I have always found the Great Salt Lake to be a place of wonder and great beauty. It is sometimes an alien world in a really cool way, and exploring out there you never know what you will find. As the Lake rises and falls, it covers and reveals much. In Utah, a place of […]

Niagara Falls, although thoroughly tamed by dams and surrounded on all sides by hotels, is still the falls all others are compared to. It’s not particularly high, but it is huge. After this hot summer and early autumn, thoughts of Niagara when it freezes up are welcome, and it is in deep winter that I […]

On the list of the World’s most beautiful islands, “Fernando” (sorry Abba), a World Heritage Site, is a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil’s coast. The main island is quite small, 220 miles offshore, and easily reached by air from the city of Recife. I got around by taxi and golf cart, […]

Italians know how to live; this is well-known. Every trip to Italy is a lesson in the important things in life: love, food, beauty, and family. Every region has its charms and beautiful photo ops. The Amalfi Coast south of Naples, is one such gorgeous region. Stevie Nicks has written a fabulous song about it […]

This great photo location is situated in Lake Kaindy in the Kolsai Lakes National Park, Located about 129 kilometers from the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, which is the major transportation hub for most of Central Asia. In 1911, an earthquake caused a landslide that closed off one end of a river creating the blue-green lake […]

In recent years photographers have begun to be very interested in the twists and turns of the rivers of the Southwest. One photographer even does a tour which visits several of these big river bends. I’ve always found these places captivating and wonderfully photographable, and I’ve created a list of the some of the best […]