The White Horse occupies a strong place in the Japanese psyche, somewhere near that of the unicorn. Perhaps that’s why the #1 Scotch Whisky in Japan is White Horse.
This is mainly a comparison of the 28-300 and the 24-120. I head read that the 28-300 is actually a sharper lens, so that would seem to obviate the need for even considering the 24-120. But let’s take a look. The first pair is a full photo comparison; the second pair is a full-res crop. [...]
Truc, the girl in the first photo, is our company cook. Without her, our team could not do the amazing things they do. Here are photos from a week of lunches. We are a happy lot.
The hotel complex where Nixon and Mao signed the Shanghai communique in 1972, the Jinjiang was built in the early 1900′s in the art deco style and renovated beautifully. I spent hours just walking around the room itself, as well as the hotel and ground…
el Guapo reveling in the sun…a rarity for us up here in the nearly perpetual rain shadow that traps a thick layer of clouds between the Olympics and the Cascades…
Here’s an iPhone picture taken in the men’s restroom at the Masi service station on the Suquamish Reservation. We’ve seen them on the Seattle Ferry as well. Is diabetes that prevalent today? Or are these for something worse?
Twice a year, Bainbridge has a very special event – an old-fashioned vintage style flea market held at the historic Seabold Community Hall on the north end of the island.
Liz Le Dorze, who founded “Seabold Vintage Market” in 2009, keeps it intentionally small with just 4-6 additional local vendors in [...]
The last in my series of yoga animals. I promise. Xena did, however, appear earlier on Qamera, and the second photo here is a reprint…
Actually the Pacific Northwest is anything but frigid. But this morning, with frost encrusting the windows of the truck and the dogs exhaling long streams of steam as they waited for me to scrape the windows, it actually felt like we were joining the rest of the country’s cold snap. Maybe it’s just a sympathetic cold…
This is Zena. She is one of two temple cats that belong to the Seven Centers Yoga Arts down in Sedona. She and her sidekick Lionheart are quite a pair.
Everybody travels by train. Everybody. In a country with an inhabitable size of New Jersey but with a population half that of the entire U.S., trains are pretty much the only option. But they are efficient.
This is an ongoing Blog about food in Saigon. I’ll be posting photos and commentary about the different meals I eat while I’m here in our software development office July 26~Aug 5.
I took a taxi to the Peak Tram, then rode it up the peak. The driver and I started speaking Mandarin and discovered that we had both moved to Hongkong in the same year – 1979. He was thrilled. I was less so.
The Siberian Fur Store has always been one of my favorite signs. [...]
Hollywood Road began as a few blocks of antique shops but recently has grown into the main east-west street that cuts across the Midlevels of Hongkong island, so-called because it is mid-way between the harbor and the peak. Here are a few snaps that I took on a walk along [...]
One of the fun things to do with an iPhone, other than text people who are not in the same room while talking to people who are, is to take snapshots of food in restaurants. This was actually a recent breakfast.
I was perusing the pictures on my handy little point & shoot, and this photo from the farmer’s (and, apparently, butchers) market in downtown Portland suddenly caught my eye. Funny how sometimes the humor of a shot eludes one until much later. The sausages were delicious, by the way.
There are certain advantages to having a small pocket camera while driving along the cliffs and hair-pin turns above Sig Sur. One is that you can snap photos with one hand while steering and shifting with the other. Oh wait. Not a good idea.
If you think English grafitti is difficult, try doing it in Chinese characters, in cursive! Now that takes some skill…
Actually I’m pretty sure this fellow was actually spraying white paint to remove the graffiti. Still…
Hong Kong taxi. I think the expression on the driver’s face underscores the meaning of the message on the side of his car.
…when you’re jet-lagged in Tokyo.
Ando Ryokan, Tokyo. Take off your shoes before you go into your room.
Actually there’s a story behind this. The feet belong to a baby-sitter and the child is with her in the back of the pickup. Outside the Seabold Vintage Market, which is held on Bainbridge Island four times a year.
By Katherine Jardine. A small buddhist shrine on a small path on Victoria Peak, just below Barker Rd.
There was strange pinkish light coming from the bathroom. Natural light, in our part of the world, is rarely direct from the sun but this was strange indeed. It turned out to be just that – direct sunlight against a pink towel. I grabbed the new iPhone4 – feeling like [...]

