Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Jan 6, 2015: Melbourne Transport
On a recent trip back home to Melbourne (Australia) , we took a leisurely stroll down Swanston Street, one of the main thoroughfares in the centre of the city.
On a recent trip back home to Melbourne (Australia) , we took a leisurely stroll down Swanston Street, one of the main thoroughfares in the centre of the city.
Did you ever think you would eat ice cream out of a miniature squat toilet? Or that someone would come up with that concept? This phenomena was first introduced in Taipei, Taiwan in the early 2000s when it was a unique idea for an ice...
The unusual light in this shot invites the title, but the stairs actually rise not to heaven, but to the heavenly beauty of the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy. As you might imagine, a town and abbey on an island mountain feature plenty...
A boat trip on the Norfolk Broads is one of the pleasures available for visitors to one of the world’s most idiosyncratic areas of wetlands and waterways. The low-lying coastal lands of East Anglia, the English counties of Norfolk...
Today I am delighted to share my meeting with this gentle and friendly Berber nomad from his encampment above the Todra Gorge.
Snowdonia is a region in north Wales and a national park of 823 square miles in area.
If fireworks at midnight are de rigeur for welcoming the New Year, perhaps a fiery sunset is a fitting way to say goodbye to the old. Of course, this one is not really today's but it will do. I took this picture, and its cloudy companions, from the...
Of the thousands of photos I've taken in Sri Lanka over the years, this grouping remains among my favorites.
A scene of people enjoying their Sunday on the streets of Old Delhi. Old Delhi is jam-packed during weekdays. Sunday is a slower, relaxed day.
Every summer for the past dozen or so years, Paris has turned areas along the Seine, along the Bassin de la Villette and in front of the city hall into sandy beaches for the summer, under the name Paris Plages. Above, along the river...
A line of colorful English beach huts, not unusual, but always a happy sight, especially on a gray day, also not unusual, on a day trip to the East Anglian town of Cromer, on the North Sea. Read more than you ever thought you’d...
I was fortunate enough to be able to photograph this noble-looking Camel Rider of the great sand dunes at Erg Chebbi in the less explored desert zone around Merzouga, south of the Atlas Mountains in southern Morocco.
A few years ago I had the pleasure of visiting San Francisco. I had visited this city a few times before, but this was the first time I was there at Christmas time. San Francisco is a beautiful city throughout the year, but...
Santa's Wonderland in College Station, Texas, has evolved over the past 17 years into the largest Christmas light display in the entire state. In addition to the spectacular light show is Santa's Town featuring gift shops, restaurants, hourly...
While visiting Xi'an, the city where the famous Emperor Qin's Terracotta Museum is located, we came cross a massive "Xi'an Dumpling House" -- a tourist popular restaurant which serves up to 25 different types of carefully crafted dumplings.