Books of the Marvels of the World – My Top 21 Best Travel Books of All Time (1-5)
For me, quality travel literature goes beyond a travel journal or a simple list of dates and events. The “travel-adventure” genre is WAY overdone and generally quite boring to me. Travel literature is writing of high literary value that sets…
MY SHOT of the Day: Last Night’s Sunset
This is the kind of sunset a forest fire gets you: The Osha fire is burning about 20 miles west of Taos, New Mexico this week. As of this writing about 1300 acres of conifer forest has burned. None of…
Video Reconstruction of Washington DC History – 1814
I love this stuff. Dan Bailey, the Director of the Imaging Research Center (IRC) at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County, put together this fabulous little film as part of his four year research into Washington DC history. Very…
Photo Essay of San Francisco de Asis in DESTINATIONS TRAVEL
My recent photo essay (and a little bit of writing) was just published in Destinations Travel Magazine's June, 2011 issue. Go to page 64 and take a look! Destinations Travel - June 2011
Book Review: "Anglo Saxon Britain" by Sally Crawford
My high school history teacher was a Classicist. His infatuation with the Greco-Roman societies had taken him on travels throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. He had learned Greek and Latin and had read Homer in the original. He was…
Can You Help Me? WHERE WAS THIS?!?! Russia.
Can anyone help me figure out where this is? I shot it in Russia...but I can't read my notes...I know it was within 100 miles of Moscow