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The images in the gallery below are published in the book "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010. The book's 207 images highlight Tom's photography from 1981-2009.
This textbook teaches and inspires outdoor photography by revealing the magic of portable digital cameras. Learn how to pick a camera, compose, edit, and capture evocative images worldwide. Master digital jargon from the proficient glossary and index.
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  • The silhouettes of trekkers stand against the impressive mountain face of Fang (or Baraha Shikhar 25,088 feet / 7647 meters), in the Annapurna Range of Nepal. Published on the front cover of "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010. Published September 29, 2016 in Amateur Photographer magazine, London, UK, "Expert guide to silhouette photography": http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/technique/camera_skills/silhouette-photography-taking-shape-96009
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  • Trekkers cross the outlet stream of Lake Carhuacocha (13,600 feet) in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Andes Mountains, Peru, South America. On the left, Yerupaja Grande (east face, 6635 m or 21,770 ft) is the second-highest peak in Peru, highest in Cordillera Huayhuash, and highest point in the Amazon River watershed. At center is Yerupaja Chico (20,080 feet). On right is Mount Jirishanca ("Icy Beak of the Hummingbird," 6126 m or 20,098 feet). Published in the following: 1) on the cover and inside of "Climbs and Treks in the Cordillera Huayhuash of Peru" guidebook Copyright 2005 by Jeremy Frimer, ISBN #0-9733035-5-7, Elaho Publishing; 2) Wilderness Travel 2005, 2007, 2013 Catalog of Adventures, and 2009-2011 web client survey; 3) "Fuentes, Conversacion y gramatica," a Spanish textbook by Rusch, Houghton Mifflin Company/Cengage Learning in 2004, 2011, 2013; 4) image for SteriPEN package, a handheld water purifier made by Hydro-Photon, Inc. of Blue Hill, Maine, 2007; 5) "Skills in Global Geography" Cambridge University Press, Australia textbook 2007; 6) Swedish trekking company site www.adventurelovers.se; 7) "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • A Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus) is shown at Bonorong Wildlife Park, Briggs Road, Brighton, Tasmania, Australia. Wombats are burrowing grass eaters, and can be thought of as the marsupial ecological equivalent of a bear. Wombats are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of southeast Australia including Tasmania, plus an isolated group in Epping Forest National Park in central Queensland. The three living species of wombats are marsupial mammals in the Vombatidae family. They dig extensive burrow systems with rodent-like front teeth and powerful claws. Their unusual backwards-facing pouch avoids gathering dirt onto its young. Although mainly crepuscular and nocturnal, wombats also venture out to feed on cool or overcast days. Wombats are herbivores, mostly eating grasses, sedges, herbs, bark and roots. Published on Australian geocaching coin 2010, displayed in support of Wilder Foundation 2009, 2010, and exhibited at Oceanario de Lisboa, Portugal 2007. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Young swimmers explore coastal sandstone rock patterns exposed in the Painted Cliffs, in Maria Island National Park, near Darlington, Tasmania, Australia. Undercut by the Tasman Sea (South Pacific Ocean), the Painted Cliffs date from the Permian and Triassic, 300-200 million years ago. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Blue paint weathers, fades, and exfoliates on an old door in Huaraz, Peru, South America. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Trees reflect in the tannin-stained water of Tidal River at Wilson’s Promontory National Park in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. Natural tannins leached from decomposing vegetation turn the water brown. Drive two hours from Melbourne to reach Wilson’s Promontory, or “the Prom,” which offers natural estuaries, cool fern gullies, magnificent and secluded beaches, striking rock formations, and abundant wildlife. Published on the back cover of "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • A blue oar boat floats in the green Mediterranean Sea, at Loutro harbor, Crete, Greece, Europe. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • The Wave, Coyote Buttes, located on the Arizona side of Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area, which is public land managed by the United States BLM. Over 190 million years, ancient sand dune layers calcified into rock and created "The Wave." Iron oxides bled through this Jurassic-age Navajo sandstone to create the salmon color. Hematite and goethite added yellows, oranges, browns and purples. Over thousands of years, water cut through the ridge above and exposed a channel that was further scoured by windblown sand into the smooth curves that today look like ocean swells and waves. For the permit required to hike to "The Wave", contact the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM), who limits access to protect this fragile geologic formation. Image was published in 2009 for a surgeon's book on the intersection of science and faith. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • A demon guards a gilded chedi (or stupa) at the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaew), which is a shining complex of buildings within the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand. The Grand Palace (or Phra Borom Maha Ratcha Wang, in Thai) was built on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River starting in 1782, during the reign of Rama I. It served as the official residence of the king of Thailand from the 1700s to mid 1900s. Photo by Carol Dempsey. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Staubbach Falls (Staubbachfall) is the highest waterfall in Switzerland, plunging 1000 feet (300 meters) into Lauterbrunnen Valley in the Berner Oberland, the Alps, Europe. The Bernese Highlands are the upper part of Bern Canton. UNESCO lists “Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch” as a World Heritage Area (2001, 2007). Panorama stitched from three images. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Skyline Arch eroded within the Slick Rock member of Entrada Sandstone in Arches National Park, Utah, USA. Fractal branching of a twisted dead tree frames the arch. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Machu Picchu is a magnificent Inca archeological site in the Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes mountains, Peru, South America. Machu Picchu was built around 1450 AD as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (14381472). Spaniards passed in the river valley below but never discovered Machu Picchu during their conquest of the Incas 1532-1572. The outside world was unaware of the "Lost City of the Incas" until revealed by American historian Hiram Bingham in 1911. Machu Picchu perches at 2430 meters elevation (7970 feet) on a well defended ridge 450 meters (1480 ft) above a loop of the Urubamba/Vilcanota River ( Sacred Valley of the Incas). UNESCO honored the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu on the World Heritage List in 1983. Published in 2009 on Swedish trekking company site www.adventurelovers.se. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010. Panorama stitched from 4 overlapping images.
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  • Bell towers and blue-domed Greek Orthodox Churches grace the village of Oia on Santorini Island, an ancient volcanic caldera rim in the Aegean Sea, in Greece, Europe. After major destruction in a 1956 earthquate, Oia town was rebuilt as a multi level maze of fascinating whitewashed architecture. Published in PC Photo Magazine June 2002. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Billion-year-old rock breaks into a jagged pattern in Glacier National Park, Montana. This image is permanently displayed on the glass of two large lightboxes measuring 19.6 by 8.4 meters (64.3 ft wide x 27.5 ft high) and 16.3 by 3.5 meters (53.6 ft wide x 11.6 ft high), which wrap corners of the following skyscraper constructed by Axiom Builders in June 2019: SODO & Residence Inn by Marriott, 610 10th Ave SW, in Calgary, Alberta, CANADA (on the Corner of 5th St and 10 Ave SW). Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010. Since 1932, Canada and USA have shared Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site (1995) containing two Biosphere Reserves (1976). Rocks in the park are primarily sedimentary layers deposited in shallow seas over 1.6 billion to 800 million years ago. During the tectonic formation of the Rocky Mountains 170 million years ago, the Lewis Overthrust displaced these older sediments over newer Cretaceous age rocks.
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  • The peaks of Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau (Ogre, Monk, and Virgin) reflect in a pond at Kleine Scheidegg in the Berner Oberland, Switzerland, the Alps, Europe. The world's longest continuous rack and pinion railway (Wengernalpbahn) goes from Grindelwald up to Kleine Scheidegg and down to Wengen and Lauterbrunnen. From Kleine Scheidegg, another cog train (Jungfraubahn) ascends steeply inside the Eiger to Jungfraujoch, the highest railway station in Europe. UNESCO lists “Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch” as a World Heritage Area (2001, 2007). Panorama stitched from six images. Published in September/October 2007 Sierra Magazine, Sierra Club Outings. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Lake Michigan waves have tumbled and smoothed colorful pebbles into rounded shapes at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA. The scenic park includes the hilly shoreline between Munising and Grand Marais, Michigan. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • The Presque Isle River carves round potholes in Nonesuch Shale rock before flowing into Lake Superior. Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan, USA. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Herbert Lake reflects peaks in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Banff is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site declared by UNESCO in 1984. Panorama stitched from 3 images shot on film. Published on the cover of John Steel Rail Tours corporate brochure 2006, www.johnsteel.com. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Giant lupines (Lupinus weberbauerii) grow meter-tall flower stalks below snowy Mount Taulliraju (19,100 feet) in Tingopampa Valley, near Punta Union Pass, on the Santa Cruz Trek in Huascaran National Park, Peru, South America. June 6, 2000. Lupinus is a genus in the pea family (also called the legume, bean, or pulse family, scientific name Fabaceae or Leguminosae). UNESCO honored Huascaran National Park on the World Heritage List in 1985. Cordillera Blanca mountain range is in the Sierra Central of the Peruvian Andes. Published in Wilderness Travel 2002 and 2009 Catalog of Adventures. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Sextet Ridge Glacier and larch trees in the fall at Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. The Bugaboos are a range in the Purcell Mountains, which are a subrange of the Columbia Mountains, which are west of the Rocky Mountain Trench. (Some USA maps label the “Percell Mountains” where their southern limit protrudes into the states of Idaho and Montana.) The igneous Bugaboo intrusion of 135 million years ago cooled into hard crystalline granite and was scraped into spires by glaciers eroding surrounding rock dating from 600 million to 1 billion years ago. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
    01CAN-12-31-Sextet-Ridge-glacier-lar...jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes Snowpatch Spire (10,050 feet) and reflects in a mountain pond (tarn) in Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. The Bugaboos are a range in the Purcell Mountains, which are a subrange of the Columbia Mountains, which are west of the Rocky Mountain Trench. (Some USA maps label the “Percell Mountains” where their southern limit protrudes into the states of Idaho and Montana.) The igneous Bugaboo intrusion of 135 million years ago cooled into hard crystalline granite and was scraped into spires by glaciers eroding surrounding rock dating from 600 million to 1 billion years ago. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
    01CAN-14-05-Snowpatch-Spire-reflects.jpg
  • Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) leaves turn red amid colorful fall foliage at Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • A metallic green Cetonia aurata (rose chafer or goldsmith beetle) crawls on a magenta/pink thistle in Aoos River Valley, in Vikos-Aoos National Park, Zagoria, Epirus/Epiros, Greece, Europe. Green and magenta hues are "complements" of Color Theory. Zagori (Greek: Ζαγόρι) is a region and a municipality in northwestern Greece containing 45 villages collectively known as Zagoria (Zagorochoria or Zagorohoria). Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
    01GRE-39-30_Beetle-thistle_Aoos-Vall...jpg
  • Fantastic rock spires of Meteora rise above a blue house with red tile roof in Kastraki, near Kalambaka, in central Greece, Europe. Meteora (which means "suspended in the air") is a complex of six Eastern Orthodox Christian monasteries built by medieval monks on natural rock pillars near Kalambaka, in central Greece, Europe. The sandstone and conglomerate of Meteora were formed in the cone of a river delta estuary emerging into a sea about 60 million years ago, then later uplifted and eroded into pinnacles. The isolated monasteries of Meteora helped keep alive Greek Orthodox religious traditions and Hellenic culture during the turbulent Middle Ages and Ottoman Turk occupation of Greece (1453-1829). UNESCO honored Meteora as a World Heritage Site in 1988. Visit early in the morning and in the off season to avoid crowds. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
    01GRE-41-35_Blue-house-Meteora-pinna...jpg
  • The Wave, Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area, Arizona. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010. For licensing options, please inquire.
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