South jakarta — Yes, that was a goat and baby goat you just saw on the roadside, on the way to your office for the day. Jakarta is full of contrasts. And my happy moment today: swimming in the pool at Changi airport...
Bangkok — It’s weird being away for work over a weekend because you can’t fully relax. We had a meeting scheduled in the morning, which was a pretty relaxed affair, but still, it was work so I couldn’t switch o...
South jakarta — A full day in Jakarta to properly experience all that it has to offer - a heady mix of chaos, traffic jams, extreme poverty and extreme displays of wealth (in the flashy four-wheel drives on the road ...
Bangkok — The end of a long hot day filled with sitting in traffic jams (note to self - get the BTS next time!) and intense work week. My reward - the bliss of some ‘me’ time. The hotel were showing ‘The Queen...
Singapore — My favourite moment on a flight, seeing the shoreline and knowing you are about to land and embark on another adventure …
Singapore — A day for signing contracts and celebrating our successes. Beautiful sunny and extremely hot day in Singapore - perfect for a spot of extreme laundry. And another visit to Changi airport for another...
Hounslow — The anticipation of a trip …
London — The GPO’s rocket barges and underground canal network are normally kept in perfect thermal equipoise. The energy expended in firing mail across London is normally recirculated to heat government build...
Kvíabryggja — This was my very first night in Iceland. To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I’d heard stories of course; oh Iceland is amazing, I’ve never seen somewhere so beautiful, etc. I had my dou...
Örebro — Café spying again. Going out on your own is under-estimated. By changing scenery, you escape the old buzz from your old thoughts, and by being alone, you escape the buzz of others. Plus, as I’ve said ...
Raleigh — The gentlest cat I’ve ever known. Even when provoked he only pretends to bite or scratch, only draws blood by accident. Earlier today I flipped him onto his back so he took a finger in his mouth, my...
Chennai — In 15 minutes, things can change. Two bombs went off in the Central railway station yesterday morning, fifteen minutes apart. I didn’t know about it until the afternoon because I hadn’t watched the n...
Guatemala city — Ese martes pudo ser cotidiano y aburrido, pero él lo hizo diferente. Quizás nunca habías caminado sola por las calles de tu propia ciudad,pero para encontrarte con esa persona especial, lo haces. Fue...
Guatemala city — Y es que han talado tu corazón, de aquel amor que creías eterno, de aquello que creías para siempre.
Guatemala city — Tal vez sólo las aves me ganan en las ansias de poder sentir de nuevo el invierno, de las mañanas de niebla y las tardes con truenos. El cielo se oscurece, pero todo se viste de nuevos colores, los ve...
London — A new exhibition has just opened at the Dairy Art Centre, located round the corner from my office: Julian Schnabel- Every Angel has a Dark Side (paintings from 2000 to the present). I discovered this...
Rindge — One night there was lunar eclipse that changed my life forever. They say when there is an eclipse it’s a huge explosion of accumulated energy. Everything that is hidden is illuminated. Everything we f...
London — Londoners have been trying to build on the Mounthill Bump since the 14th century - it normally doesn’t go well. Whether it’s a seismological fracture, a pocket of gas or some form of topographical hau...
Zhongxi district — I attended Santa Barbara City College in 1991 and was assigned to read Jack Kerouac’s “The Dharma Bums” and “On the Road” in Modern American Lit course. I read the first 20 pages of each book and fell...
Barcelona — Il fallait une première pour tester hi.co alors j’ai choisi ce moment à Barcelone et le Barri Gòtic où je ne m’étais jamais trop attardée malgré mes nombreuses visites. Quelques heures de vacances, le...
London — Continuing my series on my burial grounds calendar, here is the picture that greeted me when I turned the page this morning. I’m afraid I have to say it’s another disappointment :-( This is St Bride...
Sevenoaks — As previously mentioned, someone in our village has been placing spoof advert cards in our newsagent’s window during the past year. Here is the latest one.
Rindge — Six brave women from the Franklin Pierce community stood on that very stage to share their encounters with rape, or with someone they know who has been raped. They open up deepest parts of themselves...
Rindge — I stare out of this window with a smirk as I playback a days worth of complaints from passerby’s about the weather. “Why does it have to rain today?! It’s too wet. It’s so ugly outside. I’m so over i...
Eltham — Let that one go. Wait for a less crowded one. Time. “I can so see them together… Then you wake up and it’s all a dream. Why did that guy have to be there? … seriously … So what if she gets s...
Guatemala city — First Kiss “I’ve never had a real kiss” Beth said, almost whispering. “Hmph, game over” Daryl replied, putting away the tequila. Akward silence followed. Daryl stood up and went to the living room...
London — In 1971 these were the most famous secret doors in London. The UFO club had closed, Apple had imploded, the underground scene was fragile and fragmented and then, one night in June, Alan Roland-Rothe...
Boulder — I’ve been sending one of these every weekday to the same man for the better part of a year - taking a break at some part of my work day to draw one out of the box in my desk drawer, pen a silly little...
Sevenoaks — I was delayed leaving for work this morning by a minor plumbing emergency (water gushing out of a waste pipe inside the bathroom instead of outside down the drain), but by the time I did get to the st...
Othis — Rêvé que le dernier U2 était une reprise d’Adelaide d’Arnold Turboost et que j’étais le seul a m’en rendre compte. Puis rêve NSFW. 0740 De la poudre dorée ce matin au réveil derrière les volets. Le ...
Dartford — I hurriedly snapped this photo while my train home was zooming across this viaduct. That’s the River Darent below, and beyond that the picturesque village of Eynsford. In the other direction along t...
Madrid — Before the metrosexual and hipsterism He was there. http://eseldisparador.blogspot.com.es/2014/04/senor.html
London — There’s something addictive about the bitter-sweetness of nostalgia. At just one smell, one sight, one touch, you’re filled with a soft warmth that clouds your head, yet it’s juxtaposed with a sharp ...
Rindge — Welp. Here I am. The last stretch in my college career. In less than three weeks I’ll be graduating with a double major in English and Mass Communications. It’s surreal to think I begin graduate scho...
Othis — Je ne sais pas trop ce qu’est Zazen mais je pense que quand on jardine on n’en est pas loin. Les pensées vont et viennent mais passent comme les nuages dans le ciel. J’ai vu des abeilles noires chargé...
London — This open area at the back of the Royal Festival Hall is often used for Farmers’ Markets, festive performances and the like. The occasional passer-by at these events might wonder why such a desirable ...
London — I decided to wander in a different direction for my lunchtime walk today, as I had made a mental note to explore this part of central London a bit more after having walked through at high speed last w...
Brussels — Samedi 26 avril 2014, 16h. Vous vous promenez dans Bruxelles quand vous prend une envie d’aller contempler le Manneken Piss. Et sur les lieux, surprise : le croisement de la rue de l’Étuve et de la ru...
Madrid — Hi Gregorio Vallejo. This picture was taken in Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid, in the late afternoon.
Zhongzheng district — While the Japanese attitude toward the past is annihilation, the Taiwanese is layering. In Japan, old buildings are often demolished, and new buildings on the same site leave no trace of the past. It ...
South burlington — I grew up in the cities of New Jersey, hyper-focused on music like reggeaton, rapping to the newest rave in basement parties. I was geared towards the tunes of urban life, extremely ignorant to many ...
Rindge — I never thought I’d be leaving Franklin Pierce in the midst of so many cultural shifts. Franklin Pierce no longer offer majors or minors in American studies, theater and dance, graphic communications,...
Aireys inlet — When the Eastern Yellow Robin arrives in our garden, usually in Autumn, we often see its sleek yellow, wren-size, form bobbing about looking for insects and spiders, but after a bath (see above), its ...
Lincoln — I’m usually the one telling people to find the silver lining in life. To breathe and just enjoy the ride as things develop. Waking up this morning, I was far from able to find the silver lining. This...
Sevenoaks — The pheasants in the fields that my wife and I walked past last week were very good at hiding themselves. We caught brief glimpses as a head would emerge above the grass, move and then disappear, or ...
London — A new exhibition is opening at the British Library on Friday, called Comics Unmasked. The sub-title is Art and Anarchy in the UK, which I suppose explains why the posters advertising the event bear t...
Nehalem — This moment shows the ridge overlooking Manzanita, a cozy beach town nestled below this place, named Neahkanie Mountain where a reputed buried treasure from a Spanish galleon lies. In the little town...
Claye-souilly — rêve Rêvé que Sophie Davant me servait un verre de jus d’orange chez macdo et qu’en le finissant il révélait des frittes trempées. Je le lui signalais avec précaution et elle m’en donnait un autre. ...
London — Today this sign means something else, but in the 1960s this was the site of some genuinely low trees. Camden council had asked horticultural avant-gardists Art Fruit to design a planting scheme for S...
Saskatoon — If I close my eyes it sounds like spring. Robins. Crows. Waxwings. Every day this week I have worn a different coat. Yesterday it was wool in the freezing rain. The night before it was leather agains...
London — This wonderful hoarding is located just north west of King’s Cross station, across the road from St Pancras Station, on the corner of King’s Boulevard. It serves as a huge marker for the entrance to ...
Dusseldorf — Es ist ja immer eine Frage, wie Premium eine Marke wahrgenommen wird bzw. sich selbst sieht. Differenz
Kosh-agachsky district — Clay Conlon on a new route in the South Chuysky range, Altai Mountains, Siberia, Russia. Myself and three others were in this valley for two weeks with the aim of making a number of first British / ...
Toronto — As all Asian parents, my own instilled the importance of hard work and often frowned upon the idea of play. And though I respect the hard work part, any moment I have the chance to play in my adult li...
Hong kong — Right now it is a hole in the ground between Austin Subway (MTR) station and the highly luxurious mall called Elements. It is this hole, I feel, will transfer Hong Kong more than anything else will in...
Koganei — In the Hanakoganei here “Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum”. Old building reminiscent of the old days of Tokyo has been relocated from all over. Interesting building of public bath building and ...
Beijing — By now, I know the safety video By heart and have a standing date with a TSA officer. I kiss my sweet American wifi good-bye. It’s time To fly back to the Great Firewall of China To usher in the ...
New york — We were there on the side for a moment – taking a break, catching our breath, and taking it all in. He started singing, “Boo-Wab-Boo-Wap” and all of a sudden, before I knew it, I joined in and we were...
Nunawading — Does anyone need to know how the person came to be, or just the fact that the killer they once were gave them the moral freedom to find a market for the former tools of the trade? Is it important to a...
New york — Art openings are for pretty people sipping bad wine. It’s not that the wine is always so terrible (though it usually is), and more that the art is meant to elevate you beyond paying attention to whate...
Paris — Compared to other establishments, the admission fees are marginal. Yet the Paris metro has long been considered one of the best & largest theater venues in the world. All spectators should be prep...
Shanghai — The world is full of redundancies, waste and duplicates. You sometimes may think you are struck by an original thought or idea, but chances are, someone somewhere else on this planet already had exact...
Hong kong — I’m lost. I hate this city but I struggle to stay. I’m tired of my job but I suffered from thinking about quitting. I miss the old time but I can’t go back. Is there really going to be a light at the...
Dammartin-en-goële — Hier Cyrille nous apprend entre autre choses ce que sont des oursins : - et puis j’ai eu des oursin aux pieds - des oursins ? - oui tu sais ça vit sous l’eau, ça ressemble à des boules noires avec pl...
Venice — I took a picture of a gondolier and thought, Hey there’s an idea, I’ll photograph gondoliers and their amazing faces. But everyone snaps gondoliers, so I began taking pictures of Venetians steering al...
Aireys inlet — This Anzac Day weekend we are hosting a sculpture show at our place: 98 works from 12 local artists. I love how an ordinary hamlet of about 1500 people can give rise to such creativity: small piec...
Mississauga — What does an individual’s word worth these days? It’s easy to be cynical and simply respond “not a whole lot”. But why? I know it’s not a trivial concept: to stay true to your word and follow your act...
Guilin — We were up at 4am to meet with the fisherman at our arranged spot. The limestone karsts in the background along with the bamboo forest lining the banks of the river made for quite an impressive locati...
Urbino — That’s what Federico of Montefeltro would have seen. And it’s still there.
Zhongzheng district — Walking toward 228 Peace Memorial Park in Taipei, we were stopped by a series of barricades. Our initial plan was to circle around the Presidential Office Building, designed by a Japanese architect in...
Seattle — The guitar lick in this song by The Long Winters is one of my favorite things.
Montague — When it comes to establishing a home base, there are twin demons inside me, tugging my preferences in opposite directions. Down one path is the big city. A lifestyle I envied my entire childhood, hav...
Wrightsville beach — Expecting to be walking on the same beach the same week this year, being there being one of the regular family reunions. More coming soon now that Daddy is seriously ill, more visits to Wilmington, m...
Seattle — I was introduced to this model in a recent retreat with a group I’ve been practicing with for over a year. It looks like this: —> Homeostais —> Impulse —> Charge —> Discharge | Expres...
Thakhèk — For the sake of saving some cash, I decided to skip professional climbing 1 beginners’ lessons and instead asked a fellow—who claimed to be familiar with vertical practices that include ropes—to be m...
Mamers — Mamers, at the southern edge of Normandy, prides itself for its ‘rillettes’ a rustic potted meat pate - pork mainly here - slowly cooked in fat. Economic luck is long gone and Mamers’ delicacy is att...
Les mureaux — Nous sommes allés diner chez mes parents, le ton est monté autour de ces sablés à l’anis1. Alors qu’ils étaient faits. C’est peut être sa façon de communiquer. Je ne la comprendrai jamais. Il m’a égal...
Saint-denis — Il y avait ces nuages théatraux. Je me suis levé et me suis approché de la fenêtre, mais la vue n’était pas convenable. La distance était le bon point de vue.
Boulder — It’s sitting next to the empty space where Gary the Mover will return shortly with my second of two U-haul storage boxes. Because Boston. I’m moving east!
London — This title has two meanings. Even that sentence has is a semi-pun. This bridge is the most famous in London. So famous that most tourists call it London Bridge. In fact, London Bridge is further down ...
Dammartin-en-goële — Dans ce rêve il est question de KML , un correspondant instagram. On prend le Narita Express et il est bondé. On se retrouve sur une petite plateforme en alu a l’exterieur du train. KML me donne un ri...
Roissy-en-france — Il est déjà rentré, il me demande où je suis. Je lui dis “A la soucoupe volante” et je lui envoie cette photo. J’aime beaucoup le flitre noir de l’iphone, celui qui est de base dans l’application phot...
Lancing — The picture is of the first serious piece of cross stitch my daughter Emma did using a poem I wrote. It was embroidered for a piece she submitted as part of her graphic art degree 14 years ago. Since ...
Saint-denis — Mon ami Mésange me parle beaucoup du fait de mettre ou pas de couleur sur mes dessins. Pour celui ci j’etais vraiment indécis quand à la couleur. J’ai decidé d’utiliser des crayons de couleurs. Je ne ...
Saint-denis — J’ai vu plusieurs fois cette voiture au pied de l’immeuble où je travaille. J’aime beaucoup son design. Il pourrait etre tiré du film Bienvenue à Gattaca. Un jour, j’ai vu sortir trois hommes, peut ...
Musashino — My abiding memory of true barber shops come from Looney Toons and old movies the ones produced back in the 40s and 50s. They were places marked by the red-white-blue lamp, spiraling perpetually to ind...
Saint-denis — Je vois cette jeune femme le matin quand j’arrive, je la vois le midi quand je vais aller déjeuner et je l’ai vue là, à 15:00, sur son banc, à se parler à elle même, où a des gens que nous ne voyons p...
Saint-denis — Chirachi Saumon en attendant, en attendant Tokyo, dans une semaine. Tokyo où je ne comprendrai plus rien, enfin et où ce sera bien. Il pleut, une pluie fine, presqu’agréable. Je me dis qu’il ne me ...
Betws-y-coed — Looking down over the Ogwen valley, taken here in late-Autumn. Tryfan is absolutely beautiful and offers probably the most authentic big mountain experience south of the Scottish border. The fantasti...
Vientiane — ‘Tween our house and the town there’s a road. A high one. One whose bank must be clambered up with bike, or precariously slidden down each day as we to and fro. And cards were there. Playing cards. Fo...
Tokyo — Although I have been working for Japan for years now, all of my clients were gaijins residing here. Today I had my first visit to a proper Japanese client, a corporation in Minato-ku, filled with sala...
London — He perches on the rails surrounding a church on a grey day. Obligatory gravestones cross the ground in jagged lines and he guards over them. One intelligent beady eye watches me, waiting for me to spe...
Tokyo — Oimachi looks modern city to get off the station. However corner taverns traditional continuous remains in the the back. Izakaya’s dining bar traditional Japanese. Is written in the order slip on your...
Tokyo — I was born in Tokyo, I live 50 years. I think here is a city that is very versatile. Think black-and-white photos that’s ideal for you to highlight and organize the city with this diversity.
Kvíabryggja — Conor and I were nearing the end of our first day in Iceland in Winter, we pulled over in a lay-by just after sunset to get some shots of the night sky. We could see a faint whisp of grey in the sky t...
Frederiksberg c — We wasted peace and prosperity. 70 years of relative stability and progress, and what did we have to show for it? Climate change and rising inequality. Unjust and barbaric institutions. All our food e...
Costa mesa — There is a subtle transcendence in the quiet of an afternoon. An expectation. An excitement. Today, I will savor its texture and tone. Today, I will slow down the moment, crawl inside it, and explo...
Tübingen — During a decisively underwhelming walk in my neighborhood I observed this little fella patiently biding his time. Some might think it’s just an older Ford Ka parked somewhere in German suburbia. Not m...
Cold spring — That which is timeless is found now. # Of all the footprints That of the elephant is supreme; Of all mindfulness meditations That on death is supreme. Buddha Every subatomic interaction consists ...
Saskatoon — My husband and I were at the Roxy Theatre to see Jodorowsky’s Dune1. The sides of the theatre are like a castle with odd painted figures in the windows. Ed asked me if I was going to take a picture of...