Mountains and Desert
The craggy, green emptiness of the Gobi, in a National Park a few hours from Dalanzadgad.
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The Coming Storm
In the late afternoon light, we race across the South Gobi to reach Dalanzadgad before the sky rips open.
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Gobi Outpost
A solitary settlement amidst the low dunes of the Gobi Desert, just outside Dalanzadgad, Mongolia. All the essentials (left to right): mean guard dog (who chased our Hummer), ger, motorbike, truck, another motorbike.
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Gobi Sky
There were many shots out the window of moving cars on this trip, but this continues to be one of my favourites. Also, it was out the window of our Hummer.
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Arctic Clouds
A rare break in the clouds from 39,000 feet (11.8km) above the Arctic Ocean, on the route between Washington and Seoul.
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10km Over Algeria
Flying between Amsterdam and Johannesburg last week. I probably should have pulled out my proper camera.
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Low Tide and Clouds
Looking back toward the mainland.
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Quartet
Rusting silos in the afternoon sun.
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South Island Dusk
Ten years ago today, I returned from three weeks around New Zealand. I’ve posted most of the photos that I like from the trip, but revisiting the collection yielded a few more. This is an unmodified scan of a slide. The grain, the colours, the exposure — all as it was recorded when I pulled off the road to take this picture.
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Double Elevator
At the harbour in downtown Owen Sound.
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Signs and Wires
Bathurst Street in the afternoon.
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No Rain
In the Atacama Desert of Bolivia, distant clouds gather above a peak. It’s high altitude and very very dry.
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Straight Up
At Patapsco Valley State Park, near Baltimore’s airport.
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Moulin
The site of an ancient windmill sits in a field near the coast, in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France. It’s just a few kilometers from the D-Day beaches. There are folks who catalogue the various windmills in the region, but I don’t know any more about this one.
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Overcast Traffic
With a view just slightly different from last week’s Wet Street, a wider shot of the neighbourhood around the Arc de Triomphe. The ferris wheel at Place de la Concorde is in the distance.
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Mozambique Mountain
Driving north between Blantyre and Lilongwe, looking west into Mozambique.
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Mulanje and Clouds
Mount Mulanje, from the window of the UNICEF vehicle.
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Oh Yes, It Will Save Many Lives
It is warm. For the first time since my departure from Baltimore, many hours and 15,994 km of flying prior, I notice the air temperature. It is distinctly un-planelike. And humid. I have arrived in the terminal of Lilongwe’s airport and am staring out the window at the lush green fields reaching to the edge of the parking lot. Taxis and shuttles board their passengers for the half hour trip into the capital city. Rather than heading to the city, I wait for my backpack, naively hoping that the South African Airways staff will somehow discover it in the empty plane and bring it to me. When they finally tell me the bag is still in Johannesburg, I find a taxi and set out for my hotel.
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Leaving Holland
Climbing southward out of Amsterdam, bound for Paris. The forests and farms of The Netherlands about to disappear below the clouds.
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Lake Ontario Rainbow
A few minutes from Niagara Falls, the storm broke and let light shine north to the lake. I couldn’t pull off the highway in time to catch the full arc.
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