I rode across the country this past spring on a motorcycle that I had bought during the winter from a guy in Orange County, California, just south of Los Angeles. We did the transaction online, and he kept the bike garaged until I flew out …
The Great Allegheny Passage (aka the GAP) is a 150-mile rail trail that connects downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the western end of the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal in Cumberland, Maryland. From there travelers with the time and motivation can continue for another 184 miles …
In this post I’m sharing photos from a hut-to-hut hike in the Alps in the mountains around Zermatt, a small resort village high on the Swiss-Italian border, in the Swiss canton of Valais. The high mountains around Zermatt are dominated by the iconic isolated peak …
In this post I’m sharing looks at parts of facades and walls in Paris. They caught my eye for various reasons: the way the light was hitting, the pattern of shadows, or the curious combinations of elements or lines. Sometimes the interest was in the …
A few years ago I visited Paris with a medium-format film camera and a heavy-duty tripod. The Fuji GX680 is somewhat of a beast to carry around outdoors, but, like a large-format camera, its lens is connected with a flexible bellows that allows it to …
In this post I’m sharing more photos from Cumberland Island, a barrier island off the Georgia coast. I captured these images early one morning as a strong wind was sweeping grains of fine white sand down the length of the beach, just above the hard-packed …
The Sea Islands are a string of about 100 barrier islands that stretch for over 200 miles along the southeast coast of the United States, from approximately Charleston, South Carolina south to Jacksonville, Florida. These islands have a characteristic ecology of fine sandy beaches on …
This past week I rode my bike down most of Shenandoah National Park’s Skyline Drive, a beautiful narrow parkway that winds for 105 miles along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the east side of the Shenandoah Valley. I had a good stretch …
The Washington Monument is a beautifully simple and impressive obelisk, the tallest in the world, that dominates the National Mall in Washington, DC. It stands on an axis line that connects the United States Capitol with the Lincoln Memorial, over two miles (3.5 km) away. …
In the far northwest corner of Vermont, in the northeastern region of the United States called New England, the northernmost bay of the 107-mile-long Lake Champlain extends a little into Canada, just south of Montreal, Quebec. Into this bay protrudes the wetland-rich delta of the …