Climate Change, Nature, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized
Island
I never had the chance to visit our nation’s most exotic state until this winter. Hawaii is sometimes downplayed as “just another state”, but a string of tropical islands in the middle of the world’s biggest ocean is nothing to scoff at. Indeed, aside from the commercialization that any 21st century state has, Hawaii boasts [...]
Small Moments
My favorite style of photo to take is the macro type. There’s something magical about close detail, and bringing it to life with a lens. Not that broad landscapes aren’t beautiful, but it’s the small moments I like. The fuzzy components, the texture, the closeness. Here are a collection of macro images I’ve taken in [...]
400 Feet Up
Flying is fun when you’re near to the ground. I’ve had the chance to take a number of helicopter trips in the past year, and recently went up near my parent’s home in western Michigan. Undoubtedly less colorful than a summertime trip, it was nevertheless exciting to zip over the places you know at 100 [...]
Congo/Infrared
The Congo. A tough place, indeed. In 2005 I briefly stepped foot across the border of Rwanda into this lush, dense, jungle land that is the heart of Africa. I was there doing humanitarian work, and it was exhilarating and tragic and real. I met strong Africans who told me stories of the violence and [...]
5 Amazing Places You’ve Never Heard Of
The world sometimes seems like it’s so small. And at other times, it still manages to hold incredible wonders, secret gems that most of us have never even heard of, let alone visited. Here is a collection of five of those places. Rare, gorgeous, raw. And yes, this author knows the irony of showing and [...]
Ominous
Spring is always a time of uncertain weather. Phrases like “In like a Lion, out like a Lamb” are so engrained into the psyche that there’s little about storms that seem out of the ordinary. However, it seems like the volume knob on the weather has been cranked as of late. Thunderstorms of monumental proportion, [...]
The Year of the Lens
Cameras, cameras everywhere. It’s absurd to think that in your queue for coffee, you and the people around you may possess 2-3 cameras apiece. 60, 70, 100 cameras in the room. Cell phones, iPods, laptops, Flip cameras, and on and on… Huh? How did we get here? Has it made life better? Are pictures any [...]
Winter
Well, it’s here. The season that provokes a lot of emotion. Some hate the cold with a passion, and have taken great pains to move to warm climates, never to return to snow. For others, it’s all about Christmas, a holiday so absurdly bloated it is hardly recognizable under all that red ribbon and garland. [...]
Did you hear the one about the Leopard?
“We’re going out to look for animals.” It was Fernando’s statement, not request. We were deep in the Kalahari, a nature reserve in Botswana. Camp had been set up for the night, and the four of us sat around a nice little campfire, exhausted from our 10 hours of driving. We were in a foreign [...]
The Smith River
An hour outside Redwoods National Park you’ll pass the snaking Smith River, at once wild and dramatically fresh-looking. On my few trips past this river, I noted just how clear and clean it looks from the window of the car, while driving on the windy, rocky road. To my astonishment, the river’s pristine clarity isn’t [...]
