Tribute to National Geographic

"Afghan Girl" - probably the magazine's most famous photograph. Taken in 1984, she was later identified as Sharbat Gula, who was orphaned during the Soviet Union's bombing of Afghanistan that killed her parents forcing her, her siblings and grandmother to hike over the mountains to Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan.

My father was a traveler but I think it was National Geographic that instilled the wanderlust (and my love of photography). Moreover, I still can't look at an old Land Rover and not think of a picture of an old Series I fording a stream in some remote jungle. My first job out of college was with the National Geographic Society.












































































The Taktshang Goemba (Tiger's Nest Monastery) in Bhutan















































A Land Rover adventure in Panama




















Battle at Kruger - between various posts, viewed nearly 100 million times on the Internet