Singapore
The Marina Bay Sands Hotel silhoutted against a beautiful sunrise.
A low angle view of some of the commercial buildings in the downtown financial district.
A Chinatown street on a quiet Sunday morning. Maxwell Road near Peck Seah Street. The red building was the Red Dot Design Museum, which has since relocated and the building is now painted white.
The soft delicate beauty of a white Phalaenopsis orchid.
Puerto Galera, Philippines
Golden yellow flowers blooming on a Vanda orchid in a tropical garden.
Amalfi Coast, Italy
Pretty views along the Valle delle Ferriere hiking trail between Ravello and Amalfi.
Near Ravello, Italy
Some of the beautiful scenery along the Valle delle Ferriere hiking trail, which connects the towns of Ravello and Amalfi, Italy.
Rome, Italy
Vatican
The lavishly painted vaulted ceiling over the Gallery of Maps, which is a Vatican museum, in a corridor leading to the Sistine Chapel. The late renaissance artwork was done by a group of Mannerist painters.
The famous 16th century Michelangelo's Moses statue, in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli.
My travel pet peeve: finding sites obscured by scaffolding and fences while being cleaned/restored. In this case, at the bottom of the Spanish Steps tourists still gathered near the Fontana della Barcaccia, despite it being fenced off for restoration.
Pokhara, Nepal
A charmingly rustic setting for a morning tea break, overlooking Lake Phewa.
The Piazza Navona in central Rome.
Italian lemons...
Praiano, Italy
Sunset on the Amalfi Coast.
In the Pantheon area of central Rome.
Snow Hill Island, Antarctica
A blizzard blows snow over the mountains of Snow Hill Island in Antarctica, while icebergs float in the Admiralty Sound.
South Georgia Island
In Gold Bay,, three moulting southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) lying together near a stream, with king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) in the background.
Antarctica
Small expedition ship, the Ocean Nova, anchored in Yankee Bay on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. It only carries 85 passengers and has a shallow draft of 4.5 meters (12 feet) so you can anchor in places bigger ships can't.
Botswana
An adult male African elephant (Loxodonta africana) stripping bark from a tree, which is a normal food source for them.
A blue iceberg drifting in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Georgia Island.
Falkland Islands
A rookery of black-browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophris) with a few southern rockhopper penguins on a rocky nesting site on West Point Island.
The windswept rugged coastline of West Point Island, the breeding ground for thousands of pairs of black-browed albatrosses and rockhopper penguins.
Churchill, Canada
A lone polar bear (Ursus maritimus) waiting for Hudston Bay to freeze in early November. Luckily it's snowing...
