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My Kingdom for a Boat: Thoughts on an Aegean Summer Afternoon
A wake like a smile, yes, some boats are like this, sending up a joyous spray of white as they slice through the blue sea. Turned up bow in the front and a happy rooster tail behind — oh what a joy to be on the open sea on a hot afternoon. The sea
Vinimis Snakes
I drove hell bent Washington, DC to Jolo, West Virginia way far south deep in the heart of coal country. All for the purpose of photographing a Pentecostal service where handling of venomous snakes would be the featured attraction. (Vinimis snakes as it’s pronounced in the local vernacular.)
A Photograph
I’m returning to old haunts today, villages and farmlands I visited several times each summer over fifteen years ago. Today I’m driving the 17 kilometer climb up steep winding roads to mile-high Aetomilitsa, in Epirus, Greece, the mountainous region that edges the Albanian border. It is one of my favorite villages in the municipality of Mastorahoria and I hope to deliver photos, dated 2009, recently discovered in the back of my photo closet.
Border Business
“Passport please,” demands a policeman as he approaches my Jeep. We're at a roadside pullover near Kefalohori, Greece just a stone's throw over the Grammos mountains from Albania. In these parts, I can't remember a time I have NOT been asked to show my papers or open the trunk of my car.