WHEN AMAZING FLIES JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE
Have you heard about the “Birds of Paradise”?
They are as colorful as they are hard to find. And, of course, they are rare. Rare as snow in Tel Aviv.
Judging by appearance this bird should be too.
Month: September 2016
Close your eyes and imagine France
WHAT DO YOU SEE?
Is it a guy armed with a barrette and a freshly-baked Baguette cycling down a tree-lined path?
Could it be an idealist Sorbonne student sitting at chick Parisian Café arguing about Marx & Sartre?
Maybe a decadent fashion designer looking at his “Heroine Chic” models as they parade down the catwalk?
Or perhaps it’s President Chirac pulling a middle one at George W?
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Is this the most horrible city in the world?
7 REALLY BAD PLACES IN THE WORLD’S WORST CITY
No reliable electricity, no sanitation, no transportation infrastructure, no plumbing, no urban planning (ha, ha, that’s a good one), no running water, no hygiene, no emission controls, no building codes, no hope. You may think we’re describing some godforsaken shantytown in war-torn Africa. But we’re not. This city happens to be the Capital of a peaceful, well-known Asian nation.
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Have you got what it takes?
AN ICEBERG IN SYDNEY
It was during the pleasant old days of the pre-bubble area. The time when growing tech companies bought business class tickets to send their young marketing professionals half-way across the world to give few presentations to would-be customers.
Getting “stuck” in Sydney during a late winter weekend with nothing else better to do, I decided to hop on a cab and land on Bondi Beach.
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He was a dancer though he didn’t know it
BURMESE BALLET
I took this photo ten years ago in Burma’s Inle Lake. It was five in the afternoon, and the sun was just getting into that narrow-angle photographers like so much. I heard about Inle Lake from a friend who came back the year before full of stories about the people who spend their entire time on the lake – literally.
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