This past January, after many years of traveling through Africa, I was able to visit one of the most unique area’s on the continent, the omo Valley in Southern Ethiopia, a place I had longed to visit for many years. Dropping into the Omo Valley was like going back to an Authentic Africa of days… Read more »
Silence…..but now there are words. I have been rather silent lately and even though the words are few, I wanted to reconnect. It’s hard to believe I have been back from the Omo Valley for almost 3 months already and I have not found the time to share more of my images and what an… Read more »
I know you are excited, and most of you were thinking when you received an email of this post, or were just checking in, you would be experiencing emotionally captivating images of wildlife and the colors of Africa, and I promise to deliver them very soon! I needed to stop, catch my breath, and slow… Read more »
I thought this photograph was very appropriate for how I am feeling 7 days prior to my departure to Kenya, where I will be for the next 6 months.
Just when the details of the itinerary were about finalized, I had an amazing email. I am honored to share with you that I have been asked to be a guest of ANAW (Animal Network for Animal Welfare) at the Africa Animal Welfare Action Conference 2010, which is being held in Nairobi, Sept 6-9.
On Sept 1, 2010, for a min of 6 mo, I will be immersing myself into many of Kenya’s rural villages. I will be investing time to live among the wildlife and people whose stories I will be telling. I will be living their stories, using intimate powerful imagery to create a relationship between the audience and the photographic subjects as a means to communicate the needs that people and wildlife have on the other side of the world to people here who have a desire to fill that need
Sometimes in life a new passion or calling appears in an unexpected way. Although it might seem easier to stay on one’s current path, surrounded by ones sense of false security than to face the fear of the unknown, it seems more frightening to get to the end of ones journey and wonder what might… Read more »