In early February 2019, the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) announced its award winners for travel journalism and photography for 2018.

I am so honored to have garnered two awards this year: a Gold Award in Photography: Nature, Online, for my photograph of Geoffroy’s Tamarin, and an Honorable Mention in Historical Travel, Online, for my article, “Darkest Hour: Visiting the Churchill War Rooms.” It’s amazing to have my work listed alongside work from writers and photographers like Andrew McCarthy, Don George, and David Noyes, and publications such as National Geographic Traveler, Outside Magazine, and the New York Times.

I took the photograph of the tamarin on an island in Gatun Lake, Panama. It appears in the review of my Celebrity cruise: Around the Caribbean on Celebrity Reflection. I love photographing animals, but small primates are challenging — they can be twitchy and move almost as quickly as little birds.

My honorable mention came for my post following a visit to the War Rooms in London — an experience I found profoundly moving.

Darkest Hour: Visiting the Churchill War Rooms

You haven’t seen home in 3 days, and the thing is . . . you aren’t sure your home is actually still there. The bombing has been relentless for nights. One of the reports you read indicates one hit very, very close to your street. 

A visit to the Churchill War Rooms in London: photographs and history of this famous underground complex where Winston Churchill directed the war.