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 …
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 …