Category: landscape
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sing the city electric
Electricity poles, wires, and cables are an essential part of the modern urban environment, giving it shape as well as bringing light. Mostly they go unnoticed and unphotographed. Here are some exuberant examples. I borrow the title of this post from Faris Joraimi’s essay “I Sing the City Electric: Modern Singapore Envisioned in Popular Malay…
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Marfa, Texas (Americana #2)
I have been avoiding visiting the United States since Trump was elected president in 2016 and I can’t see that changing so long as MAGA remains a force in the land. But I have some fond memories. These photos were taken on my first trip to Marfa, Texas, in April 2011. The images in the…
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November light (Lancaster canal)
A walk along the Lancaster canal, 30 November 2014. As often in those parts, between the Pennines and the sea, the autumn light was incredible. (I call #6 “the decisive moment”)
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blue + yellow #1
For me, the combination of the primary colors blue and yellow always used to say IKEA. Nowadays it has acquired other connotations. Slava Ukraini! New Zealand, November-December 2000 #1-2 Napier #3-4 Tarradale #5 Rawene #1-4 Whangerei #1-2 Auckland #3 Devonport #4-6 Wellington Singapore December 2005 West Texas April 2011 (# 5 + 6) + April…
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greenery
kauri forest, Northland, New Zealand November 2000 #1 Siena March 2001 #2 Tokyo fish market September 2010 #3 Philadelphia April 2008 #4 Houston July 2011 #5 Whangerei, December 2000 #2 Prague June 2004 Mariánské Lázně June 2004 Amsterdam July 2004 Singapore January 2006 #1-2 Garstang, Lancashire #3 Sissinghurst, Kent June-July 2013
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horizontals #3
Straits of Johor, Malaysia 8 February 2016 Prague (#1-3, 6 Karlín, #4 Holešovice, #5 Nusle Bridge) April 2016 Medicine Hat, Alberta 16 July 2016 Calgary June–December 2016
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fall at the lake
… and so in the fall we headed back to the Rocky Mountains, this time to explore the much-hyped Okanagan valley. Due to the smoke from raging wildfires, we didn’t see the sun for a week. These were the views. It wasn’t bikini weather. All photographs taken in and around Kelowna and Penticton in September…
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spring at the lake
Spring in Canada is the promise of a romantic evening that starts with being kicked squarely in the nuts. Spring in Canada is nature’s broken promise. We’re promised flowers and beauty and we get hungover winter. Spring in Canada is a lie. Canada has four seasons alright. Summer, fall, winter and betrayal. Canadian comedian Brittlestar,…
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mostly blues (horizontals #2)
We did a lot of traveling in 2016. I retired from Lancaster University in March, and we returned to Canada after twelve years in the UK in June. Yoke-Sum started teaching at Alberta University of the Arts in the fall. Between visiting family in Singapore and Malaysia for the Chinese New Year and extending the…
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