Olympia – the sports of the gods
A visit to the birthplace of the Olympic Games in Olympia in Greece while on the Viking Empires of the Mediterranean cruise from Athens to Venice.
Santorini – a beautiful place over-run by tourists?
Cruise ships bring many visitors to the beautiful island of Santorini. Is this a good way for photographers to see the island?
Exploring Athens on the Empires of the Mediterranean Cruise
Three days in Athens before starting the Viking Empires of the Mediterranean cruise from Athens to Venice
Steam Trains! Power and drama
A photographers dream trip on a steam railway in the fall. The story behind the journey on the WMSR railway in Maryland capturing my best railway images
Bill Baggs State Park in Florida
The Bill Baggs State Park not only has on the best beaches in the country, but it has a beautiful lighthouse and keepers cottage set among the palm trees.
Mountaintop views at Icy Strait Point
Icy Strait Point in Alaska is custom built for tourists with a brand-new gondola cable car that races up to the mountaintop giving views that stretch for miles around the bay.
Skagway – a small town with a big history
Skagway is an intriguing little town that grew massively with the Gold Rush in 1898 and then shrank just as quickly! We visited on our Alaskan cruise in early 2022.
The Alaska and Inside Passage Cruise with Viking
A review and story of all the places visited on a cruise on the Viking Orion along the Alaskan coast from Seward to Vancouver in June 2022.
The Hubbard Glacier – cold, so cold…
The Hubbard Glacier is a popular stop on many Alaskan cruises and the scale of the compressed ice is hard to comprehend. My photographic journey to the glacier.
Valdez in Alaska – snow and ice!
The small town of Valdez in Alaska has been visited by several disasters, but is still thriving and is a fascinating place to visit on an Alaskan cruise