Kennett square — while on our way by car to tour our new house, we were not too far off from the famous Longwood Gardens and the Brandywine Museum, home to some of Andrew Wyeth’s works. i spotted this scenery. we were...
Collioure — Woke up before dawn and got in the car. Drove all across the mountainsides and open vineyards of France and Spain, listening to intermittent radio static, and stopping wherever looked pretty. At one p...
New york — The Celtic harvest festival Sawhain that begins at sunset tonight halved their year, and revelries around bonfires with apples and spirits played in a liminal space on this occasion of ushering out th...
Brandon — I love photography and sunsets are just to beautiful to not capture. This picture was at William lake, an absolutely beautiful place. It is calm, peaceful and serene.
Berkeley — my friend kevin invited me back to california for a painting excursion in september 2013. when i was living in San Francisco, i was not a painter but an IT professional hoping to find time to complete...
London — Mmmmmmm! What more is there to say?! ♥
Feroke — I woke up to this view early in the morning, traveling to that little dot on the map, where I have almost spent about three quarters of my life. A train journey through Kerala, involves some places l...
New york — Four. ( À bout de souffle) James F. tells me he thinks the couple in the hot dog place maybe recognized him. We’re in his apartment. Books cover one wall. I think he’s read most of them, he says so at...
Wellington — What did I find? That the sky was still there, my feet were still shod in my beloved tan boots, I was clothed and warm, there was food in my belly, I had a job that I was on my way to, a wife at home...
Amsterdam — Basically on today’s midday walk, I felt Tjido (my dog) lagging behind and when I turned to check on him, I saw this chair-like log decorated with this Barbie and other stuff. Made me smile, so I wan...
Cupertino — I heard that on the Lenswork Podcast recently, and it rang very, very true. It pisses me off that I’ve been doing that too. Sure, I’ve been posting photos more as sets and stories, but I still post t...
Amsterdam — Chaotic might be an understatement… you have all these ideas popping up, plus the input you get from friends and those articles that grab you attention. It took me a while to be able to concentrate ...
West lafayette — My friend and I spotted this little guy (‘Mantis) crossing the sidewalk during our coffee break. ‘Mantis was standing proudly right in the middle of the walk as thundering giants passed by without a s...
Melbourne — “Reed’s brilliance was in disliking almost everything—in cutting through the ‘glop’, as he would say, in distilling music down to its essence. He had little tolerance for bullshit. ‘Repetition is so f...
London — Dear Autumn, Thank you for your kind invite to the Red, Gold & Green party this year. I would be happy to attend to crunch, roll around and kick up a flurry. Kind Regards, The child in me
Sevenoaks — I should have been getting on my train at this point in time, but the poor thing couldn’t cope with a slight frost making the rails a bit slippery, meaning it was 10 minutes late. Which at least gave...
Edwin — There’s nothing like coming home and relaxing with my animals! They don’t complain, give out homework or gossip about others. They are at home waiting for me and only want to give me love. There is no...
The pas — This is last years.
The pas — So we come across this dilemma more and more these days…. Tech or no tech for kids- I find it very hard to strike a balance, my kids want to spend lots of time on the computer. This becomes even gre...
Seattle — Do all beanbag chairs have names? Are any beanbag chairs suitable for company? This one kicks around our living room, constantly repurposed. It’s needed a new cover since day two, and still hasn’t rec...
The pas — this spider was hiding from the song birds in the chokecherry tree. It was also cleaning up the aphids that were on the roses.
Saskatoon — Last month when I decided I needed to let a large project sit until January I knew I needed a simple project to work on to keep me sane and to keep me making work. I had been wanting to write a series...
Medora — A couple of summers ago, our family decided to make a family trip into the United States and visit the Black Hills, (Mount Rushmore) Devil’s Tower and Yellowstone. This is at the very beginning of our...
London — I must have walked past this quite a few times before but never noticed it, cemented onto the wall of the wonderfully-named progressive arts venue The Horse Hospital. Presumably put up last year when...
Accra — What makes one truly Ghanaian?
Accra — Writers block: Writing almost meaningless Writing almost sensible Writing almost bland; insipid Writing almost alive. It’s nothing and everything Images hard to capture Fleeting thoughts hard to hold...
Fremantle — Planning to visit Freo before Nov 9th 2013? Come and slip your wish(es) in the well. Revelations and more to be discovered in the nearby Garden of Oracles. A mobile well will also be found at Frem...
Victoria — It started as “Let’s move to Japan and teach for a year!” It evolved (devolved?) into “Maybe we should just backpack around Southeast Asia for a few weeks”, then served a brief stint as “Hmm, what ab...
Fremantle — The procession leaves Saint Patrick basilica for the fishing harbour, slithering between old workers cottages. Patrick is best know for chasing the snakes out of Ireland that was later taken over by ...
Amstelveen — This is what my brothers window showed him, this morning when I listenend to the winds. We don’t get Wizard of Oz typhoons in this sandgrain on the blue marble, you see. I was so relieved to learn of ...
New york — Those of us who know walk swiftly down the center aisle, dip a hand inside a pew and rotate the wooden latch. We genuflect, then swing the half-door open to a cushioned row. We sit and admire another ...
Aireys inlet — This painting by Yalmay Yunupiŋu is the only work of great significance in my very modest collection of indigenous art from around the world. Painted in 1989 (ochre on bark), it has for many years oc...
Brandon — We were told that if a picture was taken at night, the ghost of the victim could be seen in the photograph. I don’t see it.
Chinle — Or as the Navajo put it: “walk in beauty.” With beauty before me I walk, With beauty behind me I walk, Beauty below and above. I finish in beauty. In 1855 one Jonathan Letherman reported to the Sm...
Yugawara — Taro’s friend’s tiny van bounced along coastal roads and we held on and watched skate videos on the way. The waves were small but decent. I didn’t get up much and had trouble with the short and pointy...
Bowen island — Trundling along on the ferry, only to hear the Captain say, “There’s a humpback whale spouting off the starboard bow.” Which is a pretty cool thing to hear on many levels. Some days, my commute is pr...
Sevenoaks — I love this lane, which is just 5 minutes walk from my front door. There’s something about the whole topography. The gradual downward slope of the road, the angle of the banks, the trees and other v...
New york — I’m terrified my mind will go stale and run out of ideas. It happens. I can’t control my brain from getting older or weaker. Ideas will stop one day. I have a routine that I abide to every morning. I...
Sevenoaks — The storm has managed to kill off all trains to London so far this morning (as predicted), so I took the opportunity to pop out with my camera, hoping to capture some scenes of devastation. It turns ...
Gentofte — Walk through cemetery tells stories about life beloved families and names long gone off fashion. One thing in common, there are no one single gravestone with age of decease less then 75. Usually it is...
Addis ababa — They are currently building the ‘Ring Road’ around Addis Ababa, in some places it is already up and running, in some for some years now and the asphalt is already getting wobbly. But the ring is not f...
New york — Have you ever wondered what happened to your toys from when you were small? I didn’t until I saw a truck filled with stuffed animals driving down 34th Street this weekend. Not many people seemed to n...
Sevenoaks — At 10.00am this morning as I walked to church to prepare for our morning service, the sky was a beautiful clear blue, with the flag atop our village flagpole dancing in the breeze. By 1.00pm on my wa...
New york — Offered to dogsit for C. over Thanksgiving and we scheduled a playdate with her German shepherd Akita mix who is eighty pounds and has raccoon eyes and is named Rokan. Ro jumps me when I walk in the d...
Kelsey (carrot valley) — Just went outside to take a few pictures so that I have something different to write about for my Brandon Story Class. It seems so dark and grey out there now so, void of color. This is one of my last...
London — Having taken a delayed and purposely slow flight (there was lots of traffic so we were asked to slow down - how do you slow down a plane? I’d rather not think about it too much) from the Netherlands t...
Toronto — My first “adult” job was in advertising. Late night, long hours, demanding bosses and unreasonable clients freaked me out. After experiencing 15 hr as a normal workday, I swore I would never waste my ...
Atlanta — I used to love all the life that ebbed and flowed out of this place while I lived in Atlanta. It added spice to the punk rock goulash of borderline-haute cuisine and bingo night atmosphere. The wood...
Flin flon — Quading through the bush as we were hunting, we came across this railway path and it just looked so beautiful with all the colors that spoke so calmly. As we sat for a bit in silence just taking in th...
Toronto — our good fortune was amazing - only 10 people per day are allowed (from those that show up for the lottery) an additional 10 per the web lottery make a total of 20. a distinct pleasure I will likely...
Hague — I grew up in a small farming community in between Dauphin and Swan River, Manitoba, Canada. This picture reminds of the times that I spent driving a tractor, picking up straw for cattle bedding and ch...
San francisco — The stench of fish, both dried and fresh. Pushing and elbow thrusts from little old ladies. Endless rows of artisanal ginseng varieties in apothecary-like settings. Stunning architecture. Calls &...
Saskatoon — Though Saskatoon has two small opera companies, they do pretty pedestrian repertoire. So once or twice a year I attend the Met Opera’s live broadcasts from NYC to the movie theatre. I am often the you...
New york — We planned our route based on access to swimming holes and pools and made sun tea in a big jar that we had propped up to the back windows for maximum sun exposure time. Alice the cat had trouble with ...
Céret — I sit on the train to get here. I drink coffee and water in equal parts. The train does the work and I rest, like the rest of us, hungover, on the seat, my legs coiled. Instead of conversation, mutua...
Winter park — When trees reach a certain age, like people, their beauty is in their character. Sometimes you can see the scars of life. A limb lost to winter storm, a crown rerouted after fire; each twist in the ba...
Brandon — My poor little guy had such a bad cough and it ended up being bronchitis. Although he didn’t need a bandaid, (today- but they are pretty magical when “owies” arise), he did need his blankie and mommy....
Sevenoaks — Something occurred to me after taking this photo today on the bridge over the railway in my village. Here is a ready-made illustration of something the children in the primary school just a few yards...
New york — The Zapatista phrase, scary in its inclusive premise that outcomes are to be determined, and then determined again by selves insistent on listening to each other, to the group, modulates my pace down ...
Sa khu — I stared at the empty horizon. There were no mass of tourists sun-tanning on the beach, no boats peppering the shoreline. Only nothingness. It was at this moment when I finally understood, why we tr...
Bangalore — Another long week passes. The view from the balcony of a more than welcome Friday night, the silence of the night only broken by crickets preying on the street light. Happy weekend, everybody :)
Tokyo — Helmet man named “Cody Chesnutt” has performed at Blue Note Tokyo last night. That was awesome!! I’ve never seen that people sing emotionally like him. Hope he would come Tokyo again.
Wellington — “Rowena!” I shout in the general direction of her desk. “Why is there a box of donuts on my desk?” Only 3 months into working for Xero, and I’ve asked a variation of this question several times alre...
Kennett square — second townhouse from the right: we toured the inside of our future Kennett Square home this morning. we are excited that our requested layout changes turned out much better than we could imagined. s...
Victoria — Victoria’s Atrium building — sitting snuggly on Blanshard Street between Johnson and Yates — is a beautiful piece of architecture and one of my favourite places to work. There’s no obligation to buy a...
Norwood — I found this while going through some old pictures. It is a picture of my boys with their grandma picking fresh strawberries near Norwood Ontario. This has been a family tradition for as long as I c...
Sevenoaks — I love evenings like this. By next week it’ll be dark by the time I get home from work, just as it already is when I leave in the morning. And by the look of the forecast, this is the calm before the...
Gatineau — After a long weekend on which police drew automatic weapons to enforce a court injunction and pepper-sprayed community elders, on which the national media fixated on three hunting rifles and six burni...
The pas — This is my first attempt at loading a picture. My computer would not let me do this so I took picture from my phone and picked the wrong one so a little fuzzy. This was the scene behind my house one...
New york — Waking up before the sun rises to grind coffee, prepare the family breakfast and meditate while doing repetitive tasks such as scrubbing the bath, or cleaning the sink. This is what I do sometimes. I ...
Toronto — Beginnings… You are looking at the bridge of my childhood. It was the physical link to the woods you can see, just a short walk from the home where I grew up. A small wooded lot really, just a drop...
London — It wasn’t that long ago when it was perfectly normal to be with the same company for one’s entire working life. But there seems to be this notion now, wrong-headed in my view, that anyone who stays p...
Accra metropolis — I am always glad when something different and innovative is started. The air-restuarant - that’s the new thing everyone who comes to Ghana will be looking out for. And that’s the new place everyone...
Addis ababa — I keep thinking about ways to better capture the thrill, adventure and agony the current traffic situation in Addis Ababa is. Bird-eye view photos are hard to come by, unless you start crawling up on...
Aireys inlet — I pointed and clicked. The leaves look real, but the flowers look like I cut them out of a mothers day card and pasted them on. Whats that about?
The pas — I am a BC girl born and raised and I love it there; but the sky in Northern Manitoba can never be compared. In BC we see the beauty of the Mountains and can appreciate the sun setting behind them, but...
The pas — My family history, this book has a detailed account of my family some only going to Grandparents, but on my father’s side I have the family charts into the 1700’s. I am Metis. My father is Metis and h...
Nanaimo — Fog. Days and days of inversion-layer-driven fog socked in Vancouver and the island all week. From my vantage point at Vancouver Island University, it looks like everything simply fades to nothing.
Okotoks — It was the same thing this morning when the sun rose. Only now sunlight reflected off the layer of frost that covered everything. Winter has arrived in Calgary.
Barcelona — The moment just before a “Hi” is born.
Saskatoon — Please leave a message. I’ll return to the all the usual distractions after I write some haiku about teeth, roll around on the floor and sing, and play the piano a bit.
London — I count it a real privilege to work so close to this magnificent bit of architecture - the Great Court at the British Museum. Designed by Sir Norman Foster, it is made from 3,312 differently shaped pi...
London — I wonder if buildings are quite happy to be photographed and stared at? I expect one as ornate as St Pancras Station and the Midland Grand Hotel (now called St Pancras Renaissance Hotel) doesn’t mind...
Singapore — I was in an air-conditioned taxi talking to a colleague and only dimly aware of where we were. Suddenly I knew we were close to where I was going to get out and could easily walk whereas the driver wo...
London — I’m stood in the courtyard of a church, rooted to one spot. Surprised and in awe. The morning sun yawns through the leaves of an unruly bush behind me and there directly opposite the moon hangs high a...
Addis ababa — This is from Nick Ashdown, please visit his blog for the full article. I could not have summed up the Addis experience better. Addis Ababa is many different cities to many different people – the ric...
Surry hills — The function of this function is to take an array and reverse the order. It failed because I wrote reverse_array instead of array_reverse.
New york — When this thick Brooklyn accent walks by in a hurry—okay not in that big of a hurry because she stops to say, Beautiful ain’t it? Gorgeous, I say. Except the rats crawl up the vines on the side, she s...
London — I am Gandalf Ninja, and you shall not pass! What?? You are a manager, not a developer any more, so no more peeks inside the camel book* But this is what I enjoy! Ah, but you are a manager now Ju...
Denver — This week has been terrible. I mean, terrible. So much so that today, when my fifth deal in a week fell through, I took off. I just didn’t go back to the office after lunch. I told the coworker I had ...
Saskatoon — Sometimes I see my mother’s tchotchkes and think how strange they are. Her walls and shelves and garden decor seem to lend themselves to birds and butterflies and frogs. When I was little, each time ...
Barcelona — Forn de Pa Fortino has been around for 90 years, which is the length of an eyelashes breath in the country of Spain and the city of Barcelona. The smallest, wishful fragment in a place that has lasted...
Saskatoon — …is the taxidermy. Next time I hope to get a photo of the brain and spinal cord in her office. Next time I hope I’ll be able to report that the tall boy’s migraine drugs are actually working.
Lucerne — On my second attempt at the 24-Hours Comic Day I got inspired by some Say-Hi Writers. It’s maybe the first social media mashup comic (not about social media or the internet as a theme but) as a snap-s...
Boulder — Just shy of nine months abroad, I find myself back in Boulder. In many ways, the reality of being home has yet to sink in; the past few weeks have been a blur. Landing Thursday in Philadelphia and vis...
London — Tower bridge gets all the fanfare and attention, but I think this just became my favourite.
Milton keynes — Apparently my granddad regularly told my mum to remember to look up whenever she was walking around London: “the tops of buildings are often far more attractive or interesting than the bottom.” Conse...
Boston — The way I see it, this is not about the discipline of writing everyday. That’s the point of NaNoWriMo, to get you used to a routine and setting up a foundation. This is not about craft. Not yet, anyw...
Calgary — My first successful attempt at sketching a moment! I was having a lot of trouble with it trying to get my location until I enlisted the help of my tech-savy friend! So this is an old picture of a coup...
Division no. 21, unorganized — As I look at this picture I took this summer with my little girl at my side; it makes me think about how precious our little piece of Earth is. I ask the question, will my daughter and son be able to ...