Traveling on Spaceship Earth

On March 1, 2018 By Isobar ExpeditionsIn Photo Challenge9 Comments

As you travel to various parts of the world, you begin to realize that the planet that we live on has some strange and fascinating features due to the forces that created it. There are definitely places that we have visited that seem almost other-worldly. You could easily imagine yourself as having stepped off of a spaceship and walking around the surface of some foreign planet. It is amazing how truly unique and beautiful our world really is, although some places can be somewhat scary and foreboding. People that truly love to travel, especially to unique places in the world, have that same spirit of exploration that led our ancestors to risk their lives in order to discover new lands and map the world that we live in. If you could jump into a rocket and travel to other planets in other solar systems, would you?

You Don’t See That Everyday

On February 27, 2018 By Isobar ExpeditionsIn Photo Challenge4 Comments

Between travel and hiking, you inevitably come across things that you just don’t see everyday. We have been fortunate enough to have seen a good variety of wildlife, but most of it has been the typical deer, elk, birds, etc. Occasionally, though, we have come across some animals that have made us stop and say to ourselves how lucky we were to see something that is a little more unique. Some of it is just because we have put ourselves in position to see something special, but a lot of it is really just a matter of luck. When we look back at all of the various wildlife we have seen in their natural habitats, we realize how lucky we have actually been.

Sea Lions Playing at Pier 39 in San Francisco

Are You in Other People’s Travel Photos?

On February 22, 2018 By Isobar ExpeditionsIn Photo Challenge26 Comments

When taking photos of popular places while traveling, it is hard not to get other tourists in your photos. Although we always try to take pictures in a way that avoids the crowds, sometimes there just isn’t a way to keep people out of them. Even worse, when you have a camera in your hand, some people seem to stare right at you, so you end up with photos with someone looking like they are glaring at you. Instead of capturing a candid moment of the place you are visiting, you end up with a photo that seems somehow awkward. As we looked through our pictures for this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge, A Face in the Crowd, we started to wonder how many times we might show up in someone else’s photo album. We can imagine them looking back at the pictures from their favorite vacation and wondering to themselves, who are these people who shared the same moment in time with them. Do you ever imagine who the strangers might be that are in your photographs, perhaps even guessing where they are from, what they do, or if they are a spy for some foreign entity? Maybe you have a photo of someone who became famous after you captured their image and you don’t even know it.