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» RUINS OF LOS ANGELES #2: The Old Griffith Park Zoo
by Brian Awehali On a recent trip to Los Angeles, I stayed at a bland beige corporate hotel chain with paper coffee cups that thanked me for making a difference. The cups were made of 100% recycled...
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» APPROXIMATE DEMOLITION IN CHINA
by Brian Awehali THE CHINESE ARE VERY SECRETIVE ABOUT THINGS WHEN THEY GO WRONG. You can’t just go online or read a paper to find out what happened with this gloriously wrong-looking demolition in...
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» PHOTOS NEAR THE ROOF OF THE WORLD, KHAM (ཁམས), TIBET
Horse and prayer flags at golden hour in Lhagong, Kham (ཁམས), Tibet – (c) 2012 Brian Awehali * * * Townswoman and her generator in Lhagong, Kham (ཁམས), Tibet – (c) 2012 Brian Awehali * * * The Mighty...
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» THE TWIN ENGINEERING WONDERS OF DUJIANGYAN: Irrigation & Detention
by Brian Awehali Dujiangyan Irrigation Park shishi, or Imperial Guardian Lion (石獅), photo (c) 2013 Brian Awehali Dujiangyan is a system of irrigation channels largely responsible for the renowned...
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» CUSTOMARY İSTANBULIA (AND BONZAI PANIC)
There are several sites almost every tourist in Istanbul visits, even if they’re the type of tourist who prefers to be called a “traveler.” Here’s a photographic whirl through some of these sites. The...
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» MODERN MUSLIM MISCHIEF IN KASIMPASA
I laughed sympathetically as I watched this scene from the ferry I took from Kasımpaşa to Eminönü. The two younger women in these pictures really wanted to throw rocks into the Bosphorus. They weren’t...
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» AFTERNOON PHOTOS IN KADIKOY
Kadıköy, on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, is a lot less touristy than the parts of the European side near the Galata Bridge. Frankie and I took a ferry over and shot some photos of its buildings,...
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» NATIVE AMERICANA IN TURKEY AND BEYOND
At the Dandalos Hotel in Karacasu, near the ruins of Aphrodisias in southwest Turkey, I was surprised to come across this 8-foot-high translucent image of a bygone Native American chief. Perhaps I...
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» 1500-YEAR-OLD BYZANTINE HOLE IN THE CEILING
This photo, of a portal in the ceiling of one of the dim walkways that connect the first level to the second at the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, strikes me as a great visual metaphor for what all of the...
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