by Joel Simpson | Jul 29, 2021 | My Adventure
The Madagascar Version of Paradise The two photographs from Madagascar in Earthforms, (pp. 72 & 73) are both of sandstone structures in the magnificent Parc d’Isalo on the southern part of the island. It had taken us two days to drive the 429 miles from the... 
by Joel Simpson | May 27, 2021 | My Adventure
Genghis Khan (ca. 1158–1227), silent, authoritative, paternal, presides over present-day post-imperial, post-totalitarian, successfully democratic Mongolia, the most sparsely populated country in the world (pop. ca. 2.8 million; density 1.76/sq km), with a land area... 
by Joel Simpson | Nov 14, 2018 | My Adventure
Art, science and progressive politics—why should they be separate domains? Serious art is a way of knowing the world: how to get along with others, what’s out there in the world, what to admire, what to be wary of—in short, how to live. Science explores the... 
by Joel Simpson | Jan 5, 2019 | My Adventure
People often ask of photographer who produce eye-popping landscapes, “Did it really look like this?” The implication is that the photographer added some color intensity (saturation) and maybe cleaned up the scene a bit, so that it now looks closer to a... 
by Joel Simpson | Jan 10, 2019 | My Adventure
As I demonstrated in my last post, we photographers are always processing our images to narrow the gap between what our sensors record and how we envision the subjects of our photographs. This may or may not be what we actually saw—if we remember it! There are many... 
by Joel Simpson | Jan 16, 2019 | My Adventure
I returned to Ireland last summer (2018) to see some of the things I missed in my grand tour of the the island the previous summer. The place is virtually inexhaustible, however. I was planning to see Connemara National Park, after spending the night in a small town...
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