Category Archives: Destination Spotlight

Photo essay of a particular place.

While on a family vacation this past summer, we stayed in Tofino, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia for a week. I loved checking the tide charts and heading out to different beaches at low tide to look for marine life. My daughter became a whizz at finding all sorts of strange little creatures in no […]

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Each October, a group of “visual journalists” meet up in a selected town somewhere in Kentucky to interview, photograph/video and document the life of the residents for a week. This year the Mountain Workshop chose the state capitol, Frankfort, as the location. Seventy-one participants drew names of potential story subjects from a hat. And my […]

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Frankfort, Kentucky–a small river town known for its beautiful capitol building, bourbon distillery, horse farms, thriving arts community, and southern hospitality. Last week I returned from an intense, sleepless week immersed in a photojournalism project in Frankfort, Kentucky. I was just one of 71 participants. Some were WKU students but many were working professionals scattered […]

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In late February this winter, I traveled along Highway 61, following the scenic coast of Lake Superior heading north from Duluth 100 miles to Grand Marais, Minnesota. Incredible ice formations lined the shore.  But what surprised me most was the sheer variety of ice that existed. The winter scenery changed from one spot to the […]

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Just a week after they opened, and already the Lake Superior ice caves in the Apostle Island National Lakeshore in Wisconsin are closed for the 2015 season. Last year, cold temps created safe access to the caves for the first time since 2009, and ice conditions remained stable for a record 8 weeks, drawing national […]

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