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This one is from a road trip through Utah - any road you take can lead you to fantastic landscapes and scenes. This abandoned house was just on the side of the road, but makes you wonder who build such a cute little shed right at that place and then left it. The inside was completely destroyed, with nature having reclaimed most of the ground and parts of the walls. Interesting, slightly creepy, place, hehe. - Phillip
This image was totally unplanned. When I went to Central Park, I hoped to spend the evning on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art - from where I have been told you can look over the trees in the Park and get an awesome view! So I rocked up at the museum just in time for sunset, went in... and they told me that the rooftop is closed in the winter. This was bad - so I decided to simply run back to the southern entrance of Central Park (that is about 1.8 km!) to get at least the rest of the sunset with what I remembered to be an awesome skyline. I made it just in time - the light in the buildings were already on, but this only added to the last light that I could see from the sunset and made it more interesting. In the end I was not too mad that I missed the sunset that I had planned. After all, I probably should have seen that when checking and researching haha. -Phillip
In Japan, you have the opportunity to visit so called owl cafes, which is exactly what it sounds like - you go in and have a coffee while being surrounded by owls (and some other birds). This little fella here is from Nara, a famous place in Japan that is crawling with deer in the city centre. When we finished checking out the local temples and had enough of taking photos of deer, we found an owl cafe on our way to the train station. The rule is simple - get in, get a coffee, and stay no more than 1 hour. There are also some birds that you cannot touch, either because they are on break or because they simply dont like it. Initially it feels odd to see so many birds chained to a relatively small area - especially considering there were some owls that were massive! However, we have been told the birds are very well kept after and before opening hours, and any sign of stress would have the bird brought to an open area right away for the remainder of the day. One may think whatever about keeping birds in a cafe like that - but it was an interesting experience for sure. When I was in the cafe, this bird here was on break, meaning no touching or getting too close. -Phillip
