Garry oaks in Victoria, British Columbia.
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those shops looks like they are from streets of middle size cities or far suburb, reminding me when I was living in Fuji-shi
Love these kind of place, thanks for the memories !
The lights on the 2nd one are also adv for beer but the place do not look like a sake shop (like the 3rd pic) or a bar…
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It’s on a random side street a bit west of Nijo Castle in Kyoto. The building in the second pic is right next to the shop in the third, so maybe it’s the office or even the owner’s house. Yes, I miss the messy random shopfronts and houses of Japan. There’s a Swedish artist who makes intricate models of them.
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Wow he really nailed it ! It feels exactly right 
Yeah it’s strange how Kyoto kept this kind of low buildings, small city architecture (apart from the main station area) even though its a rather large city …
Related example of run-down building (former traditional pastry if I read the sign correctly) no architectural rule kind of stuff you find in japan
http://82.64.103.11/clind/P1060352%20-%20P1060353.png
(from 2009, was still shooting jpg with my trusry dmc-fz5 at that time)
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Ha. Brilliant. Makes Hong Kong look like Switzerland
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Drain at the end of the world (or is it a polar vortex?)
Something a little different today.
Flat light, no skies: What to shoot? Well, I found an interesting (albeit compositionally-limited) subject, so I went all abstract on ya…
Input vortex at Little Lake in the Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge near Archie, Louisiana. Shot through CPL and 6-stop ND filters.
90% processed in ART with minor clean-up in AP.
These look like they’d make a nice wall-sized mural (or even physical wallpaper) for some creative interior design.
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So, we went to the west coast of Scotland for the weekend. It rained…
This is at the Bonawe iron furnace
We did have a short dry spell when we visited Dunstaffnage castle, this has a commanding position in the bay
A short walk through the woods takes you to the chapel, now open to its god
We came back on the B842, 25Km of single track road with passing places…
The first is Davaar Island, just off Campbelltown (which we went to on the Sunday, it was closed), the second is Arran, taken near Carradale. Scotland can be incredibly grey on an overcast day.
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Yeah I think you did. That’s a really nice image but the thought of somehow stumbling into it is terrifying. 
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Isn’t that the default? At least that’s what I remember from my stay in Scotland… (18 months, based in Glasgow)
Back in the days when National Geographic was a serious magazine, they had a feature article on Scotland. I’ll never forget one of the first sentences: “It has been called the land of two seasons - winter and July.”
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And July is the rainy season!
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With midges 
It is said that if you stand somewhere like Bowness-on-Solway (to the south of Solway Firth) and you can’t see the north coast of the Firth, then it is raining. If you can see the north coast, then it is going to rain.
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I don’t want to spoil anyone’s ceilidh, but all that is said about Scotland here is said about Brittany in France (except the midges). We even have the forecast technique using the visibility of landmarks. But the Bretons have a counter-proverb; in Brittany it only rains on morons.