How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity. -Psalms 133:1

   Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.  -Heraclitis

                                                                                     Preface / Outerboro 2021

This website is provided for the viewing pleasure of anyone who likes to look at pictures, intended especially for those suffering from insomnia or beleaguered by ennui / or just wanting to get away.

During summer humidity as maybe the pandemic was ending, Hoskins remained holed up in his Outerboro apartment in front of the fan in his boxers involved in putting together a website exclusively featuring his travel photos.  Culling through thousands of images from discs and memory cards was a trip of itself, likely an indefinite project, perhaps to continue until the dirtnap — improbably ever to be fully completed... so, for what it is, welcome to The Waytoomany Travelpix Collection :

For Hoskins, as a visualist, world travel is existentially enriching to an extent that is not adequately relayed verbally — "one picture is worth a thousand words" — even as a low resolution 'snapshot'.

In 2006 he took his first trip to India. This coincided in time with when he finally broke down and bought his first computer, having been dragged kicking & screaming by friends with his best interest at heart to the Apple store.

Before the trip, a friend who is a professional photographer gave him one of her digital point-and-shoot cameras to have for photos during the India tour. — Until then, he had not been familiar with photography in a friendly way as it had often been required in his work as a visual fine artist to shoot his artwork for slides to submit to galleries or for grant applications. He found this to be an annoying strain; setting up lights and tripods, umbrellas and so forth, messing around with the film, applying the gray card, etc... This royal aggravation was followed by the expense of development and sometimes occasions when everything would have to be shot all over again even after all that. —Well: with this digital point-&-shooter there was no muss, no fuss, injecting it all into the computer.

In subsequent years he has maintained this point-&-shoot practice with an inexpensive Canon powershot model set on auto, often taking way too many pictures. Many are deleted but some are keepers. And even if an image doesn’t suit exactly, sometimes it can be adjusted with standard photo hardware that comes with the computer. (He does not use Photoshop.) The images are not necessarily polished and generally not of high resolution, but they are adequate for conveyance in this venue. / Of course, now, a lot of people just use their phones to shoot picts...  

Reality is ephemeral. Hoskins regards its passing and is grateful for any patronage of his artwork making these trips possible.

                         Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

                                                               - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Imagine:

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion, too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will live as one

                                - John Lennon

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,

Forgive our foolish ways!

Re-clothe us in our rightful mind

In purer lives thy service find,

In deeper reverence praise.

Drop thy still dews of quietness

Till all our strivings cease;

Take from our souls the strain and stress,

And let our ordered lives confess

The beauty of thy peace.

Breathe through the heats of our desire

Thy coolness and thy balm;

Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;

Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,

O still small voice of calm!         

                                               - John Greenleaf Whittier

alphabetically listed CONTENTS / LINKS  

Albania

Bangkok

Bhutan

Cambodia: Angkor Wat

Danube cruise: Budapest / Vienna

Egypt + part 2, part 3 & part 4 / Egypt 07 / Cairo + part 2 / Giza / Saqqara

Greece: Athens, Crete, Meteora

Gribralter

India: Ajanta & Ellora caves, Ajanta, Amritzar, Aurangabad, Ayyanar, Bibi-ka-Maqbara, Daulatabad, Delhi, Dharamsala, Ekambareswarer, Elephanta, Ellora, Harmandir Sahib, Humayan's Tomb, Jama Masjid, Khajuraho, Meenakshi-Madurai, Mumbai, Nayakkar Mahal, Punjab, Qutab Minar, Taj Mahal, Thanjavur Temple, Thanjavur Palace, Varanasi, south India

Iran: Isfahan, Persepolis, Yazd

Italy: Assisi, Cinque Terre, Florence, Pisa, Rome, Siena, Venice

Japan + part 2, part 3: Kyoto, Tokyo

Jerusalem

South Korea: DMZ, Seoul

Lao PDR : Phra That Luang

North Macedonia

Morocco: Ait Ben Haddou, Volubilis

Nepal: Annapurna, Kathmandu

Peru: Machu Picchu, Saksayhuaman

Petra and Wadi Rum

Portugal

Russia: St Basil's, Catherine Palace, Hermitage, St Isaac's, Kirillo-Belozersk Monastery, Kizhi Island, Kremlin, Moscow, Peterhof, Church of SS Peter & Paul,      St Petersburg, lake & river cruise (St Petersburg to Moscow), Smolny Convent, Church on the Spilled Blood

Spain: Alhambra, Barcelona, Casa Mila, Cordoba, El Escorial, Madrid, Montserrat, Ronda, Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, Seville, Toledo

Tunisia: Dougga, el Djem, Sufetula

Turkey: Capadocia, Ephesus

Vietnam: Ha Long, Ha Long Bay, Ha Long City, Hanoi, southern Vietnam           

Cambodia    Angkor Wat