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  • Rising From The Ruins: A peach and purple sunset sets the tone as both the illuminated Ananda and Thatbyinnyu Temples rise above the a litany of ancient ruins in Bagan Myanmar.
    Rising From The Ruins
  • Baracoa Hillside View: The predominant side lighting of this dynamic cloud formation at sunset makes for a most surrealistic display of shifting colour and form over a silhouetted hillside, Baracoa Cuba.
    Baracoa Hillside View
  • Morning View: The morning view from the circular, 360 degree Motel Restaurant, gives a typical tropical scene of swaying palm trees scattered amongst the rice fields, in Tetebatu - Lombok Indonesia.
    Morning View
  • Barber's Chair View: A well groomed gentleman gazes over his shoulder from the barber’s chair, roadside in Jammu India.
    Barber's Chair View
  • Rebirth From Death:  This painting on the walls of the Wat Thai Kusinara shows the Lord Buddha during Parinirvana (Nirvana-after-death) and the devotes response to his death, Kushinagar India.
    Rebirth From Death
  • A rather surrealistic, colourized image of a close-up view of an enormous pile of animal antlers on Highway 50, near Great Basin National Park - Nevada USA.
    Surrealistic View
  • An Alleys' Sunset View: A wall down a dark back alley is adorned with the bright orange and blue graffiti with the word “Sunset”, Chiang Mai Thailand.
    An Alleys' Sunset View
  • From Suffocation to Salvation:  A Hindu devote, with a fanatical resolve, attempts to find his calling while suffocating  underneath a plastic bag, Varanasi India, Varanasi India.
    From Suffocation to Salvation
  • Bighorn Sheep: These Bighorn Sheep pause briefly as they climb through the thick mountain forest, Banff National Park, Alberta Canada.
    Bighorn Sheep
  • Damaged Goods: A unique form of graffiti is both revealing and disturbing; a paper cut out of a beautiful, naked woman with a torn face makes a commentary on the contrasts of beauty, violence and experience, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    Damaged Goods
  • Climbing Bighorn: Bighorn Sheep confidently climb through the thick forest in Banff National Park, Alberta Canada.
    Climbing Bighorn
  • Leading Bighorn : One of the leaders of a small herd of Bighorn Sheep in Banff National Park, Alberta Canada.
    Leading Bighorn
  • Regal: A leader of a herd of Bighorn Sheep regally stands guard, Banff National Park, Alberta Canada.
    Regal
  • Morning View-Bali: A glorious  early morning sunrise bathes a row of easy chairs on the Balinese coastline, near to Padangbai - Bali Indonesia.
    Morning View - Bali
  • Morning's Vista:  This morning’s awe inspiring view of a sunrise captures the entire valley engulfed in a fog layered dream with only the distant city and mountain heights punctuating the vista; as viewed from the heights Loma de la Cruz of Holguin Cuba.
    Morning's Vista
  • Hands in Hell: The strong shadows of a harsh mid-day light make this moving sculpture even more striking; as innumerable desperate hands of men and creatures grasp the air in vain, searching for relief from Hell, all the while a solitary red finger nail brings the only colour to this grey, horrific sight, Wat Rong Khun (the White Temple), Chiang Rai Thailand.
    Hands in Hell
  • Spiral: The unusual birds-eye view of worn wooden stairs of a spiral staircase, Singapore.
    Spiral
  • The New World Order: This profound sculpture, devoid of colour, eerily reflects the desperation of much of the human condition; a single hand emerges holding a begging bowl, pleading for alms, rising above innumerable hands  that desperately thrash about in an attempt to escape Hell on earth, Wat Rong Khun (the White Temple), Chiang Rai Thailand.<br />
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By Thai artist Chalermchai Kositpipat.
    New World Order
  • Nevada's Great Basin: Six separate photographs that have been stitched together to capture this dynamic panoramic view from the top of Great Basin National Park, of the vast, arid and empty expanse that is the Great Basin of Nevada, USA.
    Nevada's Great Basin
  • Holguin Blue: Viewed at dawn from atop of Loma de la Cruz; a dream like image of heavy fog, floating in layers of pastel blue, dominates the city streets of Holguin Cuba.
    Holguin Blue
  • Trail Wall: One encounters a tall orange rock wall that forms a fence line above the arid, undulating, orange hills and that runs parallel to the Fairyland Trail in Bryce National Park, Utah, United States of America.
    Trail Wall
  • Holguin Fog: The dramatic view from Loma de la Cruz is enhanced with sunrise, city lights, mountain ranges and a fog that envelopes the city, Holguin Cuba.
    Holguin Fog
  • Sizing His Prey: A young muscular man looks up from his street side seat, sizing up the photographer as a lion views his prey, Cienfuegos Cuba.
    Sizing His Prey
  • Valleys Rim: A precarious view of the beginning of a valley that runs in among the very colourful striated and spire like hoodoos, from the rim of Bryce National Park, Utah, USA.
    Valleys Rim
  • Geologic Chaos: A spectacular view from Inspiration Point is of a veritable sea of coloured striated hoodoos, a foreign or unworldly sight, Bryce National Park, Utah, USA.
    Geologic Chaos
  • Home Amongst the Fog: Seen from on high, a lone house boat floats in amongst the early morning fog on the still waters of Khao Laem Reservoir, Sangkhlaburi Thailand.
    Home Amongst the Fog
  • Pastel Dream: Viewed from on high of mountain - Loma de la Cruz, heavy fog wafts in layers of pastel colours over city streets, making for a dream like image in the early dawns light, Holguin Cuba.
    Pastel Dream
  • Spiral (B&W): The unusual birds-eye view of worn wooden stairs of a spiral staircase, Singapore.
    Spiral (B&W)
  • Bryce Sunset: The breathtaking view of a sunset from Bryce Point as it cast the last light of the day over a veritable sea of hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, United States of America.<br />
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In amongst the hoodoo’s one can find a trail winding through a rocky archway.
    Bryce Sunset
  • Ring of Light:   A surrealistic view of the sun and its reflection in a water pool, on the trail to the Petroglyphs Narrows, Capitol Gorge, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah USA.
    Ring of Light
  • Coming Up Pink: Pink is the order of the day as these flowers reach up out from the rain and into the sunlight in Minter Gardens, Rosedale British Columbia Canada.
    Coming Up Pink
  • Sizing His Prey (B&W): A young muscular man looks up from his street side seat, sizing up the passerby as a lion views his prey, Cienfuegos Cuba.
    Sizing His Prey (B&W)
  • Vinales Valley: A panoramic view of the Vinales valley and the National park in the distance, a land of primitive farming and mogotes - those odd shaped mountains, Vinales Cuba.
    Vinales Valley
  • Delicate Detail: A macro view of a white peony’ petals shows the soft delicate detail, highlighted by random streaks of red, Chilliwack British Columbia Canada.
    Delicate Detail
  • Held On High (B&W): This contemporary sculpture by Thai artist Chalermchai Kositpipat depicts the desperate hands of men and creatures; writhing in despair from Hell, Wat Rong Khun (the White Temple), Chiang Rai Thailand.
    Held On High (B&W)
  • A stream of pink Dahlia flowers reach up out from the rain and into the sunlight in Minter Gardens, Rosedale British Columbia Canada.
    Pink Day
  • Fiery Shoreline: A fiery red sunset with the shoreline  mountains held in silhouette, as seen from the Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca fortress, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
    Fiery Shoreline
  • Holy Sperm:  This close-up view of a Hindu lingam finds carved into the yoni a sperm like representation, found in the ancient Shiva temple, Shri Panchvaktar Temple in Jammu India. <br />
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The lingam is often represented alongside the yoni (Sanskrit word, literally "origin" or "source" or "womb).
    Holy Sperm
  • Isolated Hoodoos: An somewhat isolated group of hoodoos emerge from the relatively barren, arid landscape of orange sprees on the Fairyland Trail in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA.
    Isolated Hoodoos
  • Mon Bridge Morning: A morning view of a lone boat making its way from the Saphan Mon Bridge, just as the sun breaks through the heavy fog,  San Khla Buri Thailand.
    Mon Bridge Morning
  • Striated Ravine: A spectacular high angle view of an autumn scene; with snow lightly dashed upon the orange – red striated rock of a deep rocky ravine in the Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah United States of America.
    Striated Ravine
  • No Parking: A “no parking” sign has been posted right above a heartfelt piece of graffiti of a female angel holding a dead soldier as they raise, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    No Parking
  • Bridge at Segar Beach: This elevated view is of a nearly dried river bed as it slowly winds under a walking bridge, next to adjacent tropical forests and mist covered hills, Segar beach - Kuta Lombok Indonesia.
    Bridge at Segar Beach
  • Going Up?: On a glorious sunny day, red and white stairs rise precariously high, along with rusted iron guard rails, guiding the eye up two diverging stairways into the local temples and homes, ever higher above the Ganges River, Varanasi India.
    Going Up ?
  • Exciting Nevada: Viewed from the striped asphalt highway, the vast, arid grass land  gives way to a blue mountain range, Nevada USA.
    Exciting Nevada
  • Fiery Volcanic Sunset. (B&W):  With the billowing cloud bank below and a thick mountain mist above, a volcanic Silhouette is cast before a fiery sky, just as the sun seemingly sets into its crater, near Mentagi Lombok Indonesia.
    Fiery Volcanic Sunset (B&W)
  • Fiery Volcanic Sunset:  With the billowing cloud bank below and a thick mountain mist above, a volcanic Silhouette is cast before a fiery sky, just as the sun seemingly sets into its crater, Mentagi Lombok Indonesia.
    Fiery Volcanic Sunset.
  • Misty Sunset: With the billowing cloud bank below and a thick mountain mist above, a volcanic Silhouette is cast before a fiery sky, just as the sun sets into its crater, near Mentagi Lombok Indonesia.
    Misty Sunset
  • Victoria Monument: Victoria Monument as seen from the southern entrance and the grand archway dedicated to Edward VII, Kolkata (Calcutta) India.
    Victoria Monument
  • Up, Up and Away: The silhouetted, stationary ancient ruins of men remain engulfed in a mist of history; while high above, modern balloons rise, much like the ascendancy of a well reasoned thought, ever higher into the golden skies of a new day, Bagan Myanmar.
    Up, Up and Away
  • Stairs to Light: Seen from within the darkened ruins at Angkor Wat Cambodia, a set of steep stairs climb towards the light of day.
    Stairs to Light
  • Up, Up and Away (B&W): The silhouetted and stationary ancient ruins of men remain engulfed in a mist of history; while high above, modern balloons rise, much like the ascendancy of a well reasoned thought, ever higher into the golden skies of a new day, Bagan Myanmar.
    Up, Up and Away (B&W)
  • Surrealistic Stupas: An unusual, low wide angle view looking up at Tritotsathep Temple with two golden Stupas, one rising vertically, the second appearing to enter the scene horizontally, , Bangkok Thailand.
    Surrealistic Stupas
  • Emanating Light: A night time view up into a barren tree with strings of multi coloured Christmas lights emanating from the top, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.<br />
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A plastic pipe runs up the length of the trees trunk. The lights form random patterns against the night’s sky.
    Emanating Light
  • Radiating Red Temple: Durgakund, the Monkey Temple, is a vibrant red especially when set against a vibrant clear blue sky, while strings of lights radiate from its spire top, Varanasi India.
    Radiating Red Temple
  • Vibrant Nightfall: A vibrant view of the New York skyline, with sky scrapers that shimmer and glow in the clear night air, from atop the Rockefeller Center, New York United States of America.
    Vibrant Nightfall
  • Geometric Museum: An oblique view of the Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art, with the rectangular lower aspect of the building set against the circular top, New York, New York USA.
    Geometric Museum
  • Sitanagyi Hpaya Temple: Framed by a brilliantly blue sky, this low wide angle view captures the enormous and recently restored Sitanagyi Hpaya Temple, Bagan Myanmar. <br />
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A row of brick elephants support this structure, with a series of spires and a central Stupa that crowns the temple.
    Sitanagyi Hpaya Temple
  • Great Dragon Pagoda: A spectacular night time view of Shwedagon, the golden Great Dragon Pagoda; a festive touch is added to this religious scene with strings of purple lights dangling down from an adjacent temple, Yangon Myanmar.
    Great Dragon Pagoda
  • Solitary Tree on Beach: A fisheye view of a rather spartan and solitary evergreen tree, with roots greatly exposed for it resides on the sandy beach on Kootenay Lake, Nelson British Columbia, Canada.
    Solitary Tree on Beach
  • In Through the Out Door: A layered view leads one through the series of doors, stairs and passageways to the main temple at Wat Phantao, Chiang Mai Thailand.
    In Through the Out Door
  • Dragon By Day:  A spectacular view of the golden Great Dragon Pagoda (Shwedagon Pagoda) seen in the late afternoons light, Yangon Myanmar.
    Dragon By Day
  • Horror Mask:  A close up view of a horrific horned creature snarls at all that visit  Wat Rong Khun (better known as the White Temple), Chiang Rai Thailand.
    Horror Mask
  • Entrance: Columns bracket this view of the intricate reliefs to the entrance to Vat May Souvannapoumaram, where a woman worshiper joins the chanting Buddhist monks that are seated in prayer before the golden statues of the main temple, Luang Prabang Laos.
    Entrance
  • View From The Street (Harpers Handshake): Street graffiti reveals an adulterated photograph of the former Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Stephen Harper, shown with his eyes scratched out and giving the finger, Vancouver British Columbia Canada.<br />
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On the wall behind are a number of anarchy symbols and the word “guts”.
    View From The Street (Harpers Handshake)
  • Spires to the Sky: A wide angle view, looking up at the Throne Hall, reveals multiple stories held up by grey-green Garuda statues and culminates with two golden spires, Imperial Palace, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Spires to the Sky
  • Machine Worker: In a grimy machine shop, a young masked metal worker pauses from his metal lath and labours, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
    Machine Worker
  • Radiating Red Temple (B&W): Radiating Red Temple: Durgakund, the Monkey Temple, is a vibrant red especially when set against a vibrant clear blue sky, while strings of lights radiate from its spire top, Varanasi India.
    Radiating Red Temple (B&W)
  • Evening, Parinirvana Stupa (B&W): This unusual view of the yellow Parinirvana Stupa, displays simplistic architectural shapes, all under a full moon, Kushinagar India.
    Evening, Parinirvana Stupa (B&W)
  • Mubarak Mandi: The remnants of the once majestic Mubarak Mandi Heritage Complex as viewed from the depths of the Tawi river valley, Jammu India.  This palace was the royal residence of the maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir from the Dogra Dynasty. It was their main seat till 1925 and it is located in the heart of the old walled city of Jammu.
    Mubarak Mandi
  • Goblin Sunset: A wonderful sunset over a dynamic mountain ridge, seen from the floor of the first valley - Goblin State Park, Utah USA.
    Goblin Sunset
  • Masked Smile: A woman construction worker is completely covered in heavy clothing and hat that protect her from the blazing tropical sun, near Pai Thailand.
    Masked Smile
  • Golden Stare: Viewed from below, a large golden Buddha sits in the lotus position in the main temple, surrounded by intricately decorated walls and ceiling and hanging chandeliers, Wat Kan, Bangkok Thailand.
    Golden Stare
  • Circular Serenity: A mobile of  white Buddhas hangs down from a chandelier, Wat Rong Khun (better known as the White Temple), Chiang Rai Thailand.
    Circular Serenity
  • Blooming Dandelion: Looking up, this macro view of a dandelion in seed is also covered with the morning’s dew and is set against a clear blue sky, Langley British Columbia, Canada.
    Blooming Dandelion
  • Road Crew Smile: A worker takes a moment from the chore of road construction, glancing up into the camera she can't help but smile at her new found celebrity, New Bagan Myanmar.
    Road Crew Smile
  • Monks pause from their jack hammering at the base of the white Stupa that sports an orange sash, at Wat Phra That Doi Kong Mu, Mae Hong Son Thailand.
    Monks Pause
  • Radiating Durgakund Temple: Durgakund, the Monkey Temple, is a vibrant red especially when set against a vibrant clear blue sky, while strings of lights radiate from its spire top, Varanasi India.
    Radiating Durgakund Temple
  • Skulls, Lotus  Position:A close up view of metallic skulls with budding lotus flower on top, adorn the top of a fence which surrounds Wat Rong Khun (better known as the White Temple), Chiang Rai Thailand.
    Skulls, Lotus Position
  • Crowded Stupas: This low angle view of crowded golden Stupas as they rise up from the white marble buildings into a vibrant blue sky, Tritotsathep Temple, Bangkok Thailand.
    Crowded Stupas
  • Buddha on Buddha: Seen from an angle, a golden Buddha statue sits lotus position on a lotus flower in front of a very intricately decorated wall with a painting of the same Buddha, Tritotsathep Temple, Bangkok Thailand.
    Buddha on Buddha
  • Sunset Battlements: A golden sunset erupts over the ocean, as viewed on high from the battlements of Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca,  Santiago de Cuba - Cuba.
    Sunset Battlements
  • Himalayan Morning: Kangchenjunga Himal rises well above the morning mist and its jagged snow covered peaks hid below the multi-coloured clouds of sunrise, Darjeeling India.
    Himalayan Morning
  • Grimm (B&W):  Not unlike a scene from a Brothers Grimm tale; this eerie winter setting captures a fog shrouded path lined with menacingly barren hazelnut trees and leads the eye out from the fearful dark and onto the tentative hope born of a distant light, Agassiz British Columbia, Canada.
    Grimm (B&W)
  • Through the Looking Glass: This view, through a series of structural angular lines, leads to a ladder then up onto one of the most prominent buildings in the city and finally to this bronze statue of a boy and his looking glass, Camagüey Cuba.
    Through the Looking Glass
  • Narasinga: During the parade for Nyepi ("Day of Silence" - hide from evil spirits), the Red Narasinga, a Hindu Ogohs Ogohs , or, demon and a  great devotee of Shiva, hoists a sword on high as he disembowels a man laid out on his knee, Balian Beach,  Bali Indonesia.
    Narasinga
  • Morning Smoke: A lady laughs with a friend as she smokes from one of the largest hand rolled cigarettes I have ever seen, in the morning market, Shwebo Myanmar.
    Morning Smoke
  • Resting Black Hmong: An elderly woman of the a local hill tribe, the Black Hmong, rests for a moment from a futile attempt to sell her craft work, Sapa Vietnam.
    Resting Black Hmong
  • Buddhist Temple Stupa: A unique view of golden Stupa and orange roof tops adorned with mystic Chofa that stand in contrast against a brilliantly blue sky, Tritotsathep Temple, Bangkok Thailand.
    Buddhist Temple Stupa
  • Trinidad Vista: Early morning vista from a hilltop and looking out over the undulating landscape on to the ocean as the sky provides a colourful display, Trinidad Cuba.
    Trinidad Vista
  • Buddhist Chandelier: A mobile of dangling white Buddhas hanging down from gold ringed chandelier, Wat Rong Khun (better known as the White Temple), Chiang Rai Thailand.
    Buddhist Chandelier
  • The Climb: An unusual view looking up a long set of stairs that lead to a deep gold coloured Stupa set against a vivid deep blue sky, Tritotsathep Temple, Bangkok Thailand.
    The Climb
  • Morning Vanishing Point:  An angular view of a row of dated colonial buildings, vanish into the distance, Havana Cuba.
    Morning Vanishing Point
  • Silhouette & Sunset: Sunset from Phra Sumen Park, looking at the fine cable works of the Rama VIII Bridge that stands in silhouette against a dynamic sky, Bangkok Thailand.
    Silhouette & Sunset
  • Three's Company: Three cyclo (tricycle rickshaws) drivers taking a mid day rest from the heat, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
    Three's Company
  • Enthralled: A man enthusiastically embraces his partner from behind with what can only be described a pure joy, on a cold day atop a volcano, Batur Lake - Bali Indonesia.
    Enthralled
  • Workers Rest: A young shirtless construction worker takes a moments rest from the job by sitting back on his wheel barrel, Trinidad Cuba.
    Workers Rest
  • Viewed from Brooklyn, the East River yields this view of sky scrapers  punctuating the blue spring sky over Manhattan, Brooklyn New York, USA.
    Captured City Scape
  • Reversed Sunrise: The early morning colours suggest a reversal as a silhouetted forest stands draped in a heavy fog, while above the sky is set in an orange cast, Surrey British Columbia, Canada.
    Reversed Sunrise
  • Autumn Poplars: A vibrant forest of poplar trees glistens in the autumn sunlight, seen reroute from Bryce to Capital Reef National Park, on highway 12 near Boulder, Utah USA.
    Autumn Poplars
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