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JPG Magazine - PUBLISHED

My 1997 photo that I took and titled "High over Los Roques" (left) was just chosen for publication in JPG MAGAZINE Issue 14.  The caption along with the image reads as follows:

Sometimes great travel experiences just require taking a chance. So I paid a small fee and strapped myself into an ultra light aircraft (hang glider with a motor) pinned against the back of the pilot. In a heart beat we were in the 25 knot trade winds trying to make some headway against them before turning for a quick spin around the island downwind and finally landing (best part of plan). We spiraled down toward the foot of the runway racing over the village and beach below us. I traced the whole path with my camera, freezing in part the life and livelihood of the island residents. I was so excited when I landed, I did it again the next day. Gran Roque, Los Roques, Venezeula. 1997

Here I am strapped in the contraption that enabled the photo and experience. (right)

2007 Almost Gone

Christmas has past, and News Years is upon us.  So I have been reflecting some on the past year's images.  A few from the Caribbean (right) had never been touched before [night time shot with my little Canon SD800, Gustavia, St. Barthélemy, FWI].  Several more can be found here in this gallery.  The most interesting perhaps is a Flash VR of five images taken in 1984 of Baie St. Jean, St. Barthélemy.  Taken a decade before Apple Computer invented QTVR.  CLICK HERE, it is a window into the past, everything but the pecan pie at Chez Francine on the beach.  In 2008 I'll go back and make an update.  Happy New Year.

A beach from my dreams

I knew this beach and the moment were special. I had never seen sand or water like this, and save for the fisherman, I was alone. He was quietly bringing in his catch in the early afternoon sun. An epiphany in travel happens rarely, but when I find that essential part of nature that I seek, it stops me in my tracks. I breathe slowly, wiggle my toes, soak it all in, and take a photograph. I am on full mental record. It is the essence of why I travel. This was such a place. I have not been back for decades, but I know the a world of people followed me to this place. Negril, Jamaica, 1972.