FAVORITES – Inner Space Magazine

A woman in a long skirt stands in front of and photographs an ornate temple-relic made of stone.

ANGKOR WAT — Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia

Phoebe stops to photograph the relic site while I stop to photograph Phoebe. Looks like a movie set!

A camera glitch produces a surreal image of a wide intersection in Siem Reap, Cambodia with a headless person riding a bicycle and a whte van without wheels running into a motorscooter.

GLITCHY PHOTO — Siem Reap, Cambodia

Obviously, a glitch occurred when I took this shot. Check out the headless person on the bike and the white van (without wheels) colliding with a phantom motorbike. Creepy cool!

A man (pictured right) and a young woman (left in a long skirt) pose in semi-silhouette in front of a pond at sunrise outside Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia with the woman lifting her right arm upward, palm open, as if to be holding up the rising sun.

SUNRISE AT ANGKOR WAT — Cambodia

Phoebe assumes a goddess pose as she holds the morning sun in her hand. Meanwhile, I just stand there. Amazing place, but hotter than Hades in mid-May.

Close-up view of a large ancient face-sculpture with eyes closed in meditation, carved into golden-brown stone with block-like incisions and barnacle-like blemishes.

FACE OF STONE — Angkor Wat, Cambodia

One of many giant heads carved out of stone in the ancient Buddhist-Hindu complex. How on earth did they manage to do this?

A long row of vacation huts featuring thick grass roofs and wooden front porches sit directly on a body of water with a wood-planked walkway in front and a steep hill of green trees in the background.

GRASSY HUTS — Khao Sok Park, Thailand

Phoebe actually spent the night in one of these floating grass huts while off on a 3-day boating excursion. It's Marguaritaville! [P. Henderson photo, 2016]

Three smiley-faced Nepali boys stand together, posing for the photo, while holding long wooden sticks with a hot-pink substance (cotton-candy?) at the top, for sale in plastic bags.

YOUNG VENDORS — Kathmandu, Nepal

Friendly young faces. Not sure what they're selling, but it looks like cotton candy on steroids.

Tiny white flowers and two yellow blossoms float in a gold bowl on a small wooden table with sunlight streaming in through a grid-like wooden window within the "Garden of Dreams" Botanical Park in Kathmandu.

BOTANICAL GARDENS — Kathmandu, Nepal

This lovely bowl of tiny floating flowers was on display at the "Garden of Dreams" Botanical Gardens in central Kathmandu. Nice organic touch!

A fleet of blue canoes with red tips all pointing in the same direction on Phewa Lake in Pokhara, Nepal.

BOATS ON PHEWA LAKE — Pokhara, Nepal

I spotted this school of red-blue canoes on Phewa Lake―all matching, all pointing in the same direction. Very Zen.

A couple in silhouette walks barefoot in the wet-packed, reflective sand near the water's edge near-dusk with highrise buildings in the background.

GOLD COAST STROLL — Coolangatta, Australia

An Aussie couple walks barefoot at low tide along the Gold Coast just south of Brisbane. You can almost feel the sand squishing between your toes, eh mate?

Shades of indigo, sky blue, and olive green reflect off the rippling waters of a creek in a redwood park in New Zealand.

CLEAR WATERS — North Island, New Zealand

View of a clear, cool stream in a nature park just north of Wellington. That blue reflection looks iridescent, like liquid silver. Just gorgeous!

A classic blue dome with a small gold cross at the top accents a beige-concrete roof as a young woman (bent over at the waist) takes a photo through a window on a large gateway partition.

ROOFTOP PHOTO OPP — Santorini, Greece

That's Phoebe on a concrete roof in Santorini (Pyrgos Kallistis). What do you suppose she's aiming at? Gotta love that turquois dome.

Sunset view of a young couple in semi-silhouette sitting cross-legged on the roof of a white stucco church in the town of Oia in Santorini..

ROOFTOP ROMANCE — Santorini, Greece

What a sweet, romantic spot for taking in a sunset. Three's a crowd in this situation.

A young woman in a black dress sits on a low stone wall while holding a wine glass and looks upward as her hair blows in the wind.

CALDERA MOMENT — Santorini, Greece

After a few cabernets, Phoebe goes into an ecstatic rock star trance at the Venetsanos Winery in Santorini. WHAT a VIEW! Watch the wine, honey, and seriously, don't lean back.

Sunset view of red flowers with long stems growing out of a bed of cactus with the Aegean caldera in the backround in Santorini, Greece.

CALDERA CACTUS — Santorini, Greece

This big flowering cactus above the caldera looks as if it might belong in the Jurassic Era. Wild, freaky, and gorgeous.

A huge wall of ivy covers a stone archway wall as a slender man walks down a long flight of steps and passes underneath.

IVY ARCHWAY — Monti District, Rome, Italy

Now THAT's what I call a wall of ivy! I swear, I didn't ask that man to walk down the steps for me.

Two visitors to Banff National Park in Canada relax in a twin pair of red Adirondak chairs with a picture-perfect view of the water and mountains.

RESTING IN RED CHAIRS — Banff, Canada

Once you've located a pair of red chairs in the Park, it's important to sit down and revel in your success. Phoebe and I are demonstrating how this is done.

View of the lower portion of two legs under the surface of a metal pool of clear, still water with yellow-orange flowers and a wooden fence in the distance.

BACKYARD SPA — Bartlesville, Oklahoma

These lovely appendages belong to my good friend, Dana, who turned a feeding trough into an above-ground pool on her back deck. Hell YES!

Two young women wearing sunglasses are covered in bold colors after completing a "Color Me Rad" 5k run in Oklahoma City (and getting dowsed with colors while en route), with one of them kneeling and giving a "thumbs up" while the other laughs from above.

COLOR RUN — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Phoebe (with friend Courtney) gives a thumbs up after getting dowsed repeatedly with color powder during a 5K "COLOR RUN". So fun, so cute, so totally RAD!

PURE PORTLANDIA — Portland, Oregon

DUDE is right!

View of two charming multi-storied buildings (one painted yellow and one painted red) with many windows and a brown boathouse and a small green boat parked in front on a canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark on a clear day with blue skies.

CHRISTIANSHAVN DISTRICT — Copenhagen

Take a look at that sweet brown boathouse with the "watermelon boat" parked out front. That's my dream home right there!

Bright green bike parked along a cobbled street under a gorgeous yellow tree in Autumn in Copenhagen, Denmark.

SIMPLY AUTUMN — Copenhagen

Copenhagen in autumn―it's almost as if the city was built for the season. It's moody and romantic with charm out the wazoo!

Close-up of a beautiful red-brick building in Copenhagen, Denmark, that features decorative masonry work around the windows, a tarnished copper downspout, and aged copper letters on the building that spell out COPENHAGEN.

THE ROYAL COPENHAGEN — Copenhagen

Wonderful brickwork on this building, and the downpipe and letters in aged copper add just the right touch of industrial elegance.

Close-up of thick green ivy that's starting to turn yellow-orange in Autumn as it grows around a small arched window on a stone building in Copenhagen.

WINDOW IVY — Copenhagen

It's late October and the ivy is starting to turn around this sweet little arched window. Classic Copenhagen!

White birds perched on a green willow tree that is growing out of a pond and surrounded by yellow and orange trees in autumn in Copenhagen.

ØRSTEDS PARK — Copenhagen

White birds in a willow in a pond in a park in Copenhagen in autumn. Love it!

Woman with dark short hair in a white blouse leans forward with a smile as she baths and supports the neck of an infant reclining in a plastic dish with his feet sticking out over the edge.tub.

MOM and ME — Sharon, Pennsylvania

Yep, it's bath time for baby Ralph. Gotta love those duck feet!

Bright red storefront in Edinburgh, Scotland with "Victor Scott Kiltmakers" in gold lettering and a white dress on a mannequin in the window.

RED STOREFRONT — Edinburgh, Scotland

Storefront for Victor Scott Kiltmakers on Bow Street in central Edinburgh. That red is bold, classic, sexy, and just plain spectacular!

View through a metal gate at the grand arched doorway to a cathedral and the shadow of the photographer and entrance gate visible on the ground in front.

SAINT-AUBIN CHURCH — Toulouse, France

While the grand arched entrance to St-Aubin Church in Toulouse is undeniably stunning, somehow my looming shadow took center stage in this photo. I'm titling it, "Monster at the gate!"

Three large and frozen trees stand side by side in winter with their thick trunks and icy branches reaching upward like hands toward the violet-gray sky.

WINTER WONDERLAND — Limousin, France

Is it just me or do these frozen plane trees look like hands reaching up from the earth? [photo by Pahkal]

Sunlight bursts through the late-afternoon clouds over trees lining bright green meadow in Limousin, France.

AFTERNOON SUNBURST — Limousin, France

Spectacular sunburst over an open field at Dechen Chöling, a meditation center in central rural France. [photo by Edith Bougon]

Inside a small stone chapel, sunlight streams through an arched stained-glass window and the light reflects on the floor and lluminates the mustard-yellow tablecloth on a table under the window.

ÉGLISE SAINT YRIEIX — Limousin, France

Sweet and humble, this chapel is located in the small village of Saint-Yrieix-sous-Aixe in central France.

Interior view of the nave (main worship room) of Leon Cathedral in Lyon, France with its high arched ceiling in cream, stained-glass features, and columned archways on either side.

LYON CATHEDRAL — Lyon, France

While this cathedral is massive and formidable, it also has a soft elegance to it. Talk about vaulted ceilings!

French woman in a black dress and sandals stands in front of a glass case of baked goods and sandwiches in a patisserie in Limoges, France.

PONDERING PASTRIES — Limoges, France

A middle-aged woman carefully ponders the baguettes and brioche at Paul Patisserie in Limoges, France. So many carbs, so little time.

A park entertainer waves his magic wand and releases an aerial stampede of giant bubbles across Park Güell in Barcelona, Spain.

BUBBLE MAN — Park Güell, Barcelona, Spain

I wonder if this bubble master in Barcelona's Park Güell makes his living this way or if he just does it for the love of bubbles.

Mural detail on a light-gray wall of the upper body of a red-nosed clown holding on to the end of a pole with both hands, looking downward with an anxious expression.

MINI CLOWN MURAL — Zürich, Switzerland

This wonderful graffiti-illustration at the Rote Fabrik Art Center in Zürich is actually quite tiny. Boy, can I relate to that clown's expression!

Three separate couples sit in silhouette, talking and relaxing on a concrete ledge next to a canal and under a large leafy tree (also in silhousette).

LIMMAT CANAL — Zürich, Switzerland

Friends talking in silhouette along the Limmat canal in Zurich in late September. Such an easy-breezy vibe.

Dilapidated gray barn sits alone in an open field of soft golden tallgrass in Blair, Oklahoma, USA

BLAIR BARN — Blair, Oklahoma

A dilapidated gray barn stands quietly in a field of soft tallgrass in Blair, OK.

LILY PADS — Florida Everglades

A cluster of green lily pads and red leaves floating on crystal clear water in the Florida Everglades.

Older woman with short brown hair and wearing glasses and a light blue denim shirt, smiles big while sitting (leaning to one side) on a concete ledge outside.

CLASSIC MOM — Fort Collins, Colorado

CLASSIC FRAN!

GOLD COAST SURFER — Coolangatta, Australia

An Australian surfer on a large jutting rock takes in the view of the Tasman Sea at dusk.

Colorful sunset view of the North River in Marshfield, Massachusetts, USA, with the violet and coral hues in the clouded sky refecting off the water and the green marshy banks on either side.

NORTH RIVER — Marshfield, MA, USA

As the sun sets over the North River in Marshfield, Massachusetts, the pastel hues in the sky are mirrored in the water below.

Tucked beneath the Church of the Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) in Pyrgos Village on the Isle of Santorini in Greece is a beautiful monastic chamber with whitewashed walls and white stone steps leading upward into blinding white daylight.

WHITE CHAMBER — Santorini, Greece

Tucked beneath the Church of the Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) in Pyrgos Village is a beautiful monastic chamber with whitewashed walls and white stone steps. Looks like the upward journey into heaven, doesn't it?

A Nepali woman sits behind a large collection of candles that are burning at night near the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.

CANDLE KEEPER — Kathmandu, Nepal

A Nepali woman looks after a large metal trough of burning candles near the Boudhanath stupa. Not sure if the display was her livelihood or a personal offering to the stupa―but either way, it was a beautiful.

Cat sits in silhouette behind shjeer curtains on a ledge behind a bed with pillows in the foreground.

PETE IN SILHOUETTE — Fort Collins, Colorado

Pete belong's to my good friend, Kelly (see "Onward" article), and is one of the grooviest cats around. He loves to slip behind that curtain in the guest bedroom and surveil the neighborhood.

Small golden-colored kitten looks up with innocent gray eyes from the bottom of a rope basket.

BABY PIMENTO — Austin, Texas

Awwwww, it's a kitten in a basket! PIimento (son of Willow, the mom) was part of a litter of five and was one of the cutest and goofiest.

Young woman with brown hair in a single braid sits between large rocks high above a small lake with mountains in the distance in New Zealand.

PHOEBE'S CLIMB — South Island, New Zealand

She looks like a mountain elf, doesn't she? Give that girl a bow and a quiver of arrows!