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Tango dancers, Buenos Aires

Featured Photo: Tango dancers, Buenos Aires, Argentina

On February 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

If there’s one art form that’s inextricably linked with Argentina, it’s the tango, that controlled yet sensual dance form that arose in Buenos Aires towards the end of the 19th century.  Tango most likely originated in the dance venues frequented by the young, poor toughs known as compadritos – men with few possessions to [...]

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Featured Photo: Fishing boats in Hanga Roa Harbor, Easter Island

On December 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

A while back I posted a photo from my 2007 trip to on one of the most remote and mysterious islands in the world, Easter Island. That photo portrayed a classic image of the island’s lost civilization, the huge statues known as moai. Here’s another, less typical photo from [...]

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Featured Photo: Fast asleep at the market, Saquisili, Ecuador

On November 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

I love markets. I love roaming around and seeing the diversity of wares for sale and watching local people going about their daily lives. Markets are full of life, color, smells, and sounds. One of the largest and most interesting markets I’ve ever visited was the Thursday market in Saquisilí, Ecuador, a mostly indigenous community [...]

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Featured Photo: Flowers among the ruins, Machu Picchu

On November 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

In 1995, I visited Machu Picchu along with two friends as part of a post-college trip through South America. Rather than taking the tourist train that leaves Cuzco in the morning, we took an afternoon local train – we were virtually the only non-Peruvians on board – and stayed overnight in Aguascalientes, the village at [...]

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Featured Photo: Indigenous women at the Saquisili animal market, Ecuador

On October 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

I took this photo in March 2005 at the Thursday market in Saquisilí, Ecuador, one of the largest indigenous markets in the country. At the animal market, these women were dressed in their finery, and I was drawn to their bright colors and joyful smiles.

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Featured Photo: Young dancers, Costa Rica

On October 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

Earlier this year I traveled to Central America with a team from Green Living Project (GLP), which makes short video documentaries about sustainability-related projects around the world. One of the projects we visited was the Leatherback Trust, which works to conserve the leatherback turtle, the largest and one of the most [...]

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Featured Photo: Young musician in rural Nicaragua

On September 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

I took this photo in March 2010 while visiting the rural community of Malacatoya in the Boaco department northeast of Managua. I was there as a writer accompanying a video crew from Green Living Project that was documenting the work of the Nicaraguan organization AsoFenix, which is bringing clean drinking water and household electricity to [...]

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Featured Photo: Flying flamingos, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile

On September 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

Taken in October 2007. I was in Patagonia as the tour manager for a Smithsonian Journeys group. On one of our days in Torres del Paine National Park we stopped at Laguna Amarga for some birdwatching. When I first spotted them, these flamingos were standing in the water, but I could tell they were getting [...]

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Featured Photo: Tranquil harbor in Ushuaia, Argentina

On August 24, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Postcards

I took this photo in November 2008 at the end of an expedition cruise at the southern tip of South America. After four days of sailing the Straits of Magellan and the Beagle Channel, stopping at Cape Horn and other remote spots, we arrived in Ushuaia, Argentina, on the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego [...]

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La Serena sunset

Featured Photo: Sunset at La Serena, Chile

On August 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Postcards

In 1995, after graduating from college, I spent a month traveling through South America with two friends, starting in Buenos Aires, where one friend had lived the year before, and ending in Ecuador, where the other friend and I had studied. In Chile, we traveled north from Santiago to the coastal town of La Serena, [...]

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