Kokpar (rugby on horseback! dead goat polo!) August 2025, 51°12’00.9″N 71°41’08.6″E

In the Kazakh national game, teams vie to grab a goat carcass (above), and drop it in a ring for a point on either side of the playing field. Beyond that it is hard to figure out what counts as a foul and why there are restarts.
I never get rainbows to turn out well, but we had a rainbow!

Slovenia by iPhone Summer, 2025

Recently, I was in market for a new phone and a new underwater camera. In the end I decided to buy an iPhone 16 pro and scuba housing. I don’t dive enough to need a camera strictly for diving and the housing I bought is rated to 130 feet. I started my photo habit on a canon slr, switched the digital with my next body, and a couple in between and now use a 5d mark iv and I did not expect much from my new phone’s camera. I shocked by how good it is. The following were all taken and edited on my phone, as is this blog posting. I will still carry/lug my camera bag and a literal ton of glass for long exposure and lens options but it’s getting close…

Found randomly in an alcove of a church in Ljubljana.
Taken with the scuba housing on while canyoning
Ok technically Italy but just barely, Cormons, Italy
Old Town, Ljubljana
Low light/night mode in a cave
Wide angle, some distortion on the edges, which is the same I get from my fisheye lens
1x lens of a church
Very zoomed in of this dragon
Triglav zoomed in on 10x and cropped a bit after, still good resolution!

Astana, Thanksgiving 2023, 51.152119, 71.425818 B&W Edition

Astana is a throughly modern city but interesting for photos nonetheless.

Statues without explanation in a city park. Latter at the national history museum we learned a little more but I quite enjoyed the mystery.
The Circus!
Really surprising placement.
Not a lot of trees in the steppe, but I found these in the city park.
Just on a bridge’s sidewalk.
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