Hiking high above tree line and along ridges in majestic mountains is one of the real pleasures in my life. Last summer I hiked the Alta Via 1 (AV1), a classic hut-to-hut hiking route through the Dolomites, a group of mountain ranges in northeastern Italy, …
In this post I’m sharing photos from the Highland County Fair. As I said in my post last week, Highland County is located on the western border of Virginia, adjacent to West Virginia, in an Appalachian region of remote valleys, farms, and pastures. One of …
Highland County is located on the western border of Virginia, adjacent to West Virginia and about halfway down the stretch of Appalachian Mountains that straddles the line between the two states. Along the Appalachian chain there is a band of ridge and valley geography that …
The Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI is known as RISD (pronounced RIZ-dee). It’s the school that rescued me from a liberal arts education back in the day. I was already an avid photographer prior to transferring to RISD, busy as the photo …
This group of portraits is from the city of Suzhou in China, just northwest of Shanghai. Suzhou has ancient classical gardens and canals that draw people in, but what I love about the place are the pathways and intimate neighborhoods of its old center. In …
This week I’m sharing B&W versions of color photographs that I’ve used in various posts over the last six months. During that time period I shared just one post of B&W photographs, even though B&W is a medium that I often gravitate to. Color, though, …
Rìo Seco is a small community not far from where I stayed on the coast of Costa Rica. The name translates to dry river, and it’s in the midst of golden pastures surrounded by small ridges. Its modest houses stretch for a short distance along …
In last week’s post I shared photographs of remote beaches in Guanacaste Province, along the Pacific coast of northwestern Costa Rica. In this post I’m sharing images of pastures and fields just inland from the coast. The area is primarily low and flat, with modest …
Last week I shared photographs that I took of Volcán Poás early one morning at the beginning of a recent trip to Costa Rica. After taking my look at Poás I made my way from the mountainous region in the central part of the country …
I traveled to Costa Rica for a short trip earlier this month. Early one morning at the beginning of the trip I drove to Parque Nacional Volcán Poás, in central Costa Rica – not far from where I stayed in Alajuela for a couple of …