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The Image Making opportunities on every photography trip I have enjoyed have been different. In India, the people love having their photos taken so portraits tend to be a main focus. In Iceland, the geography dominates. In Burgundy, France, I loved the small textured villages and beautiful...
It was hard not to stare at the women flashing their jet black toothy smiles. Blackening one’s teeth was of the most fascinating customs I saw in the craggy, misty mountainous area of Vietnam. This post was originally published 2013. Practiced by the ladies of the...
When Covid-19 hit and I had to cancel three immediate trips and later two additional adventures, I was disappointed, but took the whole thing pretty philosophically. I’ve been on lots of trips and assume I’ll go on more so I reminded myself of the motto of the summer camp I attended as...
“Driving through Iceland is like driving through the pages of a geography book.” This was a comment made by the Photographer/teacher of the Wild Photography Holiday trip I went on in this stunningly beautiful and isolated island between Greenland and Europe. Note: This was...
If you visit the Grand Mosques in the Middle East you want to look up and look down. Why? To marvel at the magnificent chandeliers and the rugs. I saw this first hand on a recent trip to the Middle East (Feb. 2020 before the Covid shutdown) when I had a chance to […]
When we were in Paris in the spring and mentioned to Parisians that we encountered that we planned to spend a day at the new Frank Gehry designed Art Center built by Foundation Louis Vuitton, we got the same response. “It’s all about the building, not the art.” Blogger’s note: This...
AS I put my Olympus viewfinder up to my eye, I had to move a bit to the left to avoid an elbow and then, oops, someone bumped me from behind and I lost sight of my subject—a sad faced little goat under the arm of a dishdasha dressed Omani who was struggling to make […]
This is a blog post about a wonderful trip to Norway in 2012. Enjoy. I am revisiting posts about favorite trips during Covid 19. Tundra Tundra. I never really knew what that meant, but on our trip to Norway and the Arctic Circle I had a chance to experience it first hand. We got...
Visit the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. You won’t be sorry you did. Going to Stockholm and skipping the Vasa Museum would be a big booboo. I’m still marveling at the glimpse of early 17th century life I saw there. This is a “repost” of a blog I wrote about the...
I found encounters with children on the photo trip I took to Oman in Feb. 2020 to be especially poignant. We didn’t have many. My sense is that children are kept at home with their Mothers, maybe not having as much freedom as some children in the world. It is always wonderful to have...