For a guy who makes his living with words, it’s my pictures that have been getting the notice lately.

Yesterday I received a copy of a book, Cooking in West Africa: A Colonial Guide.  The primary cover photo is a picture of peppers in a woven basket that I took in April 2004 at a market in Abeokuta, Nigeria. This is the sixth photo of mine used in a public way in the past year or so.  Last summer, another photograph, of the city of Abeokuta taken from the top of Olumo Rock, was used on the campaign web site for the now-president of Nigeria. That same photo, plus two more, can be found at Wikipedia’s listing about Abeokuta. On top of that, a picture of Bantu refugee children from Somalia was used in a program for a conference sponsored by the Scottish Refugee Council.  If this keeps up, I’ll have to start charging real money!

For whatever reason, my African photos are among the top 10 viewed of all my pictorial work. All of these photos (and even more if you can believe it!) can be seen on my Flickr site.