Reflections along Esplanade des Invalides

Sitting alongside the splendor of Les Invalides, this Air France building is totally inconspicuous on a normal day. After a rainstorm, the still puddle of water made me notice these perfect...
Interior Glass Cone at Galeries Lafayette

Half of Berlin is all metro and chic, and Galeries Lafayette lives up to the city's coolness. There was just as much sightseeing to be done here than shopping and dining. I didn't plan on lunching...
Machines

The excursion to Cockatoo Island was an unexpected, yet pleasant, surprise. The site of a former prison, the island now consists of a bunch of abandoned shipyards and warehouses. The hour-long...
A dripstone grotto in the Wallenstein Palace Gardens

The Wallenstein Gardens were a very pleasant find, even though I never intended to come here. This wall looked especially spooky when I first saw it from the palace on the hill. The quaintness of...
Bottle decorations

I have a soft spot for anything colorful, so while everyone else was gathered around the Polar Bear mascot, I was busy shooting these giant Coke figures. These cute bottles seemed less interesting...
Outlines of buildings and statues at dawn

One of the most tiring trips I ever did was the one to Prague, where I stayed up through the night, over many nights, to shoot in the early mornings. For me, getting up in the middle of the night...
Scurrying into the Stadtmitte U-Bahn Station

It was a snowy night in February, and even the streets here in central Berlin were mostly deserted. Although this station entrance looked just like all others, the sign here seemed particularly...
Buen Retiro Park

It was the holiday season, so the park was quite busy even though it was winter; but the crowds seemed to congregate only by the lake, the galleries, and the gardens. The rest of the (very large)...
A Carris tram along Rua da Conceiçao in Baixa

I still miss Lisbon's meticulously tiled sidewalks, its unforgiving Portuguese tarts, and these cute little Carris trams. They run through even the narrowest and hilliest parts of the city without...
Sunset Over the 25 de Abril Bridge

Seeing this sunset over Lisbon was well worth the wait and the climb up the hill. Built by the same company that put up the Golden Gate, the 25 de Abril bridge is almost indistinguishable from its...
Walking Up and Down

I had always thought that the ramps around the dome take you from one place to another. I wasn't until I walked the dome myself that I realized it was just a sightseeing dome. Perhaps what...
Symphony of Lights

Having more skyscrapers than any other city in the world, there is no better place to shoot skycrapers than in Hong Kong. The Symphony of Lights is a synchronized display of music and lights. Its...