by Brendan Jackson | May 15, 2016 | Viewpoint
Confluence Low banks of scrub on the left bank, on the right bank a modern banqueting hall Combo and beyond that the docks. Behind us the oldest stone castle in Lithuania, sited here at the junction of the Nemunas and Neris rivers. First destroyed by Crusaders in...
by Brendan Jackson | Oct 15, 2015 | Viewpoint
Kedainiai Alps, a long way from Oldbury. Rimantas and Audrone suggest we go to visit the local chemical plant, the main employer in the area and truly one of the wonders of Lithuania they say. We soon find out why. Two kilometres outside of the town of Kėdainiai, a...
by Brendan Jackson | Oct 15, 2015 | Viewpoint
Random Warsaw These images were made using a relatively small camera, a Canon Powershot A3200 IS. They used to call these cameras pocket sized. (They have been my camera of choice to give out to people participating in projects over the last few years.) The idea is to...
by Brendan Jackson | Oct 13, 2015 | Viewpoint
Grace and beauty It’s 7 am and the roads near the airport are full of densely weaving trucks, cars, mopeds, even people on foot – and once in the city itself, the rush hour doesn’t let up all day. There seem to be as many mopeds as people in Hanoi. The sky is dust...
by Brendan Jackson | Aug 27, 2015 | Viewpoint
The Golden View She threw herself into the air, urging the swing higher, higher, impatient as ever. For a moment, at the apex, before gravity pulled her back, she imagined she was a bird. A swallow perhaps, rising above the 14th-century cathedral, St. Guisto’s...
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