Panorama of the Horseshoe Bend of the Colorado River, Arizona.
More impressive than the Grand Canyon is this Horse-shoe-shaped cutout that the Colorado river made in the Arizona earth.The colours and sense of scale are wonderful, I tried to capture this in a...
View ArticleThe Cathedral in Puno, Lake Titicaca, Peru
Hugging the shores of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world at about 3800m /13,000ft, lies Puno.Just a few hours later this relaxed scene would be one big party when the yearly world...
View ArticleAconcagua from Cerro Plata
Cerro Plata is not much of a climb, merely a long hike up. But once you get closer to the summit of the about 6000m high mountain by battling against the cold wind and the effects of altitude, you will...
View ArticleOld woman in Puno, Peru selling sweets
This friendly old woman with a typical Peruvian highland hat was selling sweets on the street, part of daily life on the shores of Lake Titicaca.Slowly she approached us, but after getting close she...
View ArticleThe Jellyfish quarter at the Monterery Aquarium
Usually I am not too fond of aquariums and definitely not of zoos, especially after having bene lucky enough to have seen so many animals in the wild. But when I got an invitation to see the famous...
View ArticleHalf Dome in Yosemite Valley in winter
A great place to enter the new year. Half Dome in Yosemite park is a wonderful place, standing proud above the snowy valley. In summer it is relatively easy to hike up, that is: if you use the hiking...
View ArticlePaulos beach office on Zanzibar
Paulo and his friends had come early in the season, preparing for the selling of Massai bracelets on the white beaches of Zanzibar. Besides being pretty fluently in Italian, his hidden cell-phone was...
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Mount Everest from BaseCamp, Tibet
It is Everest season and here is one of my favorite images of “Chomolungma”, the mother Goddess of the Earth.This post is to celebrate 2 things: - that some of my friends will be very close to the...
View ArticleSweet Dessert in Cuzco, Peru, the joy of food
Yes, ExposedPlanet is still alive :)Thanks for your patience, time has flown by the past years and I have been very busy doing many things, including shooting a lot of new pictures and organizing old...
View ArticleSunrise from Volcan Sajama, Bolivia
Here is a recent image on the next ExposedPlanet, shot yesterday morning from the summit of Bolivia’s highest peak: Sajama.Sajama is an extinct volcano – the crater is filled and covered with ice and...
View ArticleKids along the Northern Highway, Belize
Belize is a small country in Central America. Though the official language is English, along the borders with Mexico & Guatamala, most people speak Spanish (only). These kids were watching us from...
View ArticleHummingbird feeding in Baja California
When staying at a friend’s house in Southern Baja California, at the Sea of Cortez, I noticed several small birds racing from one artificial feeder to flowers and then to other feeders. I guess it...
View ArticleJoshua Tree National Park
The Joshua Tree is not just a U2 album :) It is the name of a wonderful park in the USA, named after the abundance of Joshua Trees found there. From Wikipedia: Yucca brevifolia is a plant species...
View ArticleJoshua Tree national Park in Black and White (2)
As a follow up of yesterday’s post, here is another shot of the wonderful Joshua Tree national park in black & white.It is a mix of rocky spaces and empty flats, with many of the characteristic...
View ArticleJoshua Tree National Park in Black and White (3)
The 3rd and last in this Black and White Joshua Tree series (see the first and second post in the series). If you liked them then later I will add some colour photos as well. For now, let’s move on to...
View Article2 seconds of Veronica’s dance, Cancun, Mexico
Veronika is not only a massage therapist, she is also a dancer in the Maria Felix dance company. Together with her colleagues she performs several times per week in exclusive resorts around Cancun,...
View ArticleMexican dancers backstage, Cancun, Mexico
Veronica (in the back) and her friends are dancers in the Maria Felix dance company. Together with their colleagues they perform several times per week in exclusive resorts around Cancun, whirl-winding...
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Summit of Mount Vinson from Basecamp, Antarctica: Alan Arnette climbing for...
Mount Vinson is one of the 7summits, the highest peaks on every continent, located in Antarctica. This month the climbing season will begin and one of the climbers will be fellow climber Alan Arnette....
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