So this one can close. This is the last post on this blog. Let me kindly and gently direct you to my next one. But first, my New Year’s greeting to you as I sent it around this year. The photo was taken in Rome … Continue reading A new door is open

So this one can close. This is the last post on this blog. Let me kindly and gently direct you to my next one. But first, my New Year’s greeting to you as I sent it around this year. The photo was taken in Rome … Continue reading A new door is open
The photo above is exactly as it was taken, in the name of all that doesn’t need any changes. The gallery below has more of such creatures, some more surprising than others. But first, a poem of how it used to be three days ago … Continue reading Pic and a Word Challenge #167: Ruckus in the still of the morning
Here is a collection of the last two months’ worth of Roman car window reflections and an invitation to my new blog. Happy in between days, days between this and that, days that nobody is celebrating or congratulating you for. This blog, my third, is … Continue reading Lens-Artists PC: Car reflections and new blog
Get that moon off of my face. Written yesterday, on a day when How do you do? is the wrong question. Solstice Red rivers on the full moon. Texture: vicious viscous. War inside my body, Rorschach test in my pants. Man is fearful for a … Continue reading Pic and a Word Challenge #166: Texture – war
Step right in. Or better not. Hotstepper Steps taken steps missed steps landed step-sis steps wanted steps stopped steps welcome steps not. Step wisely step well look closely beware forget not: you’re hot heavy clumsy destructive mess. Written to hiphop-dub-old school beats that I’m testing. … Continue reading Pic and a Word Challenge #165: Hotstepper
While spying on the spies and evading landing spaces, here is Nietzsche’s take on heights with a little bonus from me. “Before my highest mountain I stand, and before my longest wandering: to that end I must first go down deeper than ever I descended: … Continue reading Pic and a Word #164: Sunk to new heights
If not made by hand, then surely hand operated and without a doubt hand taken. Nostalgia For all the hands little and big that ran out of time. For the fingers that pressed all the right buttons and wrapped around the loved ones when the … Continue reading Pic and a Word #163: Out of hand
Here is a true story to lead you into the garden where the Magician stands on the head of the splashing High Priestess. Sounds like life. It’s 1991 and I’m out of the country without my parents for the first time. The country is France … Continue reading Lens-Artists PC: Splashing in Niki’s Garden
This poem has my favourite band on the soundtrack and a promise of sun around the bend. This is Pearl Jam and their most Mediterranean sounding song from my favourite album of theirs, No Code. Below is my poem as a result of the week … Continue reading Pic and a Word #162: Around the bend
I never combine challenges but this week they made me do it. Something big for Lens-Artists and giant for Pic and a Word coming up. I’m going to include: a quotation (instead of my usual Pic and a Word poem) and thank Patrick for it, … Continue reading Lens-Artists PC & Pic and a Word 158: Up on a Giant
I’ve just returned from two days in this October city. It was Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, not New York, but here is a gallery of photos that could also be from there. If you believe it. I only spent two full days in my … Continue reading Lens-Artists PC: Ljubljana, newyorked
Yesterday I spent travelling by myself. No wonder I was thinking of you. Your kind of love Today I’m taking your daily train route, all 100 minutes of it. Just right for a good film. So I stare out. We go past the lake. Do … Continue reading Pic and a Word #156: Your kind of love
Twenty windows that caught my eye in Maremma. Today we continue on the day where we stopped in my previous Lens-Artists PC post looking up, but only with the first photo below. The others are from the remaining days of our recent long weekend with … Continue reading Lens-Artists PC: Windows and stuff
An afternoon in Italy in late September. All one could want from life, really. I met my visitors in Orvieto, Umbria, and then we went to Bolsena by the lake (in Lazio), the town where I haven’t strolled yet. It was a great place for … Continue reading Lens-Artists: Look up to beauty
I’m not sure who invented the word doorfie for a selfie in a door reflection, but today I’ve got an even newer word: Normie. That is, Norm in a door-shell. He has survived the attack of Tuscan doors and greets you all. There were some … Continue reading Thursday Doors, 4/10/18: Normies in Maremma
I shall never forget how upon moving to Italy my parents told me that I lived in the middle of nowhere. Finally. Emptiness. Where are you? When will you return? I turn my back when they arrive and run home to emerging nothingness when they … Continue reading Pic and a Word #153: My emptiness
Small is relative, but since not much is small about me, I collected twenty small surprises that Roman streets gifted me this past weekend. They may be small in size, grandiosity or their importance on the scale of things, but each of these scenes has … Continue reading Lens-Artists PC: Small gifts from the streets
Fire is back. First ten years throughout then five years without. Battling invisible guys or while looking them in the eyes. I thought the fire is gone but I see it’s only just begun. The game is tarok. It can be played in threes and … Continue reading Pic and a Word #152: Fire is back
I love it when a photo challenge falls into my lap just when I need it. Just as I was wondering what to do with these photos, so removed from the scenes that I usually capture, I see this call for action by the Lens-Artists … Continue reading Lens-Artists PC: Call for action
Another Thursday Doors edition that is more about the experience than doors themselves. It takes place in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, where everybody comes lately. Savc is the term of endearment for Savsko naselje where certain rappers stem from, including my mother. Here are … Continue reading Thursday Doors, 6/9/18: Ljubljana Savc