Italians just infuse everything with beauty and passion. It’s in their food. Their buildings. Their fashion, music, art. Every vista is a postcard. Florence, Italy, 2004
Experimenting with breaking the rule of thirds. I think it works.
I love, love, LOVE those moments when you’re in another country and it hits you: “I’M IN PARIS!” – or New York, or on a glacier, or 35,000 feet above Turkey and making a phone call from my plane seat, or….
I adore the goosebumps I get when in front of me, for the first time, is something so iconic, it feels totally unreal. It looks just like it does in all those photos! Whether my travel companions find my excitement and enthusiasm endearing or annoying, I don’t know – but I hope I never lose it. My stomach is feeling all squirmy just thinking about these moments, right now 
The first of many images in this category: Cairo, Egypt, 2010.
Glimpsing the Pyramids for the first time. I'M IN CAIRO!