Amazingly I have managed to keep my "Photo of the Day - with a twist" going for 300 days now. Another 2 months and a full year of images from the past 25 years will be on the site. There were a couple close call where fewer than 100 images turned up when I...
On February 27, 2000 I purchased my first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 950. This camera had a large for the time 2.1 mp sensor and cost around $2,000. I think the small memory...
The Sally Lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus) is definitely one of the most colourful inhabitants of the Galapagos Islands. Although they are relatively easy to photograph I was very surprised by how skittish most of...
Yesterdays post about Fine Wines in Sancerre, France got me thinking about the cork that is used to stopper the wine bottles.
Part of the excitement when travelling is discovering tidbits of information about something that we...