Blue Sky Eyes

"Buddhist nun: My 19-year-old son, Gavin and I met this peaceful vision of a soul amid the ruins in the main temple at Angkor Wat, Seim Reap, Cambodia. It was June of 2005, exactly two years before she would pass away. We were awed by her pure joy and beauty, deeply moved by the love she radiated. She doesn't own a cell phone or a credit card or a car or a checking account. She was barefoot (we later wondered if she even owned a pair of shoes). We spent the rest of the afternoon wandering through those ancient ruins, wet from the weight of the Cambodian sun, smiling and singing All You Need is Love. It was one of the very best days of my life". Taken by Annie Link

Gender

"I spent two days in this teahouse waiting unsucessfully for an empty space on a jeep going up valley. This traveller came in with his wife. She sat on the raised eating platform and heavy curtains were immediateley drawn to hide her from view. He fetched and carried tea and food for her. She sat alone for several hours". Taken by David

Weathervane

"The sunset. San Diego". Taken by Deletedpenguin

BeetleJuice

"Another pretty little guy... but this one was captured in Alentejo, in my birthplace. São Cristóvão, Alentejo, Portugal". Taken by Rosa Gamboias

Improper Behaviour

"These small ivory figures are on display in the Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Shanghai, China. They were used in ancient times to depict the site of pain of a female patient to the doctors in attendance who would invariably have been males. It would not have been proper to point to their own body to show the site". Taken by Mike

Passage Thro' The Wood

Little Hallingbury, England. Taken by John

Sri Lanka Sunset

"Oh Lanka, Lanka...I'll be back". Taken by Anuradha Sarup

Dusk Over Berlin

Taken by Ulf Buschmann

Fishermen

Goa, India. Taken by Anamitra Chakladar

A Gateway to the Worlds Above

Berea College Observatory, Kentucky. Taken by Virgil

Bohemian Waxwing

Bombycilla Garrulus, Alberta. Taken by Philpete

A Perfect Day

"Captured from a speeding car near Braidwood, Australia". Taken by Smiler

Geode Downtime

"Paris, Parc de la Villette, good weather and napping at the Geode". Taken by G@tto Giallo

Down with the Fish

"In front of a tiny school in the small fishing village of Akumal". Mexico. Taken by Mostly Lisa

Out and About

Florence (Firenze), Italy. Taken by Yulia Rodina

Birds' Paradise

Portugal. Taken by Rosa Gambóias

Choppy Waters

"The Maid of the Mist. Niagara Falls, Ontario". Taken by sher_d03

Friends

Tokyo, Japan. Taken by Hata3

Mr Blue Boots, His Bike, and a Zebra Crossing

Taipei, Taiwan. Taken by Darrell Gallant

Spike Head

Amsterdam. Taken by Roy del Vecchio

Sonic Craft

"A Tamil man working on a Veena, the ancestor of the Sitar". Taken by Claude Renault

Spirits in Transit

"Transit. Taken with a standard 50mm Nikon lens on Agfa APX100 during the haze of a long wait between planes". Taken by David

Roll Your Own

"Tibetan schoolboys goofing around with lumpy grass roller". Taken by Wonderlane

Sniffing the Way

"She has this strange obsession with catching flies and bees. This is her favorite hunting spot in my garden". Simi Valley, California. Taken by Craig

Out of the Soil

"Ah Patrick! I owe this man so much… He has a farm 50 km from Paris where he grows all the vegetables he sells in the market. He loves his work, always smiles, knows all customers by name. Also he always gives you more that what you paid for, adds an apple, a few carrots in you basket. Sometimes I bring him strange vegetables from India, things he has never seen... He is very curious of agriculture over there, asks me a lot of questions. Mouffetard is like a village…". Taken by Elishams

Drip Feed

In the Suzhou General Hospital, 85 km west of Shanghai, China, as in most hospitals in China today is a large room for outpatients to receive intravenous therapies. Suzhou was established in the 6th Century BC and became prominent in the Ming dynasty as a result of the Grand Canal attracting scholars and merchants who built many wonderful walled homes. These are now listed by the UN as World Heritage sites. The hospital and the iv therapy room is not one of these sites!". Taken by Mike

Meet the Peat

"Peatlands Park was the first of its type in the British Isles and was specifically established to promote and facilitate peatland awareness and issues. The peat here has been forming for about 10,000 years. The site was acquired in 1978 from the IPDC (Irish Peat Development Company) and the park was officially opened in 1990. Visitors can explore the 265ha (680 acre) site on foot along its many paths and wooden walkways". Taken by Kim Shatwell

The Pavement Shuffle

"A wet morning. Not enough room on the pavement for the umbrellas and people... Via del Corso, Rome". Taken by Rich

On The Road...

"A road monster at an oil station along the road from Port Harcourt to Obudu mountains, Nigeria". Taken by GattoGiallo

The Gaze of the Sumo Wrestler

"I took this shot with black and white film but the graffitis were also done in black and white. If only all graffiti artists were that talented...". Taken by Smiler

Roof Walk

"The largest cultural construction in the nation of 4.7 million people since the Nidarosdomen Cathedral in Trondheim in the 14th century. This will also be the first opera house in the world where visitors can take a walk on the roof". Taken by RennyBA