From Russia with Love
The domes of La Chiesa di Cristo Salvatore, Santa Caterina Martire e San Serafino di Sarov (Church of Christ the Savior, St. Catherine the Martyr and St. Serafin de Sarov) are its most beautiful and distinctive attributes. They featured…
01.11.10
Palondromic primes, like today's date, are said to be auspicious for new beginnings and also to represent the cyclic nature of existence .
Here, in the olive groves of Imperia, Liguria, the fruit is famous for its sweetness, and is handpicked…
Oooooh Vienna! Halloween im Wien – pumpkins, every witch way
In Vienna, Halloween is about pumpkins. If you're a fan, it's the perfect place to be - what Austrians can't do with pumpkins simply can't be done.
If you get a chance to lay your hands on a bottle of Kürbiskernöl – pumpkin seed oil,…
The sweet taste of Halloween
American Halloween is about, yes, all things American; pumpkins and parades, Trick or Treat, getting dressed-up and getting made-up.
In the UK, Halloween is about importing all things American, but isn't nearly as much fun…
…and…
Victim Support? Say it with flowers instead
Here in the UK, we have this thing called Victim Support. (I'm not going to credit it with any kind of gravitas by using ' we have a service'). Think ambulance-chasers, dishing out lukewarm sympathy rather than the promise of compensation.
This…
Go to the ant…
At the Gorges de Pennafort, Provence, we made camp (unwittingly) in the path of some huge but otherwise harmless ants. Relaxing in the company of these creatures is impossible — their industriousness is of truly biblical proportions:
Go…
From the belfry
View of the terracotta-tiled roofs of the city from the belfort, or medieval belfry, Bruges.
Karma Cinema
In 2004, Amazon.com released a series of short films under the brand Amazon Theater, each of which was a different take on the theme of karma. I've since discovered them on YouTube:-
Portrait
Careful What You Wish For
Do…
Shades of the Beguine
Bruges is a strangely sinister little town, with deep houses and twitching net curtains.
As the sun sets, shadows lengthen and night begins to fall, a strong sense of the gothic creeps across the town.
An Airy citadel: Bruges
As a child, I was terrified of spiders. Photographing them has helped with this, and even though I'll probably never get to the point where I'd let a tarantula take a walk across my face, I can comfortably catch one with a glass and piece…