The Ishtar Gate

The Ishtar Gate, the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon.
Smaller of the double gates in the museum
constructed in about 575 BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II.

Pergamon Altar

the Pergamon Altar built during the reign of King Eumenes II from the 2nd century BC.

"Parchment"   from "Pergamum" (modern Bergama), city in Mysia in Asia Minor (Turkey) where it was supposedly first adopted as a substitute for papyrus

Museum Mercedes

The Archers

Old National Gallery Street

More Bullet Holes...

East Berlin

Cathedral of Berlin

Under the Gate

Open Spaces of a Closed Regime

Christmas Lights

Angel Street

Sausages!

3 minutes; 3 cars

Coffee & Playboy

Whatever happened to a biscuit on the side?

I don't get out much!

Holstentor: Gates of Lubeck

about 500 yrs old
The sheer weight of the structure has caused some subsidence

Gingko Autumn

" These anomalous forms may almost be called living fossils; they have endured to the present day, from having inhabited a confined area, and from having thus been exposed to less severe competition."

Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, 

but the one most responsive to change.

Passenger Behaviour

personal space.
8 carriages.
those closest to platform stairs near full.
those furthest near empty.

I will survive Christmas

Container Sunset

"The top container ports are in SE Asia, NW Europe, and the West Coast of the United States.

These locations reflect the patters of global trade between locations for production and consumption."

Busiest Ports By Containers (TEUs)

1. Hong Kong

2. Singapore
3. Pusan, South Korea
4. Kaohsiung, Taiwan
5. Rotterdam
6. Shanghai

7. Los Angeles
8. Long Beach, U.S.A.
9. Hamburg, Germany
10. Antwerp, Belgium