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South African Safari
We spent the last of our days in South Africa on both self-driven and guided safaris in Kruger National Park in Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces. What a blast. During our first visit to Kruger in 2004 we failed to catch [...]
Soweto Market and Kliptown
Have had a wonderful and busy time exploring here in Johannesburg at the Social Enterprise World Forum. Yesterday my husband and I visited Soweto and then specifically Kliptown, a squatters’ camp. The Kliptown Youth Program is remarkably like The Tutorial [...]
And This Little Lens Stays Home
How do you choose which gear goes and which stays home when you’re heading out on a trip that includes both work and play; historical settings; sacred and tourist spots; followed by contemporary urban locations and then wide open African [...]
Leaving Bad Fortune Behind in Japan
It’s only small comfort but I feel extremely fortunate that everyone I personally know in Japan was, at last contact, safe. Only one friend could not make it back to their home after the quake/tsunami but after days in [...]
Istockphoto Image of the Week
What a great surprise to awake this morning and learn (from my Europoean Facebook friends) that this image from Tokyo is anchoring the Photos section of the iStockphoto web site as the featured Image of the Week. Too cool. I [...]
Computer Campus Interview
Yikes, can I jaw. You might think from the sheer length of my podcast interview with Keith Tharp on Camera Campus that I could talk about photography forever – and you would be right. Truth is Keith lopped off a [...]
Waiting for “it.”
Those three young kids ruined the photo I was taking but gave me one so much better. This photograph, taken last summer at the local firemen’s carnival, is part of my Smalltown: Carnival series. Originally I had framed a shot [...]
Toast with…a prayer?
A couple weeks ago I was sick with some funky flu-like thing that included among its notable features, an up-and-down-up-and-down-up-and-down—fever. During the up parts when my old-fashioned mercury thermometer read above 102.3 I had little choice but to quit working [...]