Just got back from a 10 day trip to Peru. What a diverse country – in terms of landscape, ecology, food… Here are some interesting facts about Peru followed by some photos. Twice the size of Texas Birthplace of potatoes. Still has the best potatoes in the world. 3800 different varieties. Value of annual world…
Rolf Potts’ website states that he “has reported from more than sixty countries for the likes of National Geographic Traveler, The New Yorker, Slate.com, Outside, the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The Guardian (U.K.), Sports Illustrated, National Public Radio, and the Travel Channel. His adventures have taken him across six continents, and include piloting a fishing boat 900 miles down the Laotian…
Pico Iyer is a true world traveler. Born of Indian parents, childhood in Britain and USA, now lives in Kyoto, Japan with his wife. I have read most of his books, some more than once. If you want to start with his writing, I recommend “Sun After Dark”. Or consider starting with reading his essays….
Not quite Ansel Adams but it is fun taking pictures in Boulder!
Today was a great day to go walking in Boulder. 2 walks – morning and afternoon! “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky” — Rabindranath Tagore “To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, There are…
France is a great place to photograph people. 2 reasons – first the people are very colorful and often fashionable, the second and more important reason – I don’t speak French. I would just gesture and ask them if I could “make a portrait” (as Eric Kim says) of them. If they cussed me out,…
Marble, Colorado is one of my favorite places to walk. We have a cabin there, in the shadow of Mt. Whitehouse. Part of this mountain is an old marble mine – the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC was carved from marble mined here. Marble is down the road from Carbondale – Mt. Sopris looms over…