The Galapagos are isolated, fairly expensive and hard to get to. They are also one of the most incredible photography destinations in the world and more than worth the effort to pay a visit.
Archives for March 2014
The Holden vs. Ford Rivalry in Australia
Both on and off the track, Holden and Ford vehicles are consistently compared to one another. But where does this good-natured rivalry come from?
Intimate Stories from a Two-chambered Heart: An Interview with Roberta Murray
Roberta’s receptiveness to her environment has an added dimension. She is not only reveals what is in front of her, but explores the depths of what came before. She compels us to look at the landscape to see, for example, the people of the First Nations in a series of paintings titled “Vision Quest.”
Photography Adventure Workshops in Ajijic, Mexico
I had plenty of inspirations the first few years, but then, how many times can you photograph Huichol Indians and colorful doors? After awhile it becomes necessary to narrow your field of photography and come up with photos that are not ordinary nor clichéd images.
The Creative Grain of Existence
Creativity isn’t a prerogative of supreme beings. Why you may well ask. Simple. We are all, individually and collectively, riding the crest of evolution today, thanks to our in-born craft and appetite for inventiveness, not to speak of the emergence of great machines and harnessing of energies.
The Economics of Male Grief
The worst aspects of capitalism require humans to turn into machines. Cut off from our bodies. Cut off from our emotional worlds. Cut off, often, from the needs of the very Earth we live on, and are made of.
The Break Up
Not everyone embraces the journey to adulthood with enthusiasm. Sometimes adulthood needs to take a back seat and wait for the hormones to kick in. Without those much-needed hormones, first kisses can be downright gross.
Imagined Train Stations – Part 1
I tend to paint in an impressionistic, realist style, recording figures passing through a moment of time, migrating to an unknown place or opening, represented by a source of light. I am working on a series of paintings that speak to some of these moments and passages in the form of imagined trains.
Door County – The Midwest’s Answer to Cape Cod
Things seemed beautifully familiar on the drive up the Door County peninsula from Green Bay. Yet this was my first time in the area, in fact the first time in Wisconsin. It was not until I drove past the Cape Cod Hotel did my inner mystery solve itself.
Heron Island, A Natural Selection
Caws, tweets and screeches come from the thousands of black noddy terns nesting in the pandanus and pisonia trees and the countless chicks in the mutton bird (wedge tailed shearwater) burrows that dot Heron Island.