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 …
In my previous two posts I shared photographs from the small Himalayan village of Nako on the border of India and Tibet – one of our stops in a motorcycle tour through the Spiti Valley, high in the Himalayas in the Indian state of Himachal …
This is my second post with photographs from Nako, a small Himalayan village perched at 12,000 feet (3,700 meters), just below the Indian-Tibet border. I had joined Ride Expeditions for ten days of touring by motorcycle in northern India, mostly through Spiti Valley, high in …
I joined Ride Expeditions for ten days of riding by motorcycle in northern India, mostly through Spiti Valley, high in the Himalayas. The remote area is in the state of Himachal Pradesh, bordered by Tibet to the east and the disputed Kashmir region to the …
In Labuan Bajo most days we were out on the dive boat. There weren’t many opportunities to take photographs at the end of the day, when the sun was setting in the west and its strong warm light was angling low toward the port’s wharf, …
During my two months in Labuan Bajo I got up early almost every day, usually by 5:30, to walk down through its busy port. There we boarded the dive boat and headed off on the long trip to Komodo National Park for a day of …
I spent an afternoon photographing boats and activity in the Labuan Bajo port from which our dive boat operated. The port can accommodate several large cargo vessels or ferries on its outermost wharf, along with a hundred or more smaller wooden fishing and tourist boats …
I had to leave Indonesia in the middle of my divemaster training in order to renew my visa, having inadvertently entered the country with a 30-day visa that couldn’t be renewed. Actually, this turned out to be a good thing, as it provided for an …
After two months of diving in Indonesia’s Komodo National Park for my Divemaster certification I leave Labuan Bajo, Flores and take a 1.5-hour flight on a prop plane to the island of Bali, where my return flights to the US will originate. I’ll have an …
This is the second of two posts with photographs from a dive at Tatawa Kecil, in Komodo National Park. The dive was on the west side of this small island, in the photo below, during a transition of tidal currents. As I noted in the …