This advice may be trite yet that fact doesn't detract from its worthiness. In fact, it remains a most favoured aspect of my personal ethos. I've seen far too many people lose their footing with their heads in the clouds for me to forget my roots. For my photographic journey, I consistently return to old images, dusting them off for new projects as quickly as the ideas come. Late yesterday afternoon, as I gazed into the western sky as it dove deeper and deeper into the blue e

Only a few short days after the conclusion of this tour, I kicked off the month's second 10-day birding odyssey across Trinidad & Tobago. This edition was in the works for several years; my relationship with co-leader and good friend Benny began somewhere on the internet in ye olde pre-covid times and we had long been hatching itineraries to share with birders. This was his third time in T&T and I was thrilled to finally flip the switches on our ideas birthed from conversatio

This April involved two back-to-back 10-day birding tours in gorgeous Trinidad & Tobago – which also serves to explain my online absence. This year I have also taken a bit of a sabbatical regarding content for my social media platforms; this extended to almost a complete hiatus from tech for my February trip, where we kept track of our sightings around dinner each night using the traditional method of pen and spreadsheet. For these two tours, however, I returned to eBird to t