Portrait of a Cockatoo

Tanimbar corellas come in screeching numbers.

Moss in the Afternoons

The afternoon sunlight dapples moss in a forest in the Western Ghats.

Hello Again

Hello again.

The Run of the River

So many water bottles advertise crystal clear, Himalayan water - when we went hiking, we drank right from the source, glacier-chilled. As long as we stuck to running streams it was good - this was water straight from glaciers, some which we could see above us, white behemoths in the distance.

Advertisement

Evanescence

forgive me for wanting to drown in the sky, some days - for wanting to tear out my heart and gift-wrap it in clouds to bequeath the sun.

Portrait of a Gaur

The curious charm of the Indian gaur.

Abstractions from the Embers

A fire smoulders on a dark night in Bangalore, India. we burn with unapologetic fury against the dark, the dark, the creeping creeping dark; sing with unrestrained vigor into the silence, the silence the humming humming silence; live with undimmed spark for the light, the light it grows and it grows and it grows  

Monochrome Contemplation

Two students meditate at a kungfu school in Qufu, China.

Waders Dressed in White

Two Little Egrets and a lone Grey Heron stalk the shallow waters of Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, just a few hundred meters from Malaysia.

Coup d’Oeil

Car-window glimpses – hints at something beyond the fingerprinted glass and constant humming of movement and silence in their endless dance, because you love like this – bittersweet heart-in-mouth. You cannot do anything else; no space forms for anything else in disappearing tarmac behind and knowledge of the gap between possibility and reality. In the…