Cartago — Since I lost my job, a bloody nightmare begun. I don’t really know if every feeling deserves an explanation, and if every explanation has a feeling involved. At this moment the only one feeling I’ve g...
Fitzroy — I was a bit embarrassed. The owner of Books for Cooks was looking at me, and the iPhone in my hand, with a puzzled look on his face. He had caught me taking a panorama shot of his bookshelves. Who doe...
Santa fe — Do these cacti, seeming to run through the desert, have souls? You may well ask! Anthropologists have much to account for with reference to hindering proper understanding of indigenous knowledge, in...
Minami ward — OH NO. I forgot to eat the Hiroshima style okonomiyaki!!!!!’n I am so fired. o(‵•⌢•′)O
Pennington — This was a fun walk- no leash needed as I know the park rangers aren’t out in the rain. We got to explore all the nooks and crannies we normally can’t. Pretty messy by the end.
San francisco — When it all came crashing down—as was inevitable with him; he was a person for whom (or because of whom) Plan A never worked out—he found himself on the receiving end of a fair amount of sympathy. H...
Tulum — After three months of wearing boots and socks, do not wear flip flops on my first exploration of town. Even if it is raining. Pack antibiotic ointment next time. Leather softens more quickly than blis...
Las piñas — I smile back, glance at the line and tell him, “wow, there’s a lot of people tonight.” On an ordinary day, I would have walked away after seeing the snaking line. Today? No. Sixteen minutes, three p...
Pittsburgh — A picture is more of a reflection of the photographer than a reflection of the scene. Why? I’ve long said that photographs are slivers of reality, that outside the single frame of an image lies a muc...
Gloucester — Surrounded by brothers-in-law, loud and bantering and stealing my sweet potato fries. Drifting through my second glass of sauvignon blanc, getting lost in the ceiling’s constellation of lights.
Naka ward — The above photo was taken from the ‘Dialogue Notebook’, kept at the exit of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum for visitors to sign. There are currently more than 1,700 notebooks filled with messages...
Senozan — If you were to ask me what you’re looking at, exactly, I’d be somewhat at a loss. We were en route to the Provence, taking a break at this rest stop, when we encountered Groucho Marx and Charlie Chap...
Cairo — Saturday. (…) In the evening, old man who comes to us with his long sickle, which he holds by the middle; he has met Bonaparte and gives us a precise description of him: “small, no beard, the most b...
Tokyo — There is a forest in central Tokyo and we’re fortunate to live close to it. It’s manicured for sure, but there’s a feeling of relief when walking through this park and breathing in the air. And the t...
Cape town — Table Mountain is the first thing people think about when they hear the word “Cape Town”. And for good reason. It is the soul of the city. Everything is built around it, and it’s as if this giant rock...
Naganohara — We spent three nights in a cabin in the woods with one hundred grams of Oya’s near black beans, a 707, a monosynth and a bag of marshmallows. For me, this was a much needed retreat into multiple stat...
Aireys inlet — Pure Gold
Shanghai — People gathered the shopping mall “K11” at Huang pi Rd.(s) in Shanghai. They enjoyed shopping for new year and musician’s performance. And the ground floor has large art center! I looked up them from...
Naganohara — These are the icicles I was watching from my bed just now, dyed blue by the dusk sky, drip drip dropping, then falling all at once with a crash.
Luang prabang — The rows of tropical fruit were six-deep. Some fruit were so familiar I knew them primarily by their Tagalog names, which is how I learned them in school. Here were atis, earthy green, evenly lumped,...
Makati — Gotta love weddings. Last night’s was one of my favorite ones in a while, and I started mentally taking notes in case I ever have to plan my own. Jazz band? Check. No cheesy singles games? Check. (an...
Kurashiki — Today I woke up as though yesterday didn’t happen. Went to the highly recommended museum as planned. It was closed. Shut down for the holidays. Kurashige, I’m trying to like you. I really am. Looks ...
Swanage — Being driven under the heavy clouds towards the beach I remember a summer photo I took of my daughter, my wife and her mother sitting in front of a brightly coloured windbreak, a hamper, buckets and s...
Cairo — Friday. Unsuccessful attempts about the commercial information. Visit to the Coptic Bishop - receives me in his courtyard - preceded by [my servant] Hassan who tells him: “it’s a French Lord traveling...
Kurashiki — On my out of Kyoto was when things got weird and kept getting weirder. I missed my bullet train, hopped onto the next one - all was well. Then, things took a turn towards crazy town. Stupid me left ...
Écully — I traveled to Vietnam a few years ago and loved the energy of the place. One thing I realized only when I came back to France was how young Vietnam is. I realized it because of the contrast. When I ca...
Holzmaden — Being introduced to silence is no big deal. You just set up camp in rural Germany and wait till christmas eve. Around 9 pm, after all is said and done, you step outside to have a walk. You will be the...
Kurashiki — I am sitting in front of a canal. There are rickshaws. Wooden boats and men with those straw hats you only see in like Kurosawa films. There are koi. Mega koi swimming around. The town itself is old....
Windsor — Early for a lunch date so driving around my old stomping grounds in Windsor with my husband. When I was here in the late ’80s, early ’90s, Windsor was in it’s post-industrial twilight but not exactly ...
Carmel — Monterey was a surprise. That humbled me with it’s beauty. Then Point Lobos- I didn’t think anything so perfect could exist. Winding trails, each turn, unimagined beauty. The smell of the pines, the s...
Beloit — Streets are mostly about looking ahead- but if you have the time, look up.
Sakyo ward — As I was checking out of the inn, the okami-san (owner’s wife) came to my room and gave me her contact information. She said, if there is anything you need, do please contact me. Any time. There is a...
Frankfurt — Always nice to spend the festive days in a country with actual seasons, preferably winter. And short days and strange sun / cloud combos in the sky. Things start on the 24th, Xmas eve, when shops clo...
Milton keynes — After a prawn cocktail sandwich for lunch, and leftover turkey yesterday, I really shouldn’t be eating cheese and biscuits for dinner. But I am. A mature cheddar, a mature cheddar with onions, emmen...
Salt lake city — The fierce flame-colored lichen cling to every trunk on the hillside. We’ve crunched through stands and forests of the scraggly little Dr. Seuss trees and I still can’t identify them, but I’m less int...
Tulum — When I was eating the last three pieces of this Pulpas La Mexicana it felt like that moment when you’re reading the last few pages of a novel and have become so attached to the characters that you don...
Groton — This is the Bluff Point State Park, which to my way of thinking is one of the prettiest parks in Connecticut. It has everything: trees, views, (rocky) beach front, wild animals, horse and running trai...
Geneva — In the past two years, I’ve been coming back to Geneva—my hometown— much more than I used to. My Mother’s passing triggered conflicting feelings about my life abroad—guilt is one I haven’t fully made ...
San francisco — Today, I’m leaving for a place that I have never particularly wanted to go and know absolutely nothing about. In five days, my free flight benefits will expire for one year. I will get to Tokyo and t...
Springfield — The Columbus flea market is a huge, sprawling indoor/outdoor market. It is seriously as far removed from the halls of Bergdorfs as you can get. As I have watched the middle class disappear since the c...
Ewing township — This is a great hulk of a truck and I take no longer road-worthy as it’s always in the exact same spot. It’s home to a pizza vendor at the sprawling Columbus flea market. Never tried the pizza (wasn’t...
Saugerties — Well, not actually the ‘green room’, in actuality, the bridal suite. Fortunately a large room as we had to share it with a Joan Rivers and a John Travolta impersonator, both of whom stayed in characte...
Ljubljana — You get to know someone new, say she’s a respected pianist and you can’t help but crumble under the weight of the world any time you’re sitting at home and a piano piece comes on—this is her thing, an...
Ta khria — I travel a lot, but most photos of me that exist online are taken by others, taken in between trips, or feature me hamming it up in some way. This drives the people I work with crazy. They want more ...
Cairo — Bazaar of the perfumers. Visit to the Catholic bishop - refectory - good diner with these gentlemen; there are two types of Savoy cakes. There is no way to get anything out of them; after twenty minut...
Nobleton — The Time Capsule: between Christmas and New Year. Playing outside under the millions of snow flakes. Time seems to have stopped. Someone has hit the big PAUSE button and everything is slowly moving fo...
Rome — At this particular fish stall, in the old Testaccio Market one metro stop south of the Colosseum, there was also a photograph of Marcello Mastroianni, looking over the fresh tuna and looking out at us...
Sakyo ward — 「はい、カウンター２名。」 「お喜びで。」 Sushi chef: “Two, seated at the counter.” Hostess: “It’s absolutely my pleasure.” Japanese is particular. There are four types of speech — two, are honorifics: 敬語 keigo (extre...
Higashiyama ward — No. They are not geisha-sans. They are not maiko-sans (geisha-sans in training), either. They are employees of that restaurant. I’m guessing it’s likely a ryoutei (料亭) — a super duper expensive Japa...
Brigantine — I’d ride across the bridge from AC to Brigantine and hang out along the underpass. Watching the sun set was my favorite pastime and I never quite reconciled the beauty and peacefulness of that view wi...
New york — Ronny always waves. I’m not one of his people yet, but if I stay in Brooklyn long enough I will be. We both feel that. It’s also the best reason I know of not to move into Manhattan - Ronny famously w...
Wellington — “I am sending you cat photos” I don’t know how I became a cat person. Maybe it was one of those gradual things - a lolcat here, a Grumpy Cat there, and before I know it I’m retweeting Maru video...
Tokyo — Window dressers work at midnight. Isetan, one of the largest department store in Japan, always shows beautiful window displays depending on the season.
Tokyo — Almost every morning I bike along Meiji Dori street to my office in Sendagaya. This is the halfway point between my home and office. I always check the time looking up at the sky.
Sevenoaks — The strong winds and torrential rain in the past few days have stripped the banks along this lane and even caused a mini landslide. Unfortunately this morning is the calm before the storm, as there’s...
Cairo — Visit to the mosques with La Tour and Sir Malézieux: coat, collar, hat, yellow gloves, looks like a pitiful blockhead, not amused at all by the Arab architecture; however, passing near the Bazaar of t...
Kula — It’s the hardest time of year, and never gets any easier. It’s hard because both mom and dad were clergy, and Advent was when they were busiest with their churches and congregations… and yet also wh...
Ewing township — This was a Waffle House in Punta Gorda, Florida. There were cattle grazing just yards away. As for architecture, it’s nothing more than what it is- and it does that well, as mentioned, easy parking fo...
Tulum — Xmas morning. We set our alarms to wake us by 8am, figuring that if we get to the Tulum ruins by 9:30 we might be there before the tour buses arrive from Cancun. We were woken by a baby crying in the ...
Sevenoaks — Prawn cocktail - a true classic!
Aireys inlet — My mother always kept a ‘what not’ shelf, items chosen and displayed on the basis of some personal association or memory, bearing no relation to possible dollar value. I suppose the Jewish word tchot...
Bangkok — You can tell a lot about a group of people by the energy drinks they consume. Actually, to be more precise, you can glean a lot about the demographics in a particular region by the ingredients in the...
Passaic — Grandma doesn’t complain ever. She did comment that the “coffee” at the senior rehabilitation center isn’t exactly close to what she usually enjoys at home. Merry Christmas Grandma, here’s to being on...
Ukyo ward — The stone garden at Ryoanji in Kyoto was built as a place of contemplation. It is said that you will only see all fifteen stones when you have achieved enlightenment. With the hustle and bustle of th...
Bootle — I used to have a job working for the government. I say “working” for… That is somewhat of an overstatement. Let’s just say I had a lot of down time. The picture is of one small section of a filing r...
Sevenoaks — Since getting married (23 years ago), we’ve spent every Christmas at my in-laws’ house. This year is no different (you can’t mess with tradition!), and last night it was lovely sitting by the fire, lo...
Tokyo — I discarded 99% of my material things. Stuffed the remainder of my life in two suitcases. Boarded a one way flight from JFK to NRT. And never looked back. Until tonight. Tonight is the first time I h...
Tokyo — It’s not that early, but this was the beginning of a fairly busy day. First, I dropped my son off at day care. Then I walked to the national and metropolitan tax offices to hand in my paperwork to be...
Bootle — Apologies for the poor quality of this photo, it was taken with my old Lomo camera and then copied.
Cairo — Tuesday. Christmas day. Visit to M. Delaporte. Mrs. Delaporte, small, blond, long curls, lower part of the face like my Muse. Lambert is not at home. At Mougel Bey. Lengthy walk in Esbekieh gardens wi...
Ventura — Growing up on this side of the Pacific Ocean, I learned geography by memorizing landscapes: The islands and sea to the west, mountains to the east. Downtown’s north, Long Beach and everything else’s s...
Ewing township — This is what it would be. I’d be a dairy farmer, driving a Lincoln Zephyr and that’s where they’d find this old beat up photo, decades later- in a weathered valise forgotten in the trunk.
Fethiye — This road is made of stones. You can’t drive on it any more, for it’s broken in places, and there is a new, asphalt road which hairpins between the two ridges on the way to Kaya. I don’t know how old ...
Fethiye — Actually I have three friends with this birthday. This particular friend, Klas, is an eccentric swede currently obsessed with wild plants and seeds. So I baked a lemon poppyseed pound cake with gorge...
Salt lake city — As you get closer to the mountains, to the heights tall enough to catch and hold the cloudwash like sea foam, you can remember how the creatures in the Great Salt Lake felt, looking up through the fil...
Cairo — Monday, we spent the day at the Mokattam, seeing nothing. Lunch between two boulders; the donkeys get lost, Joseph spends his time looking for them. We walk in the desert - we lie on the ground - not ...
Sevenoaks — I do enjoy giving presents, but I don’t mind admitting that I really dislike wrapping!! If I had loads of money I would pay someone to wrap them for me, but as I don’t, it’s one of those annoyances th...
Mascoutah — There’s something strange about drinking whiskey from a glass you used for milk twenty years ago, when you could barely lift the gallon jug. It seems a little discomforting. It could be immensely sad ...
Caledon — This tree. Hoo boy. It is glorious and stately and aged but healthy. Nonetheless, I spent the weekend running back and forth to the park to check on it. It is at least 200 years old — a remnant of th...
University city — We see each other for the first time in months. We buy last-minute gifts. We order beers. We talk about apps we like.
Pak nam — Travel is a photograph. A slide on a carousel, presented to a captive audience. Travel is a monkey on your shoulder, a mimosa in your hand, a foreign spice on your tongue. Travel is an idea as much ...
Port townsend — I hate it when bafoons ruin my morning. There he goes, the great ape bumbling around; massive boots, bald head. The cool morning light glows inside the room, pulsing quiet serenity. That is it did u...
San francisco — Two-thirds of the way through, I realized I had read it before. To be more specific, something happens in the novel that jolted me back to a younger self: that of me holding the paperback in my hands...
Tulum — When in Mexico at a rustic hotel, the shower is an attempt to recreate a type of waterfall. This much can be assumed from the stonework and choice between a trickle and a full stream of water from the...
Melbourne — Side by side in the old Carlton Gardens stand the new Melbourne Museum and the old Exhibition Building. I don’t want to sound like a tourist promoter, but anyone planning a few days in Melbourne coul...
Petaluma — “The only tangible data that remain from my actual journey are two tattered maps and a thin pencil line marking my itinerary, punctuated by a crossbar for every overnight sojourn … Perhaps the...
Tokyo — and even though the fourth one was free, I’ve been paying for it all afternoon. I still managed to tough it out for the sake of delicious delicious ramen, however.
Fairhaven — I’m in Melbourne today, on vacation with family, and being on vacation with family means that I’ve been spending more time than usual looking at the world from the touchscreen-side of a camera sensor....
Melbourne — It’s not unusual for members of the Hi community to rave about the quality of light they experience in some corner of the planet. I’ve seen light described as ‘wonderful’, ‘wistful’, ‘beautiful’, ‘s...
Tübingen — No, honestly. The first digital camera I ever bought is laughably old school now. Though only ten years old it’s so far behind spec-wise, it wouldn’t even count as a toy camera anymore. Still it’s g...
Wellington — I sometimes tell people that I like going to work early in the morning, or working in the office when everybody else is on holiday (a sentiment shared by nobody in the retail sector). At either time,...
Columbia — Life is cyclical. I was in the gifted program as a child, and all of the students (and teachers) played a collectible card game called Magic: The Gathering. I snagged a deck, learned to play, and end...
Tulum — When we lived in Japan one of my favorite dishes was oyakodon which loosely translates as “mother and child over rice”. Now in our household any dish with chicken and eggs is referred to as “okyako”. ...
Champlin — I’m learning to do this. I compare it to learning to drive in the snow. You take your time… Much slower than a typical mountain bike ride. It is quiet, the snow crunches under your tires. It is peac...
Sitges — Several things: “I don’t know what love is,” My friend told me the other day. “I only know that I don’t love him anymore.” “Your husband?” I asked, “Or your lover?” She shrugged, looking quite indiff...
London — I was on my way to meet some friends for coffee and a chat in London on Friday, walking up the stairs on the West side of London Bridge after exiting the Underground at Monument, when a patch of stunn...
Cairo — Saturday, visit to the tomb of Ibrahim Pasha in the plain between the Mokattam and the Nile, after the Karameidan neighborhood. All the tombs of the family of Mehmed Ali are of a deplorable taste, roc...
Cairo — Since monday 17th, it’s been raining. We spent our time analyzing the notes by Bekir Bey and working on photography. Twice we endeavored to go with our high boots into the streets of Cairo, full of bi...
Tokyo — I had actually though they had closed their shutters permanently. Thank goodness they were only remodeling the store. And it’s a great improvement. A long table and two counters with outlets. A bunch ...
Santa fe — We are doing this because Katherine wants to see Michael Heizer’s “Double Negative.” And because the road unwinding underneath you is always a good thing. And because I have a crushing curiosity abo...