http://www.amoschapplephoto.com/air daily 0.75 2020-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1579598857525-QZCGVS7XZKYIIHWZGTEQ/image-asset.jpeg Air A golden sculpture of Pheme, the personification of fame and renown in Greek mythology, on the roof of the Dresden University of Visual Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1579598857525-QZCGVS7XZKYIIHWZGTEQ/image-asset.jpeg Air A golden sculpture of Pheme, the personification of fame and renown in Greek mythology, on the roof of the Dresden University of Visual Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1465668705268-4N2LRRWME0LHB8QMYEFT/Peterpaul+copy+2+copy.jpg Air Peter & Paul Cathedral after a snowstorm, Xmas day 2014. We *almost* saw the sun that day. Anyone who's ever spent a December in St. Petersburg knows how special this is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1563822012715-2SJADOUKX6JRJRL5OXBA/BACDDFDD-1619-45A8-9385-E5DE83436792.jpg Air Sheep stream into the morning sunlight after being released from their corral near Omalo, in Georgia’s Tusheti mountains. Livestock in the region are returned to their pen every evening as protection against wolves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411381875281-I68VKJ7W3YOJXU8FWEU9/P1070048+copy+%281%29+copy+2.jpg Air Saint Petersburg's Hermitage Pavilion wreathed in dawn mist. The little whipped cream palace was famous for parties where mechanical tables laden with food rose from beneath the floorboards. Click here for the full gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1563821627728-56PBO1ODVFCI134H2WYI/BA48B207-82FE-4297-81F9-B07545A07486.jpg Air Aleksandr Nevsky Cathedral, the glowing centerpiece of Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1465669039325-HCN7BIXIDULFZ60H69T4/P4480453+copy+2.JPG Air They hand-paddle out to the lily pads. Wife, husband and uncle, feeling the tendrils beneath for the little nodules which will earn them enough to put "two meals on the table and a little bit". Roasted, the water chestnuts will end up in sooty piles at the market. Fingers blacken breaking through to the white flesh within. The flavour is somewhere between a peanut and a potato, watery and crisp. The husband told me "we're a fisherman caste, there's no 'like' or 'dislike' to working in the water. Does a fish like to swim? We do what our people have always done." "If someone told us to do this job we would never agree. The work is never-ending and the business is tiny, but it's ours and that's a joy. Better to be your own slave than someone else's." Jhalawar, India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1465669381436-WSFKUA7KXBFAJUR0MCFW/P2650624+copy+copy.jpg Air Russia's candy-cane capital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1563821414473-IIC5NNXFQ0WQ5ANQBMFP/DJI_0819b+copy.jpg Air Veliko Tarnovo’s fortress on a misty morning. The Bulgarian town was once dubbed a “third Rome” (after Constantinople) for its cultural influence on Eastern Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414571625051-6LR1243I9V9GF9ICPNXH/SPB_08-copyweb.jpg Air Saint Petersburg's Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood during a squally autumn morning. The church marks the spot where the reformist Tsar Alexander II was assassinated; the patch of the cobbles on which he lay dying is preserved inside the church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1563820266455-WYH7ALEBZO0R3G6SJASU/C3E9AB77-9E2C-48FE-8587-937AE8C857CC.jpg Air Charlottenburg, a circular village in the west of Romania built by Germanic settlers in the late 1700s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1579599014441-KDSTF4MKI26M5X7B3Q7L/image-asset.jpeg Air The electric ferry on Slovenia’s lake Bohinj on its first run of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414571623479-NJOOAY8NZ6STPHBAMU5K/SPB_05-copyweb.jpg Air Saints Peter & Paul Cathedral rising through winter mist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414571623502-6T320OZR0EZP4TSEBD54/SPB_01-copyweb.jpg Air The Peter & Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg's founding point. At the time of the fort's construction the islands of St. Petersburg were populated only by a ragtag collection of fishermen's huts. The area was deemed "too wild, too wet, too unhealthy" for human habitation, the equivalent of founding a capital city in the upper reaches of Hudson Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414574041093-J286Q3BNSHHWZM7RO08C/P1890543s+copy.jpg Air The Lotus Temple, dotted with pigeons at sunrise. Designed by an Iranian exile, the building serves as the centre of the Bahai'i faith in Delhi. Click here for the full gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414572883437-XM3ODEJ8ZEP6QQP9J60C/P2030742+copy.jpg Air The Taj Mahal and its gardens as the day's first tourists trickle through. Click here to watch a BBC interview discussing working with a drone in India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414572766251-XVRSJZKQC4NCNSH1VVC4/P2030926s+copy.jpg Air Two wrestlers practising the ancient Indian sport of Kushti in a pit they had hacked into the ground two hours earlier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414572883048-ZP57P51NESJHSG3A5ZDU/P1890913zx+copy.jpg Air Jama Masjid, the heart of Islam in India. The red sandstone structure was built under the orders of the Shah Jahan, the same Emperor who commissioned the Taj Mahal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1563820220306-E4KTP5M6MTMJUNIDKSF3/42E7A973-961B-45C5-8DA3-5C3616F7BF87.jpg Air Hermes, the Greek god of trade, travel, and thievery, dances on the corner of a 1909 building in the western Romanian city of Timisoara. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1465669187664-9YFA6H7OEUAOSFVOZQE3/IMG_2462+%281%29+copy.jpg Air Budapest on a summer morning. Europe, please never change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414572881069-K5UNDUA51S9AYQ4DICT0/P1870192+copy.jpg Air Known to the locals as 'Hill 3' this knoll jutting above Mumbai's northern slums is no more valuable than the land below; running water, which the hill lacks, is far more valued than any view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414573432504-G18P1DQO189TY8DFU7A4/Barcafinal+copy.jpg Air The neatly arranged suburbs around Sagrada Familia. Octagonal city blocks allow for the light, spacious street corners which make al fresco beer & tapas in Barcelona such a delight. Click here for the full Europe gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414571301773-JJZV6OV7ZLF4OXVW0L1G/Abkhazia_08web.jpg Air Russian tourists basking on the beach in Abkhazia. Click here for the full gallery on the embattled territory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1465669412682-41LOLCVGKZ89VJON8VOJ/P2960690+copy+4+copy.jpg Air The golf course at Kauri Cliffs, New Zealand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414572223033-QFG0XU77BUIV5YD18RPA/P1980412-copyweb.jpg Air The Vittoria Light, overlooking the Gulf of Trieste at sunset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414572225245-LXGDQNXQD6ZHZHG9X2NM/P2340013-copyweb.jpg Air The star fort at Bourtange. Three centuries after the last cannonball was fired in anger at the fort, it now serves as a museum and centre of a sleepy farming village in eastern Holland. The low, thick walls were designed to offset the pounding force of cannonfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414573432958-8GCU6UA4VKEAOEI6ZLWY/P2310447+copy.jpg Air Buda castle on August 20, 2014. The barge in the centre of the Danube is loaded with fireworks, launched later that night to celebrate Hungary’s national day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414573434588-GM9RT1UIDAZ1NJE03OQK/P2390845+copy.jpg Air Clouds swirl through the pillars of Sagrat Cor Church, high on a hill above Barcelona. Twenty minutes later a thunderstorm hit the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414573435681-A3ZGPEQMB3RQ4MQD100Z/P2390957+copy.jpg Air Paris’ Sacré-Cœur glowing in a hazy sunrise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1563821395300-UYTT3XCIM585VW9MNRZ9/A8104A4E-A3AE-4311-B092-D269B882868C.jpg Air Romania’s Doftana prison, where a young Nicolae Ceausescu spent two years locked away for "communist activities" in the 1930s, before his rise and eventual fall and execution in 1989. The prison was turned into a museum under Ceausescu's communist rule, but now lies abandoned. http://www.amoschapplephoto.com/air2 daily 0.75 2014-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411385361766-1T9XEMSFXU8FZPOSALXM/P1070048+copy+%281%29+copy+2.jpg Air https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411385361766-1T9XEMSFXU8FZPOSALXM/P1070048+copy+%281%29+copy+2.jpg Air https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411385369867-2095Y7RG1YBFW41PZHZ4/P1220234+copy+2.jpg Air http://www.amoschapplephoto.com/earth daily 1.0 2021-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411381759294-DKPGA96SQ8EVQPH59FR2/yakutsk-coldest-siberia.jpg Earth A student waiting for her bus in Yakutsk, the coldest city on earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411381759294-DKPGA96SQ8EVQPH59FR2/yakutsk-coldest-siberia.jpg Earth A student waiting for her bus in Yakutsk, the coldest city on earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1577895042086-UGR2G0N00KA1I0EPXYTC/image.jpg Earth It looks like the darkness of evening but this is 14:25 in the afternoon during the long polar night in Russia’s Murmansk, the largest city in the arctic circle. Click through for my story (shot on an iPhone 11) illustrating the 40 days of darkness the city endures each winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1537994375861-FQONRQ5U11BKLCUY95IE/P2900258cropped.jpg Earth Lucine Burtoyan, in the midst of the street protests that would lead to the 2018 Armenian revolution asking a policeman “Will you join us? Why are you with Sarkisian (the hated prime minister)? Why aren’t you with your people?” She started crying halfway through that second sentence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1617215342680-V3DF1FFWAX17UEPAYOSG/image-asset.jpeg Earth The light from a nearby housing estate illuminates the monument at the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, commissioned by the Soviet authorities in 1984 to commemorate mass shootings carried out there by the Nazis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1581168418092-PYF1MP4DB8ODSIN2BSNA/image-asset.jpeg Earth A shepherd in Georgia’s Tusheti mountains caught in a hailstorm during the migration up to the alpine plateau where he spends each summer with his flock (in background). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1581168245442-3FIUO7ZXFTPMY8LOSF2C/image-asset.jpeg Earth A Soviet-era research facility on the flanks of Armenias highest mountain where scientists once studied atomic reactions for nuclear weaponry. Today the site studies the mysterious cosmic specks that streak into our atmosphere from outer space, tearing through people and things, and occasionally corrupting data and crashing computers. Click here for the story on Armenia’s Cosmic Ray Catchers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411381747483-SNSDZRCNMUCMTXB9HKGE/palangan-iran-kurdistan.jpg Earth Iran's Palangan Village, twinkling to light at dusk. Click here for the full gallery on Iran. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1418481903239-OMW96N610GMMXVQYZFB2/palangan-kurdistan-iran-shepherd.jpg Earth Two shepherds lead Palangan's flock out to pasture. At first light, the lanes of Palangan village are busy with children leading their family sheep into the centre of the village. Once the flock has gathered, these shepherds begin their trek into the hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414575618387-182S7IELXSEFIBFJAH17/Iran3+copy.jpg Earth Tehran's Azadi ("Freedom") Tower, draped with black flags to commemorate the death of Ibn Hussein Ali, an important figure for Shia Muslims. The designer of the tower is Bahai'i, and now lives in Canada as a religious exile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1485075482124-5SEO2PM9FDX3NXXLZL97/P1700155b+copy.jpg Earth An illegal tusk hunter at a site where men extract mammoth tusks from the permafrost. Click here for my story on The Mammoth Pirates of Siberia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1485090580773-8YU42ZOOD2RU79DXBQYU/P2130647.jpg Earth The monastery atop Mount Kachkanar, in central Russia. The monastery is scheduled for demolition in 2018 to make way for a new iron mine. Click here for my story on the Buddhists Vs. The Billionaire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1461935147180-2MEK7SP1CL0ZVIY6340R/P3330595+copy.jpg Earth Local boys leap into a stepwell near Jaipur's Amber Fort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1485077562360-YAJKMKYJRG3L2Q0HZJI4/114A3680+copysmall.jpg Earth A truck after nearly breaking through on one of Siberia's treacherous ice highways. Click here for my story (the most terrifying of my life) on Siberia's Ice Highway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1461936049987-WF9VPBZ1NTYWIKK1A7PY/IMG_4007.jpg Earth For 61 years he's sat here, legs dwindling to sticks as he thumps cooking pots into shape. His sons work beside him, three hammer blows occasionally falling together in synch, then scattering again into the random beat of the workshop. I ask whether the girls admired his arms when he was young but he scolds me for rudeness. He's more comfortable talking about the men with firebombs who drove his family out of their homeland. His father had made the decision to stay when Pakistan was formed around them, a Sikh clan in a new Muslim nation, but eventually the mob violence visited their neighbourhood and they fled. Like so many who've lived through big history he's nostalgic for the past. "Under the British we felt enormous pressure but we were innocent then. Now the people have freedom but we no longer love each other." But his old-testament face lights up when his grandchildren appear, they're educated and will live a different life. He props a favourite onto his knee, "these little ones can choose their own lives and of course I'm happy for that". Finally, after the curious crowd have drifted away from us he leans in close, "you asked about my arms? My wife told me she always felt safe in these arms". He rocks back and sweeps a hand over his children, his workshop, his little empire, "and she was, she always was" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1516274792728-A25GVTUOMJYTSI53BG9Z/254FA625-41F7-4BF6-97F9-55DFB2D729DA.jpg Earth A trail of sheep wend through Tusheti mountains, on their way towards the formidable Abano pass. Click here for the boozy, brave journey made each autumn by Georgia's Mountain Shepherds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411381756298-3OMVFC1XMJ21KKJZI3PJ/yakutsk-dog-coldest-place.jpg Earth Gnarled by the cold, a dog stands guard in Yakutsk on a -50c (-58F) day. Click here for my gallery on the Coldest City On Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411381758247-9W5XPWTNLTXXHS48QWA9/yakutsk-extreme-city.jpg Earth A woman hurries through the fog which lingers through the coldest weeks in Yakutsk. In background a statue of Lenin presides over the central square of the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411381759619-A27M1I7L1H6HMKU28R0P/yakutsk-fur-beauty.jpg Earth A local woman enters Preobrazhensky Cathedral in a swirl of freezing mist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414575467610-ZEEN2O1E9YGJ9IAZ7H53/Siberia3+copy.jpg Earth Warm draughts of air escaping this house freeze into puffs of ice which form, fall and reform throughout winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411381753152-7YPC69IRYIOYSID5K42R/toledo-morning-street.jpg Earth On the way to the bakery in clear morning sunlight, Toledo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1418713009067-J2WRH7XSHCQSLRBB9F7I/wettest-mawsynram-rainiest-.jpg Earth Getting on with it in the world's wettest place: Full-time labourer, part-time butcher Winchester Lyngkhoi carries fresh meat up to his stall on market day. "Is it hard to live with so much rain?" "We can't think about that. Here there's always rain but we have to work, so it's no good wondering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1418392159403-MWHU5PSOAXXE9R61BD1J/image-asset.jpeg Earth A Komodo Dragon charges through rainfall on Rinca Island. Click here for full gallery on the Komodo Islands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1418506750505-TMJUXV6L5D3PIEVYSCQH/P1890743-2+copy.jpg Earth Two boys playing on the shell of a Soviet APC in Murghab, the highest town in Tajikistan. Built by the Russians in the late 19th century, Murghab served as a staging post for the cloak & dagger activities of their operatives during the clash of empires known to the British as "The Great Game" and to the Russians as "The Tournament of Shadows".   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1418723617366-V7P6N68XF7MQ9BFME3AL/Georgia1.jpg Earth The Katskhi Pillar, Georgia. A monk (standing directly under the terracotta roof) has lived atop the pillar for the past 21 years in order to live "closer to God". Click here for the story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411381753560-389OKQEZV69RH5JYTL18/transnistria-soldier-ussr.jpg Earth Transnistrian soldier on the night he finished 18 months of military service. He had time for two quick vodkas and this picture before heading into the night to celebrate in earnest. Click here for full gallery on the breakaway republic of Transnistria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1516275397261-0EP76BOQNNZWNR942GTA/P1690292+copy.jpg Earth Mosquitos swarm onto my feet as I attempt to dry my socks while encamped with Siberia's Mammoth Pirates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1537994803519-JZQ3BTY6FQWD252YBZX7/PGX95882+copy.JPG Earth A shepherd looses his horse onto mountain pasture after the spring migration to the highlands of Georgia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1427887540722-05524L1STVQJ717UTO8N/image-asset.jpeg Earth Workers at rest in the gothic columns of CST train station, Mumbai. The men had just finished a shift replacing tiles on the roof of the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1418520968264-KP2ZHCWP7PNSO3GWUJPS/chepangforweb.jpg Earth A girl from the Chepang tribe in the highlands of southern Nepal. The girl was on her way to guard a corn crop against monkeys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1411381755098-LB3ZK3WPXLIT16P6UO0R/tree-root-bridge-meghalaya.jpg Earth "En root to school": At around 8:30am every weekday these friends make their way through the jungle and across an ancient tree root bridge on their way to class. Click here for full story on the Meghalaya region of India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1414575572710-70OBG3ON0N890XCZ4TOT/India4+copy.JPG Earth The thin aerial roots which locals knot into place to train rubber trees into bridges and ladders which can stand up to the rain-soaked environment of Meghalaya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541fdc24e4b07b5243b65d70/1428538649113-8L9ZNVPJ5049AMNPNN7B/IN22NAAC_004.jpg Earth A tea picker caught out in a storm near Ooty, southern India. Moments earlier I'd passed in a train crawling cautiously over rivers red with floodwater. It was slow enough I could jump out and scramble back up to this plantation. 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