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Lens Magazine Feature Article
I was pleased to place a feature article in the April 2024 issue of Lens Magazine, the world’s foremost fine arts photography publication. Here is the feature article: Thank you for reading this post. If you enjoyed it and would like to see more of my work please subscribe to my blog in the area…
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Tanjung Puting National Park
Situated in Borneo, Indonesia, Tanjung Puting National Park sits on a peninsula that juts out into the Java Sea. The peninsula is low lying and swampy with a spine of dry ground which rises a few feet above the omnipresent swamp. The park is the habitat for the world’s largest Orangutan population and as a…
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Oh Oh Orangutans
The text is a personal account of a wildlife photographer’s journey to Borneo to photograph Orangutans, drawn by their human-like characteristics and beauty. The narrative covers the experience of meeting a male Orangutan named Corona, observing a mother and her young, and learning about their unique behaviors. It also details the challenges these animals face,…
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Fishing Operations in Jakarta
Indonesia is the largest archipelagic country in the world and the world’s second-largest producer of seafood. Indonesia’s fisheries are globally important. The country’s waters support over 3,000 species of bony fishes and more than 850 sharks, rays, and chimaeras (a new word for me). The fisheries industry employs about 12 million Indonesians. Fish stocks around…
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration is an annual “cycle of life” event in which an estimated 500,000 animals are born and 250,000 animals perish from a combination of thirst, hunger, exhaustion, or predation. It’s a Wagnerian opera on hooves and a spectacle in the truest sense of the word. If given an opportunity to witness it, don’t…
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Birds Birds Birds
My wife Cathy and I bought a home in an Audubon community in Florida last year and are now spending the winters there. Through my worldwide travels, I occasionally made some bird images but they were never my primary focus. But now I’ve learned that an Audubon community is a target rich bird environment and…
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Coming of Age in Ethiopia
The members of the Hamer tribe in Southern Ethiopia live traditional pastoral lives in the same way as many past generations of their tribe. As pastoralists, cattle play a significant role in the culture and mores of the tribe. Nowhere is this more evident and central to one of the Hamer’s most well known and…
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Acadia National Park
“Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life….climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine into trees” John Muir I had been to Acadia National Park a number of times over the years, but never in autumn when New…
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New Web Site
Friends & Subscribers, After too many years of having an inferior photographic web site, I promised myself I would spend the necessary time to develop a site that was more reflective of my work and would provide my images the care I felt they deserved. Spending so much time at home the last few months…
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Nepal II – Humanity
Travel Teaches Tolerance” Benjamin Disraeli Smile….. put your hands together, and say Namaste. That’s all you need to do to be welcomed and feel welcomed in Nepal. It’s a country of incredible physical and geological contrasts but the one constant is the earnest friendliness of it’s people. As a cultural and travel photographer I’m always…
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Nepal
“I haven’t been everywhere……but it’s on my list” – Susan Sontag Nepal was on my list and I was fortunate to be able to visit the country in October. Known for being home to eight of the world’s tallest Ten mountains, it is so much more than that…..vibrant and colorful markets, villages teetering on precipitous…
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Incredible India – Part III
What always fascinates me is how the people always seem to step into their own time warp. Each ritual in Varanasi is almost a festival of samridhi and samigri. And the pathways with their narrow galis and steps leading to top stories as steep as ladder, the staircase is itself a story. …
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Black & White
A few weeks ago I went to the Ansel Adams exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition had been drawing large crowds and my Saturday visit reinforced the reports…lots of people crowding around the photographs. The work was mostly drawn from a private collection lent to the museum and the curators added photographs…
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Incredible India – Part II
“In religion, India is the only millionaire….The one land that all men desire to see and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.” Mark Twain From the jungles to the Himalayas India boasts such geographic diversity. The Thar…
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Incredible India – Part I
“When I first visited India, I was stunned by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds… I had been seeing the world in black & white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant Technicolor.” (Keith Bellows; National Geographic Society) I made…
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