It doesn't get any better than this.
he paper crane has become an international symbol of peace in recent years as a result of it's connection to the story of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki born in 1943. Sadako was two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
I was tempted for a split second to take it with me as a souvenir. But I know better, I took the picture with me instead.
The Belfast Black Taxi Tours in Northern Ireland showed the amazing political murals of the Troubles between the Protestants and Catholics including the "Peace Wall" separating the two groups. It symbolizes that Belfast is indeed open for business after many years of troubling times.
Upstate New York is one of the few places that you can escape New York and feel any distance from the hustle and bustle of today's average person's technocentric lifestyle. Be sure to get yourself upstate this spring and summer...
I took this shot with my Nikon FM one early morning on a camp site before any fellow campers stumbled out of their tents or RVs.
During my trip to Japan my friend and I did bump into one major celebrity - Colonel Sanders. Only he wasn't dressed all-American like we were used to.
It was 11pm on a typically humid Malaysian night. Motorbikes were racing alongside the cars which sped, leaving trails of blue light hovering for a moment above the road.