This was during the beginning weeks of the wet season in El Salvador. Rosemary, my 12 year old neighbor, was sitting so peacefully watching the rain while off to the side her cousin was reading outloud a book from school. The afternoon went on and...
My old rural site of Mache is located in the Sierra or mountains of La Libertad in Peru, and overlooking Mache is Cerro Miramar (mountain looking out to the ocean). I would climb the cerro on a biweekly basis to gain perspective - see the entire...
As usual, in rural El Salvador most of the day is spent just visiting your neighbors and drinking coffee. A tight community where everyone knows everyone, this photo was taken on a regular afternoon, where the neighbors just kept coming.
PCV Jon E. Berg served as the project manager for the “Nha Terra” campaign, an island-wide campaign with the goal of reducing the consumption of sea turtle meat, on behalf of TAOLA (Cape Verde Sea Turtle Protection Network). Delta Cultura, a...
A traditional home made of lava rock at the base of Mt. Fogo, an active volcano, in the town of Chã das Caldeiras, located on the island of Fogo in the Republic of Cape Verde. This photo was taken at sunset on January 19th, 2011.
A Fijian family lives below me. They have two young sons, and there is another boy the age of their sons that lives next door. When I am outside doing laundry or reading in my hammock they'll come bug me, its kind of silly because they speak little...
This photo was taken July 9th, 2010 near the beach of Costa Fragata on the island of Sal. One of Cape Verde’s relatively flat islands, the sand dunes that precede each beach are teaming with biodiversity.
A mature loggerhead sea turtle is released on the beach of São Francisco on the island of Santiago. The turtle was rescued from poachers at the start of the nesting season (June 2011) by the Maritime Police at Gamboa beach in Praia, the capital...