Le Pavillion Hotel, New Orleans, December 2010

On the rooftop terrace of the historic, 100-year-old Le Pavillon Hotel in the business district of New Orleans. 

Old Montreal, random impressions, May 2011

Wandering in Old Montreal on one of the rare sunny-ish days this spring...

Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, July 2003

Cycling along the clifftops on Cape Breton Island, summer of 2003.

High Line in New York City, August 2010

Looking down on a Chelsea street from the High Line in New York, the aerial greenway fashioned out of a section of an old elevated freight railroad (the West Side Line). It runs from just below West 12th Street up to 20th Street; eventually it will stretch through Chelsea to the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center.

on another note...

This is a one-off: I’m posting this to enter a contest offered by MeridaHome at Design For Mankind for an iPad 2. My girlfriend may very well like Erin's shoes...


http://www.designformankind.com/2011/05/insane-giveaway-ipad2

Hotel Frances in Guadalajara, November 1999

Looking down on the lobby of the historic Hotel Frances in Guadalajara, Mexico. Our room, unfortunately, was directly above a disco attached to the hotel, so the bed rocked and rolled until 4 am. Attempts to get moved to another room led to animated and ultimately fruitless late-night runnings to and fro, ending in a return to our original room to wait out the noise. A bit surreal...

Built in the year 1610, the hotel boasts of being the oldest in the Americas, and it wears its colonial heart on its sleeve despite several renovations over the years. It's been used as a set for a number of western films, notably by Sergio Leone.

Rocher Percé in Gaspé, Quebec, August 2005

Heading out at low tide to walk around the Rocher Percé on the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec. For four hours at a time, the tide recedes far enough to make it possible to walk out to and around part of the famed rock formation.

Canal Street in New Orleans, December 2010

Late evening on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Sandcastle on a small beach, Knowlton, Quebec, July 2006

Fish-eye view of a sandcastle built on a small lakeside beach in Knowlton, Quebec.

Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, August 1983

 

  

Different views of and from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, in the summer of 1983. The building in the 4e arrondissement had officially opened only seven years earlier. Designed in the high-tech architecture style by Italian architect Renzo Piano, British architects Richard and Su Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini, it features an exposed skeleton of brightly coloured tubes. Each colour denotes a particular function: green pipes are for plumbing, blue is for climate control, yellow for electrical wiring, and red for circulation elements and safety elements.

The first photo here shown was damaged in an apartment fire, the original negative gone missing. The third photo shows a group of Hare Krishna devotees in the main square in front of the centre.

Parrots in Dominican Republic, March 2011

Parrots in the Dominican Republic, early March 2011.