I have stopped posting to this blog as I now have a flickr account to which I post my photos...

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Philip Seymore Hoffman

I'm not crazy. There are doubles of everyone in the movies. You can find them if you look.

Juliette Binoche

I have to disagree with the person who commented that these two women are not similar.

My Trip to England

A nest model from the museum of natural history.

The dinosaur exhibit at the natural history museum was pretty good. I was wishing I had my boy with me, though.

The jaws of a port jackson shark. These are crunching teeth, not cutting teeth.

How can you not want to go into a building that looks like this? Here's the Natural History Museum of London.

Where did the rest of this building go? It seems like the right hand side was just chopped off with a knife.

A little carving I whipped up in my spare time...yeah right. I can't believe what some people can do with a block of marble!

Little boy in a big garden. I don't know the kid, I just thought it was a beautiful place and he happened to walk by when I was composing the shot.

Flowers in Hyde Park.

I wouldn't have been a proper tourist in London if I did not take a picture like this. Quintesential London: Big Ben, double decker bus, and the Tube emblem all in one frame. If only there had been a beef-eater on his way to work...

The Lodon Aquarium.

This monument had very powerful images. I stared at it for a long time. The following few are bits of a larger work.

The lookout.

Pilots and planes.

The cowering masses.

The eyes.

I see the world in a different light than many. These stairs look more interesting to me on their side as an abstract shape than as functional objects.

The Millenium Wheel really is quite large. I'm not sure that it's bigger than the one I saw in Yokohama in 1996, though.

It was good to see exciting architecture again.

The Parish Church of Saint Mary-Le-Strand Is on an island in the famous street called the Strand.

It's good to know that there are people like Paul Tyler helping to make the field of biology enjoyable.

Every now and then in life, you'll meet people whom you wish you could have met earlier in their life. Torben Wulf is one of those people for me. From the stories I heard at the symposium he was just as much a wild man as he was a superb biologist.

This is Michael. He's a bit crazy, but a lot of fun. His natural accent is exactly the same as the nihilists in "The Big Lebowski". He's the first German I have met who really sounds like that. Thanks for the music, by the way, Michael.

Unfortunately, I only got to know these four Germans on my last night in Southampton. I hope we will meet in India in 2009.

Does this woman look like Juliet Binoche or is it just me?

Tomas Cedhagen was surprised when the mayor of Southampton placed the mayoral chain (which was made sometime in the 1700's) around his neck. This was a great photo-op that lasted only a couple of minutes.

Margot with the winner of the poster competition, Hiromi Watanabe.

Some of the colorful characters of the deep-sea biology world. Ólafía-the woman on the left-is the other Icelandic student who attended the conference.

Here's a couple (the Wilsons) who are originally from the States who now live and work in Australia. People say that married people start to look alike after years go by. These two don't resemble each other, but they use their hands in the same fashion when talking.

A good time was had by all at the conference. My compliments to the organizers.

I couldn't resist the opportunity to photograph a pair of mute swans.

Jerry Garcia didn't die, as is commonly believed. He moved to Portsmouth to take up entertaining on the HMS Warrior!

This guy reminds me of my father-not by appearance but because of his personality. For those of you who don't know the long history of what my relationship with my father is like, that's not a compliment.

The flag was beautiful in the wind that evening in Portsmouth.

Marjolaine Matabos and Margot Stiles. I met Margot somewhere else a long time ago but I cannot remember for the life of me where or why. She says that I am familiar, too. This is the first time that this has happened to me. I remembered her laugh and facial expressions so she is someone I talked to at some length and yet we have never lived in the same place. Strange.

Dr. Baban Ingole. This man gave a wonderful presentation to sell the symposium crowd on Goa, India for the next symposium.

Saskia and the ever-present mimosa.

Liao and Dr. Jamie (who's last name I can't remember) on board the HMS Warrior.

Mr. Mark Shields, originally of Glasgow, now works as a researcher on megabenthos in the North Atlantic. He's been kind enough to send me assistance with my project.

Madhumita was one of those who succeeded in lobbying for India as the venue for the next deep-sea biology symposium. I'm sorry but I cannot remember the name of the other fine woman in this photo. If you know who she is, please leave a comment.

Dr. Sandra Brooke, Dr. Jon-Arne Sneli, and Dr. Jörundur Svavarsson (my advisor) on board the HMS Warrior

My new friend Liao from Taiwan.

Commander Nelson's table.

One More from Snæfellsnes

I played with the lighting in this photograph and I think it's starting to look half decent. I want to thank all those who have commented here. It's great to read some very constructive ideas about in which direction some of you would go with given photographs. The oodles of compliments don't exactly hurt either! 

Ornithology

The following group of photos (all posted on the same day) come from five days of birding trips around the western side of Iceland. These photos are all taken by me except the one photo of me which was taken by Eyrún Gígja. I only put the best of the few hundred photos that I actually shot during these trips and I have some others. let me know if you're dying to see more.
These trips ranged from southwest of Hveragerði Iceland north to Snæfellsnes. Click here for a map. We did a count at Þingvellir and another in Heiðmörk close to Reykjavík. Most of these photos are of places I hadn't been to before this month.
As usual if you want to use any of these photos let me know. I have the originals-which are considerably larger-and I would be willing to send them.

Birding Trips for Ornithology Class

Skeiðönd--Northern Shoveler--Anas clypeata

Seen near Mýrar Iceland. Sorry for the quality of this photo. This beautiful duck is fairly rare in these parts. But I couldn't get a better photograph without a tripod.