May 04 2009
I’m just back from the New River Birding and Nature Festival, held each year near Fayetteville, West Virginia. It has become one of my favorite annual birding events, so much so that I was really bummed out when it appeared that scheduling conflicts were going to keep me from going this year. Fortunately, that issue [...]
Mar 19 2009
No hope of even beginning to catch up on Ecuador stuff, but I thought I’d share some of an incredible hour and a half we spent yesterday afternoon. It was after lunch, in the cloud forest near Mindo, Ecuador. The shot below is reasonably representative of the habitat. We turned off the highway into the [...]
Nov 18 2008
The exit (or entrance) to the Panamá Canal, looking from Gatún Locks toward the Caribbean Sea It’s time–finally–for me to finish with a few last images from mid-October’s press tour with the Panama La Verde group. When I left off, we had just had a whirlwind day in the Albrook-Gamboa area. We only had two more days, one [...]
Oct 23 2008
El Valle de Anton is a posh, weekend retreat village that offers lovely foothill scenery and cool climate just two-hour’s drive west of often-sweltering Panama City. It’s filled with lush, meticulously-groomed gardens, like the one that surrounds the Park Eden Bed & Breakfast, where we spent a very pleasant day. Above, tour organizer Yenia (l) joins guide [...]
