photo of close up detail of Starry Night Over The Rhone painting by Vincent van Gogh

Close up of detail of Starry Night Over The Rhone by Vincent van Gogh by John Hunter

Close up detail of Starry Night Over The Rhone by Vincent van Gogh at the Dreams and Reality Exhibit at the Singapore Art Museum. The Museum D’Orsay in Paris, France provided the exhibit from their collection.

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photo of boy at Mesa Verde National Park

Justin at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

My brother at the Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park.

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Japanese Beetle

Japanese Beetle

Japanese Beetle at Clifton Gorge, Ohio State Nature Preserve

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Japanese Beetle

photo of Egyptian Hieroglyph carving

Egyptian Hieroglyphs at the Met in New York City

From the Met’s Egyptian collection.

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photo of a wary mother cat with 2 kittens

This mother cat seems to be watching me closely in case she needs to react

Mother cat with 2 kittens in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

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photo of vista from Bull Run Mountain Conservancy trail

Bull Run Mountain Conservancy, Virginia offers a nice, simple, quiet trail with some ruins of stone building.

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photo of landscape of Dinosaur National Monument

View of the landscape of Dinosaur National Monument. If you look closely you can see the trail.

Dinosaur National Monument in Utah is isolated, and while the scenery is nice, it isn’t what I would call spectacular. You can spot fossilized dinosaur bones which are amazing in fact, but almost undetectable within the surroundings.

They are about to open up a visitor’s center which might have some nice exhibits (it wasn’t open when I went).

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photo of sculpture by Picasso of a goat skill and statue

Goat Skull and Bottle by Pablo Picasso, 1951. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

photo of Sunset over Andaman Sea

Wonderful sunset on a mostly deserted beach in Khao Lak, Thailand , today. Normally my photos of sunsets are washed out and don’t even provide any idea of how beautiful the sunset was. The photos I took today (after a certain point in the sunset) somehow came up with enhanced color (significantly more than I saw live). Also the area around the sun is more distorted in this picture and those seeming camera effects around the sun were indeed not what my eyes saw.

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photo of a chicken curry dish served in a pineapple.

Photo of a great meal in Khao Lak, Thailand. Frankly I ordered it just because it sounded cool to have it served in a pineapple. It was cool, but also tasted fantastic, the orchids on the pineapple and drink are real.

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