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.
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THE ELK MOUND TOUR
I was born in Southern California and didn’t move to Wisconsin until I was 10 years old. As a result I always felt like a bit of a foreigner here and that probably explains why I left Wisconsin after finishing university and spent most of my adult life living overseas. What I didn’t know at…
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DAY 8. Twins vs Yankees
This was the day Joseph and I were really looking forward to – a Major League Baseball game! Russ offered us his company’s Twins season tickets and Jenni, Padma, Joe and I went to see the Twins battle the Yankees at Target Field. We were four of 36,000 fans who came out on a perfect…
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TURNING THE CAMERA AROUND
As I approach the end of my Syrian retrospective, it’s time to turn the camera around. With all of the previous photos I’ve stuck my camera in the faces of Syrians and urged them to look this way or that. Now the tables have turned and I become the photographed while they become the photographers.…
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EXPLORING RUINS OF SYRIA
Every schoolchild has heard of the Sphinx, the Parthenon and the Coliseum but who has heard of Palmyra, Ebla, Ain Dara or even Crak de Chevalier? Syria has never gained the international recognition it deserves for its archaeological wonders and as a result has never benefited from the mighty tourist dollar which has allowed Egypt,…
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TORTUGUERO
Recollections from travels in Costa Rica – 1981-1986. Many images are scanned from duplicates (hence the poor quality) as the original Kodachromes remained in Costa Rica In the far north-east corner of Costa Rica, lies Tortuguero National Park – a park bursting with biological diversity and an important nesting area of four species of sea…
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CALLING ALL WEBERTS
Grab a map of Germany and find Frankfurt in the centre of the country. Then trace your finger about 100 kilometres northeast and amongst the forests and fields you’ll find the tiny hamlet of Olberode. In 1364 four brothers Adolf, Christian, Frederick and Eckhart cleared land at the site and the village of Olberode was…
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THE AUSSIE IMMIGRANT
It was pouring down rain in Adelaide 19 years ago today. I don’t have a good memory for the weather, but I remember that day clearly. On 4 April 1995 Adelaide welcomed its newest migrant. Prior to April 1995, Padma and I had been living in Cali, Colombia but things got a bit rough as…
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CHECKING OUT CORCOVADO
Upon arriving to their host country, Peace Corps Volunteers go through a very intensive three-month training course. About a month after arriving in Costa Rica, my fellow volunteers and I finally learned who we would be working for and where. Three of us were assigned to Mario Boza, of the Environmental Education program of the…
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MY SCOTS-IRISH KIN
St Patrick’s Day is over here in Australia and I didn’t celebrate but I could have. I’m only one eighth Irish but I think that still qualifies me for a green beer. My Irish ancestry is the most colourful part of my family tree and includes a bunch of rough and tumble Scots-Irish immigrants to…
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