This is my favorite holiday of the year. Unlike most holidays, which are about buying and giving things, this holiday is about sharing a special day with our friends and family, eating great food, watching American football, and most of all, giving thanks for all we have! My experiences over this past year have especially… Read more »
FAR too often we get too caught up in the excitement of our subject to take a step back, take a deep breath, and allow our own artistic vision to flow. We arrive at an exciting destination and switch from artistic vision to, “getting the shot”. We travel half way around the world dreaming of… Read more »
I am always curious about a person when I receive an email, or read a comment complaining about too many vehicles in the Mara. I often wonder what their personal motivation is behind discouraging others from coming to one of the most renowned wildlife reserves in the world, a reserve immortalized by countless BBC and… Read more »
Let me start by warning you that going on safari is extremely addictive. I have been in the Maasai Mara for the last three weeks, and I could stay for another three months. Africa is a place that one can rarely visit only once; it gets in your blood. There are numerous articles and blogs… Read more »
A gentle wind blows across the plains as prides of lions lie in the shade of the acacias, waiting patiently in anticipation. At any moment now, a dust cloud will gather over the horizon, as thousands of wildebeest thunder through the tall grasses of the Maasai Mara; marking the arrival of the Great Migration. During… Read more »
If I were practical, I would not be a photographer living in Kenya. I have always been a dreamer and a dream chaser. For weeks, I went through the grief between practical and heart racing as I traveled through Kenya and came in and out of Nairobi. Those of you that have traveled with me… Read more »
I only had about seven weeks to settle into life in Nairobi before I hit the road again, but it was enough to get a taste of real life. Although I have spent 1-3 months a year in Kenya for the past decade, even staying in Karen—an area in Nairobi—with friends for several weeks, living… Read more »
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt It is the adventures and experiences that create the excitement that feeds one’s soul. When life starts to feel mundane, it is time to take… Read more »
It is hard to believe I have been living in Kenya for a month already! I have traveled here so often over the past decade that I think it feels more like another visit than actually living here. From the moment my feet hit the rich red African soil on May 24th, 2004, I longed… Read more »
In all the excitement of the “80 days in Africa”, coming back to the US for a few weeks to pack up, teaching my Spirit-N-Light workshop, and then relocating to Kenya, I forgot to share some very exciting news!!! Several months ago I woke up to an email from National Geographic Traveler Poland, yes,… Read more »