Yangiobod Bazaar! September, 2022 41°15’30.3″N 69°21’09.2″E

Yangiobod is a huge bazaar where you can buy just about anything…

Margo getting her Spies Like Us-style
Bizarre traffic at the Bazaar
Tons of taxidermy!
So many pins!
It’s true, they had newspapers
I don’t know what I would do with one, but I did kind of want one.
Need a Lenin?
How about someone else?

Fergana Valley, May 2022 40°22’20.4″N 71°48’32.0″E- ish

Not sure what he is wearing but he was interested in us.
Working…
Up close working
Ceilings are tricky and I am still working on the best way to shoot them.
Work in progress
Caught in the rain
Cooking is serious business, well serious-ish
The region is famous for ceramics and silk
Making a vase
Pulling silk
The Bifrost! Or silk thread, you choose.
At work.
Taking a break.
For Emily!

Alaçatı, Çeşme/İzmir, Turkey and around March 2022, 38°17’02.7″N 26°22’39.5″E

We happened to be around for the Herb Festival! Which also had dancing.
Everyone was taking photos
Herbs.
The best blackberries ever, sorry dad.
Also olives, so many olives.
Also herbs.
One of these doors is the TARDIS

Just outside Alacati, more greek ruins
And some more.

Ephesus, Turkey March, 2022 37°56’21.3″N 27°20’27.7″E

Ephesus is another one of those places that is so photographed it is hard to find something unique

The bird has set in old town. Super old town.
A couple thousand years years on and it’s still up.
Google translate does not work on ancient greek. I tried.
The library is the best known building.
One for my friends at the weekend in black and white.
Mary (yes, that one) lived here (yes literally here) after Jerusalem.

Catalonia (Penedes!) and Aragon 1/2022

Even in winter, vineyards a beautiful.
This was the view from our Airbnb…
Pares Balta, a biodynamic vineyard we walked to.
Cava aging “cave” the grand reserve here ages for more than 8 years and it is amazing.
As they age, mold grows on the bottles, and sometimes, the bottles explode. When they do the broken bottles are left in place as not to disturb the others.
It’s not all grapes in Penedes, olive trees abound.
The road on the right leads to Viehla.
This is the Vilac village church with the “town of Viehla, in the background.
Sunrise in Vilac
Sunrise in Pendes

Barcelona in Color 12/2021 41°23’34.7″N 2°09’11.9″E

Running in Park Guell
Spires of Sagreda Familia on Christmas Day
Ceiling and stained glass in the Sagreda Familia
On the way to Park Guell
A detail in Park Guell
From the park into the neighborhood
Fun with a fisheye!
Detail of the Cathedral
Even in Covid times, this place was busy
We walked alot

We need more bars like this.
Morning walks were bright…

The Aral Sea, October, 2021 44°52’46.3″N 58°11’29.3″E

The Aral Sea used to be the 4th largest freshwater lake in the world. There is not a lot left and is, is so salty only a certain species of tiny shrimp actually live, allegedly (I did not see any). What’s left starkly beautiful, if tragic. In some ways it reminded me of the Etosha Pan, which will even more closely resemble as the years go by.

I walked into the sea and promptly sunk several inches into the mud.
I took this with a fisheye lens, hence the distortion, trying to capture the enormous emptiness of the place was hard.
If you squint you can see the yurt camp where we stayed.
Less than 40 years ago, this entire bay was filled with water.
The sunrise was stunning.
Moments before, even more so.
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