.... Various trips here & yonder ....

  

Bodo, Norway, Sep 6, 2025. After 2 hikes the previous days, just took a walking tour and shot street scenes and street art.
Mount Kjepin in Harstad Norway, Sep 5, 2025. Landscapes, salmon farm and a dull gull taken with my long lens. No other birds were sighted from the hike or peak, ugh
Mount Komsa in Alta Norway, Sep 4, 2025. Landscapes, colorful lichen and mushrooms. A distant golden eagle that did 1 fly-by (forgot to bring my long lens!)
At the near top of Norway, the North Cape has a globe monument which has rings aligned to the earth's axis. Landscapes and street art pics. Sep 3, 2025.
After 2 sea days, on Sep 1, 2025 we arrived in Longyearbyen on Spitzpergen Island of the Svalbard archipelago. A sunset picture, still waters, landscapes, and the global seed vault entrance. A fellow passenger chartered a private boat around the island and was able to see 1 polar bear. But it was a 7hr board ride.
Alesund, Norway, Aug 29, 2025. Mostly lanscapes; used in-body HDR and computational neutral density filters..
Mousa Island offshore of Lerwick in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, Aug 28, 2025. Landscape pics, the most intact Broch in Europe, and the only good bird pictures of the trip. As we learned, the puffins all went to sea by early August.
Kirkwall in the Shetland Islands, Aug 27, 2025. Neolithic stones and village
Edinburgh, Scotland, Aug 25-26, 2025. Street scenes in Edinburgh and the picturesque Stockbridge neighborhood. We arrived the last day of the annual International festival unfortunately.
Tala game reserve, outside of Durban, South Africa. May 18, 2025. Various grazers, rhinos, and a few birds.
Zulu Nyla game reserve outside of Richards Bay, South Africa. May 17, 2025.
St Lucia wetlands outside of Richards Bay. Mostly hippos, but also hornbill and pied eye wagtail. May 16, 2025.
Maputo, Mozambique. Urban pics. May 15, 2025.
Mayotte, French Comoros, A bird walk. May 12, 2025.
Nosy Komba, Madagascar, May 11, 2025.
At sea to Madagascar: flying fish and red-footed boobies, May 10, 2025.
Panjim, India. Urban pics. May 2, 2025.
Mangalore, India, May 1, 2025.
Cochin, India, River boat ride but 1 pic of flying butterfly. Apr 30, 2025.
Colombo, Sri Lanka. Urban pics. Apr 29, 2025.
Birds from the Sinharaja rainforest, Sri Lanka, Apr 28, 2025.
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka, Apr 27, 2025. Birds & wildlife
Phuket Thailand, Apr 23, 2025
Langkawi, Malaysia, Apr 22, 2025. Bird pics.
Penang, Malaysia, Apr 21, 2025
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Apr 19, 2025
Malakka, Malaysia scenes, Apr 18, 2025
Birds at Mandai Bird Reserve, Singapore, Apr 16, 2025
Birds at Tarango zoo, Sydney (15 pics), Feb 19, 2025
Koalas and kangaroos at Tarango zoo, Sydney (7 pics), Feb 19, 2025
Milford Sound (5 pics), Feb 16, 2025
Uvala Island 10 pics), Feb 15, 2025
Orokonui Ecosanctuary (10 pics), Feb 14, 2025
Gannets at Cape Kidnappers cove (7 pics), Feb 11, 2025
Auckland streets (6 pics), Feb 9, 2025
Tiritiri Matangi (set 1, 9 pics), Feb 8, 2025
Tiritiri Matangi (set 1, 6 pics), Feb 8, 2025
Mariehamn, Aland islands. Aug20, 2024
Helsinki, Finland. Aug19, 2024
Kotka, Finland. Aug18, 2024
Tallinn, Estonia. Aug17, 2024
Riga, Latvia (Sigulda & Turaida). Aug15, 2024
Klaipeda, Lithuania (Curonian peninsula). Aug14, 2024
Gdansk, Poland. Aug12/13, 2024
Malta. Apr 21-23, 2024
Ibiza, Spain. Apr 19, 2024
Valencia, Italy. Apr 18, 2024
Cinque Terra, Italy. Apr 13, 2024
San Gimignano, Italy. Apr 12, 2024
Asa Wright Nature Center, Trinidad, Dec4, 2023
Martinique, Dec3, 2023
Saint Barts, Dec2, 2023
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dec1, 2023
Selected images (10) from Arctic trip, Aug15-26, 2023
Saint Johns, Canada. More puffins. Aug25, 2023
Paaimiut, Greenland. Aug19, 2023
Prince Christian Sound and Nanortalik, Greenland. Aug15, 2023
Puffins from Heimaey Island, Iceland. Aug15, 2023
Puffins from Grundarfjordur, Iceland. Aug14, 2023
Scenes from Senegal, Mar18, 2023
Scenes from Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Mar15, 2023
Scenes from Ghana: Kakum National Park. Mar14, 2023
Scenes from Luanda, Angola. Mar10, 2023
Namibia dunes, gecko and chameleon, Mar7, 2023
Cape Town street scenes, Mar3, 2023
Gamboa rain forest reserve, Gamboa Panama, Feb5, 2023
National Aviary, Cartagena Colombia, Feb4, 2023
Mayan ruins at Kabah, Yucatan, Feb1, 2023
Mykonos, Greece. Oct 25, 2022
Santorini, Greece. Oct 24, 2022
Rhodes, Greece. Oct 23, 2022
Ephesus ruins, Turkey. Oct 22, 2022
Istanbul, Turkey Oct 20-21, 2022
Athens, Greece. Oct 2022
Chiricahua National Monument, Oct 4, 2022
Lerwick, Shetland Islands, July 27 2022. Gannets and puffins.
Index page for all Norway images, 2022.
Arabia and Mumbai, Dec 2019
Galapagos Islands, 2019
Scenes from Quito, Equador, 2019
Casa del Alabado museum, Quito, 2019
Iceland, May 2019
Causeway of the Giants, Ireland, May 2019
Political graffiti on the wall, NorthernIreland, May 2019
Stirling Castle, Scotland, May 2019
Stockholm, Sweden, June 2018
Talinn, Estonia, June 2018
Saint Petersberg, Church of Spilt Blood. Russia, June 2018
Winter palace at Saint Petersberg, Russia, June 2018
Summer palace at Saint Petersberg, Russia, June 2018
Berlin, Germany, June 2018
Arhus, Denmark, June 2018
Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2018
Landscape shots at Glacier Bay Nat'l park and bay, 2016
Ice chunks calving at Marguerite glacier, Glacier Bay Park 2016
2010 Transporting a new BMW 3-series to Houston.
2008 Business trip to Basel and Divonne.
2007 Evening tour around London, June 2007.
2007 Hyde Park, London.
2003 Trip to Alaska: Brooks Camp, Kennicot & Valley of 10,000 Smokes
2002 Trip to Alaska


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