A lonely road cuts across an ancient Persian river valley surrounded by mountains near the Kalmand Protected Area located in Yazd Province, Iran. This arid area ranges from 1,200 to 3,000m in altitude and gets less than 200mm of rain but it thought to have been much wetter during the first half of the Holocene between 5,000 to 10,000 years ago.
Sunset over P.P. Long Beach with some longtail boats (ruea hang yao) parked for the day. This shot was taken just about a month before the 2004 Boxing Day or Indian Ocean tsunami wiped out everything on the island including most of the beautiful people there. Phi Phi Don is a rugged limestone island with development confined to a low sandbar isthmus separating two main wings of the island and did not stand a chance. The waves up to 30 metres (100 ft) high ended up taking the lives of approximately 280,000 people across 14 countries. Ko Phi Phi Don. Ko Phi Phi Archipelago, Andaman Sea, Thailand. Shot taken of Fuji Velvia Slide Film
Bruny Island is made up of a North and South Island which are separated by a narrow isthmus called "The Neck". This shot looking towards South Bruny and its heavily timbered hills and large wilderness rainforest areas. The southern ocean facing south island is extremely rugged, with cliffs of dolerite that are over 200 metres above sea level. The neck is home to a colony of little penguins (Eudyptula minor) known locally as fairy penguins. Bruny Island is a small remote island located off the south cost of Tasmania. Australia.
