Toronto — When you spend most of the winter looking down, trudging along, watching for snow mounds and corner moats in the greige light, it’s shocking to look up and discover there is sky. Blue sky. And even mo...
Accra — It’s a Monday morning and I am preparing for class. My body is tired from the previous night’s restlessness. I knew I had a class the following day but I didn’t prepare. I mean it’s sort of hard to ...
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Semporna — Mabul is the place to be; yellow room, on stilts, hovering over blue water with a view of the sky and the sound of boats. Out the mouth of the bungalow, there is a fishing village full of Bajau waitin...
Leeds — In winter I tend to ride loops from home, but today rode into Leeds for the first time since autumn. The first half was on the road - one of those rides when every light went red as I approached them...
San francisco — It usually starts with a view of the sky. Maybe because I always wake up on my back. You would think they could at least put you in a chair or something. Maybe it adds to the authenticity of the exper...
London — Perhaps to say that we belittle small things is to state the obvious. They’re small, after all, so what else would we do?! But sometimes it’s good to stop and think about those small things, the eas...
Leigh-on-sea — Friday 14th 2014. A day of flowers, saccharine cards and proclamations of love. Also the day of my first driving test. Did I pass? No, I didn’t. Does it matter? No, it does not. Though had you asked m...
Aireys inlet — This is not a day I observe or have ever observed. Humbug, as they say. But imagine my consternation when I belatedly discovered that I had snapped this pic on 14 Feb. What’s that about?
Venice — Venezia Park is a historic district, planned by John Nolen in the ’20s. The project collapsed at the end of the decade, along with the rest of the Florida real estate boom. This house is within the d...
Aireys inlet — Reflection often leads to clarity and sometimes to disorientation.
London — It always seems to wait for home time to bucket it down. I was laden down with my purchase and treat from West Elm - lovely sculpted woolly origami cushions, and trying to stop my umbrella blowing awa...
Shanghai — Chapter 1 : Nurse KS-92 Nurse KS-92 was distracted. It was a long move from her sector of origin. No one from her graduating class was even in the district. The habitation module she was assigned to ...
London — My Monday morning commute to work, hampered by a slow moving train, caught up with several trains queuing to get into the station. The newspaper headlines were awash with commuters’ dissatisfaction w...
Beni suef — Monday. Rest. We meet the boat of Mr Robert and the Pole who lived in Neufchâtel. Big makeshift rafts made of jugs, paddled with uprooted saplings. Our sailors bring a whore on board, who dances - dan...
Aireys inlet — Click on the bird to see what she sees.
Chennai — A film that really makes us think and feel is one that lingers on inside us. Her is one of them. There is a line said by Samantha, the OS that resonated with me. It was something to effect of how we a...
Kirchheim — Just as acts of maintenance might be called poetic, poetry can be seen as maintenance. The world needs maintenance like any other machine. Physical matter needs order. The engineer wants to structure ...
Venice — In Florida I read Jim Harrison. Even though I’m from Michigan, I read him here. The fisherman looks like an alternate Jim, perhaps, his rod flanking the bill of a dip-fishing snowy egret on the pier....
Zurich — My device. From my mind, to my hand, to my device, to the world and then back. In split seconds I shine light on a tiny rock in the cavern of my reality. How much can I explore in this short time whil...
Venice — If you read around, you can find various discussions about how to take care of palm trees. “When I’ve tried forcing them off too much I’ve torn into the tree a little and I’m sure this is not a good ...
New york — This weekend I slipped on some ice near my apartment. I sat there for a moment, looking at the glamorous hiking boots I’ve been wearing since mid-January to skate the unshoveled sidewalks, thinking th...
South — This is Gullfoss in Iceland at about 04:00. It was so cold, that when the spray from this massive waterfall hit my camera and face, it turned to ice crystals. In this photo, you can see such things a...
New york — For some reason, this snow-covered bicycle, chained to a signpost and probably untouched for weeks, appeared to me purposefully situated in place. On its side, the front wheel twisted up in the air, t...
Clare — The tour bus stopped at this T- junction letting us off for a quick lunch. I remember there is this hotel and row of shops where we can get a quick bite and rest before we continue our guided day tour...
Melbourne — A bit drunk… But drawing again ☺️
Asbury park — My partner is the world’s best Cher impersonator and this takes us all across the country with occasional international appearances. He is not a drag queen, but a character actor. I am told the differ...
Faiyum — At 5 a.m. I wake Joseph up, who leaps up: “Si signore”; At 6 we leave for the lake, the Sheik leading the way. After two hours walking, we leave the greenbelt - the dry ground is cracked with long, r...
Cusco — The first night I hung out with T we walked to the nearby plazoleta where they were holding a weeklong festival. There were red banners hung over the facade of the church, street carts with steamed co...
Guilin — I said in a previous photo (of a cormorant fisherman) that I had my heart set on getting that shot. I had planned to get it, tried to get it and would have been annoyed if I hadn’t have got it. This ...
London — Most of the time I like to have a plan. I write lists of things I want to do, see and eat. I make plans to plan, even if the planning is to plan not doing anything. I think this trait comes from my Da...
San francisco — This week was one of the worst ones I’ve had in a while—I must be at that point in grad school where I just want to cry / quit—so I’ve decided to find ways to kickstart my creativity (and regroup / cl...
Aireys inlet — And why not? I loved the early morning even as a young man, but almost never got to bed before one. So, it wasn’t until mid-life that I learned about the fresh air, clear mind, and efficient focus t...
Prince edward — I first saw the famous work by Gauguin D’où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous in its home at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, fifty four years ago. It was painted sixty three years before...
Portland — Because… - I’m supposed to - it’s the law - it’s what I want to do - it’s interesting - there’s nothing else left to do - I saw someone else do it - I’m curious - I don’t have a choice - it’ll make ...
Ankeny — After ignoring two days of panicked, desperate text messages, I finally plucked up the courage to pick up the phone. He didn’t answer his cell phone or his work blackberry, so I tried the home phone. ...
Quebec — Days that start with -12°c are called beautiful days in Quebec city. Temperature drops down to -25°c sometimes. Being born and raised in the sunny Morocco, I am not used to check the weather forecast,...
Tarragona — Three years ago I found myself in a new city, in an empty room. I had left behind everything I knew, everyone I knew. It is strange how after this time the projects I had back then have either been fu...
Accra — Every home has a light. See if you can find the lights. Maybe not but I promise you they do. Look : the beautiful colors of the buildings painted and unpainted from the top of the hill. Each one give...
Kerry — I remember when I first learned that marvellous, heartbreaking word. It was while reading Le Petit Prince, and the word was “éphémère”. Our teacher helped us grasp the meaning by comparing it to a s...
Sevenoaks — Curious to see the impact of all the rain we’ve experienced during yet another very wet week (see last week’s photo here), my wife and I went for a walk yesterday along part of the River Bourne, which...
San gimignano — Sauvegarder son espace vital, la peur de l’autre ou simplement la part d’égoïsme qui existe en chacun de nous. Quelle est la raison de la votation helvétique du 9 février? Nous ne sommes pas, de fait...
Mandaluyong — Freedom from my responsibility. If only I could entrust these to someone. But these obligations are mine alone to fulfill. I long for a hand to hold that will tell me, I’ll get through all these thin...
Ann arbor — This winter has been relentless. Snow on the ground since December, temps haven’t been above freezing in a month. When the polar vortex first descended, people stayed indoors. Restaurants and downtow...
West — We had just spend hours photographing an amazing display of the lights and were trying to find somewhere to camp (i.e. park the van). We found this little lay-by surround by mountains and, as it was a...
St leonards — Each breath was a clattering sigh now. At least that’s what he imagined. He was so far removed from his body that its decomposing mass was mainly a second thought. Even if he’d tried to struggle beyon...
Mitaka — A year ago it was grapes. Now it’s chocolate. Or whatever we happen to have. RAH RAH! he screams and dances and smiles and laughs. He ate two pieces of dark Peruvian chocolate and a sugar cube. He wi...
Chambersburg — Adventures can happen anywhere. A daily walk is part of my practice to make sure I get out and explore wherever I am, whatever I’m doing.
Bologna — Today I had my first Mokuhanga lesson. It’s Mokuhanga that produced the Ukiyo-e masterpieces of Hiroshige. It’s made of wood, ink and hands: my hands drawing and cutting. It wasn’t easy, and I made ma...
Bogotá — Tengo un par de cuadernos donde escribo lo que sueño. En el 2006 incluso tuve un blog donde los publicaba; pero cuando se hizo más fácil ser rastreado en internet lo configuré como privado y me olvid...
Waialua — I’ve been reflecting on how the challenges of the last few years — for me and for all of us, really — seemed to have overshadowed what used to be my defining characteristic: faith that the Universe is...
København ø — “In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’re a passive observer and it is all movin...
Brisbane — To live in the past is but a decisive state of mind. You bring to life the memory of an experience, not the experience itself. If you choose to view it with regretful eyes, you need not do it alone, f...
Kerry — It wasn’t cold, I can remember no scarf, and my hands weren’t shaking as I took the photograph. The trees were all around changing colours, and their mood infected my own as I watched your windows fo...
Leigh-on-sea — In the aftermath of St Valentine’s Day…For it is an aftermath of deflated balloons, discarded wrappers and wilted flowers I have been thinking about one person who I have loved and lost. It is stra...
Aireys inlet — He did not even adjust his blood level away from anger. He stamped across the room by judgement, not by sight. . . . Scanner to the core, he had to scan himself. The inventory included his le...
Tokyo — Somehow I cannot draw (or take photos) straight. I am completely sure this has something to do with my general lack of balance in my physical being, the asymmetry of my body (for instance my left foo...
Dublin — Dublin college. In high school my love affair with libraries began. School was too boring, I felt like it took up a lot of time but wasn’t helping me to learn anything interesting. So I spent my spar...
Kerry — Its the sort of day that lends itself to writing haikus, not because you feel particularly poetic, but because you lack the vitamin-D to speak in more than occasional, terse sentences. Its a grey day...
Faiyum — We leave for Medinet el-Fayoum on horrendous donkeys, provided with even more horrendous saddles. Flat countryside - uniformly green carpet sometimes enlivened by a bunch of palm trees hiding a villa...
Musashino — Tokyo gets whiteout again. Snow keeps falling down on us stuck on platform, making lines politely in very Japanese way.
Durham — You can see one, in the middle, his flash has just gone off and is about to go off again. When people used film, I lived a few steps behind this shot, and used to wonder what happened when they retur...
Kakogawa — “I won thanks to Mr. Mimura,” were the first excited words runner Hiromi Taniguchi said as he was swamped by the press on winning the 1991 world marathon championship. Such praise is usually reserved ...
7 — He tells me he’s never travelled outside of Vietnam. I do a quick mind check and can count at least ten Asian stamps in my passport. I feel embarrassed and move the discussion along. We talk about my ...
Hanoi — I am aware that it is technically ‘winter’ here, but I did not think it would go that low. I did not pack for this and for foreigners my size it is tricky to find clothing. But it is actually not too...
Aireys inlet — “It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood.” Sometimes it just needs to be said!
Marseille — Many buildings house museums, but few buildings are museums. These few are works of architecture that express history in space and form, not just in text and artefact. Last year, I visited one of thes...
San francisco — Daffodils are a harbinger of spring. Growing up, green stalks beneath the sycamores in the front yard meant soon what passes for winter in California would be over. Now, I watch for the day they go on...
Mumbai — I live in my dream.. I dream big. I am fear less. I can take risks that no one can think of. I am pure from my heart. Never have any hard feelings for any one even if they ditch me..I am an open book ...
Lorne — song That’s what a lot of them sound like. We usually only hear one or two at a time: mournful and distinctive. But with their big beaks, they quickly scatter the little red browed finches and the...
Pimpri chinchwad — Our mission is to build a community which brings everyone together at one platform to share rides, which in turn reduces the number of vehicles on roads. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/letsride-in...
Saint-luc — Devant la montagne, immuable, on se pose la question de la nouveauté, du changement. L’hiver en Suisse est un moment de transition, il nous fait passer d’une année à l’autre et détruit la nature pour ...
Accra — The sky is so plain today. It makes me wonder where all the clouds have gone. Sitting here and seeing the Sun set and the Moon rise ; Reminds me of something I heard once about how we are all passing...
Tokyo — I always bike from my office to Kagurazaka where my company has been working for a campaign. On my way to the venue, there are many local shops such as Tofu shop, Sake store, toy shop… I am really c...
Nottingham — Trade shows [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_fair] in the current scenario are proving to be one of the most powerful ways to market your business but it is also important to ensure that they are b...
Aireys inlet — This is the second of a projected series of Science Fiction titles called to mind from youth — stories that made me, or at least contributed to what I was destined to become. My project is to create ...
Kaesŏng — In 2008 I had a rare chance to take a bus trip from S. Korea to N. Korea. Here is what I wrote of that adventure. I had a blog but got a bit lazy. Just came back from one of the most interesting trip...
Ottawa — I arrived at the Via Station in St. Catharines only to find out the train has been cancelled due to “technical difficulties.” We had to take a bus to Union Station. They wouldn’t even let us take a bu...
Antipolo city — She climbs onto me and rests her head on my arm so that I have to cradle her, so I can rock her. She’s getting heavy. “Baby,” she signs again. Most days, she resists the nap and the lullaby that prec...
Semporna — I’m turning into a real Picasso with the oatmeal; boiling down hunks of apple and ginger to mix, with a little cinnamon, into the oats. Some lemon to go with tea because we both have colds and the Fis...
Hong kong — It is actually colder here in Hong Kong then where the Winter Olympics are. Being from Canada, it is not that cold for me but just there is no way to warm up since there is no heat in my home or my wo...
San francisco — A new wine bar just opened in my neighborhood. For weeks, I’ve watched it warily, trying to imagine myself inside. A neighborhood wine bar is a curious thing, particularly in a neighborhood like mine....
Aireys inlet — In the summer Australians live with the risk of fire. The sun rose this morning on a day of “extreme” risk. At my house, dense and acrid smoke haze blotted out our view of the sea, even though the c...
Accra — I remember telling GEM when I first brought him up here: You know GEM, this is a great place to come to think. GEM said ; ” No, Sammy this is a great place to come not to think.” Remembering this I st...
Fayetteville — For the longest time I’ve been trying to learn to meditate. I’m comically bad at it, and, so far, practice isn’t helping. The exercises I do are for mindfulness meditation. Most ask you to do nothing...
Dietingen — We went to the crystal palace. We found all kinds of glimmering rocks, many of them beautiful enough to break our hearts. We thought some looked like frozen fire, others could almost be read as satell...
Ilkley — I still am. Reasons Against: I’ve spent all my working life persuading people to buy new writers and new writing. I sit on the board of Inpress, an organisation promoting independent publishing and...
London — I know this is rather late, as we’re already 12 days into February, but I still thought it was worth putting this up, for the sake of continuity! (See “My second unusual Christmas present”). The pict...
Toronto — I remember a time when I couldn’t really imagine having children, being married or owning a house. The whole point of life, for the longest time, as I could best articulate it to myself, was about lea...
Abu sir — Monday. The weather gets nicer. Pyramid of Sahure to the right, which I see in the morning. Towed with a rope all day - a little wind - the Nile is all flat - we walk on the bank, treading on beautifu...
Tempe — I spend my days searching for meaning and my nights finding it. I’ve never held much to a particular religion but that doesn’t mean I’m not without faith; I place my belief in the people I surround my...
New york — Who doesn’t have an Olympic dream? Who hasn’t longed to represent their country, wearing red, white, and blue across your chest as you push your body to improbable limits? Who hasn’t craved, at least ...
Chino — Mt. Io(Io-dake) belongs to Mts. Yatsugatake, which is 2760m above. Yesterday, I and my friend stayed in a small hutte, and today went to its summit. It was sunny and the wind wasn’t so strong. It was ...
San francisco — According to Wikipedia, the turtle or “polo neck” has been worn since at least the mid-15th century. In a section entitled “The turtleneck as rebellion against the tie,” the page claims that “Turtlene...
Balestrand — The days on either side of this had some of the worst weather I’ve seen in a long time. The morning after this, myself and Greg Annandale were pretty much trapped on top of a mountain overlooking Berg...
Avignon — I’ve been to many a castle. It’s what you do in Europe when your parents feel the need to educate you about history. It’s what you do as a tourist - you go to castles and churches, because that is whe...
Semporna — Our plan was to eat the food in the order that it would expire, although the repellent afternoon heat strangled the life out of almost everything immediately, and the potatoes were sprouting eyes only...
Semporna — Our plan was to eat the food in the order that it would expire, although the repellent afternoon heat strangled the life out of almost everything immediately, and the potatoes were sprouting eyes only...
San francisco — For a few weeks, it seemed San Francisco had forgotten how to winter. While the rest of the country shivered through polar vortices, we found ourselves prancing around parks in our tank tops, complain...
Barcelona — Three years ago my husband (then boyfriend) and I were driving down a mountain in Ecuador. We were on a motorcycle and it was at the midway point of a five month journey from Cartagena, Colombia to Ri...