This past summer I joined a team of archaeologists to photograph their research work investigating old settlement mounds stretching along the edge of a floodplain in southern Zambia. Three professors are leading the work, including Kate de Luna, from Georgetown University, who facilitated my participation. …
The small Belgian city of Bruges (Brugge) has a compact historic center that retains the authentic fabric and character of the Middle Ages. The city is located on the flat plain of the Flanders countryside and is connected by river to the North Sea, just …
I spent a day in Brussels a while back, pre-pandemic. I walked through the city center taking photographs on the late afternoon and evening of the day I arrived, and then most of the next day. In looking through the photographs from my brief explorations …
Have you ever had a close look at lotus flowers? I hadn’t until I visited the Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens last summer. The park is in the District of Columbia, stretching along the eastern shore of the Anacostia River, several miles above where the …
On my motorcycle ride across the country earlier this year I wasn’t able to stop and photograph as much as I had envisioned. I had less time for the trip than I had originally planned, and the daily planning required for selecting routes and making …
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 …