Driving thru Kruger Game Park in an overland truck is a bit of an exercise in frustration for the photographer. Due to the rigors of the truck schedule, and the sheer size, it is not really possible to control the time of your visit, nor do you have the flexibility to move around for the...
In the three months I’ve been here, I’ve never seen the exterior lights of the palace turned on after dusk. On the 4th however, the I Corps band played a concert for the base, and the lights were turned on.
This is an HDR image, composed of three images bracketed at 1.3 stops each way from...
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Since I’ve gotten to Iraq, I’ve been living on an area called the Victory Base Complex. This is a group of several Army “camps” with various patriotic sounding names such as Victory and Liberty, along with several others named after either individual soldiers, or units that served with distinction. Camp Slayer is one of those,...
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Pettingell Peak is the high point of Grand Country in Colorado, and a great 13′er near Herman Lake. Getting to the top requires a bit of class 3 rock scrambling and is definitely not advised for those who have an extreme fear of heights or exposure. The weather was pretty nice for most of the...
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In the five years that I’ve been privileged to come to the Antarctic, I’ve never been lucky enough to see an emperor penguin up close in the wild. I may have spotted one standing alone on an ice floe while I was on the NBP several years ago, but it was so far in the...
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The hike to Pawnee Pass traverses vibrant, varied terrain en route to spectacular views atop the Continental Divide. Two lakes, innumerable streams, abundant wildflowers and extended alpine-tundra travel make this one of the Indian Peak’s most interesting and enjoyable day hike destinations. Get an early start, as you may find yourself tempted to fully explore...
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Our arrival in Sucre on a Saturday turned out to be very serendipitous, as it allowed us to take a short bus ride over to the weekly Sunday market in Tarabuco. Up until recently, this was a very traditional weekly market for the locals to come and do their normal shopping. In the past few...
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On the final day of our tour, we headed towards our destination town of Uyuni. As we approached the edge of the salt flat we came across miners chipping blocks out of the surface and grinding the salt down into pieces that could be loaded into trucks for processing into ordinary table salt. Here we also came across...
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Rising early the next morning to a steaming cup of the ubiquitous third world Nescafe, we headed out towards what would be the highlight of the trip…the Salar de Uyuni.
As empty as a newborn’s imagination, it is a plane of shimmering white stretching from horizon to horizon, with only the distant outline of far away...
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After a final night of sleep in a comfortable bed, James and I climbed into a pair of decrepit old Land Rovers with drivers who spoke next to no English, and had an apparent case of chronic sleep deprivation. Luckily, one of our group was a beautiful Argentinian named Karina who was fantastic in providing a...
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by Henry Malmgren
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