Chicago from the River

Chicago sits on a river, a lake, and a canal or two, so water is part of the view and the city persona. Many boat tours go out on the lake past the marina and Navy Pier, and the view of the city skyline from there is unsurpassed—the lake and its boats, the green of [...]

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Please Save Us! Losing The Tree We Call Home

Save the Koala 
Imagine not being able to “Cuddle a Koala” again

(I took these photos at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, August 2008)
The Brisbane-based Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) has declared September the Save The Koala Month, with the aim of getting the koala listed as a threatened species across its entire range. The month will focus on [...]

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Philosophy and Photography?

I’m in the process of trying to make order and sense out of all our many (almost hundreds of) thousands of photographic images—collected over the years, and in the form of old photographs, negatives, slides, digital images, scanned pics. Family events and memories, all the travels documented, markets, flowers, wild animals, signs, wild weather, patterns [...]

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Tropical Queensland’s Tropical Bonanza

Cairns, Australia:
The luscious fresh produce at Rusty’s Market in Cairns bombards all our senses. This large bustling covered market opens Friday-Sunday and is a fascinating window into the local culture with its mix of peoples from around the world. Locals throng there with their “green bags” or wheelie baskets to stock up on fresh produce, [...]

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Finally Back Home to Roost

Rod and I have had an amazingly busy summer this year—not planned originally but evolved as the year progressed. Mostly ‘cos Rod had a lot of travel for conferences related to his newest research in bio-energy, a hot topic right now. For obvious reasons.
We were away from mid-May to beginning of September, with a few [...]

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