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…
And the Journey Continues
A boat makes its way across beautiful Halong Bay in the morning mist. The bay, surrounded by hundreds of ancient limestone karsts, sits on the edge of the South China Sea along…
The Warrior Motel
How do you know? Along life’s journey, how do you know? Do you take the right fork on the road ahead or the left? And what lies just beyond that…
Mandawa, India
Shadow Play
We have all heard of the Golden Hour, aka the Magic Hour... that hour or so after sunrise and before sunset. During that time the sun is low in the…
Moonlight Traveler
Freedom, as I have mentioned before, is my most cherished possession. Especially freedom to travel, to explore, to seek new horizons. When I travel, I open my mind, my eyes and…
Leaving Memphis, Looking West
Three train trestles cross the Mississippi River heading west into Arkansas. There is awe in seeing man's ingenuity cross nature's wonder. Railroad tracks always spur the imagination. Thoughts of wanderlust or…
My 10 Favorite Photos from 2015
It seems there is a list for everything this time of year. You name it and there is a list for it. So, not wanting to be left out, here is my list of ten of my favorite photographs I made in 2015. 2015 has been a busy year. We were in Cuba twice, Prague, Czech Republic, and Budapest, Hungary. Plus I completed an aerial photography project of the islands in Pine Island Sound, Florida, where I live.
The Bauls of Bengal.
India never ceases to leave me in wonder. The diversity and devotion and spirituality. Take for example the Baul sect of ascetics that roam the Bengal area of Eastern India…
Over the River and Through the Woods…
These days, whenever possible, we eschew the interstate highways. We prefer the back roads, the roads less traveled. Small rural towns and old farmsteads are preferable to the endless parade…
Postcard from the Backwaters – Kerala, India
"God's own country," as the locals call Kerala State, located along the Arabian Sea in southwestern India. Just beyond the small town of Kumarakom is a maze of waterways and canals.…