These two photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge in Mist, and By Crissy Field, were taken six hours apart on a mild autumn Sunday. There is a certain timelessness about a still photograph (or two) that is lost in a motion image. The still image allows one to return to a day of finite proportion, and to transform…
Psalm 104: 10-14 He makes springs pour water into the ravines; it flows between the mountains. They give water to all the beasts of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst. The birds of the sky nest by the waters; they sing among the branches. He waters the mountains from his upper chambers;…
The paddy fields turn into long strips of chic boutique hotels, while the adjacent rice saplings provide a serene and tranquil sea of green. The mornings are wet and luscious, and the wooden decks and rattan sofas beckon you to stay on and linger, to be carefree and timeless, and sprinkled by the occasional flashes of…
Fauna of Singapore – At the Singapore Zoo and deep within it – The Fragile Forest And the beauty this week on Nature’s Trail in Singapore
The beauty of nature was everywhere in Singapore this week. To be part of God’s nature and with family. A New Year’s Blessing!
We climbed up the Thousand Turtle Mountain in the district of pastoral Liming, on a late and wet afternoon after several hours’ drive from Lijiang, Yunnan in late 2009. After our guide selected a live fowl for a home-cooked lunch (& dinner), we set off for this beautiful mountain the resembled the back of a thousand turtles at its peak.…
This is the fish market at Tsukiji, Tokyo, the busiest fish market in the world. The highly specialised world of the fish traders and their chefs are also featured as a revealing side-story in the documentary on Jiro Ono (Jiro Dreams of Sushi, 2011, David Gelb, Magnolia). Here, there is the unmistakeable scent of the pride…
This picture was taken through the windows of the staff lounge at the hospital where I worked in the burns intensive care unit in December 1993. The beauty of winter, seen through the placid landscape of white roofs and steamy chimneys, is savaged by Man’s need to keep warm and the terrible unexpected fires that sweep through homes with unattended kerosene…
“Deep in the forest there’s an unexpected clearing that can be reached only by someone who has lost his way.” (Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015); Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, 2011)