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Heads Up!

Heads Up!

The Red Sea: Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. The Red Sea at night. It is pitch black. The biggest challenge diving at night is to turn off your imagination and notice what is actually in view in your light; don’t imagine that there may be something […]


Noplace to Park

Noplace to Park

Santorini, Greece Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. July on Santorini, Greece. It is hot — very hot. Near 100 degrees or more. The humidity feels like about 200 percent. The blazing summer sun here is so hot that evaporation from the sea is actually visible. The haze that obscures […]


Unspoiled

Unspoiled

Winchester, Virginia, USA Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Having stayed overnight in Winchester, Virginia, we decided to spend the afternoon visiting the nearby Museum of the Shenandoah. The afternoon threatened bad weather with heavy clouds and thunderstorms in the area, but we decided to press on. With storm clouds […]


Arriving

Arriving

Petra, Jordan Click here to share this image. I always wanted to go there. I wanted to take this photo from the first time I saw one like it. This is Petra. Iconic star of tourism posters for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, burial ground and former capital of the Biblical kingdom of Nabatea, visual […]


Cleaning Station

Cleaning Station

The Pacific: Oahu, Hawaii, USA Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. This is probably my favorite underwater photo, so let’s get it out of the way. I would say it isn’t my best, but it is one of my first digital underwater shots and is still among my favorites. During […]