DAILY PHOTO: Azerbaijan Philharmonic Hall from a Distance

DAILY PHOTO: Genocide Memorials: Miniature and Full-Size

We stumbled onto this roadside miniature replica of the Genocide Memorial of Yerevan a few miles up the road from Tatev Monastery in Southeastern Armenia. The actual memorial:

DAILY PHOTO: Bangalore Creative Circus

DAILY PHOTO: Sri Aurobindo Ashram of Bangalore

DAILY PHOTO: Kura River, Tbilisi

DAILY PHOTO: Koxinga’s Shrine and Statue, Tainan

Photographic Deception [Free Verse]

An overexposed photo
feels like it's from ages
ago --
decades past.

But it's from just the other day.

When I was there in person,
opening that shutter,
it didn't feel like the 90's,
but something about that photo
ages it...
and ages me.

DAILY PHOTO: Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum

DAILY PHOTO: Old Khndzoresk Cave Village

NOTE: This village of caves located on the wall of a deep gorge (Khor Dzor) was occupied until the late 1950’s or into 1960’s (depending upon who you talk to.) In 1958 a “regular” village was built nearby, and the residents moved into the new village. Lest one think this was just some tiny backward settlement, it was for some time the largest village in Eastern Armenia with over 8,000 residents serviced by some 30 shops, seven schools, and a number of professional service providers.

DAILY PHOTO: Matenadaran [Institute of Manuscripts]

Anania Shirakatsi