Let there be light: and there was light

Tsé bighánílíní dóó Hazdistazí – ‘the place where water runs through rocks’

Antelope Canyon, American Southwest, on Navajo land east of Page, Arizona. August 2019

Rising from the sea like a stone monster

Hvítserkur, Iceland, 2017

Icelandic legend has it that the rock was a troll who forgot to retreat from the light and was turned to stone in the sunrise, though from some angles it is said to look like a dragon drinking from the water. 

Her&Him

Vertigo!

At the top of the Burj Khalifa, Dubai

The street lamp

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore

The Carpenter’s Shop

Non so come andasse, ma il fatto gli è che un bel giorno questo pezzo di legno capitò nella bottega di un vecchio falegname, il quale aveva nome Mastr’Antonio, se non che tutti lo chiamavano maestro Ciliegia, per via della punta del suo naso, che era sempre lustra e paonazza, come una ciliegia matura. Pinocchio, Collodi (1883)

Huayna Potosí, Bolivia

Huayna Potosí, the “easiest 6000er in the world, located about 25 km north of La Paz in the Cordillera Real.

Just Before the Sunrise

The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, designed by Andrea Palladio, in Venice.

And there’s a storm that’s raging

And there’s a storm that’s raging Through my frozen heart tonight …

The Old Peak

The Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, The Old Peak in Quechua language