Overlooking the ocean in Pacific Palisades is the Getty Villa Museum, the somewhat overshadowed cousin of the world-famous Getty Center Art Museum located just off the 405.The villa is a 1970's recreation of a Roman country home called the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, Ital...

After saying farewell to Emily in Florence, Nancy and I took the train 90 minutes south to Chiusi, rented a car and drove to our new base in Macciano - a small town in the heart of Tuscany.

You can't put out a list of your top 100 songs without SOME explanation. People take these lists seriously. I can virtually guarantee that my list will drive someone insane. Even I have serious questions about what's on the list - and especially what's not.In circumstances suc...

Over the years I've visited some of California's most beautiful mountain lakes. This article highlights four of these from the eastern Sierras, and a more famous one from the west.High-elevation light surrounds them, creating vivid colors, deep shadows, and bright reflections ...

In April of 2023, Nancy was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of breast cancer. She then went through an eight-month process that included surgery, a series of day-long chemotherapy treatments over 10 weeks, and then 20 straight weekdays of radiation therapy. Ugh.

The California ghost town of Bodie lies at 8,375 feet in the Bodie Hills, northeast of Yosemite National Park in the Eastern Sierras.I'd been here before.

Other-worldly and wildly photogenic, with big sky and a gigantic physical scale that makes the surrounding scenery seem like an optical illusion.

Me: First, thank you for sitting with me to talk about Phiction111.Also Me: How could I refuse? Besides, I felt like you would be fair.Me: Exactly. So, enough chit-chat. You've stated that Phiction111 is "1 Photograph + 11 Sentences." How did you arrive at this formula?Also Me...

During an April visit to four national parks in Utah - Arches, Canyonlands, Bryce Canyon, and Zion, plus a side trip to Dead Horse Point State Park - we encountered colossal, sweeping vistas dominated by ancient rock structures, many of them a vivid red. If you look closely at...