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Gathering storm clouds over Amalfi

This photo was taken from the spectacular trail in the Lattari Mountains overlooking the Amalfi Coast called the Sentiero degli Dei — the path of the gods. A…

Solitude

Sure, it’s a little overcast, and it rained a bit earlier. But wouldn’t you expect there to be someone on the beach at 1:00 in the afternoon? .

Tranquilo

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Florida

I guess this week I’ve got a sort of travel blog — a bit bare-bones since for some reason I’m feeling a little lazy. (Although I did write…

Overwrought iron

Cities on the southern U.S. seaboard feature a lot of what I call “overwrought iron” work. The image above is from Charleston, South Carolina,

Barrier Islands in January

I mentioned I’m on the road. Soon we’ll be heading down to Florida, where I guess it’s in at least the mid 70s, but for the moment we’re…

An e-book from blog archives

Jeff Barry has completed an interesting project of culling his blog archives to produce a free e-book, called Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance. He explains: Whenever I…

Red Hat Ladies

These ladies were having a great time at the Getty Center. They thought it was a hoot that I wanted to take their picture. More L.A. photos: At…

The Observatory at Chichen Itza

I’m having some trouble getting my Maya materials online because there are so many of them, and there’s just so little time. So, we’ll do this one building…

Windmills

Over at Frisco Vista I’ve posted a photo of a windmill in Golden Gate Park and, for comparison, one in Bruges, Belgium. Well, I guess I’m on a…

Puerto Morelos

Much of the Maya Riviera, stretching from Cancun south beyond Playa del Carmen, is a bit of a horror show, full of giant resorts and traffic jams, and…

Cenote X’Keken near Valladolid

I’m just back from a trip to el mundo Maya. This photo (click the photo — or here — for a larger view, via Flickr) was taken in…

Night Canal, Bruges, Belgium, Dec. 20, 2006

For this image from my Bruges in December 2006 photoset (click image for larger view) I lightened and brought out detail in the dark areas using the following…

How to spend the night at Heathrow Airport

Coming back from Belgium my flight to Heathrow was cancelled because of freezing killer fog. By hiking to the Bruges train station at 3:00 am, I was able…

More Bruges photos

I’ve added a bunch more photos to my flickr set of pictures of Bruges in December. I noticed that Photoshop’s “save for web” plug-in stupidly strips out the…

Bruges, December 2006

Morning Reflections This photo is part of a set from my trip to Bruges. Since I’m here on business I’ve only had a couple of hours to walk…

Back to Brugge

I have a feeling I’m not going to get a lot of sympathy with this, but I have to be in Bruges in Belgium next week — far…

Rampaging Sea Lions

What’s making the sea lions cranky? Frisco Vista, a new site devoted to San Francisco travel (what they’re building is so new they’re still working on the foundation)…

Ecobungling, 19th century style

This handsome fellow is an Indian Mongoose (called manakuke in Hawaiian). Seventy-two mongooses were introduced into Hawaii in 1872 in an effort to control rats that had arrived…

Shark’s Cove

north shore, Oahu

Carol rides the waves

at Kailua Beach

tropical blogging, beachside

A work trip brings rightreading to Waikiki this week, so posting will be light. After a short time here I observed that Waikiki is evidently Hawaiian for “place…