Nude statue of a mother suckling her child in a shop in Prague, Czech Republic

Nude statue of a mother suckling her child in a shop in Prague, Czech Republic in February 2014

Classical statue

A classical statue in the gardens of the Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria in January 2014

Beautiful statue

A classical statue in the gardens of the Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria in January 2014

Marbled book

Tombstone of James Daniel Kennedy at the Sandridge Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Mollymook on the New South Wales South Coast in August 2011

Vale Kathleen Ann Thompson

Tombstone for Kathleen Ann Thompson who died in 1976 at age 17, at the Sandridge Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Mollymook on the New South Wales South Coast; photo taken in August 2011

Broken headstone

A broken tombstone at the Sandridge Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Mollymook on the New South Wales South Coast in August 2011

Dolphin headstone

Dolphin tombstone for Janis Waldemar Racksts at the Sandridge Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Mollymook on the New South Wales South Coast in August 2011

Inside the Shwedagon

At the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Burma in August 2010

Monks at the Shwedagon Paya

Monks at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Burma, taken in August 2010

Columns

Columns reflected in marble at the entrance to the Army Sports Club in Bangkok, October 2008

No kiss please

India, the country where kissing is verboten on the silver screen and sex doesn't exist. And then this ... a marble mural at the International airport terminal, New Delhi, India, January 1990. So incongruous.

Cubism

A pretty sculpture in the cubism style depicting a mother and her children in the Cong Vien Van Hoa Park in Saigon, Vietnam and which I took in March 2008. An arresting, compelling image but it could have been done by anyone, anywhere. Where is the authentic Vietnamese style or tradition. It must exist, but this sculpture park seems to only have space for the revolutionary, European or heroic styles. Pity. Still, although taken out of context, it is a nice piece.