Category: Travel
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The meaning of life
At the base of a tree along a Main Street in the old colonial section of Yangon, Myanmar
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A touch of Pipilotti in Yangon
Nobody could resist this unlikely photo opportunity in the very up-market French Restaurant La Planeur in Yangon. Reminded me of sitting in the Pipilloti Rist living room installation at the Musuem of Contemporary Art in Sydney but there was no light show. The restaurant is an elegant place on the lakeside with good food, a…
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Potty in Myanmar
The locals laughed when I took a photo of this quirky garden pot at a coffee stop on the road from Yangon to Pyey. The spacious courtyard garden had some lovely touches.
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Pipilotti Rist MCA Sydney Exhibition
Pipilotti Rist: Pixelwald Mutterplatte (Pixel Forest Motherboard) 2016 I love the way this installation is an immersive experience. When people walk into the lights along the corridor running through the 3000 LEDs of various shapes and sizes, they create ‘negative spaces’. Paradoxically, the material seemed immaterial. Many people stopped, taking selfies or photos of their…
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SHEIKH ZAYED GRAND MOSQUE
I took this photo in Abu Dharbi from the veranda of the Shangri-La Hotel, just ten minutes before our airport transfer arrived. A magical moment to conclude a wonderful travel experience in Morroco and Italy. See: https://visitabudhabi.ae/en/see.and.do/attractions.and.landmarks/iconic.landmarks/sheikh.zayed.grand.mosque.aspx
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The changing nature of photography
“When you go out there, you don’t get away from it all, you get back to it all. You come home to what’s important. You come home to yourself.” Peter Drombrovskis