Rome, Italy
Tourists eating outdoors at the Mercato Hostaria Restaurant in the Campo de Fiori, with the dome of the Sant'Andrea della Valle Basilica in the background.
Manu National Park, Peru
An adult Black caiman (Melanosuchus niger), endemic to South America, sunning itself on a sandbank in the Manu River in the Reserved Zone of Manu National Park.
Paris, France
View of the residential neighborhood along Rue Cardinet in the Batignolles district of the 17th arrondissement.
Puerto Galera, Philippines
Coastal sailing, viewed from the foredeck of a sailboat with the jib and mainsail hoisted, on a beautiful sunny day.
A forest stream polluted with copper sulfate, commonly used as an algaecide, fungicide, and herbicide. It turns bright blue when mixed with water.
Split, Croatia
The landmark ancient Roman columns and arches of the central courtyard (called the Peristyle) of Diocletian's Palace, located in the Old Town of Split, Croatia
Sailing at sunset...
A small house with a really pretty garden.
Amalfi Coast, Italy
A beautiful Italian landscape, with terraced lemon groves and houses in a scenic valley behind the coastal town of Amalfi in Salerno province, with smoke drifting across the steep background hills. The netting is to protect the lemon trees in severe weather.
South Georgia Island
Salisbury Plain viewed from the sea, with a colony of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) and Antarctic fur seals along the beach, and spectacular mountains in the background. King penguins are about 3-feet tall so they're quite visible from a distance.
A spectacular landscape with a glacial lake and drift, and background of snowcapped mountains. This is along the historic Shackleton Walk between Fortuna Bay and Stromness.
The starting point of a great hike to Grytviken. Shot from Thatcher Peninsula on the east coast of South Georgia Island, a wide angle view of beautiful Maiviken Cove, where our ship was anchored, looking very small against the dramatic landscape.
A beautiful sandy beach on San Antonio Island in the tourist resort of Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro Province, with a wide angle view of the Verde Island Passage.
Dumaguete, Philippines
Preparing for the next group dive.
Peru
The spectacular Heliconia rostrata, commonly known as the hanging lobster claw, fishtail heliconia or false bird of paradise, is a herbaceous perennial plant native to Peru and Argentina.
View of the Verde Island Passage from the Sabang Beach waterfront. All of this is threatened at the moment by the Oriental Mindoro oil spill, just down the coast.
Varanasi, India
Three men sitting on a ghat beside the Ganges River at sunrise, preparing to bathe.
Singapore
A university student who writes poems on demand using this old manual typewriter set up on a table on a street.
A tree branch is covered in moss, bromeliads and wild orchids, which are epiphytes that thrive in the moist environment of a mid-elevation cloud forest.
Paucartambo Province, Peru
The main street of a small, dusty provincial town, where all the young people leave for the city as soon as they can.
Traditional clothing, including the "blanket backpack", called a manta, I think.
Paucartambo, Peru
A Peruvian woman wearing traditional clothing herds sheep and pigs through a field to another location.
A tourist van on a road trip through the dense cloud forest biome of the Cultural Zone in Manu National Park.
