This website illuminates my life and adventures, focusing on five areas, Adventure, Love, Art & Music, Economy and Philosophy. To these five areas, I have purposefully dedicated my life. This notion emanated from my belief that the human experience is driven by five innate momentums: physical, sexual, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. So, I desired to study, experience and understand these subjects, with the objective to understand not only the world around me, but to understand myself as well. Thus, these five areas of study match my innate momentums: adventure-physical, love-sexual , art & music-emotional, economy-intellectual, and philosophy-spiritual. This quest has led me to over 2300 of the world’s 3978 provinces, to every country on earth and to the highest peak on each continent (thank heaven for good weather!). In my travels, I learned to respect the intelligence and ingenuity of people of all races and callings both past and present. Come with me to see the world as I see it, if you will be so kind. Join me in re-examining our world and our selves, to contemplate how we can move to make our world a virtual Garden of Eden.
Slovenia, Osilnica Prov, Thatch Roof House
Chengdu Market, 1991 - I took this photo on my first trip to China with my new 4x5 Woodfield view camera using a time exposure.
Central African Republic, Bayanga, Two Pygmy Girls In Grass Skirts, 2000 - I went to the local villages and asked for voluteers for modeling. These young women were very cooperative. The one on the right has scarified eyebrows. Some had sharpened teeth.
India, Punjab, Golden Temple Before Shootout 2, 1984 - The Golden Temple is a holy place for Sikhs. This photograph was taken just about a month before the famous shootout at that site
Uruguay, Lucia's Body, 1993 - After walking twenty five miles down the Horcones Valley after my Aconcagua climb, I caught a van to Mendoza. I was dropped off at the bus station. The seats were sold out on the night ride to Montevideo, but the stewardesses offered to let me sit in one of their seats. I got a ride in the front of the bus. As I took off my shoes I noticed that my feet reeked from the walk. I washed them at the first stop that night. When Lucia sat next to me, the first words out of my mouth were, "Te quiero (I love you)." She walked away. The next day as we were approaching Montevideo, I made some excuse to get her phone number. When I called, she was not eager to meet me. I just about gave up, when, in a subsequent phone call, she and I made an arrangement to spend my last night in Uruguay together.
USA, Guam, Rainbow
Faroe Islands, Waterfall on Cliff near Vestmanna, 2000 - In my diary, I wrote, "Seeing the cliffs on the coast near Vestmanna were just too incredible for camera or description, truly one of the greatest sights I have ever seen." The grandeur was hard to capture in a photograph from the boat. Here a cascade of water falls from the bottom of an immense cliff.
Thailand, Loei Prov, Upper Mekong River Rocks_Prov,_Sikh,_2009,_IMG_3152.jpg)
UK, Hillingdon (London) Prov, Sikh
Mali, Bankas, Dogon Hut 1, 1987 - I came upon these two perfect little houses, used for grain. I took a photo of them individually, creating a diptych.