Afghanistan, stunning beauty meets incredible sadness. Relics of ancient civilizations alongside relics of recent wars. A nation where women pass mostly unseen, yet are everywhere and children somehow remain beacons of hope.

Snow and ice and stunning landscapes. Penguins by the thousands and a certain calming serenity.

Argentina's varied wildife and dramatic natural landscapes.

A sea of pink. The cacophony of birds against the simple serenity of the laguna.

Whether you're a copper miner or a naturalist, this is elephant country.

A gallery of wings and colours.

Cambodia bustles with a modern spirit against an ancient backdrop. Lush national parks and forests, stunning temples and an ancient civilization emerging from the rain forest.

Canada is stunning landscapes and small furry noses, and so many things in between. In a big country, sometimes it's the quiet corners and small creatures that remind us of our curiousity.

Chernobyl is a place where you feel an incredible sense of waste as signs of human habitation slowly disintegrate, but also the awesome power of regeneration as green overcomes the toxic earth.

Friendship. Hope. Promise. These things we must honour above all else.

A little desert sunset.

China paints history and modernity in the starkest of contrasts. Great Walls to grand changes, majestic scenery, hectic cities and creatures great and small.

Cuba is a study in revolution and endurance. Determination against time that in some ways has clearly stopped, but the future is forward and Cuban vibrancy and friendship is unparalleled.

Czech Republic boasts its grand history in stately buildings and fairy tale architectural flourishes which are occasionally just plain odd. Creativity knows no bounds.

Dubai is the city architects dreamed of, and then built. Pushing every envelop with its architecture, it is truly a city of inspiration. Yet, within the emirate, there is also a history -- one of desert forts and tribal days.

Easter Island -- known locally as Rapa Nui -- is an island revered for its giant stone heads, mesmerizing in their grandeur, but also for the wonder around how they came to be.

Egypt before there was an Arab Spring. The Nile, the pyramids and a nation eager to grow after a long sleep.

The heart of African Christianity, featuring stunning paintings of Biblical scenes, Ethiopia is also a land of breath-taking nature, home to the rock-star-maned Gelada monkeys and the stunningly desolate and scorching hot Dallol region, no to mention holding the source of the Nile River.

To the British citizens living here, the Falklands; to the Argentineans, who fought for the land a short distance from their coast, the Malvinas. An archipelago populated with a stunning array of wildlife and a soothing pace of life.

A burst of colour and sunlight.

Powertrips. Wasted resources. No place for the citizenry. Police in FORCE. And a Toronto like no one had ever seen. RIOT NOW.

History and hope ready to break from a colonial mindset. Enlighten yourself and explore stunning scenery.

You arrive, after a bumpy ride in the downtown core and ask yourself, "Where does the future lead...who has the vision, who has the dollars?"

Crawling, flying, hitching a ride, working, and well, playing in the moonlight.

Check and Mate.

Iraq today is tangled, complicated, even under seige from numerous elements. The nation is ancient, yet striving to be modern; proud, and yet fractious and broken.

From the Sorek Caves to the Golan Heights a nation of challenges and contradictions.

There is recovery from turmoil, even if Lebanon is still something of a proving ground.

Nature, bustle, modernity and history, all roiling in a single pulsing state.

The interpretation of faith into many different houses.

A closed place for many decades, yet a country waiting to awe with its history and beauty.

The thing I love about photography is looking at an image and noticing something you never realized you had shot.

Every shore is different and holds its own mysteries.

It really is all about the journey.

The thing I love about travel is landing and always feeling fascinated.

Someone once joked that I need to see each landscape in every light, every season. The real joke was, they were completely right.

Pause and marvel at the smallest things and life will seem so much more fascinating.

Despite appearances, life isn't that easy in the "Big Easy".

Bustle. Marvel. Inhale. Wonder.

Simple gestures go a long way towards making new friends. Smiling is everything.

It's never too soon or too late to discover new things and new places.

The giant fireball above us is a miraculous thing to behold.

The sun is a rare sight in the winter months, but the sunsets are spectacular when they appear.

Cats on the savannah, at Rufigi River.

Did a big circle of Thailand, both fascinating and exhausting. Not quite an exhaustive tour, but as close as you could get in 10 short days.

You can live in a place without fully considering the breadth of it. Toronto sprawls and amazes and challenges you to see it from all its different perspectives.

Maybe one of the greatest things about Toronto is that there is someone from everywhere within.

Iraq is ever-evolving at the moment, but we must never forget its youth, regardless of the despairing tones on the evening news.

Part European, part Asian, Turkey is two halves of a beating heart.

That snowy day when the sun is just about perfect and you can forget the cold and explore.

In its land, its history and its people, there are as many different faces of Yemen as you can imagine.

Sometimes in the right moment you will let yourself get talked into anything. The wonders of Zambia make it that much easier.