Heavy rural populations farm the extensive mid-levels of this landscape, but the hills and mountains are left fairly pristine. The striking heart-shaped hill in the upper middle is Phu Kradung, a favorite hiking mountain for young Thais – with restaurants and tented accommodations on the plateau (a 9 km walk). On the left is the… Read more »
Sandusky
Going Inside
Subsequent to the decades of massive deforestation in central Rondonia, this example to the west is recent, and shows the beginnings of a new area of incursion along a new road from Puerto Velho northeast to Manaus. This is a major jump into the fringe of the largest remaining core of untouched forest. The mist… Read more »
Siberian Wheat
Gardens on the Plain
As the Indus River emerges from its Himalayan journeys on the left, it is garnered into a vast and ancient irrigation system which supports millions of farmers in this area of the western Punjab. The folded mountains in the lower portion are part of the Tribal Zone which has been recently so much under siege…. Read more »
Land of a Hundred Cities
Kordofan
Above Yunyang
October Day
The coincidence of a cloudfree day, the height of autumn foliage, and a well-behaving satellite in local orbit made this construction possible. It stretches thirteen feet, through four images, from Quebec to Barnegat Bay NJ. The green pastures of New England can be individually identified, and the different species mixtures of trees are amusing to… Read more »