I am returned from Indonesia, and slowly working my way through over 1600 photographs, selecting those I reallly, really like from those I just like. Weather and ocean conditions required some changes in itinerary, resulting in us spending time in the Banda islands (unplanned) and having to forgo the blue water mangroves off Misool...  the blue water was very green.

This area is stunning in many ways. Stunningly remote, stunningly rich, stunningly beautiful, and stunningly vulnerable to the onslaught of rapacious humanity.

Images from Bali and Eastern Indonesia can be found in the Galleries section of the site, or by following this link.  

I have gone to the steamy tropical archipelago of Indonesia for three weeks, travelling from Ambon in the Mollucas, via the Banda Sea to Raja Ampat and Sorong...

Watch for new images and gallery in early October. 

We are just returned from a week long significant landscape shoot in three of Southwest Utah's premier parks and preserved wilderness areas. We spent several days each in Bryce Canyon National Park and Zion Canyon National Park , and had one very productive day in the extreme southern part of the Grand Staircase Escalante national monument.

The galleries from these shoots are linked above, or as usual they can be reached via the Galleries links in the left or top menus, filed under the "Topside Travel" directory.

Scalloped Hammerhead sharks schooling off Cocos Island, Costa Rica

By ceasing to sell shark based products, Amazon has taken an important step in the right direction. Amazon now has an opportunity, and responsibility, to join other world class organizations in taking a public stand against trade and consumption of shark products and other endangered species. As an example, Disney took public action in response to significant outcry against their initial plan to serve shark fin soup. In a press release they stated, “After careful consideration and a thorough review process, we were not able to identify an environmental sustainable fishing source, leaving us no alternative except to remove shark's fin soup from our wedding banquet menu,''

I urge Amazon to issue a similar statement to the public stating why they will no longer carry shark fin and related products. This would further position Amazon as an environmentally responsible and conscientious organization. Furthermore, this would cause me to resume my purchases with Amazon and resume referring others to your website.