Details Of Canberra

Suburban cities can look a little like David Lynch's film, Blue Velvet. Bucolic beauty with an undercurrent of menace. How menacing is Canberra?

Skate park and dam, divergent uses of concrete in similar forms.

Dumped KFC meal. Highway underpass, dark.

Lost shopping cart.

Discarded sunglasses. Hard trim.

Lawn girl.

Taking A Look Around Dushanbe, Part Two

Horses, guns and paintings, Dushanbe has it all. Time to look at it.

White plus black equals black and white. Interesting. Sure.

Mini amusement. Small pleasures. Apartment construction with lifestyle dream on the front fence. Somehow, skiing and a nice parking garage are big selling points. Might have to tweak the focus group.

Golden parking spot.

Intimidating. Detail of a sculpture at Sadriddin Aini square. Splicing power.

Art for sale in a pedestrian street underpass. "Whadya looking for? Flowers? A horse? Some fruit? How about an old mill or some guns?"

Taking A Look Around Dushanbe, Part One

Lots of little things to look at in Dushanbe. Construction, sculptures, random signs of life are all on display.

Big cranes at a fantastical bridge. Curvy.

Creative (and matching) windshield cover. Dry fountain, now a rock garden.

Park ambassador. Curious.

More construction. Expansive excavation. Auto relaxation.

Small stadium. Colorful.

Wandering Around Andijan, Uzbekistan

Ahh, what are some cool things to see in Andijan, a sizable town in the Fergana valley, Uzbekistan?

A man and his bovine.

Outside amphitheater grandstand. Simple village lunch.

Giant eagle sculpture, shading restaurant chairs.

Market meat. Damaged rabbit park ornament.

World War II monument with standard weeping mother statue. Time and city development moves forward.

Wandering Around Turin

Good stuff around most every corner.

Fantastical condo complex, putting green building into overdrive.

Fun cars at the Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile. Robot on an asembly line, finishing a car with lots of little cars. Super meta. Opening it up. A car, modified to be a giant sardine can.

Bronze death bed plaque at the Alessandro Ferrero statue. "Can I get a drink of water?"

Fiat headquarters turned into a nifty art museum. Test track garden and modern building. Tire art, consisting of a zillion photos of the factory.

Standing tall at the WWI memorial.

Details Of Liguria, Italy

What's going on, Liguria? Time to focus on the small stuff of Northern Italy.

Fun flora in a diorama at the Museo Archeologico del Finale.

It's always warm and sunny in the postcards. At Pietra Ligure. Fire! Fake Fire! Another diorama detail at Museo Archeologico del Finale.

Why one goes to Italy, real tomatoes. And some local news. In Finalborgo.

Quiet Catholicism. An altar in a family mausoleum and a tiny painted door on a church altar.

Getting clichéd. Hey, it was all set up. Fantastical bicycle with flowers along a lane in Finalborgo.

Random Details Of Qarshi

A little wander, a little harvesting of interesting sights. Or not.

All dried up. A swimming pool (fountain?) next to a military helicopter. Interesting park.

Mini landmarks. A 3D "map" of Uzbekistan, crammed under a pedestrian bridge. Blue trees during a hot summer.

Butcher cash register.

Paint ball set. Back to looking at trees. White paint for pest control.

Where the road stops. Or begins.

Details Of Samarkand, Part Five

More great things at which to look in Samarkand.

Under construction.

The cliffside through the forest through the trees. The fake mountain through the forest through the trees.

Simple lunch.

The outside chair. Nuclear medallion.

Rainy day at the created convention center park.