I’m excited to announce that for the second year in a row one of my photos has been honored in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition! My photo, titled “Top Shelf” was Highly Commended in the WPY56 Animal Portraits category. This follows last year’s win in the Black and White category. The image depicts a tayra—a member of the weasel family—foraging at the

Last week I unveiled part of the reprocessed collection of cultural images from my 2007 trip to Rwanda and Tanzania. This week I’m sharing the second part of that collection, which focuses on our most memorable interaction with one of the local east African tribes. When we planned our Tanzania safari, we were convinced to take time to visit Lake

In my efforts to catch up on reprocessing old photos to be added to the archive, I updated the photos from my 2007 Rwanda trip. I recently shared Rwanda wildlife images in a new photo gallery. Since then I’ve finished reworking the photos from our visit to Tanzania, which followed Rwanda on the itinerary. This was our very first African experience, and

I’ve resurrected another old photo collection for the archive. Recently I’ve had Africa on my mind, as I was originally supposed to be wrapping up my latest South Africa trip right about now. So I set out to tackle one of the older collections that originally appeared on my old website. As I’ve been doing with other older images I’ve

Today is World Lion Day, an occasion used to raise awareness about the “King of Beasts.” Lions have been celebrated through the centuries, so most people wouldn’t be surprised that they have their own special day, but instead of simply lauding the powerful feline, World Lion Day is meant to educate people about the plight of the species. World lion populations