The Explorers Club Flights of Fancy
Imagine spending your days with other scholars in a beautiful but dimly lit library built in the most beautiful Baroque style, surrounded by hundreds of ancient codices and scores of handcrafted…
Everglades Landscapes
The landscapes are as much about what is above the horizon as below it. The clouds, the thunderstorms glide over the saw grass and cypress trees. The scene is slowly but steadily on the move.
On Holy Water – a Photoessay
For the 80% of Indians who are Hindu, the River Ganges is considered sacred, her water holy. In the ancient city of Varanasi, the ghats that form the river's edge teem with pilgrims and devotees who come for a ritual dip in the Ganges in this holiest of cities. The scene is spiritual and, at the same time festive. The streets and ghats are chaotic. The sounds and smells overwhelm the senses. Yet, in spite of the masses of people, there are moments of solitude, aloneness.
The Red Shack
The Red Shack
The red fishing shack is one of many fisherman's huts that dotted Pine Island Sound in Southwest Florida during much of the last century. Families of the fisherman lived in many…
Rickshaw Pullers of Calcutta
For most of us, it is difficult to watch a person being used as a beast of burden pulling another person and their belongings. It seems inhumane, all the more…
At the Cafe for a Little Conversation – Key West
Sometimes it's not the food or the coffee that keeps you coming back to the cafe - it's the conversation. I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch…
The Chambered Nautilus
The chambered Nautilus’ home is one of the most beautiful shapes in all of nature. At least, in my opinion. Its perfect spiral has amazed mathematicians and scientists alike…
Alien Landscape
Recently, during the final hours of a very long flight from Detroit to Seoul, Korea, I was getting restless. The twelve-hour flight had been delayed another 5.5 hours in Detroit because…
SARASOTA – a Wider View
On a recent bright sunny morning, I spent some time walking around the downtown area of Sarasota, Florida, my new hometown. I like shooting landscapes and especially architecture with a…