Time Keeper

Time Keeper

  • Joined: August 1, 2021
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The Wuhan Pneumonia

View of the Taj Mahal from across the old town of Agra, on a foggy winter morning.

This is the last image I have on any of my proper (read: non-iPhone) cameras. It was taken from our hotel room, right before packing and leaving on Jan 1, 2020 for the long foggy ride on the Yamuna Expressway…

Sometimes, it just sucks

They must be cooking something. Against the Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur, India
Sometimes, nothing goes right. The camera, the weather, the location, the post processing. The winter smog-fog-mix makes it near impossible to see the fabulous UNESCO sights in the Agra-Delhi regions. Throw in a bad camera setting that I realized much later into our walk, and it became near impossible to fix the images in post processing.

Gas Masks in Fez

The Chouara Tannery in Fez, Morocco
The Chouara Tannery in Fez, Morocco, has operated in the same manual, painstaking way for centuries. A mint leaf branch is a must for visiting the place.

Iceland: First Impressions

Solo rides, the de facto way of traveling through North Iceland
Iceland is a different planet. There are parts of Iceland that have served as various other countries on Planet Earth in a multitude of Hollywood movies. There are parts that were filmed as layers below the Earth's surface. There are still other parts that have served as entirely new planets.

An Itinerary for Iceland

Midnight sun piercing through the tall crevices of Fjallsárlón in southern Iceland

Iceland is a different planet. The whole country can be considered as a large National Park. Or many. If you have lost faith in landscapes or nature, just buy a ticket to Iceland. When  We visited Iceland in the middle of…