Best of March 2006

author: Andrew Smith : Manchester, UK

Irlam - a small town on the Western edge of Manchester, England. Salford overspill territory. Houses, pubs, chip shops and not much happening. Lies on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal, which swallowed the river Irwell, the river which gave Irlam it's name. Irlam Locks used to scare me as a kid - a huge drop into pitch-black water, but nowdays, with a camera, I can be selective. A few very small stretches of the Irwell were left after the canal was built - a slice of river for posterity. The biggest one is known locally, and rather imaginatively, as 'The Old...

Spawn of the Space Needle

author: Machupicchu : Seattle, WA

There it is: Seattle's very own Space Needle. Take a good, long look. Constructed for the 1962 World's Fair, it was finished in an astonishingly short 400 days (including all of the design work). When finished, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. It also had the second revolving restaurant ever built in the world. Given that the first one was in a Hawaii shopping mall that is now closed, that means the Space Needle currently houses...

Speak Out

author: M. Rojas : Houston, TX

Immigration protests all over the nation & in Houston that I never thought that history would be in the making. All schools are opened but its Mexican, Salvadorean, Guatemalan, Honduran, Colombian students protesting for what is right all for one thing ... to be given the chance of our lifetime to become legal aliens. I'm Mexican myself & I'm proud, I've been living here in h-town since very young & I may not remember much of my Puebla(city in southern Mexico. I don't care if I get locked up for what I think should be done I won't deny what...

Newark Penn to Manhattan's WTC Via PATH

author: Peter : Newark, NJ

Immediately after departing Newark Penn Station, the PATH train crosses the huge drawbridge that spans the Passaic river. www.passaicriver.com... Immediately on the other side of the river is the first stop, Harrison, an area that seems populated mostly by large (and often abandoned) industrial warehouses and park-and-ride lots for commuters... This shot reminded me of