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Canadian Travel Essential

30/06/2014 1 Comment

sorry in several languages

Happy Canada Day! (July 1) Yes, Canadians will apologize if you bump into them. (But I bet you do too – it’s not limited to Brits and Canadians). Sorry can mean a lot of things = true apology, preface to uncomfortable information, request for repeating information, and even getting mad. Check the tone when you’ve […]

Filed Under: Misc, travelgeek Tagged With: apologies, Canada Day, Canadians, graphic, maple leaf, sorry

Chinstrap Penguins and Families

28/02/2014 Leave a Comment

Chinstrap penguins

I love the chinstrap penguins  (Pygoscelis antarctica). I took this photo at one of the weather stations in Antarctica. I love how the black chin line makes them look like they are smiling all the time. And the strut! They look like they don’t have a care in the world, even though sea lions weren’t […]

Filed Under: photos, travelgeek Tagged With: 500px, And Tango Makes Three, Antarctica, chinstrap, friends, gay marriage, gender roles, homophobia, IFTTT, penguins

Dreaming of Thailand

31/01/2014 Leave a Comment

The last few days have been extra-rushed so I started dreaming about relaxing on a beach. Maybe instead of rushing to meetings, I could take a slow, relaxing trip on a long-tail boat from one beach to another. It feels like this week is a bit of a motorboat week (seen in back). I hope that […]

Filed Under: photos, travelgeek Tagged With: 500px, Beach, boats, flowers, IFTTT, Ko Phi Phi, long-tail boat, thailand

Milling Flour in Bhutan

24/01/2014 Leave a Comment

The people of Bhutan were always friendly. I was amazed at this woman’s generosity of letting me into her workplace and to take her photo. She spends all day in this shack, breathing in an incredible amount of dust. The mill is above a river and the current is used to move the large stone. […]

Filed Under: photos, travelgeek Tagged With: 500px, bhutan, flour, hard life, IFTTT

Power and Focus – Shark Alley

06/01/2014 4 Comments

I love sharks. They are majestic and inspiring. I saw a great white while diving on the Great Barrier Reef but it was (luckily) far away. In June 2013, we went to South Africa and took the opportunity to see sharks in Shark Alley. I hope our underwater photos capture some of the awe we […]

Filed Under: photos, travelgeek Tagged With: 500px, IFTTT, shark, South Africa, underwater

What does a leopard sound like?

07/10/2013 1 Comment

We went to South Africa in June 2013. So many amazing sights! I’ll try to share some of them using digital video and photos – but I’d highly recommend a visit. I was surprised at the guttural sounds made by a female leopard as she patrolled and marked her territory. When I think about it, it […]

Filed Under: photos, travelgeek Tagged With: animal sounds, leopard, South Africa, video

Exclusive: Blitzen talks about retirement

24/12/2012 Leave a Comment

I never could have guessed that some of my reindeer photos would take me to such interesting places. In the summer of 2011, I took some photos of reindeer just outside of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway during my trip to the Arctic. In December 2012, I got a request for copies from Blitzen! And in […]

Filed Under: Misc, travelgeek Tagged With: christmas, life balance, reindeer, Svalbard

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