Seasons Greetings...

Seasons Greetings from us all, currently enjoying a chilly white December here in Finland...

The ginger-bread-coupe above was made by one of my daughters...

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Venice Ivy...

A few photos documenting the osmotic/ parasitic relationship between, here mostly man-made, structures and climbing-plants...

All the photos were taken in Venice in early November, 2010...

small Bizarres No. 14 - Shadow Men with Multi-color Eyes...

A small shadow man appeared on my blank laptop screen the other day... A man with a rotating (hypnotic..?!) multi-color eye... His nerdier brother, below, showed up a bit later...

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Venice Laundry...

Some photos of laundry in Venice - evidence that even in a city almost fully defined and dependent on its cultural, touristic and historical settings there still, nevertheless, exists a fully domestic realm (a side of it that actually epitomizes - fulfills a conspicuous and fundamental role in the benign 'branding') of/in the city...

One could claim that Venice laundry embodies the ambient quality that places like the Villaggio Mall in Doha aspires to capture (but clearly will never achieve - at least in their current format)...

Misty/ Dusty Day at Education City, Doha...

A picture taken through my office window here at the top floor of VCUQ this morning... I'm not too sure if its mist or dust in the air, as the temperature and humidity would suggest the former, whilst the smell/ fragrance and color of the air (a pixellated light-gray) would indicate the latter. Perhaps there's a bit of both...

The 'ring' in the center of the picture is my camera lens being reflected in the double-glazing...

The image below was taken less than ten minutes later than the image above... Here the sun has already managed to burnish off most of the mist/ dust... These events don't take place too often in the region, which, even according to local weather reports, seems to be a nuance free and constant 'sunny & hot'. Consequently such, brief as it was, amiably atypical moments as this morning's 'ground-cloud' are always highly appreciated...

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Venice Moss...

A few images of moss - on statues, walls, trees, sculptures, rocks - taken during a recent visit to Venice...