I must have seen dozens of glaciers in Antarctica while flying around in a helicopter with my friend Hef. When not in Antarctica, he flies for Southern Helicopters on the South Island of New Zealand. I’ve flown around some glaciers there with him too! Small world!
This is one of the images from my Fine Art collection which get fabricated in Germany by those Master Printers at Grieger… Recently I did a fun collection of NFTs where there were 6 that had a physical artwork attached. If you hold the NFT on a set date you get the physical print too. That claim period is now open for those who hold them and I can’t wait to see where they end up!
Okay maybe “ancient” is the wrong word… I’m not even really sure how old something has to be before that word can be used… maybe relatively-ancient! Or just “abandoned”… Anyway, this amazing old-timey bowling alley is inside that ghost town in Namibia where the sand dunes have overrun the entire place. Because this is mostly underground and protected on the leeward side, it has yet to accumulate any significant sand inside.
My first year at Burning Man I didn’t have a bike, but since I didn’t know any different, I didn’t mind. Since then, I’ve invested in an ebike and it allows me to explore way more, which is awesome. That said, while wandering around at that first burn I started to explore different lighting techniques, and how to make sure someone is perfectly lit even if they are on the other side of the sun. It’s a difficult technique, and I’ve been continuing to try to improve it over the past decade. A life’s work, much like myself.
One night my friend Rene and I were atop a skyscraper in Dubai and we stayed as long as we could. There was this one Quite Precarious Spot on the corner of the building… I got over there, and this was my final shot for the evening. It’s always a good idea to stay just that little bit longer than you might need 🙂
I was crossing a bridge in a little town not too far from Yangshuo and trying to stay out of the rain. It was coming down pretty hard, but there was a sunset happening too. So, at great risk to camera and limb, I set up to take this shot. All these little bamboo rafts that would take people to and fro were coming in to hunker down for the big storm…
This place did something I had never seen before. They gave everyone a pretty big mirror you can carry around. You can kind of hold it at your waist and angle it up, so you can look down to see the ceiling instead of looking up. Genius!
See the four mirrors down there on the floor? I was gonna lay out like 50 of them, and I ran back to check my camera to see if they were centered before I added the others. Then, the security guard started yelling at me and rushing over! So I took this photo really fast. (You can see her black visage rapidly approaching on the left!)
What a place this is! I did my best to try to give a scale of the dune by showing a small group making the ascent. And, honestly, they are only halfway up that beast. I walked up the same dune with our group, but a different direction. The direction we chose was steeper, faster, and it made me want to curl in a ball and cry until the world was better again.
This was quite the surprise! I was out about an hour’s snowmobile ride from the base in Antarctica camping out. The New Zealand base (Scott Base) puts out a series of flags to mark “roads” across the ice. After building our little camp, I went on a mini Photo Walk to explore the starkness. Out of nowhere, i saw this random Kiwi with a huge sail in the air while wearing skis. He went whizzing by almost too fast for a photo!
I had an amazing and rather hot time in the Sahara. To get this photo, I had to go up a huge dune on foot. I gave my own camel a break and decided to walk up. How hard could it be, I figured. Even with my past troublesome dune experiences. I figured wrong. And that night, I got so dizzy and sick, then realized it was probably because I hardly had any water… even though I’ve seen thousands and thousands of shows and movies about people not drinking enough water in the desert, I was so excited that I forgot to drink water!
