This website illuminates my life and adventures. My longing for freedom has led me to over 2600 of the world’s 3978 provinces, to every country on earth and to the summit of 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 see the world as I see it: as a peaceful place, full of nature and beauty. With the right spirit and intent, we can make our world a virtual Garden of Eden.
DISTINCTIONS: BBC 2017 Travel Pioneer • Journal Articles • Explorer’s Club Flag Expeditions
World Parks Project • Walk Across South America • Jeff Shea Travel Map
Myanmar, Shan Prov, Petrol Service
Greenland, Warming Island, Broken Channel, 2006 - This photograph - taken from a helicopter - shows the broken glacier and the new channel that has created Warming Island. This shot was taken exactly one year to the day following the discovery of the island by Dennis Schmitt of Berkeley, California. I was part of a five man expedition that Dennis led to survey the island in the late summer of 2006. An article in the New York Times on Jan 16, 2007 made Warming Island the poster child of Global Warming. This photograph first appeared in that article on the front page of the Science Section. 
Papua New Guinea, Red Wigman, 1983 - When we arrived in Koroba, I was delighted to see that the villagers wore their wigs as part of their everyday dress. My good fortune had it that they were also more than willing to be photographed, unlike the men at the market in Tari. This man, whom I call the Red Wigman, was one of the first wigmen I ever photographed.
Slovenia, Vodice Prov, House
Tanzania, Threatened Elephants (Lake Manyara), 1984 - On my first visit to Lake Manyara in Tanzania, our landrover driver unwisely confronted a group of elephants against a wall. Threatened, they put their ears forward and bellowed a warning. On a subsequent trip to Africa, I heard about one man in a similar situation who was crushed in his car by an angry elephant.
Zambia, Victoria Falls B&W, 2000 - Of all the great falls, Angel, Igua?u, Niagara, etc., I found Victoria Falls to be the most visually spectacular.
Turkey, Afyon Prov, Lake Acigol
Laos, Sekong Prov, Building A House
Slovenia, Destrnik Province, 2006, IMG_4913 - Slovenia is farmland through and through, carefully tended to by the energetic and hardworking Slovenes.
Ireland, Limerick Prov, Waterfront Night