About time. In a Monegasque news stand, some local and regional headlines marking Joe Biden’s decision yesterday to finally step aside.
Americas
A 72 Hour Bout With Cholera
I’ve read Love in the Time of Cholera twice. It’s among my favorite books. The first time was in the early winter of 1992, when…
Chasing a Redhead in the Forest: Up Close With a Magellanic Woodpecker
I finally got around to reworking these few shots of a few Magellanic Woodpeckers I spent a few minutes chasing at the edge of a…
Laguna Nimez Reserve, El Calafate – The Best 90-Minute Birding Experience in Patagonia
I’m not sure what the second most visited spot is in El Calafate, Argentina, after the UNESCO world heritage-listed Los Glaciares National Park, home to…
“Werken”: Bernardo Oyarzun’s Mapuche Messenger
The video below is “Werken”, an installation by Bernardo Oyarzun in the Chilean Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale. It consists of 1500 masks made…
Nassau’s Pompey Museum of Slavery – a 65-Second Visitors’ Notebook
So you’ve got time to kill in Nassau and want to do something besides eat, drink or shop? Here’s your best option: The Pompey Museum of…
45 Minutes at the Butterfly Farm in Mindo, Ecuador
If you guessed that the Owl butterfly got its name because its massive eyespots resemble an owl’s eyes, you’d be right. They’re large, fly slowly…
In Transit: Nassau to Miami
For the Window Seats and In Transit series, here’s a gallery of 12 images snapped on Monday during American Airlines flight 4769, a quick hop…
“I don’t want to be here anymore.” – Bogota Taxi Driver Monologues
I stepped into the cab at the intersection of Carrera 10 and Calle 4, one of Bogota’s many blurred frontiers between civility and third world…