A Traveller’s Eye, A Thinker’s Heart

I like to tell stories. I like to take photos.
And I like to share them. Enjoy.

  • DIVING IN BELIZE

    DIVING IN BELIZE

    In February and March of 1990, I had some time to kill. I was in between jobs. I had finished my job at the University of Wisconsin because I had been hired by ICARDA to work in Aleppo, Syria. But there was delay after delay in getting my work visa. So I figured I’d go…

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  • The case of Doña Pacha

    The case of Doña Pacha

    Excerpt from Participatory communication in development: integrating women into forestry projects in Costa Rica A research project conducted in 1987 funded by the Inter-American Foundation, Ibero-American Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Centre, Costa Rica. With the increase in reforestation throughout the country and the resulting need…

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  • Asociación para la Promoción de la Mujer en Monte Romo

    Asociación para la Promoción de la Mujer en Monte Romo

    Excerpt from Participatory communication in development: integrating women into forestry projects in Costa Rica A research project conducted in 1987 funded by the Inter-American Foundation, Ibero-American Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Centre, Costa Rica. Antecedents Although the principal agricultural activity in Hojancha is cattle raising, the…

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  • Atitlán

    Atitlán

    I spent the summer of 1987 in Central America. Mainly I was in Costa Rica conducting research for my Masters degree. But the folks at CATIE gave me a contract to develop a slideshow on sustainable natural resources. For some reason, I invented an excuse to travel to Guatemala. Perhaps I was working but I…

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  • COOPEMATAMBU

    COOPEMATAMBU

    Excerpt from Participatory communication in development: integrating women into forestry projects in Costa Rica A research project conducted in 1987 funded by the Inter-American Foundation, Ibero-American Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Centre, Costa Rica. Although located only five kilometers from the municipal center of Hojancha, the…

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  • THE BLACK CORAL FACTORY OF MANAGUA

    THE BLACK CORAL FACTORY OF MANAGUA

    I don’t recall exactly how it all transpired as I write this nearly 40 years after it happened. I was in Managua in July of 1987 visiting some old friends and seeing how the Sandinista Revolution had been progressing since I left in 1985. I was keen to see some black coral. I had documented…

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  • GOLFO DE FONSECA

    GOLFO DE FONSECA

    In November of 1985 and January of 1986, I travelled to Honduras on assignment for the Asociación Hondureña de Ecología. They asked me to document a variety of environmental issues. Most of my original Kodachromes remained with AHE. I’d usually try to shoot a couple of frames of each subject so I got a few…

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  • Parque Nacional La Tigra

    Parque Nacional La Tigra

    In November of 1985 and January of 1986, I travelled to Honduras on assignment for the Asociación Hondureña de Ecología. They asked me to document a variety of environmental issues. Parque Nacional La Tigra is Honduras’s first national park. I visited about five years after it was officially created to document its flora and fauna.…

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  • ON THE CORNER IN WINSLOW

    ON THE CORNER IN WINSLOW

    I was standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona. Seriously, I was! I had just finished watching the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and got off the train in Winslow. My Peace Corps mate, Denny Hildreth, lived in Winslow and worked for the US Forest Service. He was no girl in a flatbed Ford slowin’…

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