British Columbia Landscape
British Columbia is a huge province in Canada and one of the best places on earth. It is stacked with beautiful scenery, a lot of wildlife and friendly people. While travelling through it I felt...
View ArticleKids on Zanzibar
This one is for MC, I know you like it ;-)Though they look serious here, facing the setting sun, the kids in Paje, Unguja (often referred to as Zanzibar, though Unguja is just the largest island of...
View ArticleSeattle Skyline
Even though I love nature most, I am still fascinated by cities. How they start, how they grow. As far as American cities go, Seattle is very nice. Interestingly enough the beauty of a city like...
View ArticleFlying kid in Stone Town, Zanzibar
This kid is actually jumping off a large rusty ship, which appeared to be grounded indefinitely on the coast of downtown Stone Town, the capital of Unguja, Zanzibar.Some dove, some jumped, some jumped...
View ArticleRoger A Johnson, Gitxsan First nation, Kitwanga, canada
For the First Peoples, the land is the source of Life- a Gift from the Creator. “Mother Earth” is the center of their universe, the core of their culture , the origin of their identity as a people, the...
View ArticleCaribou near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
First of all, I hope everybody had a great X-mas!Now that X-mas is over, Santas reindeer (or caribou) can return to the Northern slope, Alaska, to graze amidst the cottonflowers at 70 degres latitude....
View ArticleKids in Cuzco
Just outside the main market in Cuzco, Peru, these children were sitting next to a basket of fruit. I think they were supposed to sell it, so their parents could buy food. They might have thought that...
View ArticleLower slopes of Cerro Plata, Argentina
Cerro Plata is a 6000m high mountain (about 19,700ft, though all measurements vary), in the Argentinean Andes, not so far from the more famous Aconcagua. It is fairly easy to climb as there are no...
View ArticleStreet vendor in Istanbul, Turkey & Shop Digital Direct, Broadway photo and...
Istanbul is a wonderful city, spread out over two continents. The people are friendly and the cultural and religious mix found here is unique and refreshing.Of course this attracts many tourists and...
View ArticleWedding party on Oyster Beach in Dar Es Salaam
My local colleague is trying to line up a family for some nice shots.I love it that in the back kids are playing in the warm sea. Oyster Beach is a lively and fun place, with loads of local snacks to...
View ArticlePanorama of the Horseshoe Bend of the Colorado River, Arizona.
More impressive than the Grand Canyon is this Horse-shoe-shaped cutout that the Colorado river made in the Arizona earth. The colours and sense of scale are wonderful, I tried to capture this in a...
View ArticleThe Cathedral in Puno, Lake Titicaca, Peru
Hugging the shores of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world at about 3800m /13,000ft, lies Puno. Just a few hours later this relaxed scene would be one big party when the yearly world...
View ArticleAconcagua from Cerro Plata
Cerro Plata is not much of a climb, merely a long hike up. But once you get closer to the summit of the about 6000m high mountain by battling against the cold wind and the effects of altitude, you will...
View ArticleOld woman in Puno, Peru selling sweets
This friendly old woman with a typical Peruvian highland hat was selling sweets on the street, part of daily life on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Slowly she approached us, but after getting close she...
View ArticleThe Jellyfish quarter at the Monterery Aquarium
Usually I am not too fond of aquariums and definitely not of zoos, especially after having bene lucky enough to have seen so many animals in the wild. But when I got an invitation to see the famous...
View ArticleHalf Dome in Yosemite Valley in winter
A great place to enter the new year. Half Dome in Yosemite park is a wonderful place, standing proud above the snowy valley. In summer it is relatively easy to hike up, that is: if you use the hiking...
View ArticlePaulos beach office on Zanzibar
Paulo and his friends had come early in the season, preparing for the selling of Massai bracelets on the white beaches of Zanzibar. Besides being pretty fluently in Italian, his hidden cell-phone was...
View ArticleMount Everest from BaseCamp, Tibet
It is Everest season and here is one of my favorite images of “Chomolungma”, the mother Goddess of the Earth. This post is to celebrate 2 things: - that some of my friends will be very close to the...
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