Ovadia Yosef , born in 1920 in Iraq, is the founder and the spiritual leader of the Shas political party (currently Israel's fourth largest party in the Knesset), former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, a recognised Talmudic scholar and foremost halakhic authority .
About a year ago I visited Windsor Castle - one of the official residences for the British Royal Family and Queen's principal weekend retreat.
It pretty tough to get a visually engaging picture of the Old City from the Hass Promenade (Tayelet) - the sky is always blue, without any interesting clouds, except for a few days in the winter; the omnipresent sand hangs in the air causing the dreaded haze in the images; the arab houses of Abu Tor in front of the Old City walls resemble a garbage dump...
This is one of the pictures I took for the 2012 JSPCA (Jerusalem Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Calendar.
A night view of the Pont Alexandre III and the Eiffel Tower taken from Pont de la Concorde . The time is almost 1 am, minutes before the lights on the Eiffel Tower go off for the night.
It seems that people in Mexico start celebrating Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) a few days before the actual holiday (Nov 1-2).
Superga is a famous hill overlooking Turin , home to the Basilica of Superga , and the site of the 1949 Superga air disaster , in which almost the entire Torino A.C. football team has perished.
After investing a substantial sum in photo equipment and traveling around for a few years with a heavy backpack, containing some of that equipment, I've decided to start sending one picture a day, mainly to prove to myself that my investment was not wasted.