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Between sessions of beating my head against the new book last week, I roused enough energy to finally take a bunch of surviving negatives of old travel pictures to a photo shop to get developed to CD. I seem to have lost the negatives of Africa '98 - still have the prints, though, so I'll scan them in sometime.

Et voila, a bunch of the ones I (sometimes very idiosyncratically) like most, and links to others if you're bored:

Asian Invasion '97

Some castle between Hiroshima and Kyoto.

Kyoto cemetery.

Ghost bridge, Longsheng, China.

The Great Wall.

Lombok, Indonesia, ridiculously green.

More here.

Asian Invasion '00

The Maw. Actually the top of a tower in south Delhi.

The Taj in silhouette. I think the negative's damaged, as the print I have is bright and full-colour, but I kind of like this version too.

On my very first day on the Annapurna Circuit, I learned a very important lesson: always stand on the mountain side of an oncoming mule train, not, repeat not, the cliff side.

The turquoise pool in the first shot is the tiny elliptical blot in the lower left corner of the second shot, a couple hours of serious trekking later. I believe the figure next to the prayer wall in the second shot is

whythawk. The mountain is Annapurna, 8091 metres high, tenth highest on the planet. (The nine higher mountains, and indeed all the top 65, are also in the Himalaya.)

Nepal being its gratuitously gorgeous self.

Yours truly at the Thorung La, the pass which is the highest point of the Annapurna Circuit. Clearly I was feeling a little goofy.

Dawn atop Tiger Hill, near Darjeeling, in India.

Calcutta, or Kolkata, which I actually really liked.

Wee bit smoggy though. See that blue in the upper right hand corner? Compare to the sky right above the city. Now consider the fact that there wasn't a cloud in the sky.