Floating sphere in the Genoa harbour, architect Renzo Piano. Photo credit.

From the National Geographic’s 2012 photo contest. Made possible, one imagines, by a pretty muscular telephoto lens.

Takanori Aiba: Bonsai-B

I dreamed (and you will not be interested to hear about it, but I am not recording it for you), last of all (but aren’t all the choicest dreams the last ones?), of a large pink cockatoo, flying above the cloud-darkened beach and the slates of the city, as the heavy-shouldered storm waded greyly in to shore.