My stop through Salisbury was a bit of a whirlwind. I arrived Sunday evening after the diving in Plymouth (I still owe you folks a quick video from the diving, but I still need to process them) and then I continued on Monday morning for…
Category: Landscape
And before I went diving in Plymouth, I visited a historic site in Dartmoor National Park called Grimspound. There are 24 of these stone hut circles surrounded by a short stone wall (seen on the right in the below panoramic shot). Next to the village…
Ooops – I guess I’m not posting in chronological order here… I didn’t take many photos during my European tour, and this is one of only three from Germany (Frankfurt is kind of a boring town in my opinion). But it was still nice to…
Taken during one of my morning strolls along the canals in Utrecht in the Netherlands…
Well, now that I’m on the other side of the planet (ok technically, the other side of the planet from where I am right now is somewhere in Venezuela, but the other side of the planet from Pittsburgh is somewhere in the Indian Ocean, so…)…
I always seem to like photographing interesting bends in trails while I’m out. Usually they only end up as wallpapers on my phone, but I’ll share a couple… The one above and the next one are both from a short trail I hiked while I…
Sometimes the sunset just isn’t as nice as you’d like… I wanted to wait and see how well the colors developed, but it was getting dark quickly, and I wasn’t sure how strict they are about hiking after sunset down in Summersville, WV. So I…
Another big post of waterfalls, so let’s get right to it… Wyandot – 15′ To be entirely honest, at this point the park was getting more crowded, it was starting to rain, and I was starting to get hungry… so my compositions aren’t always the…
There are only three waterfalls on the southern leg of the Falls Trail System and I wonder how many folks do themselves a disservice and skip this section. These are three very nice falls. Murray Reynolds – 36′ Sheldon Reynolds – 36′ Huh – I…
Ok – no waterfall today… About midway through my hike, there was a nice downed tree that was laying across Kitchen Creek and offered a perfect opportunity to stop and relax on a limb of the tree that made a reclined seat. I sat and…
Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania is known for having 22 named waterfalls within a very short distance (the park brochure says both 7.2 miles and 3.2 miles, but I’m having a hard time telling which number is correct – if either). Also, the main…
I recently spent a weekend in upstate New York visiting my friend Philippe, and we spent some time out hiking. First we visited a trail outside Old Forge, NY and while there was plenty of water flowing everywhere (including right down the trail path), I…
I forget the name of this village where this was taken… sorry! I am pretty sure that this is from our excursion to go visit the sea cucumber ranch. As was my habit while in Mada, I woke up early to go see the sunrise,…
Oh yeah… I went to that Paris place… Actually, the day I arrived, the one lady who sold me my metro tickets mentioned that they were going to be doing a light show on the Eiffel Tower to celebrate its 130th anniversary. At the time,…
These trees are just so cool… The locals will carve into them to be able to drink the water that they store… and then eventually those carved openings become large enough that you can also use them for shelter… But there is just something to…
I’m sitting in Paris this evening waiting for the rain to finish up so I can head out for some dinner, and while Paris is cool and all, what I’m really missing is this… The conditions were never favorable for any over/under shots, but I…
It has been such a treat to be presented with this view almost every evening, and sad that it is soon coming to an end. I had debated trying to stay for a second expedition, but in the end decided not to (though I still…
As promised, here is a sunset… the rock formation out in the water is called Andava Rock and this is basically the view from my hut.
I just don’t know how to describe this landscape – it was just something to stand at the top of one of those rocks and look down on that landscape and take it all in. The photo is a feeble attempt to convey the magnitude…
I know this photo isn’t all that great (it was taken with my cell phone), but for at least the first week here in Andava, this was my morning view as I made a point to wake up and get out for the sunrise. Recently…
Baobab trees are one of those iconic sights of Madagascar, so no need for a lengthy introduction…
There is just something about these wide open landscapes… the sky seems larger, the patterns from the rice fields, the easily visible transition from valleys to mountains, everything. I often found myself wondering whether there are such landscapes somewhere in the States, as well as…
The second day of driving on our overland tour took us thought completely different ecosystems – actually, that is something pretty awesome so far. The first few days in Ivato and Antananarivo, there were plenty of coniferous trees (which surprised me) mixes with tropical plants.…
Today’s post is from the first day of driving, so only a bit south of the capital of “Tana” – the buildings here are constructed mostly brick covered with some sort of stucco and in my opinion look fantastic. Combined with the sweeping vistas and…
Just a quick post to share a couple photos from exploring the city of Antananarivo. I have a couple other photos on the real camera and I’ll try and upload them later this evening… We leave tomorrow for the overland tour and I highly doubt…
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