A few weeks ago we camped in the Eastern Sierras and were so exhilarated by our getaway that we immediately planned our next trip, this time to the Western Sierras. I love Sequoia trees and Mountain Home has groves of these majestic beauties.

Reaching the cool of the Si...

Aside from immigrating to the US when I was seven, my first international trip was the summer between graduating high school and starting university. My sister and I traversed northern Europe on a very low budget, hitchhiking from one destination to the next, staying i...

We were in Milan in November and planned to attend the European Triode Festival in Brittany one week later so spent the time between in France. We took the train from Milan to Lyon enjoying the mountain views.

Lyon's beautiful cathedral is omnipresent.The weather was vo...

John is a great fan of Sufi devotional music and had heard about the Rajasthan International Folk Festival (RIFF) which features that genre plus interesting musicians from around the world. When Chandita and Feroze were in LA he mentioned RIFF to them and it turns out...

There was a family reunion at my sister's house so I included a visit to NYC.

I always enjoy the quirky details in New York.

I visited my old stomping grounds, Greenwich Village, and walked downtown to meet a friend at the World Trade Center.

The area around the new World...

John was speaking in Bologna and planned to fly in-and-out, but it had been some years since we were there and I couldn't resist joining him and making a long weekend of it.

Bologna is a city with several names. It is the red city not because of it's leftist politics bu...

John had a presentation in Zurich so we spent a few days visiting and were happy that Per could meet us.

The double steeple of Grossmünster dominates the Zurich old town profile.

As the weather and light changed I accumulated a variety of Grossmünster images.

We stayed in...

Shanghai is a city I have visited many times, so I don’t feel the need to capture the big picture. We were in the Bund at night, so I did take a few shots of the neon.

But mostly I photographed the details that speak to me, like the water caligrapher in the park with hi...

Not much to say; these are photos from the Kuala Lumpur Bird Park.
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Unfortunately some birds were caged.

 There were monkeys too.

 And tourists in an interactive area.

 And of course us.

These a...

We went to Kuala Lumpur in October and our hotel room faced the iconic Petronas Towers which were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998-2004.They are steel grey and change constantly with the light.

KL is a modern city dotted with historic buildings.

There are som...