Fresh Juice in Buenos Aires
I have a new lens :)You might see some more of this 15mm fish-eye in the future, though it distorts (actually, that is the point), I like it a lot.This was taken on busy Defensa street in Buenos Aires’...
View ArticleTibetan girl with sweater
Happy new year everybody! May you all have a wondrous 2008, filled with joy.This is the same little girl as is portrayed with her little friend on one of the most popular images on the site (see the...
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Global Recession: Market economy at work in Cuzco, Peru
Global recession? Somehow I do not think that this woman that sells her goods at the corner of the market, will worry too much about the Dow Jones drop or the 50 billion that a guy named Madoff took...
View ArticleLittle Girl from Puno, Lake Titicaca, Peru.
In case the image itself does not tell you I will : just came back from a trip to another wonderful country, Peru. Seldomly have I met nicer and friendlier people, living in a beautiful place. Have to...
View ArticleTipping the scales: Woman selling stuff on the streets of Cusco, Peru
This was one of many women and children -strangely enough there were very few men- selling a small collection of quite random stuff like toilet paper, CD carriers, incense, toothbrushes and her prize...
View ArticleThree Uros women on lake Titicaca, Peru
Three women with the typical long braids and hats wave goodbye to a boat of tourist.There are almost no more original Uros people left, but still the floating islands they live on are populated by a...
View ArticleBuddhists Butterlamps in Dharamsala: China’s bloody contempt for the world
Tibet is on fire. The past weeks many Tibetan monks have been killed brutally by Chinese forces, most of them in Lhasa, the capital of Chinese-occupied Tibet. You will not hear much about it unless we...
View ArticlePresident Barack Obama’s kiss – Yes we can.
“So tonight, let us ask ourselves – if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress...
View ArticleSalmon Glacier near Hyder, Alaska
In fact the glacier itself is back in British Columbia, Canada, but in order to get there you need to travel from Stewart BC, thorugh ghost town Hyder, Alaska and then up the long gravel road. The...
View ArticleSimon from Zanzibar
Simon came by every day on the beach near Paje, on the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania. He lives in Arusha, but comes over to sell bracelets his family makes. Together with his friends,...
View ArticleBritish Columbia Landscape
British Columbia is a huge province in Canada and one of the best places on earth. It is stacked with beautiful scenery, a lot of wildlife and friendly people. While travelling through it I felt...
View ArticleKids on Zanzibar
This one is for MC, I know you like it ;-) Though they look serious here, facing the setting sun, the kids in Paje, Unguja (often referred to as Zanzibar, though Unguja is just the largest island of...
View ArticleSeattle Skyline
Even though I love nature most, I am still fascinated by cities. How they start, how they grow. As far as American cities go, Seattle is very nice. Interestingly enough the beauty of a city like...
View ArticleFlying kid in Stone Town, Zanzibar
This kid is actually jumping off a large rusty ship, which appeared to be grounded indefinitely on the coast of downtown Stone Town, the capital of Unguja, Zanzibar. Some dove, some jumped, some jumped...
View ArticleRoger A Johnson, Gitxsan First nation, Kitwanga, canada
For the First Peoples, the land is the source of Life- a Gift from the Creator. “Mother Earth” is the center of their universe, the core of their culture , the origin of their identity as a people, the...
View ArticleCaribou near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
First of all, I hope everybody had a great X-mas! Now that X-mas is over, Santas reindeer (or caribou) can return to the Northern slope, Alaska, to graze amidst the cottonflowers at 70 degres latitude....
View ArticleKids in Cuzco
Just outside the main market in Cuzco, Peru, these children were sitting next to a basket of fruit. I think they were supposed to sell it, so their parents could buy food. They might have thought that...
View ArticleLower slopes of Cerro Plata, Argentina
Cerro Plata is a 6000m high mountain (about 19,700ft, though all measurements vary), in the Argentinean Andes, not so far from the more famous Aconcagua. It is fairly easy to climb as there are no...
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