Category: World Travel

SPARK Photo Festival April 25, 2020

Saturday, April 25, 2020 ~ 2:00 – 3:30 pm SPARK Photo Festival & Peterborough Public Library  Trek to Summit of Kilimanjaro & Beyond 345 Aylmer Street North Petrborough, Ontario, K9H 3V7 705-745-5382 Peterborough Library    

Armchair Traveler Lecture Series

A big THANK YOU to the STANDING ROOM only CROWD of 80+ who attended last night’s lecture, Trek the Akshayuk Pass. I had a great time chatting about the adventure and look forward to future opportunities. Photography SHOW & SALE of associated images continues to February 7th, 2020. “Your lecture was fabulous—informative, great eye-candy sprinkled…

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Summit Lake area (Day 8 & 9)

After a late start at 17:00 hours on Day 1, we quickly established a pattern of setting camp early-to-mid afternoon, resting, reading, & writing until supper around 17:30 then ETB. Mornings saw us underway by about 06:00 hours, earlier if we needed to cross a Significant River. By noon, the blazing sun had transformed the upper…

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Day 7: Glacier & Summit Lakes, Baffin Island

On the trail by 5:30 to capture this serene image of the rising sun on Glacier Lake then onto yet another Significant River Crossing of Turner Glacier runoff. We’re all getting pretty good at crab-walking across the rushing water and leaning forward on our hiking poles to brace ourselves. 07:30 – Breakfast on the four-story-high…

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Days 3 & 4: Auyuittuq- a little beach time

We couldn’t have expected such magnificent weather. Once we got “into the zone” we anticipated each day’s spectacular and changing landscapes. Between km 20 – 23 Peter, our guide, and I walked barefoot enjoying the fine grains of beach sand. A few km later, I switched to MEC paddle boots to muck through the boggy…

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National Geographic: Good News – Bad News

Good news: “Bad News” is the FOURTH of FIVE of my images selected by National Geographic Photography Editor for their “Daily Dozen” Best Images (April 09, 2010).