There are three toilet stalls in the men’s room of Cali’s Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport’s international departures terminal, none of which have toilet seats. But one of the police rooms just beyond security has a state of the art x-ray machine through which one can see virtually every orifice of the human body. From my… Continue reading
The first thing you’ll notice after clearing immigration in the recently-opened Hamad International Airport in Doha is Lamp Bear, a 23-foot (7m) high canary yellow bronze sculpture that takes pride of place in the center of the massive duty-free hall. Tipping the scales at about 35,000 pounds (15,875 kg), it was bought at a Christie’s… Continue reading
Briefly chasing a Herring Gull in an afternoon chill.
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Below are a dozen shots from a growing memorial for Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was holding a toy airsoft gun when he was shot by a Cleveland police officer at Cudell Commons, a community park on the city’s west side, on November 22, 2014. He died early the next day. Video footage of… Continue reading
There’s a lot to like about PROJECT: ICE, a new feature length documentary about the Great Lakes of North America. It’s part history, part folklore and part geology lesson, all framed by the ice that created the lakes – and impact its disappearance is having on them.
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When I was in Ecuador last year, I posted a brief summary of how a loophole in Ecuadoran law allowed fishermen to legally sell sharks that ended up in their nets. While shark fishing is officially outlawed, the law didn’t clearly define a distinction between landings that were accidental or intentional, which meant that plenty… Continue reading
More specifically, from the Cleveland Metroparks North Chagrin Reservation in Mayfield Village and Willoughby Hills, Ohio, about 18 miles east of downtown Cleveland.
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Here’s a selection of 20 images taken during a 22-minute stroll around the Moroccan port at Essaouira, including a shot of a fisherman who flung a fish at me. He missed, but I’m still glad it wasn’t one of the many massive conger eels found in the makeshift stalls that line the piers. Once the… Continue reading
That’s how my host Amine described the small herb and spice shop we stopped by earlier this evening, located a short three minute walk from the mild madness of Marrakech’s central Jemaa el Fnaa square.
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Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus) in Argentine Patagonia.
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Heavy metal music icon Ronnie James Dio would have been 72 today. I don’t think he could have imagined that a 250 kilogram likeness would have been dedicated in his honor just five months after his death in 2010. The statue, which emerges from a large rock to rise two meters into the sky, has… Continue reading
The Kelp Gull is the dominant large gull species in much of the southern hemisphere. I mostly remember it for how it stood up to fiece winds as our boat crossed Lago Nahuel Huapi.
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A half dozen images of a Chimango Caracara (Milvago chimango), a stunning medium-sized raptor spotted at the Laguna Nimez Municipal Natural Reserve in Calafate, Argentina. It’s one of the most common open country birds in the southern reaches of South America.
I cried for an hour on Sunday when I heard that Lou Reed passed away. Then I listened to song after brutally honest song. I still shake when I come across poignant tributes, now some two days later. Like this one by Neil Gaiman in yesterday’s Guardian which sums up so well why Reed’s artistry resonated so… Continue reading
About a year and a half ago, CNN correspondent Bruce Holmes came up with a list of 10 of the world’s most beautiful cemeteries. Purely by happenstance I visited two on his list within 13 days of one another; the second of the pair, the municipal cemetery in Punta Arenas, Chile, just 15 days before his… Continue reading
If you’ve ever strolled along an Atlantic coast beach, chances are you’ve encountered this gull, the most common black-hooded gull on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America.
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A few shots of a Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) at the Laguna Nimez Reserve in Calafate, Argentina.
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Here is a Great Thrush who (kinda) cooperated just long enough for a quick photo shoot in a small municipal park in Quito, where he shared a feeding ground with a Red-crested Cardinal and an Eared Dove, among others. It’s the largest of the South American thrushes. What a great eye ring! Great Thrush (Turdus… Continue reading
Manta, Ecuador – Shark fishing is illegal in Ecuador but a loophole allows fisherman to legally sell sharks that end up in their nets. The law doesn’t define a distinction between landings that are accidental or intentional, which generally means that sharks are plentiful among the morning catch fisherman unload on beaches throughout the coast.
Spotted along the Beagle Channel in Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world.
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