Photographing the Tribes of South Omo, Ethiopia
At first, I found photographing the tribes of the South Omo (Omo Valley) region of Ethiopia quite a strange and uncomfortable experience, because the…
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Photo Essay: Five days in Lamu, Kenya
The island of Lamu, Kenya lies on the Kenya’s northeastern coast within the Lamu Archipelago, a string of islands that reaches into the Indian…
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My First Shot at Safari Photography in Maasai Mara
Below is selected wildlife/safari photography from my two days of game drives in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve, in late October of 2015. This was my…
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Camera Gear for Safari in the Maasai Mara: What I Brought & My Thoughts
Selecting camera gear for safari is complicated if you’ve never been on safari prior, and/or aren’t a professional wildlife photog sitting on a mountain…
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Rocky Mountain National Park: Four Days of Scenic Hikes and Drives
In August of 2015, I did three days of hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park, starting each day from the popular Bear Lake trailhead, which…
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Matt’s Photo Gear List for Travel
Photography and photo gear are concepts inextricable from one another, and most photographers have a healthy (or, as often, unhealthy) relationship with equipment. Like many…
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Matt’s Complete Photo Gear List
Below is my near complete photo gear list of equipment both currently and previously owned/used. Inclusion of a piece of gear on this list is not…
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Guatemalan Independence & Xela Feria 2014
Guatemala first celebrated its independence from Spain on September 15th of 1821. Guatemala now celebrates its independence for about two weeks straight. It’s a…
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Backing Up Photos While Backpacking
In this post we’ll go through a simple and relatively inexpensive method of backing up photos and videos that you can use while you’re…
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Tajumulco: Trekking to the Top of Central America
On September 27 and 28 of 2014, I trekked/climbed to the summit of Volcán Tajumulco (13,851 feet / 4,222 m above sea level) –…
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Quintana Roo, Mexico: shot on 35mm film in 2009.
I spent a month in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico and surrounding in early 2009 with the people and animals you see below. All pictures…
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Photography at Elevation: Autumn in Telluride, Colorado (2012)
Telluride, Colorado is pretty on the ugliest day imaginable, but add a bit of sunlight and aspens in gradients of green, orange, yellow and…
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