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 …
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 …