This place is certainly a little off the beaten track. Continental Airlines used to fly the Micronesia route because of our closeness to these islands after World War II, but I believe now United has taken up the route from Honolulu. Although I had the toughest reception for my 4×5 equipment on Pohnpei I have […]

Heading out from Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan on your tour to the Monastery (tours are compulsory in Bhutan), you’ll reach the top of the pass in most cases and spend the night there. This is great to give you time to shoot the panorama of the snowy Himalayas in the distance at sunset and […]

The only other Moab area sites I have on my 301 Landscapes to Photograph Before You Die are Delicate Arch and Mesa Arch. It’s time to add another site from the area that we locally call Postcard Alley. It’s the narrowing of the canyon along Highway 128 just after Hittle Bottom as you are going […]

Cathedral Beach on the North Coast of Spain is home to one of the world’s largest concentrations of natural sea arches, with about half a dozen in less than a few hundred yards. The best time to shoot the area is in the summer because the arches mostly occur on a north facing wall, and […]

There are many great waterfalls in Costa Rica, some require long hikes in rough country to visit and shoot, while others, like Catarata Del Toro Waterfall, are easy to get to. It’s in a National Park and and a Conservation area, so another great thing about this waterfall is the extensive rainforest that surrounds it. […]

I have included many religious sites in my list of landscapes to photograph before you die, but this time we’re looking at the big Buddhas that are so large they are part of the landscape. I saw the first one when I was watching the Olympics in China—the Leshan Great Buddha. Carved from a cliff […]

For some reason Sedona was left out of my original book, but it was an oversight. The area has many great photographers now and has always been a draw to me, even with its obvious similarities to Moab. It would be a waste of time for me to write about the photographic possibilities of Sedona […]

I am lucky to be one of the few people who have photographed this part of the extensive deserts of Turkmenistan. Even getting into the country with the help of the U.S. State Department was almost impossible, and once there, it’s a long trip to this spot which would require a guide. This desert has […]

This time of year, it’s not unreasonable for those of us in northern climes to find our minds drawn toward the tropics and its amazing islands. I’ve had the good fortune to visit many of the world’s most beautiful isles, and the Bahamas definitely rank high. Though like Florida they don’t have much high terrain, […]

To those of us with Celtic ancestry the very mention of County Kerry is magical all by itself. The Burren, a rocky plain with ancient dolmen formations scattered everywhere is beautiful in its austere and wild contrast to the rest of the lush Irish countryside. The stony, almost desert-like Burren ends in one of Europe’s […]