Each Blog on this site relates my experience of a particular trip. Although I post each Blog's entries as a set, they are designed to be read in chronological order. The first post is always at the bottom of the page.
To see additional photos from a particular trip, presented without caption or comment, visit the corresponding Gallery.
Everywhere on this site, you can click once on any photo to embiggen it.
The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His passion and his profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world — impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define.
— Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world "picturesque."
— Susan Sontag, On Photography
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