31. PASSAGES. Baltimore. Baltimore is visually complex, but also an unusual crossroads: not quite the South, but not Northeastern either; a heavy industry town busy reinventing itself, but also a nautical culture (Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the US). It was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants, and is one of only 41 independent cities in the USA. Possibly the most interesting (and maligned) city on the East Coast.

30. PASSAGES. Baltimore. The ghost town found a few steps from Johns Hopkins Hospital. One of the oddest places on the planet.

29. PASSAGES. Baltimore. An adorable city that has some epic dead zones.

28. PASSAGES. Alice Beach, Saskatchewan. A pack of coyotes resides in the field in the background. They provide a choral performance each evening.

27. PASSAGES. Last Mountain Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. “Hard to be an atheist” is the thought that comes to mind.

26. PASSAGES. Highway 2, near the village of Holdfast, Saskatchewan. Moments after a rainstorm.

25. PASSAGES. Highway 2, near the village of Holdfast, Saskatchewan. If you enjoy light, Saskatchewan ranks with anywhere famous for it (the Mediterranean Sea comes to mind, as does northern Israel). A landscape painters dream.

24. PASSAGES. Saskatoon, Canada. They call it “the land of living skies”. Taken on a lousy cell phone camera, which gives an analog, may one say “painterly” effect? Lo-fi recording devices at times prove the old saw that “style is the art of omission.”

23. PASSAGES. Last Mountain Lake, Canada.

22. PASSAGES. Saskatoon, Canada. One of the great small cities of the world, partly due to its setting (at a place the Cree people called Saskatchewan, or “swift flowing river”).