When we were on our 5,800-mile, 13-state Western road trip last year, one of the biggest expenses we incurred—gas aside—was park admission. It’s not cheap if you’re visiting a different place every other day. Which is why National Park Week is such a genius idea; from April 21 to 29, all of the 397 U.S. [...]
Photo Friday: New York, New York
April 13, 2012 By 51 Comments
When I went to New York City this past weekend, I traveled light: no laptop, no photography gear, just my tiny rolling suitcase and me. Thus, this is the first Photo Friday shot exclusively with my iPhone (using either the regular ol’ camera app or Pro HDR). It’s hard waking up on a sunny day [...]
Photo Friday: Grayton Beach, Florida
April 6, 2012 By 33 Comments
I’ve been decidedly vague about where exactly we stayed while in Florida on Spring Break last month. Sometimes, you just want to keep places a secret for yourself, you know? What I will say is that it was just a couple miles from Grayton Beach, so we spent our nights out in the funky little [...]
Photo Friday: Chattanooga, Tennessee
March 30, 2012 By 31 Comments
I grew up just an hour north of Chattanooga but my trips down that way were usually reserved for soccer games and tennis training (my coach lived there). Up until writing my Tennessee book two years ago, I hadn’t really played tourist—not in two decades at least. So while we were home for the holidays [...]
Photo Friday: Redfish Lake, Florida
March 23, 2012 By 36 Comments
I just returned last night from vacation with my family and a few friends on the Florida Panhandle. While we’ve traditionally stayed in Destin, we opted for a place in South Walton this time around. I have to say I prefer the quieter, serene environment to that of the overdeveloped landscape of its neighboring cities. [...]
Photo Friday: Dades Gorges, Morocco
March 16, 2012 By 29 Comments
I don’t remember a whole lot about my first trip to Morocco. It was in 2005, I was living in Holland, and my friend Megan and I decided to go adventuring. In fact, I recall so little that I had to Google image where we’d been just to find out the names of places. So [...]
Photo Friday: Savannah, Georgia
March 9, 2012 By 60 Comments
If you ask me (and I’m pretty sure you did), Savannah is the most charming city in the United States. It’s one of those fairytale-like towns that I think “people actually get to live here?!” In another time or place, I’m pretty sure I would have been one of those people. I returned last night [...]
Photo Friday: Iby’Iwacu, Rwanda
March 2, 2012 By 43 Comments
While preparing for my photo presentation for BlissDom last week, I’ve began the laborious task of culling through tens of thousands of photos I don’t even remember taking over the past two years, when I stumbled upon a set taken in Rwanda when I visited back in 2010. The beginning of my trip to Rwanda [...]
Best of Photo Fridays
February 24, 2012 By 53 Comments
I’ve been participating in Photo Friday for three years this month, only missing out three times in 156 weeks due to extenuating circumstances. Considering I’m giving a workshop tomorrow at BlissDom on photography composition and angles, I thought I’d pull some of my favorite shots from the archives and tell you what makes them so. [...]
Photo Friday: Vail, Colorado
February 17, 2012 By 40 Comments
I just returned from six days in Colorado late last night, and if this trip didn’t have me wanting to pack all my belongings and move to the mountains, nothing will. It was our second experience skiing in Colorado—our first was last March in Keystone—and I love how even a “bad” snow year (as locals [...]
