March 2017

on the road again…| dominican republic | santo domingo, santiago, la vega, y higuey

March 31, 2017 jaclyn michelleLeave a comment

I honestly feel like the best way to learn about a new place is to drive it. And I’ve spent a ton of time driving this week. Here are a few of my favorite shots**:

Santo Domingo, DR

En route from Santo Domingo to Santiago, probably around La Vega…

Santiago

This was not the only time I got stuck behind a banana truck. It happened twice. Also once behind a pick-up truck full of pineapples.

This afternoon, I made the 5+ hour drive from Santiago back through Santo Domingo to the resort in Punta Cana. My GPS had some, ahem, challenges, and took me on a couple detours through small villages, up pot-hole ravaged roads, past a ton of goats and cows and finally through Higuey…

¿Como ahora vaca marrón (y vaca blanca)?

**traffic is super STOP and go in the cities, with an emphasis on STOP. I took all of the above photos from the driver’s seat, but when the car was not in motion. So stop worrying, Mom.

on the road again…| florida | st. augustine

March 25, 2017 jaclyn michelleLeave a comment

Last June, I spent some time in St. Augustine, Florida. Here are a few of my favorite shots…

I did not go in. Wax figures give me the creeps.

The statue’s inscription read: “The Discoverer of Florida Juan Ponce de Leon landed near this spot 1513”

Castillo de San Marcos National Monument

The most Florida street names to ever happen.

Guarding the gates to Ripley’s Believe It or Not

Fun fact: in ancient Greek sculpture (and in modern reproductions made to honor the work of the ancient Greeks) a small penis was representative of ideal masculinity. “Greeks associated small and non-erect penises with moderation, which was one of the key virtues that formed their view of ideal masculinity,” explains classics professor Andrew Lear, who has taught at Harvard, Columbia and NYU and runs tours focused on gay history. “There is the contrast between the small, non-erect penises of ideal men (heroes, gods, nude athletes etc) and the over-size, erect penises of Satyrs (mythic half-goat-men, who are drunkards and wildly lustful) and various non-ideal men. Decrepit, elderly men, for instance, often have large penises.” The more you know… (*cue shooting star*)

Of course, I went inside. It was 8 bazillion degrees out!

I believe it’s illegal to be in the presence of Zoltar and not ask for your fortune.

Capped off my time in St. Augustine w/ a long walk on the beach at sunset…

on the road again…| alaska | AK-1 N/S en route to glacier view

March 20, 2017March 20, 2017 jaclyn michelleLeave a comment

A few more shots from my recent trip to Alaska. I took a drive up to Glacier View, and took the following on AK-1 North en route.

on the road again…| oregon | portland | international rose test garden

March 17, 2017 jaclyn michelleLeave a comment

Back in the summer of 2015, I spent a rainy afternoon wandering through Portland’s International Rose Test Garden. Here are a few of my favorite images:

on the road again…| alaska | portage | alaska wildlife conservation center

March 11, 2017March 11, 2017 jaclyn michelleLeave a comment

Warning: what follows contains literally tens of pictures of bears.

Bears playing.Bears yawning. Bears walking. Bears lying down. Bears chilling with magpies. Bears staring off pensively into the distance contemplating the meaning of life…probably.

You have been warned. Photographing a bear was on my bucket list, and I scratched that sucker off and then some.

But but BUT I promise if you stick around through the bears, some musk ox and a few wolves will be waiting for you. Maybe even some caribou…and Darnell.

Is there snow on my butt? Because I feel like there’s snow on my butt…

Why do I feel like the one on the left is about to bust out a triple time step?

Ok. Enough with the bears.

Musk ox serving up Blue Steel. It’s hard to be ridiculously good looking.

Was not the face I expected to go with that body, but still very cute.

Inner monologue: Ok, Jacki. Wolves are not dogs. Do not pet the wolves. Repeat: DO NOT PET THE WOLVES.

SMC (single male caribou) seeks SFC. Hobbies include standing around in my own poop and the poop of others, obsessing about my asymmetrical rack, and badminton.

My nose totally fits through here. I do this all the time. Trust me.

A guy tried to pick me up at the moose pen by asking me what I did for a living. “This.” I said. “I’m a professional moose photographer.”

I couldn’t tell who was more embarrassed: the guy, or the moose.

Needless to say, Darnell was not amused.

on the road again…| utah | moab | arches national park

March 11, 2017March 10, 2017 jaclyn michelleLeave a comment

Back in July, I crashed my family’s long-anticipated vacation: UTAZ 2016. No tour of the state parks of Utah and Arizona would have been complete without an afternoon spent in Arches National Park.