there a lobby working against it or is it a real fact that producing...
Bristol — The name of the trail was unfamiliar to me. As we hoisted the bikes down from the rack on the back of the car and set off pedaling, I was unaware that I had ever been here before. Five minutes in, we ...
Milton keynes — This tower marks the site of the infamous Sketchley Park, home for 70 years to the research lab that powered the extraordinary Sketchley’s dry-cleaning empire. The scientists lured to Sketchley Park d...
Kathmandu — Il y a bien des fois où il faut dire le bien et le mal avec la même franchise. Des fois où l’on devient méprisable envers ceux qu’on aime car nous touchons à leur sacrosaint : la bien-pensance. L’hab...
London — Sitting in the pub I concentrate on the hand in front of me. It’s neither promising nor unpromising and I pause for a moment to look out at the shower of heavy summer rain pouring down outside. A minu...
Nottingham — In a short story called ‘To Reiterate’ in The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis the author describes her personal experience of reading, writing and traveling whilst also taking apart dumb quotations a...
Maynard — “Chromapost is about sharing your feelings. Through color.” Aleksandar Maćašev One moment is a soft gray, a cool-June-morning-on-your-honeymoon-in-San-Francisco gray, a gray surrounded by dazzling bl...
Ahmedabad — I still remember my young school days when we were herded to our grandmas and grand nannies back home in Kerala when we used to spend the entire two months vacation doing nothing but playing with Moth...
Maynard — Awhile ago I published a poem about love and sex called Today Love Asks Questions. While the poem was inspired by a real moment of intimacy and happiness in my marriage, it wasn’t at all explicit, or ...
Duluth — I don’t mean to bitch, but it’s the Big Lake. She froze to the bone this winter and she’s damn slow to warm up. Living cheek by jowl with Lake Superior as I do, I constantly feel her cold feet up aga...
Duluth — I pass this spot often each month. Nearly every time, my photographers eye sees the hints and promise of a great photograph, but my camera has refused to capture it. I’ve been here in all seasons, in...
Santa fe — Recessed niches are extremely common in the almost universal adobe walls of Santa Fe, New Mexico. This 18” clay figure lives in a niche by the front door in the little casita where we are staying thi...
Tübingen — This shot amounts to nothing much, photographically. And still it means a lot to me. It shows part of my first photo exhibition ever. Only after we were done hanging the pictures, I realized I had wan...
Westerham — The observant may remember that a while back I wrote something about being 49, so you can be forgiven for thinking that I’ve lost the plot! The thing is, I have two birthdays, although not in the sen...
Taunton — I few years ago, I thought there was no baseball in the UK, but in fact, even in our area of the South West, there are a handful of fields of varying levels of refinement. We have our own pitching mo...
Chimayo — Yesterday, I took lunch with a few close family members at a favorite New Mexico restaurant in a small town just north of Santa Fe. As we stepped into the courtyard, I noted with a slight feeling of ...
Manang — He is the fastest trekker amongst us. 26, blond, Latvian, reckless and adorable. Its been interesting of late, within seconds of meeting someone, I would know if we are made of the same thing, if we ...
Tokyo — “Sepp,” my mentor from graduate school, still writes me back once in a while. He always begins his letters like this: “I am dictating this letter in Berlin.” It can be from Paris, Madrid, Kyoto, or Ri...
San francisco — For the proud and closeted members of Self-Googlers Anonymous alike, the first few pages are committed to memory. For me, years of experience in the darkened or bored hours of the day reveal the same ...
Northampton — The Twenty-First Century has seen some extraordinary progress in the aero-sciences. The idea of ‘Think Air’, for instance, has progressed from far-fetched theoretical possibility to commonly-accepted ...
London — Art in a hospital has such a difficult job to do. It must be respectful of so many circumstances and so many emotions that come with this place. Grief, elation, fear, relief. Today I passed beneath th...
Westerham — The world-famous Red Arrows (or the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, to use their official title) are just starting their 50th year of displays, and my son and I got to see them the other week at the B...
Ahmedabad — Isn’t it an irony that magnifying objects can have an impact on human eyes? When you see a picture of what we miss are the finer details. Details that could lead us to so many things. This picture is ...
Kathmandu — No, that is not a co-working space in NYC or SF you are looking at. It is a cafe in Kathmandu. Low tables, bare feet, lumpy cushions and black lights. The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, The Doors and Bob...
Paris — J’habitais Paris, dans le 5e, tout près du Jardin des Plantes. Une nuit d’été, je fus réveillée par une espèce de peur viscérale. Un grondement très sourd résonnait dans les murs, se réverbérait dans...
Lucknow — I am sitting on the top most floor of my office building and even though I am inside, the heat outside the window is piecing. I can see the vast blue sky above, and somehow that makes it a little cal...
Portsmouth — “…it’s more acceptable for men to go off and find themselves, but it’s more acceptable for women to be spiritual. How often do men get asked about the emotional connections they made in a given plac...
Encinitas — “I thought that was going to unlock all these doors that had been closed, and the clubs I’d been playing, to eight people to Des Moines, were going to miraculously shift into sold-out rooms. That didn...
Arlington — “Life got to a point where it was just so…joyful. You know that feeling: a room full of people, everywhere I turn, I see something precious. Going to a party and feeling drunk on friendship. So much...
Blackduck — I took to the road for another glimpse of the Showy Lady’s Slipper. I returned to a spot I once photographed them. The Showy Lady Slipper is Minnesota’s state flower, also known as the Pink & Whi...
San diego — Read more at The Connoisseurs
Santa cruz de la sierra — This library is ubicated at L’alliance Française-Goethe Zentrum where I study french. After my journalism’s classes, I always, always go to the library. I go from 6pm until it is hour for my french cl...
Ledar — The plane flies across the subcontinent and I snap a picture out the window. “Squint a little and look beyond the clouds. Do you see it? That is the top of Mt Everest. Have you ever seen it before?” ...
Falmouth — I spent a long weekend in Falmouth, Cornwall visiting my sister and one of my best friends from school. The weather was wonderful, and we spent an idyllic few days filled with sea swims, barbeques, b...
Katrineholm — Slowly, gingerly you close the door behind you in order to not wake your neighbors. Still, the sounds seem unnaturally loud in the night. The floorboards of the porch creak and complain as you step ou...
Dana point — The screenwriters took a calculated risk within the film I watched tonight - and it worked. Amazingly, they had one of the primary characters travel back in time to have a conversation with his young...
London — This clock hasn’t moved anywhere in 162 years, although its hands certainly have. This is the famous (in some circles at least!) Shepherd 24-hour Gate Clock, outside the gate of the Royal Observatory...
London — There we were, in Greenwich Park, enjoying the range of trees and beautiful flower beds that can be found particularly in the south east corner of the park, when one of the many squirrels hopped out f...
Bagneux — Mardi 24 juin 2014 “CHUI DANS L’TUNNEL! J’ARRIVE PAS A SORTIR ! CHUI DANS L’TUNNEL”1 ai-je crié cette nuit, me dit-il. Il a fait très beau. Le train n’est pas venu. Incident grave de voyageur. J’ai (...
Hardap — Deadvlei is one of, if not the most, iconic locations in Namibia and somewhere I’ve wanted to visit for quite a while. It is a clay / salt pan in the middle of the desert; basically a marsh that has n...
Maidstone — Well, ripples I suppose would be a more accurate description! It’s always a delight to return to the River Medway at Yalding, and my father and step mother spending a week staying near us provided a...
Toronto — Mornings: get up, put coffee on, open the blinds on the front window, and check for new developments in the construction zone. A few days ago, they unearthed the boulder on the left side of the photo...
Port st. joe — I take a moment to enjoy the colors before going for a short jog on the narrow slice of land that juts into the Gulf. The run is shorter than I hope: Even at this early hour, the humidity pulls the en...
San francisco — Don’t you love that sparkle in people’s eyes when they talk about things they’re super passionate about? It’s my favorite thing. After brunch this morning, I asked Dave about his plans for the rest o...
Dana point — This moment begins the end of a fabulous day. Only three hours ago, the sun danced in silver prisms over ocean crests that peaked just as we approached. Saltwater cooled my legs and speckled the sun...
Lahaina — I slip into the water, my black form both weightless and buoyant, and an intense familiarity envelops me instantly. I am back where I belong, six long months away on land and air yielding an aridity o...
Paris — Lundi 23 juin 2014 Qu’est ce qu’on peut compter avec une bague-compteur ? Les gens qui lisent sur des liseuses ? Les hommes qui ont des bagues ? Les hommes qui ont des sacoches ? Les gens qui lisent ?...
Cambridge — Really, this whole experience should have been a disaster: Two people, one cat, nowhere to live for two weeks due to a grouchy former landlord and a new apartment that wasn’t quite ready. But due to t...
Ljubljana — I was having a nice day. The problem was that worries about what I would do that evening, and trying to squeeze in everything I wanted to do then, meant I didn’t let myself enjoy what I was doing, I d...
Toronto — Notice everyone is on a Mac (likely a 15 inch). Apple should just save the big budget advertisement and try guerilla advertising - placing a video camera at coffee shops.
Völklingen — The comparisons & associations come easy, and they still hold true: these derelict behemoths of heavy industry do look like the remnants of an alien civilization which fled the planet. The giant m...
Melbourne — The descent. A graceful control of speed through windy paths. Silhouettes of dark tree shapes create a border between the road and the dark chasm below. Lagging headlights struggle to process corners...
Portland — I always enjoy meeting up with Matthew Rorick, the poetic brainchild behind Forlorn Hope. He and Hardy of Dirty&Rowdy came to PDX where I caught up to them at Storyteller Wines, run by the brillia...
Fitzroy north — The streets are alive, with the sound of a full bodied exhaust note. A quick tight left into a tunnel @ 5,000 RPM generates a raspy, roaring echo of madness, followed by a satisfying gear change…
Sakae — Beyond what we interpret these shapes to be, I want to be minuscule and explore the cavities. I would climb then slide down its slopes screaming, my voice catching each of the wood grain bumps. I want...
Portland — It’s 2pm on a summery Sunday afternoon in Portland, OR. Your wife and baby are sleeping. You and your 4-year old are wide awake, on the verge of boredom. What would you do? I reach for Yelp and type ...