The coming of a new year brings reflections on the year that has past, thoughts appropriate to the last day or first day of a year, and ideas about new…

My favorite comment on this series of images, on #3, found over on Instagram: "I've sat here a long time looking at this!"

Somewhat in the spirit of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, maybe it is all a misunderstanding on the cosmic scale, with the universe a multidimensional freeway interchange where we've…

The Steamboat Slough Bridge, shown here from underneath, was built in 1924. According to HistoricBridges.org, this bridge is a good example of a Strauss heel-trunnion bascule bridge. Despite some repair…

Here's a photographic mystery for you! Can you reverse engineer these abstracts? As a hint, these were essentially created in the camera, with very minimal Photoshop processing in post-production (just…

In downtown Palermo, Sicily, at the intersection of Via Maqueda and Via Vittorio Emanuele is an ornate and baroque piazza, surrounded by four symmetrical structures with statues in niches. Dubbed…