Capitol Days
If the inflight map is to believed, we’re crossing the the state line out of Kansas now, westbound. Thirty eight thousand feet, somewhere near midnight on the way back to […]
At 56th and 5th
Paused at the corner of this steel-glass canyonHis neck craned back into the dithering blue,The citywise swarm parts, unnoticingToo busy anymore to even mock this bumpkin‘s indulgence:“Ooh – look at […]
Skyscrapers of stone
Last week at this time, I was weighing the fine balance of subfreezing night air in Central California’s Pinnacles National Monument against the smoky blaze of a campfire overfed with […]
Impending Jet Lag
Back home for almost a day now, just waiting for the jetlag to kick in. That’s the way it always is, you know – you get home feeling like, this […]
Chance makes a connecting flight
Pasteur wrote that “Chance favors the prepared mind.” But it seems that Chance sometimes takes pity on people who would be prepared if they weren’t just so damned tired. I’m […]
Southbound with Alanis
35,000 feet over South India, Alanis Morissette on the headphones as a painted sunset fades over the Arabian sea, and I’ve finally got a moment to breathe and reflect. I […]
Dharavi
Some statistics: Over 50% of Mumbai’s population lives in a slum. At over 7 million people, that’s larger than the entire population of most states in the US. We’ve spent […]
To market, to market
Waaay behind on my bloggage, so just a few words, and a pile of pictures of our ramble through some of Mumbai’s markets. Started out in Crawford market – spices, […]
Mumbai taxi
One of my favorite quotations about journalistic photography goes along, naturally, with a picture. The setting of both was the 1995 reenactment of van Ryneveld and Brand’s London-to-Capetown in a […]
Sunset at 40,000 ft over Pakistan
What a strange place for a person to be. Especially someone like myself! But here I am, along with Devon, eastbound in a major way. Twelve hours into the 15-hour […]
David Pablo Cohn 