Sunday Still: Tuscan Hills Dappled in Morning Sun
Idyllic Tuscan Countryside under a patchwork of sun and clouds. Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. – Bertrand…
What’s Wrong with This Picture?
Just a picture of a cute kid standing in a corn field in rural Tanzania. Right? Look closer. See his distended belly? The child is malnourished while surrounded by plenty. Poultry, goats, and pigs are being raised in the immediate area, as well as guinea pigs that many families grow for protein. Vegetable gardens, like the corn patch in the picture, are common. So what's the problem? Parasites are my guess. Clean drinking water and general hygiene are missing. Although there is plenty of food, intestinal parasites cause malnutrition and general poor health.
Between the Lines
A group of Zebras huddled together on the Serengeti Plain, sharing each other's swishing tails to keep the flies at bay. Seeing between the lines, it is dizzily difficult to…
Landscape with Giraffes
Late afternoon and the sun is getting lower, the shadows longer. Giraffes of all sizes are peaceably browsing the acacia trees though aware of our presence. We must linger; the setting demands it.The immensity of the Serengeti and knowing that life here has changed little in millions of years is humbling. As idyllic a moment as I can recall.
African Eyes
Young school children peer through the open window of their classroom. Their eyes are wide with wonder and curiosity at these light skinned strangers wandering around their campus. These kids, and they are the lucky ones...
A Tribute to the Women of the World in Pictures
I travel in order to photograph where I have been and, conversely, photography is my reason to travel. But photographing the people I encounter along the way is the most…
Up, Up and Away – Ballooning Over the Serengeti
Up, up and away My beautiful, my beautiful balloon The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon …
Beyond the Beyond
Most of us are a curious sort. Always wondering what's next, what's over there, what's around the curve in the road. Some of us are "Big Picture" ponderers. What is beyond…
Exotic Zanzibar
Zanzibar. For me just saying “Zanzibar” conjures a foreign, very exotic, and faraway place. A bustling place of new sights, sounds and aromas. A place of ancient looking shuttered apartments…
Travel Theme: Animals – The Wildlife of Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
Ngorongoro Crater, near the Serengeti Plain in northern Tanzania ,contains one of the most magnificent wildlife reserves in Africa. This volcanic crater is home to about 25,000 large mammals. Formation of…
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