
For those of you who read my
Communication Arts insight interview, this is an aerial from the assignment that produced
snottites. It was a story about a hydrogen sulfide cave system in Mexico. The sulfur dyes the water in the stream light blue. The sulfur also produces said snottites. There is a photo of the slimy buggers below and yes that is sulfuric acid at their tip. To read about one of my other strange assignment experiences, Maximon, go to this bog post (
here).
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In July John McCardell became the 16th Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South. To my knowledge this is the first time my alma mater has had a president who's appeared on the Colbert Report.
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This picture of Manuel Beers in the river passage of Rumbling Falls cave is an after thought. I had gone into Rumbling Falls with about a dozen people to make a picture of the famous Rumble Room. Close to 10 hours later we had the photo in the bag, but being something of a freak I'd hate to bring all those people all that way
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After a year, I have finally converted my RAW selects from the 2009 Madagascar Stone Forest story. It is a good exercise to go through pictures a long time after you shoot them. It is much easier to remove the emotional memory of making the image from the picture itself. What struck me in going through the photos is the amazing diversity of animals that live in such an inhospitable place. So here for the first time, previously unseen pictures from Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, Madagascar.
Tsingy de Bemeraha contains hundreds of square miles of limestone pinnacles. Also surprisingly a vast number of animals. Some are cute, some are creepy, all are fascinating.
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