Isn’t the Internet wonderful?

Recent data on the locations of some of the visitors to this site – a truly global selection! Don’t worry, I do not know your identity, only the location of the reader.

Let me see. The United Kindom where I grew up and learned that most civilized of games, cricket. When Hermann Hesse wrote of ‘The Glass Bead Game’ he must have been thinking about Lords.

Baden-Wurttemberg which my mother visited in 1938 and always spoke of fondly.

Poland of course – now how do I recover those 14,000 acres stolen from my family?

Holland and many pleasant memories of a wonderful country and its great people.

Russia, may she stay free and hew to true democracy.

Italy, the center of art, design, culture, fashion – always has been, always will be.

South Korea – may you become one again after the brutal regime up north collapses, as it must.

Lebanon – may you find peace and prosperity.

New Zealand – haven of beauty and fine people.

Mauritius – is there anywhere more beautiful?

Switzerland – thank you for my Patek Philippe, (yes, Patek, the salesman of the two, was a Pole) an analog dream in a digital world.

But above all, here is to all of you, for photography is tuly the universal language.