Uhuru Peak – Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania.
After a seven day trek on Kilimanjaro’s Western route, more commonly known as the ‘Whiskey route’ we summitted Uhuru Peak on January 25, 2010. The highest point on the continent – 19,340 feet/5895 meters.
What’s not to like about a hike that quickly gets you above the treeline with gobsmacking views of fluffy snow draped peaks habouring an icefield that feeds 6 major glaciers? How about a quick non-technical hike and scramble up an adjacent peak (Mount Wilcox/Wilcox Peak) for even more impressive views!
Many guide books [...]
Holy smokes is Glacier National Park a hopping place this summer!!! For whatever the reason – economy, passports, cheaper gas – the park was the busiest we’ve ever seen it. Campgrounds filling before 8:00am, the Logan Pass parking lot resembled a Walmart during a Boxing Day blitz, and all the Going-to-the-Sun Road required [...]
Johnston’s Canyon
Banff National Park,
Alberta Canada
I’m sure Art Wolfe, Andy Biggs, and Tom Mangelsen have had their fair share of misfires over the years, maybe not thumb over lens gaffes but the kind of goofy images that when developed they wonder ‘what was I thinking?’. Most photographer’s mistakes never see the light of day for a good reason; when shots [...]
Nothing beats the feeling of putting on an old pair of jeans or jacket that you have not worn in awhile and finding a ten dollar bill in the pocket. Well I’ve just experienced the photographic – Adobe Lightroom version of that feeling. I knew we had images of koalas in the archives, after all [...]
