The famous floating torii gate at Itsukushima Shrine is a Ryōbu-style torii. Renewable

The famous floating torii gate at Itsukushima Shrine is a Ryōbu-style torii. RenewableThe famous floating torii gate at Itsukushima Shrine is a Rybu style torii. Itsukushima Shrine, Miyajima, Itsukushima Island, Inland Sea of Japan, Hiroshima Bay, Japan.

Raindrops on the textured surface of a backlit variegated leaf

If it’s a species that is not conducive to co-habitation with humans I use a glass and a sheet of paper to capture and release said critter outdoors

The antique facade and tower of an historic school in rural Victoria

Lush burgundy autumn colors in a tundra gully

A woman browsing for souvenirs in a bazaar

Mount Bishop

An elegant brass lighting fixture emerges from grasses in a garden

Stormy skies over a granite outcrop exposed at low tide

Ice delicately encases blades of grass on a frosty morning in Bhutan Dochula Pass

An astronomer teachers a tourist about Jupiter through a telescope

A wooden trimaran fishing dhow resting in the shallows of a tropical island at low tide

The Cypress of Abarkuh