by Barbara-Jeanne Blank Like a mustang, Tombstone—Arizona’s “Town too Tough to Die”—was born on its feet. Silver built the town in the 1870’s in Apache country and silver still drives it … Apache silver and tourist silver. Here are your best bets for spending a little of your tourist silver while you’re in Tombstone:
by Earl F. MartinelliA controversial poet, a scandalous divorce, a bizarre medieval-style stone tower, a love story unparalleled, a perfect bed to die in, a life of self-sufficiency, and waves bashing the shoreline—all of this is yours when you tour Tor House and Hawk Tower, the former home of poet Robinson Jeffers and his family […]
by Janice F. Miller Sixteen shady acres of dirt pathways, steeply pitched roofs on narrow buildings and even a few turrets… all signs of a medieval European village… pop up just 15 minutes from downtown Kansas City. It’s the home of the Kansas City Renaissance Festival, a.k.a. the KC Renfest.
by Ellen and David HillThere underground, nestled like silkworms in a mulberry leaf, is the witchetty grub, all fat and creamy, filled with a protein-rich almond-flavoured ooze.At eye level there’s a Grevillea bloom, pregnant with syrupy nectar, already dripping its golden sweetness on your fingers. The air hangs heavy with the heady odour of dozens […]
Shelly Perry here. I shoot a lot of portraits. It works well for me because I like photographing people, and my people shots are usually good sellers for stock — so sometimes I make twice the money. Occasionally, a client will ask me for a CD of all the images I took of her — […]
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Today, as your official Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop Spy here in San Francisco, I got to eavesdrop on some solid photo basics that are really worth re-learning. Especially for travel writers who, like me, want to sell photos with their stories. Here are three photo composition basics that Shelly told us will help turn our […]
by Roy StevensonI’m overwhelmed by the loud, rhythmic sounds of people chanting and drumming. Hundreds of people swirl around in multi-colored batik sarongs and skirts. Bright sunshine … suffocating heat and humidity … a sweet perfumed smell of flowers and incense wafting across the potholed asphalt … all of this gives me sensory overload. Standing on the brown […]
