Nocturnal Cats
June 1, 2018
[Click the images to buy prints or digital copies] At night, there are fewer humans outside. Thus the freely roaming cats of the streets can explore, huddle, congregate, with less interference from people. Sure, there still are some people out and about, and there are passing cars, but the depths of night are more their […]
City Art – Sculptures and Music
May 25, 2018
[Click on the images below to buy print or digital copies] On a side in Geneva the boy playing the recorder seems almost meditative, oblivious to the by-passers. Most of them also seem oblivious to his presence. No man can be a prophet in his own country, and urban sculptures often escape the attention of […]
Cats and Geometry
May 21, 2018
[Click on the images below to buy print or digital copies] A cat bounded by a square shall stretch to cover the maximum portion of available shade. A cat residing on a circle’s circumference will exhibit mild interest in objects within the circle. A cat semi-bounded by a square will […]
Evac Chopper Landing
May 11, 2018
[Click on the images below to buy print or digital copies] Back in August I was in Switzerland, near the Geneva Lake, during an uphill car race for historic cars, an event that takes place once every four years. Walking back from watching the cars, I noticed a helicopter maneuvering to land in a football […]
Urban Birds
October 27, 2017
[Click the images to buy prints or digital copies] A person is said to be free as a bird when they’re free to do whatever they like, go wherever they like. Birds are not bound by gravity. They can fly almost anywhere they like, or at least we imagine that they can, and for long […]
Sailing Along the Beach of Montreaux
September 5, 2017
[Click the images below to buy prints or digital copies] On a cloudy day in Montreaux a small sailing boat, one of many, can be seen from the Montreaux beach promenade. Slowly it makes its way. At first it closely parallels the shoreline. It appears to get closer to a large, robust sculpture, […]
Dead Sea Sunrises
August 26, 2016
[Click on the images below to buy print or digital copies] One thing deeply ingrained in us is that the sea is west of us. Israel is a thin slice of land on the shores of the Mediterranean, its length is several times its width, thus for most of the country, sea is west. In […]
On Roofs
December 18, 2015
[Click on the images below to buy print or digital copies] Seen from afar roofs in Israel appear to be dotted with white circular structures, oblong structures, which may also be white, and grayish diagonal structures. Looking closer one may notice that the circles are small satellite dishes, and they all face south. Over the […]
The Holiday of Holidays
December 9, 2015
[Click the images below to buy prints or digital copies] Haifa a multi-ethnic city and as such it sees celebrations of many different holidays. This time of the year, when Hanukkah, the holiday of lights, is celebrated in Haifa, as it’s celebrated in the entire country, is also near the time for Christmas. Christmas is […]
Two Buildings – Many Views
December 7, 2015
[Click the images below to buy prints or digital copies] One curious tendency I noticed is a tendency to build buildings in pairs. Rows of identical building along a street are pretty common. It just sort of makes sense. Pairs of identical building are somewhat less common. Usually these would be tall building, and they […]
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