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Sparkling midnight sun and empty road to nowhere, Iceland

The White Walkers: South Central Iceland

When news outlets talk about Iceland being overrun by tourists, they are talking about South Central Iceland. The Wow Air travelers, and the Iceland Air 3 day stopovers. The Blue Lagoon enthusiasts, and the Continental Rift explorers.
View of the Taj Mahal from across the old town of Agra, on a foggy winter morning.

The Wuhan Pneumonia

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…

They must be cooking something. Against the Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur, India

Sometimes, it just sucks

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.
The Chouara Tannery in Fez, Morocco

Gas Masks in Fez

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.