WILDGOOSE

DAM CYCLISTS: These Slovakian single-speeders got to ride the collection pool of a hydroelectric power station prior to it being filled with water (Pics by keki&subtilen). I say it was a once in a lifetime chance. Lucky them.

CAPTION UNNECESSARY: Classic sporting shot form the talented Konrad Jakubowski (see the set at his behance gallery: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/New-York-Road-Runners/249621

TODAY’S TO-DO: Stuff I have to do.

HERE’S WHY “AMERICA IS F***ED”: A truly impassioned plea from a man who knows his stuff (http://www.draplin.com). Based on a small, but obviously significant event. I’d like this man to direct my next shoot please.

“ WORK

— Response from Paul Rand when a student asked him what his favourite hobby was…

ENVY IS AN UGLY THING: across the block from my hotel, through the huge slab of impenetrable glass I have as a window, I can see the Hilton Hotel. The Hilton’s rooms have four small windows either side of their picture window which you can open and allow the lovely cool June night air into your room while you sleep. I’m staying at the Crown Plaza, with its hermetically sealed rooms, so I have to make do with a ludicrously unnecessary air conditioning system to regulate my room’s temperature. Every morning I draw my curtains (drapes) across the acres of glass and look with envy at those open Hilton windows.

BEIGE RULES: Seattle

DEAN & DELUCA’S: View of taxi drivers on 46th Street as I drink a hard won coffee in the D&D’s near my hotel.

“ Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way you’ll be a mile from them, and you’ll have their shoes

— Jack Handey

INFINITE PHOTOGRAPH FROM GREEN GUIDE: Keep clicking in the yellow box until you go mad…

What they say: “What makes up our world? Dive into this photo-mosaic portrait of the Earth to see it through the eyes of users like you. It’s made up of hundreds of photos of the natural world, each submitted by users to My Shot. (Submit a photo) Move the yellow square over an area you would like to explore, click, and go. Double-click on an image to see more information about it. Keep clicking—and diving deeper into the Infinite Photograph—to get a truly boundless picture of Earth.”

BEFORE: This is no confectionery, nor is it a simple ice cream; a slab of frozen vanilla flavoured dairy coated in a thin crust of milk chocolate. No. It is in fact an act of genius. Outside my hotel here the pavement threatens to burst into flames. My car thermometer told me the outside air temperature was 107 degrees Fahrenheit this afternoon. That’s a full 7 degrees hotter than the desert just outside Dubai a few months ago when I felt the sun actually cooking my arms and legs after being out shooting for just ten minutes.

So here I stayed out of the car and my hotel as little as possible, and bestowed upon myself the here photographed Klondike Bar (capitalised intentionally), consumed in air conditioned bliss. This place (Tempe, Arizona, by the way) is quite frankly not fit for habitation. And when I mention this to locals, they shrug and say: ‘yep; it’s spring alright.’

…AFTER.

FAUX ADOBE: SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA

RESORT LIFE: SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA