meantime..

here's a few links I've enjoyed lately

papercutter

paper

control of decisions

sixth sense technology

kenichi hoshine

paris museum

old varanasi

art/design

hiroshi senju

& there are many links to right >

travel

Details of a travellers palm, left shows the inner structure

when a branch is lopped. I was thinking about how, in our

familiar landscape, we notice the trees & whatever is around

on an almost daily basis, & then can choose the best time

to photograph it, while we mostly depend on chance,

while travelling.

I'll be away for a month, probably won't be posting,

please return then.

heading east

growing

The young water dragon top left sits on the same spot every

afternoon, I think he waits for the house lights to attract

his dinner. A red dragon fly right.

The adult water dragons look quite fearsome, but can be

almost tame, they appear to have a regular territory.

One used to share my neighbours cat's food.

daily serving

as tall

There's a giant flower growing from a sharp leaved plant

(perhaps a yucca?) beside the flagpole at the local RSL,

its as tall as the flag. I've noticed several plants that seem

to mimic a man-made artifact, like a street light~

it's very amusing.

Oh, & see that grey spot top centre? A week before I leave

my camera has developed a problem, there's no time

to get it fixed. Better now than there, I guess.

fritz henle photos

hearts

I took one cloud heart today, but only to check my camera,

it's definitely developed a fault, & at an inconvenient time.

There's no time for a repair, but there

is time to do something, don't know what, yet.

These above are from other days/years.

a romantic looking event

klongs

On the way to Nepal I'll have a couple of days in Bangkok.

This time I'd like to explore more of the klongs

& some of the temples on the other side of the river.

I wonder how much the old wooden houses were

damaged by the floods, some looked quite frail already.

yangtze

I went down the Yangtze about 1982, there were

a few other foreigners on the boat, from Chungking to

Shanghai, & lots of chinese, it was deadly hot by Wuhan.

I'd wanted to go to Dunhuang, but couldn't face the heat

How many more people since then?

river-day 2

More rocks from the Mekong..

The reason the days are too busy to do much else is

that I'm organising another trip, on fairly short notice,

which will include another great river, the Ganga..

looks like a fun show

river, day 1

You can check the 2008 archives, for other photos of the

Mekong; here I was thinking about how fascinating it

would be for a geologist, every few minutes it seemed

to be a different rock formation.

Of the large rivers I've been on, this is my favourite.

anna-wili highfield

Hanoi

Lovely ethnographic museum in Hanoi,

outside was mayhem, it was new year.

Here it will be busy for a while so I'll dig in my archives,

probably.

random

Am busy with something else, so opened a random folder

then ditto for these photos, which are from

the Mekong delta, during a 2008 trip.

It's in between Vietnam & Cambodia.

There's 300 GB files in that external hard drive (1 of 3)

even so I may have repeated some.

ethereal soap bubbles

colour

These are the other photos I converted to b/w,

Maybe the results are different if you start out

thinking in b/w ?

But there is so much colour in the world!

Even when it's mostly just one colour, I prefer it.

How about you?

the gorgeous tree hotel