My cousin Roman had talked about ‘the monkeys’ up in the high alps. How they chatter, whistle and shriek between themselves up in the alpine valleys. I thought he was joking! Monkeys in Austria? Call it something lost in translation or perhaps a local joke but then we spotted a pair lingering close to their […]
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In the deep alps of Austria, lies her heart, the peak of Großglockner, Austria’s highest mountain. As mountains go it might be dwarfed on paper by 58 higher peaks scattered throughout the alps but in absolute prominence relative to the surrounding terrain it stands only second to France’s Mount Blanc. In the heatwave of a […]
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What would you call four young ladies flying hundreds of meters high above the village of Sankt Gilgen in the Austrian Salzkammergut? Angels of course. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘ A Box of Angels’, 1/320 f/10 ISO100 200mm
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Here in the imposing space of Doha International Airport a single traveler makes her way alone amid the glass, the concrete, the marble, the plastic, and the metals. This rare found moment of punctuated quiet is really not scarce at all in those spaces between the disembarking throngs of travelers, just hidden between the pulse […]
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There is a defining moment when the natural twilight over the land begins to dim and the lights of civilization briefly reach a balance. The timing of that moment can not be determined in advance. It depends on the way the daylight is drawn away in cloud and sky and haze and the waking of […]
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