London — I walked past this blue plaque today on my way to a lunchtime meeting (as I do every Wednesday) and finally got round to taking a photo. It seems to me that this is a reminder not just of a great wri...
London — It all depends which way you look at it! I walk down Midland Road every weekday morning on my way from St Pancras Station to my office, past these beautifully restored and extended buildings. What y...
Portland — What I see in my mind’s eye is that I am still in the process of dissecting a moment, and as I bring my scalpel of language to cut open this moment about the word mesmerized, just as when Salvador Dal...
Wadi halfa — Tuesday. Traveled about 7 miles. In the afternoon, boarded two cangias of slaves merchants going down to Cairo - bought belts and amulets. Slave merchants boats. The first master was a big man with b...
Lima — A friend and I took the bus up to Cerro San Cristobal this evening to see the city lit up at night. And for 5S, the traveller recommendations are right: it is quite a deal and quite a sight. It amazes...
Sevenoaks — Regular visitors to Hi will know that I have a thing about historical postcards. Personally I think they are a much-neglected source of historical evidence that deserve greater study, although there ...
Leixlip — About a week later, I finally come back and write a “story” of my “sketch”. Who knew that even being unemployed, you still don’t have enough time. I studied Journalism and Visual Media in college and...
Lancing — The glory of our humanity is our imperfection. Our imperfection invites others to love us unconditionally and unconditional love is what, in the end, will perfect us.
Chatham — Frigid gusts whistle in a frantic search for an inlet to the skin. It’s found my cuffs and rushes the narrows of my sleeves, chilling the core as it pours into the empty spaces between flesh and clot...
Salt lake city — Do you know the feeling when you get out of your comfort zone? When somebody tells you that there’s another way of doing something, but you still stick to your “old” way? I generally like to travel. ...
Johor bahru — My happy moment today was actually at breakfast when I saw the maitre d pull out the biggest pencil sharpener to sharpen her pencil. She only had a small lectern but it managed to house the biggest ol...
Huntington beach — To my students, who by looking to me for answers, push me to question my own knowledge. As you get older, you’ll start to notice life is full of patterns. You see more smiles on Fridays than on Monda...
New york — I´ve been thinking about my trip to New York a few years ago, and for me it is quite good looking old pictures. I always I try to grab the exactly moment and the situations that occurred when I pushed...
Accra — I know, you are probably thinking : Isn’t this the same guy who wrote , ” When design is not responsive…” ? Well it is me. This time around I want to illustrate an example of a good design. One t...
Tampa — My father is a turtle champion or maybe, rather, a Champion of Turtles, from way back. He will swerve a car doing 70 across lanes of traffic to the barest shoulder of road, or half into a ditch if the...
Tampa — One of the best parts of returning to my childhood home more than 20 years after leaving it as a young teenager is the chance to explore it now with eyes and a heart that love beauty in ways I was onl...
New york — Or, the medium is the message?
New york — Nothing beats browsing a bookstore, but the fun of something special arriving in the mail (especially when so nicely wrapped) is it’s own sort of retail pleasure.
Deqen — Fortunately, two days before I had met Martin from Uruguay. He was joking about my bike and I hated him for that (though he was right). However, he had some experience cycling the world and he agreed ...
Singapore — I won’t lie, I’ve been feeling rather nervous all this week about my impending flight to Singapore. Especially when I got on the plane and it wasn’t one of the double-decker ones I was expecting (sorr...
Lima — 3 giorni in Lima, girando tra i quartieri Miraflores, Barranco, Centro, San Isidro, Lince y Mirac. Assaporando la cucina peruviana, la gente, i combis, il metropolitano, citta che sta crescendo, accom...
London — I had to make a dash to a shop in the Square Mile in my lunch break today, so it seemed like a good opportunity to snap a few photos in an area that I rarely visit these days. You either have to be a...
Cape town — Like most parents with young kids, every day is an early start for me. Even so, 4:45am feels a little excessive. And that’s what time today started. To make matters even more… challenging… my wife...
Swanley — Taking pictures out of a train window is never very easy, and with just a smartphone to hand, it’s even worse! But of all the pictures I took this morning, I must admit that I rather liked this one,...
Tokyo — This kinda works.
Mumbai — I tried to take some pictures at the deadmau5 gig in Mumbai with my Nexus 5 and this is pretty much 90% of what the camera roll. Wait. I can’t upload more pictures here? Only one header image? That’s...
Kinderdijk — 10 a.m. in the morning, we arrived at Kinderdijk. The sun above us casted a nice glow over the grassy premise. The wind was a constant, gentle companion as we strolled towards the line of windmills. ...
Yamanashi — Yamanashi is land of peaches (Momo 桃 or モモ). Starting Sunday evening with a refreshing sip of unfiltered, aromatic Peach Wine. It gives me the same feeling of fresh Toddy1, with different levels of s...
Bonito — In my first day in Bonito (“beautiful”, in english) I went to the Blue Lake Cave, a cave discovered in 1924. It is an amazing place! After a bus ride from city centre and a few minutes walking, we re...
Saskatoon — I’m falling asleep over coffee because I woke up early today. Usually when I don’t sleep it’s because I’m restless or there’s too much on my mind. I’m a vampire of sorts, minus the blood drinking and ...
Lima — I was propped up on my elbows at the base of the Miraflores cliffs, beach-bumming and occasionally snickering at badly burned tourists while they hobbled behind their tanned surfing teachers, dragging...
Songesand — I watched the arrow of my compass as I reached the highlands overlooking the fjord. I stood on the cliff’s edge and took in the northern valley. Below me was the distant green of the pines, diluted by...
Horsham — The great thing about grandchildren is that you get to do it all over again, like hopping on a bus to play town. Sure, I know we can all play even as adults and sometimes we even get the chance and ha...
Aireys inlet — I assume, from combing the internet, that this may be the white stemmed gum moth. He was pretty big, maybe 15 cm, nearly six inches, in wingspan. When he flew past my ear, I thought, at first, he wa...
Surbiton — Gorgeous sunny day so a spot of balcony gardening before I go out to celebrate my little sister’s birthday. It’s a sociable place. I was watering the plants when a little boy walked passed with his Da...
Flintstone — He is always trying to get me to try new things. It’s a loathsome habit. These new things are almost always outside. Also, gross. And yet, this was a weird day. I wasn’t really well-dressed for the o...
Tokyo — a Kinuta, e a Yoga si erano immessi sulla tangenziale n. 3. All’inizio il traffico era stato scorrevole.Ma prima di Sangenjaya aveva cominciato a rallentare, e a un certo punto si era formato l’ingorg...
Mito — Celebrating over 50 years since creation, the Plum Blossom Ambassadors are a group of 10 specially-chosen representatives who are both mascots and guides to the festival. Though the position has been ...
Berkeley — Remember all the talk about Amtrak writer residencies? Those could totally work. I see it now: Awesome view outside? Check. A food/drink car? Check. Smooth sailing? Check. Electrical sockets beside ...
London — One of my favourite installations (by Kengo Kuma) from the Royal Academy’s Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined exhibition. In fact, my favourite spaces all had wood or natural materials in their ...
Sevenoaks — Yet another lovely sunny day in Kent! This rather plain looking tree is at the top of my road and I thought it deserved a photo being taken of it with the beautiful blue sky behind and with daffodils...
Liverpool — I was on my way into work early one morning, running late as usual but you have to take these opportunities. Fortunately I had time to take the picture and still make it onto the train! This scene re...
Boise — We adopted a cat I have always felt that I would not be a pet owner. So once The Butterfly was old enough to start asking for things, her and The Pixie were double teaming me on the pet request front...
Boise — To the unsung heroes that do the thankless jobs. And to the countless others that support them. We may never give you your due, but you have my gratitude. Give thanks with me, to the unsung heroes
Doncaster — One of the things I love about Spain is the attitude to public space and architecture. OK there’s Castellon airport without any planes and a few fields full of Calatrava roofs too expensive to finish...
Lancing — I watch people sitting in the carriage of the train standing on the station platform. Everyone of them thinking about their job, their children, their loves and hates, their hopes and fears. Things we...
Sheyakhah oula — Passing the First cataract. Monday. In the morning we get ready to pass the cataract and we go with two special guides and a Nubian pilot (raïs Haçan) who should bring us to Wadi Halfa. Our old pilo...
London — A happy day at work as I got a bit of good news on a project I have been working on recently. It’s nice to see your hard work come to fruition. So I celebrated with a dance around the blossom trees i...
Abisko — Dusk, when the sun slipped beneath the horizon and the sky in the north deepened to a dark blue—that was when the legacy of Abisko really began. We spent the nights refreshing forecasts and brewing c...
Abisko — March 4, 11:20 AM, -8 ºC. I spent the morning inside, drinking multiple cups of hot chocolate mixed with abandoned instant coffee and writing in my journal. This is an excerpt from what I wrote: ...
Abisko — When I was young, I loved my dad’s green hardcover copy of Lost in the Barrens, a book written by Farley Mowatt in the 1950s. It tells the story of two boys working together to survive while stranded ...
Kiruna — And so I found myself on an 18-hour train bound for the northern border of Sweden. My train car was quiet. I passed the hours reading French literature and practicing card tricks, watching the trees o...
Valencia — I lifted my iPhone up and shot, without even looking. Sometimes you have to let serendipty work without interfering much. For me, there’s something that just clicks with this photo — no pun intended. ...
Dania beach — There are so many incredibly beautiful places to be found in Florida. I found one recently, on a hat tip from my mom about a “really sweet place to spark up a joint. If you’re into that.” This park w...
Miami — It’s funny, because I always have a very particular feeling about my own relative homelessness. I don’t take genuine homelessness lightly, but this has been weighing on me for some time. I’ve been dr...
London — Only had time for a brief walk at lunchtime today, but this flower was looking beautiful in Brunswick Square so I just had to take a picture. Sometimes Hi’s default behaviour of expanding the picture...
Bologna — In Bologna there is a little square in which, every Friday, a artists’ market take place. Today, someone putting their poems for sale in an old paper box. I picked the one you can see here. In English...
London — It was one of those frustrating mornings today when heading for Herne Hill, the station where I change trains so that I can come into St Pancras station rather than Victoria. It is my habit, as soon ...
Lorne — On today’s walk I followed the Sculpture Trail of the Lorne Biennale, approximately 3 K along this classic foreshore, stretching from the pier to the swinging bridge. The piece under examination in t...
Hong kong — Have you been here before? I feel like I have. It’s the imaginary city, the city that steps out of iconic imagery. It is the city that only exists in that moment. Yet, it is the city that everyone tr...
Lancing — Shame is the name of the game and the flame that burns and turns the tide of feeling that leaves me staring at the ceiling looking for meaning where, of course, there is none and at no time is the sha...
Tokyo — One of my favorite time passing activities is sitting in a cafe with a good window looking out and draw the passing by strangers. I try to study deeply their faces in de fraction of a second as they ...
Austin — They say that more people move to Austin every month than will move to San Francisco during the whole of this year. The result is a rapidly growing - and, yes, gentrifying - city that is constantly re...
Saskatoon — I know, it’s been a while since I posted this moment. But I was lost in the land of deadlines and demands and then happily obsessed with my newest project - ossa ora - and just finished another grant ...
London — I had the day off work today, as I had arranged to take my wife to a craft show at Earls Court Olympia: the Knitting and Stitching Show. This is the kind of thing that I knew she would really enjoy, ...
Aireys inlet — After having recently declared my disdain for Hi sketches about coffee and coffee shops, I looked rather deeper into, dare I say, my heart and discovered that I was actually very interested in the fac...
Sheffield — I am usually in Spain this time of year, south of Valencia in a town among the oranges, and though the sea is still too cold to swim there is none of the badly designed weather we have here in the UK....
London — I had many moments of happiness to choose from today: a morning meeting at the Southbank and enjoying the lovely view of the Thames; my ‘Oranges and Lemons’ print order arriving from the London Transp...
Saskatoon — Nothing looks the same anymore. My old couch lent a certain charm to my apartment, the dark cabernet red blending together the old carpet and the strong contrasts between my black TV table and my whit...
Liverpool —
Boise — Baking pitas is a winter tradition for me and The Pixie. This is the first year that The Butterfly has been able to participate, though still very limited. Once the dough is ready, it is a lot of rol...
Lancing — lie still / so still /your body like a / warm pool ripples /at my touch / you sleep / while I weep my / weary prayer / and somewhere my / words weave themselves / into golden globes / jewelled with te...
Liverpool —
Portland — Part One, when we consider muses, and eating The Dictionary… How I came to find myself at this Crossroads, bearing little more than my own Shimmering Chimera & Hopes that fit inside a Matchbox,...
Somewhere — Iriyza flattered colors with her eyes. She lifted silver rings a thousand thousand times. Sunlight asked her questions and she wondered why when answers were visible in meter and rhyme. Light an...
Berriedale — In this remarkable water fountain, the latest Google trends are displayed through light reflected off streaming water falling just inches before the face of a bedrock wall. Much of the Museum of Old ...
London — I was walking back to my office from a lunchtime meeting in another university building today and happened to be taking a route past the Hotel Russell, which was looking as splendid as ever in the glo...
Barcelona — “The feathers are from the naked man. They cover him in honey and feathers and then they take him around town, in a box that he jumps in and out of, like a jack in the box, spreading feathers everywhe...
Minneapolis — “No one you pass on the street notices your downwards cast eyes, or your aimless trodding. Why should they? But still, you half wish they did.”
Amsterdam — Walls are underrated.. you can do so many things with them! Like hang pictures, paint a mural or deciding to use them as a whiteboard. My dinning room has recently got the status of “office”. I like ...
Aireys inlet — I think meditation, whatever the technique or discipline, seems more difficult in the morning. A new day is like a running stream just reached: plunge in, mate. Exultation, rather than meditation. ...
Avignon — If you think about it, there’s a real authenticity to the phrase ‘playing music’. It’s there in the timelessness of youth, in the fearlessness of his smile and the joint placed cockily between his lip...
Oakland — The tag is not an exaggeration. I’ve had many a whiskey in my life, you know. Rye, Bourbon, Scotch of all regions. Plastic bottles AND glass. I’m an equal opportunity drinker. The point was cheap. I w...
London — I was walking around London, and then a decided to visit The Monument at Monument Street. I climbed up the 311 staircase´ steps and I saw a great view from the city. Then I begin to down the staircase...
Horsham — “Sleep? The entire human race is asleep. What I am offering you is deliverance from the somnambulance that wraps itself around you like a cowl and keeps you from fully living the life you were born to...
Washington — I’ve rearranged my desk three times this week. After finally getting fed up at folding my 6’5” frame into a pretzel to hunch over my laptop and (previously smaller) monitor, I scavenged piles of empty...
London — I woke to an unusually sunny day, and the warmth of the sunlight stealing in through the crack in the curtains filled me with life. I got up, and went to the bathroom to start the morning routine, whe...
Hull — I have never really been a letter writer throughout my life, having been born at the dawn of the information technology explosion. My life has been intrinsically linked with the birth and development ...
Surbiton — A fellow photo-taker and gardener (@mafl365photos) tweeted about this project which inspired me to join in. It’s a celebration of happy moments in your life. I thought it was the perfect thing I neede...
Kalaw — Myanmar is, by international standards a particularly superstitious culture with rituals and auspicious activities affecting everyday life in a myriad of ways. The researcher in us reserves judgement ...
Montpellier — Sometimes, books are the shortest path from one point of the globe to another. This here is a picture of some travel writings books, taken in the bookstore I work in. (I must add, Nicolas Bouvier is ...
Tokyo — Yesterday was the anniversary of the fatal earthquake which shook Eastern Japan and created that big wave engulling homes, people and dreams three years ago. My beloved Japan was in grief and I rememb...
San francisco — A lot of the best conversations happen over pizza. And beer. (A lot of beer.) Good to see the girls again; we always seem to get together when there are new stories to tell. Ahhh, stories. My fav...
New york — Killing time again at The Strand’s dollar racks. The day was the warmest in recent memory and for once I could stand on the street in a light jacket without cursing the cold. I had no interest in buyi...
Kalaw — Dawn terrace, this morning’s office for writing up notes. Good coffee, brisk hill station air, chanting from the local monastery wafting over and an hour before most of the house stirs. @serota was pu...
Hong kong — It is the question I am facing right now. I want to do my Master’s Degree but I am not sure in what. I have an offer from the School of Journalism and I am sure to get an offer from the Faculty of Edu...
Curitiba — It was the first time that I went out to take photos with a new camera that I had bought. This is an old building in Curitiba/Brazil, called Paço da Liberdade and it was restored some years ago. It´s...
Santa monica — I drive past the beach everyday rarely if ever do I stop or even pause. Today I stopped to take pause and breathe. How can we appreciate more of what is right before our eyes rather than what we lack...
Akita — It’s funny because trying to write about 3.11 in Japanese is harder than doing it in English. My first language is Japanese. The picture above is the road in front of Yuriage junior-high school in Miy...
Manchester — I was lucky, on this brief trip back to Manchester, to have the chance to catch up with my dear friend Nell, who works as an artist, designer, printer, manufacturer, and all-round creative genius, in ...