The following photographs, from a trip to Seoul, South Korea this past spring, are from a day of exploring the old palace complex of Gyeongbokgung that was at times the principal seat of Korea’s Joseon dynasty (14th century to early in the 20th century). The …
At the end of July last summer, when the archaeological team I had spent the month with had wrapped up their work in Zambia, I joined some of the team for several days of safari in Chobe National Park, in northern Botswana. The park is …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …