Colombia: Travel On The Magdalena River

At Colombia’s Puerto Boyacá, passengers board a boat for a trip on the Magdalena River. Colombia is one of the world’s most beautiful and geographically varied countries I have had the fortune to explore. And its people, no matter their cultures and racial origins, are Latin America’s friendliest.

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Colombia: Mompós, A Spanish Colonial City

Sleepy Mompós and its charming Spanish colonial architecture are built on an island of the mighty Magdalena River that bisects Colombia.

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Colombia: Transporting Potatoes To Market

In Colombia, one early morning, two farmers are walking down from their cold Andean fields of El Cocuy Mountain, transporting their potatoes to the market of the eponymous village of El Cocuy, in Boyacá Department.

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Tenza, Colombia, Where Conversing In The Middle Of The Road Poses No Risks

Market day in Tenza, a small town in Colombia’s Boyacá Department, has brought to a corner of the central square people with baskets to sell and stories to share.

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Colombia: Boyacá Misty Dawn

Under the mist of dawn, a path runs through pastures near Paipa, in Colombia’s Boyacá Department. A bewildered cow seems to wonder what a photographer is doing there at that hour.

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Colombia: A Picturesque Boyacá Village

At sunrise, under Colombia’s snowcapped El Cocuy Mountain, in the Andean Boyacá Department, the cold village of El Cocuy comes to life.

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Indonesia: Harrowing A Rice Field

Helped by water buffaloes,Toraja men and boys of Indonesia's Sulawesi Island harrow a rice field. The men and boys in front pull the water buffaloes while the men behind keep the harrows deep into the soil (c) 1968.

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Indonesia: Driving Muddied Water Buffaloes To Water

Moving through rice fields, this little Toraja girl of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island is driving her family’s muddied water buffaloes to water for a scrubbing. ©1968.

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Indonesia: Harrowing Rice Field

Helped by the power of a water buffalo, Toraja boys are harrowing a rice field in Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. Rice is already growing in fields behind them. © 1968.

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Indonesia: Washing Muddy Water Buffaloes

Boys washing the mud off their family’s water buffaloes in a pond near Makassar, in Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island © 1968.

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