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 …
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 …
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 second post in which I’m sharing photos from a month-long visit last summer to the southern African country of Zambia. As I described in the initial post, I joined a group of archaeologists and undergraduate students to photographically document their excavation work …
This past summer I joined a team of archaeologists to photograph their research work investigating old settlement mounds stretching along the edge of a floodplain in southern Zambia. Three professors are leading the work, including Kate de Luna, from Georgetown University, who facilitated my participation. …
The small Belgian city of Bruges (Brugge) has a compact historic center that retains the authentic fabric and character of the Middle Ages. The city is located on the flat plain of the Flanders countryside and is connected by river to the North Sea, just …
I spent a day in Brussels a while back, pre-pandemic. I walked through the city center taking photographs on the late afternoon and evening of the day I arrived, and then most of the next day. In looking through the photographs from my brief explorations …
Have you ever had a close look at lotus flowers? I hadn’t until I visited the Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens last summer. The park is in the District of Columbia, stretching along the eastern shore of the Anacostia River, several miles above where the …