David Coveney

It’s a funny place, Hong Kong… it could be really depress­ing, crowded and scary.  But it’s just stun­ning.  In spite of all those people liv­ing so close together there are still places to find quiet con­tem­pla­tion away from the bustle.

The water looks dirty, but isn’t.  You can see the gold­fish clearly enough after all.

The Santa Catalina Con­vent in Are­quipa is an aston­ish­ing city within a city.  In spite of the noise and bustle of the city out­side, it man­ages to main­tain a quiet calm.  The nuns who lived here (and a small num­ber who still […]

I couldn’t believe how big this guy’s paint­ings were. Seems that as he got older his eye­sight deteri­or­ated.  His solu­tion?  Paint so that at least he could see what he was doing!

I believe this paint­ing is by Andy War­hol.  But I’m cul­tur­ally dumb, so can’t rely on my memory.  What I do know is that you’re […]

This photo is on the main road from North Chile to Bolivia as it heads through Chile’s Lauca National Park. This is the nice and easy part — it seems that once in Bolivia the road deteri­or­ates sig­ni­fic­antly in qual­ity and safety. Just a few weeks after I took this pic­ture a minibus […]

Ok, first shot to go up. I’ve decided to leave it up even though it’s a rel­at­ively poor qual­ity re-size. How­ever, I feel it still illus­trates the beauty and scale of this loc­a­tion. Here we are, per­haps 1000m above the val­ley floor below. Priscilla, who I’d just met on this part […]