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Costa Rica Wildlife Adventure Day 6: The Peace of Wild Things
After an evening of thunder and lightening, we woke to steady rain showers. The jungle comes alive in the rain with chatter and calls. I am not sure if it’s a celebration of the rain or a protest! Today we travel to Bosque del Cabo Rain Forest Lodge, a beautiful resort in the coastal mountains.…
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Costa Rica Wildlife Adventure: Preparations & Arrival Day 1: The Adventure Begins
Art and I are off on another adventure! This opportunity came to us one evening while we were editing photos. Our desks are side by side in our study, and an email chimed into our inbox. We read the email announcing that Backcountry Gallery had 2 cancellations for their Costa Rica Wildlife Photography Workshop. We…
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Cuba Photography Trip Day 5: Descubrimiento (Discovery)
The early morning brings more opportunities for making photos on the streets of Havana. We are noticing a shift in how we are seeing, how we are looking as we stroll down the streets. We are looking at the people, they are the richness of the stories we capture with our cameras. it is hard…
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Cuba Photography Trip Day 3: Familia (Family)
We wake to the sound of roosters announcing the impending sunrise. As we left our hotel for another early morning walk, rooster crows echoed from different streets and alleys. The streets are empty when we first venture out. Neighbors greet us from their doors and windows, with smiles and greetings of good morning. As we…
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Florida Birding Trip Day 3: Colts, Pelicans, & Girls Making Photos
Today we leave West Palm Beach and begin our travels through the Florida Everglades towards the Florida Gulf Coast. Our first stop of the day is at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in Boynton Beach. As we were walking down a path, a family of Sand Hill Cranes emerged from the side of the road and…
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Florida Birding Trip Day 2: We’re Going On an Owl Hunt!
We met up early this morning to travel to Green Cay Nature Center and Wetlands. There are 100 acres of created wetlands, and we could not appreciate the great diversity and scale of what was waiting for us when we first stepped out onto the boardwalk. There is a luscious quiet about the wetlands, sprinkled…
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Florida Birding Trip Day 1: Pivot!
Today we drove to West Palm Beach where we will meet up with Loren Fisher and the workshop participants. As we made our way south and then east, we passed massive sugar cane fields with road signs warning of smoke and fog impairing visibility. We had no idea that sugar cane is set alight before…
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Florida Birding Trip: Planning, Prep & Farm Adventures
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes & ears, as close to us & everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?” David Attenborough Art and I enjoy photographing birds; we like the variety and trying to capture them doing bird things like singing, flying, eating, chasing and preening.…
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Southern Japan Cruise Day 11: Until We Meet Again
Today is our final port of call: Kochi. We are happy to visit Kochi, but sad it is our last excursion of the cruise. We are welcomed into port with a flag performance that was quite impressive! I wonder how many steps that would count for, on an activity app? As we disembark, volunteers help…
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Southern Japan Cruise Day 9: Charmed
We are very excited for today! We are visiting another new site to us; Kagoshima. The view from our balcony is of Sakurajima, an active volcano across Kagoshima bay. We are touring on our own, visiting Sengan-en, a beautiful botanical garden. It is cool in the fresh morning, and we grab our jackets and head…
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