Delightful Dominica, January 2026 (Part 2, Jungle Bay)
Even after being robbed of a day on the water thanks to the Caribbean airspace shutdown, we were happy with our second » Read more
Landscape photography
2025: Marie’s Highlights, Photographic and Otherwise
Every year has its highs and lows and 2025 was no exception. This was our first full year of semi-retirement, enabling us » Read more
Amun Ini, Anda, Bohol, Philippines (May 2025)
After a pre-trip blackwater blow-out with Steve and Greg at Anilao, and successful thresher shark sessions in Malapascua with Lynn’s co-op group, » Read more
Malapascua, Philippines (May 2025)
Thursday and Friday, May 1 and 2, 2025 Planes, trains and automobiles, or rather the Philippine dive travel version: shuttle buses, a » Read more
Texas (Part 1): Eclipse April 2024 (eclipsed by clouds!)
After experiencing and photographing total solar eclipses in Jackson, Wyoming in 2017 and in Chile’s Elqui Valley in 2019, our plans for » Read more
2024 Highlights (with Marie’s photographic bests)
2024 was a whale of a year! By any measure, it was a momentous year, in which we semi-retired after 33 years » Read more
Amazing Argentina-September 2024 ((Part 1-Beguiling Buenos Aires)
Thursday, September 12-Saturday, September 14, 2024 What possesses someone to enter, REPEATEDLY, 50 degree F water in a wetsuit? (That’s 10 degrees » Read more
Amazing Argentina-September 2024 (Part 2-Peninsula Valdes)
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 After decompressing from flight snafus en route to Argentina with several enjoyable days exploring Buenos Aires with photographic » Read more
Finally, the Philippines! (Part 3-Visayas, June 2024)
All too soon, we were at the halfway point of our long awaited 10-day voyage on the Atlantis Azores. Our 5 days » Read more
Finally, the Philippines! (Part 2-Tubbataha, June 2024)
At last we were aboard the Atlantis Azores, the flagship liveaboard vessel of the Atlantis dive operation. Having left San Diego on » Read more