Sloan’s favorites

  • ButterMilk Sky

    Photo by Elizabeth Reed, 10 May 2008

    From the dock you can see several types of fish. The bass fishermen love to get thier lures stuck in the lily pads.

  • Porn-Star Karaoke and Cadillac Hats

    Story by Will Hindmarch, 4 January 2008

    Where else can you go to a strip-mall bar for karoake and porn stars? Only Los Angeles.

  • One Rail, Two Continents: From Europe to Asia on the Trans-Siberian

    Story by Daniel Kane, 9 May 2008

    No single train trip in the world can take you across two continents. Beyond the stunning aspect of its scenery, a journey on the Trans-Siberian railway can make you realize the incremental differences that separate two different worlds.

  • 10 Japan Shop fascinations

    List by Lizzie Morrison, 5 May 2008

    The strange addiction of picture taking in Japanese shops

  • Lunchtime in the Refuge

    Photo by Matt Barnette, 27 April 2008

    One of the close to 500 Bison in the National Bison Refuge outside of Missoula, Montana snacks on some grass while the Rocky Mountains sit in the distance. The refuge - one of the nation's oldest - celebrates it's 100th anniversary this year.

  • Paris evening with snow

    Photo by John Cook, 5 May 2008

    I was waiting on an island in Seine when the snow began. When I took the picture I didn't know what to expect, but Paris always makes the picture look good.

  • Mono Lake: Winter 2008

    Photo by Karen Schmautz, 18 February 2008

    The visitor center is closed in the winter, but the snow had melted enough for us to drive into the parking lot, clamber up on the snow banks and take a couple of shots of this beautiful lake and the High Sierras.

    Driving on Highway 395 takes you right next to the lake.

  • Sunrise at Monument Valley

    Photo by Richard Silva, 9 April 2008

    The morning sun set's the Monument Valley monoliths ablaze with light.

  • Iceberg

    Photo by Aaron Schwartz, 31 December 2007

    If you're in Newfoundland in June, you will almost certainly be lucky enough to see one of the enormous icebergs that have "calved off" from glaciers far to the north and float down past Newfoundland.

  • Colorful

    Photo by Torsten Muehlbacher, 18 December 2007

    Colorful Smoegen / Sweden