Walking in Beauty: Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum
By Glenn B. Jenks The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (“ASDM”)is one of the most beautiful treasures that we have available to help us better experience and learn about the Sonoran desert. It is located in the west branch of Saguaro National Monument, west of Tucson. The ASDM displays every form of life that inhabits the Sonoran Desert, from the smallest insect to Mountain Lions and Mexican Wolves. There are even exhibits of the geology...
Walking in Beauty: Nairobi Slums
By Glenn B. Jenks Sometime “Walking in Beauty” describes the environment we pass through. There are other times when “Walking in Beauty” describes an inner beauty that shines from within some people despite their environment. Such is the case with the beautiful children I met while passing through some of the most ghastly slums on the planet, the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. May I offer...
Heart of India Photo Journal One. 17 Surprises
By Judy & Les Conklin For additional photos, see “Related Articles” below. According to Wikipedia, India, located in South Asia, is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders...
Walking in Beauty
By Glenn B. Jenks I am told that there is an old Navajo Blessing, “May You Walk In Beauty.” Those words have guided my vision for my photography. By sharing my photos here it is my hope to share with you some of that beauty that I have found in nature and in the people I have met along the way. Look for the beauty in the natural wonders and in the people around you and you will find yourself “Walking in Beauty.” Photographing birds...
For Dennis, Condolences and a Photographic “Thank You”
We were saddened to learn that Dennis Liddell’s wife, Ann, passed away on January 14th. Dennis has been a true friend of The Peak’s over the years, generously sharing his time and many of his photos with us and The Peak’s readers. We’re confident that he also shared his best photographs and Peak covers with Ann. Our thoughts and prayers are with Dennis and his family. We hope these photographs provide a...
Seeing and Doing: Enjoying Snow Scenes at Tom’s Thumb Trailhead, Jan. 1, 2015
By Howard Myers The new year came in with a dramatic snow fall that touched higher areas in the Valley of the Sun. Attached are some pictures that I took at the Tom’s Thumb trailhead in the McDowell Mountains in north Scottsdale. As these photographs show, the McDowells Mountains, distant Four Peaks, and the Mazatzals got a pretty good dusting, even some on Pinnacle Peak. Snow, not what the chamber of commerce ordered, but a...
Heart of India Photo Journal Four: 14 Snapshots Along the Way
By Les & Judy Conklin and David & Catalina Preskill This is the last in the series of photographs that were taken by my wife, Judy, me, Catalina Prescott, and David Prescott in India. With a guide, our group of 14 visited Delhi, Jaipur, Pushkar, Ranthambore National Park, Khajurah and Varanasi during October and November of 2014. During our amazing journey, managed by Overseas Adventure Travel, we travelled by air,...
Heart of India Photo Journal Three: 18 Images of People, Places, Monkeys Too
By Judy Conklin, Les Conklin, Catalina Preskill and David Preskill We’ve been home more than a month. We’re still “processing what we learned and the mental images that we brought back from India. Modern India attacks the senses and India’s past stimulates the mind. Presented below are 18 photographs that we’ve selected from the hundreds that we took. #1. Qutb, near Delhi, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site....
Heart of India Photo Journal Two: 12 Sadhus, Ect.
By Judy and Les Conklin, To Hindus, a sadhu is a religious ascetic or holy person who is solely dedicated to achieving liberation from the world through meditation and contemplation. They often wear saffron-colored clothing, symbolising their renunciation of material attachments. They live in caves, forests, and temples all over Nepal and India. There are naked sadhus who wear their hair in thick dreadlocks. Aghora sadhus may claim to...
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By Susan Byrd This stagecoach photograph was taken at MacDonald’s Ranch by north Scottsdale resident, Susan Byrd. We published a few of her photos in the last newsletter and that article received the highest number of clicks, so … look below to see more of her photographs.
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