In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. – Baba Dioum, 1968
In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. – Baba Dioum, 1968
See The Light, a workshop I am teaching with Dewitt Jones on Molokai has begun, and Dewitt started the week off with a question: What is the most important life lesson you have learned from your photography? I can think of hundreds of life lessons I have learned from my photography, but one of the lessons [...]
Cross posted from the Aurora News Blog here. February 12th, 2009 The cover of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt, published in 2006, features an image by Aurora photographer Jonathan Kingston. The photograph is an underwater shot looking up at an elephant swimming in the Andaman Sea in India with his [...]
The commotion started as soon as I surfaced. “GET ON THE BOAT NOW!” my frantic friends faces yelled at me as I lazily swam towards the swim step “SHARK!”.
For those who have never been underwater with a sea lion, imagine an aquatic puppy that is hyper, curious, gregarious, inquisitive and graceful.
My 1985 VW bus was loaded with tanks, camera gear and little red plastic gas cans strapped to the roof that had been inspected with some incredulity by the machine gun toting fedarales in their fatigues and sunglasses.