A year ago in the fall, I spent a few days visiting family on the shore of Lake Champlain in the far northwest corner of Vermont. From the cottage, you can see the Canadian shore of Quebec across Missisquoi Bay, a shallow lobe at the …
Bangkok is a megacity, with a population of over 9 million, and a metropolitan area population of more than 17 million. About a quarter of Thailand’s total population lives in the metropolitan area, making Bangkok a major cultural and economic center. On my visit to …
In this post I’m sharing train-related images: Images that capture landscapes speeding by from within a bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo. Then, reversing the viewpoint, a set of images looking at trains and tracks and associated scenes within Tokyo’s urban landscapes. Riding on a …
In my last post I shared photos of a variety of scenes from around Kyoto, a former capital of Japan that is known for its cultural heritage sites. In this post I’m sharing photos from visits to a number of Kyoto’s classical gardens. Most of …
Kyoto, considered Japan’s cultural center, is in the south-central region of Honshu, Japan’s largest island. The city is a little over 2 hours from Tokyo on the Shinkansen, Japan’s bullet train, and less than an hour from Osaka and Kobe. It has a large number …
Gyeongju, a city near the southeast coast of the Korean peninsula, was once the capital of Silla, a kingdom that existed for about a thousand years, from the 1st century BCE to the 10th century CE. In my previous post I shared photographs of a …
Geyongju, a city near the southeast coast of the Korean peninsula, was once the capital of Silla, a kingdom that existed for about a thousand years, from the 1st century BCE to the 10th century CE. Initially Silla was one of three kingdoms on the …
The following photographs, from a trip to Seoul, South Korea this past spring, are from a day of exploring the old palace complex of Gyeongbokgung that was at times the principal seat of Korea’s Joseon dynasty (14th century to early in the 20th century). The …
At the end of July last summer, when the archaeological team I had spent the month with had wrapped up their work in Zambia, I joined some of the team for several days of safari in Chobe National Park, in northern Botswana. The park is …
This is the fourth, and probably last, of my posts with images taken during a month I spent last summer documenting the work of an archaeological team in the Southern Province of Zambia. In this post I’m sharing a group of portraits. Some of the …