While walking in Reykjavik, Iceland I saw this unusual house. At home I changed the sky, removed obnoxious items and darkened the street. The sky is clearly unreal, but I put that color in the reflections in the windows. This was all done about 10 years ago.

We got into the basement another way! An interesting pattern was left behind.

I entered this in the MN State Fair Fine Arts competition, which accepts about 18% of the entries, and I heard today that it was rejected. So I will enter it in the show of fair rejects at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, exhibited during the latter part of August, ending Labor Day. In case you're curious, this picture was taken through a bus window during a tour of Tokyo in 2009.

This fisheye picture shows the five-story lobby of a Shanghai hotel, where I slept on the 54th floor (approximately).

Here's a puzzle! And it's fun, I think. Can you figure it out? It was taken in Santiago, Chile, but that fact won't help you solve the puzzle.

The Opera House is a spectacular construcion that didn't exactly follow the original architect's design (because that would have been too expensive to build), so he never visited the building. The roof tiles are not all white - the building would have been too bright for sailors in the harbor. When I was there (1989) they were photographing every roof tile (in blocks) because some tiles were cracked and needed replacement.

The dark clouds suddenly appeared while there still was light on the structures, The raised structures are designed for grain storage - raising them deters mice, etc.

The Summer Palace is a vast complex of elaborately decorated buildings, hills and grassy areas. Sometimes I find a person in a perfect pose, as in this infrared image.