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Another scanned print. Many of the insects and other small life forms of Costa Rica are terrifying (that bit in The Tropic of Serpents? That was me channeling all the dire warnings I got when I went to Costa Rica), but this one is cute. It disguises itself as a pair of leaves to hide from predators.
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The highest pavilion in Fukushu-en, in Naha (Okinawa), stands atop an artificial cave. If you stand at the right spot and look upward, you can see the point of the pavilion’s roof peeking out through the gap.
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This is just a random hat on a mannequin in the Museum of London — but I loved the way the various textures caught the light. (As is the case with so many of my “random object” photos.)
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I have no idea why there is a giant sculpture of a severed head at the foot of the Town Hall Tower in Kraków. It’s hollow and big enough to climb inside (if you look closely at the photo, you can see somebody peering out through one of the eye sockets), and it’s one of the more inexplicable bits of public art I’ve ever seen. Dusted with snow, though, it lands in a weird zone between “creepy” and “charming.” 🙂
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I got a remarkable number of good shots out of the Hagia Sophia, considering that I had no idea how to use my camera at the time . . . .
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I don’t actually know whether this is a crow or a raven or what. All I know is that it was perching atop one of the rocks of Stonehenge, and I leapt like a mad thing to get this shot before it flapped away.
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I’m not enough of a food photographer to have a really splendid picture appropriate for Thanksgiving, but in lieu of that, I give you this dinner table from the apartments of Napoleon III, in the Louvre.
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The miners in the Wieliczka Salt Mine used to descend to their work hanging from slings on a rope. Near the end of your tour of the mine, they have an animatronic setup to show you how it was done.
(Oh, and that lamp? It’s made of salt. Of course.)
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I took this picture in the full knowledge that I was almost exactly replicating a photo taken by my brother and sister-in-law on their trip to Okinawa. But I wanted my own version! I have a thing for sundials, and the cement between the tiles gives the roofs a weirdly stripey look.
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This fellow was performing on the street in (I think) Kumarakom, in the Indian state of Kerala. As cheesy as it is, I have to admit that watching somebody actually do the snake-charming thing is pretty awesome.
