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 …
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 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. …
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 …
In this post I’m sharing photos from a hut-to-hut hike in the Alps in the mountains around Zermatt, a small resort village high on the Swiss-Italian border, in the Swiss canton of Valais. The high mountains around Zermatt are dominated by the iconic isolated peak …