Random Photographs from Random Journeys
I’ve traveled to over 40 countries and curated my best photographs from those random journeys for you to enjoy.
About Me
My Background
As an award-winning landscape photographer with 45 years working in the tourism industry, I've had the opportunity to travel as much as I could, and as often as my job would allow. 6 continents, 40 countries, but my favorite is still the USA - and its National Parks.
Pictured here - a recent visit to Zion National Park in Utah, my 3rd time there.
I hope you enjoy the beauty of nature represented in landscape photographs in my Random Photographs from my Random Journeys.
Let me know ... jocovp@gmail.com
Top Destinations
My favorite destination? The next one!
Suggestions?
How I Got Started
1st grade, my mom brings home an encyclopedia (that’s Wikipedia on paper and ink, for those who think I’m referring to a mythical creature). I open the first volume to a random page and read about the Alcan Highway. It stretched (still does) over a thousand miles from Dawson Creek BC in Canada, through the Yukon Territory, into Alaska, and on to Fairbanks. How exotic, I thought, and how rugged.
Fast forward ahead 19 years to my friend Stuart and I packing my Plymouth Duster for the journey I’ve been dreaming about all these years. We are on our way.
Never made it.
6 continents, 40 countries. Sailed the South Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Tasman Sea. Swam in the Indian Ocean, walked on the Great Wall, marveled at the Taj Mahal, saw the Northern Lights in Iceland.
Yet still have not been to Alaska.
PHOTO: Sunrise in Yosemite Valley
WHO AM I
Joel Cohen, born in Northeast Pennsylvania, BBA degree in Accounting from Temple University, some grad school ... and then put almost none of it to good use!
I opened a photography studio in Wilkes-Barre, where I learned to turn a beloved hobby into a stressful business. Fortunately I stumbled into a job with a travel agency, helped build two tour companies, all the while enjoying the privileges and perks of the tourism industry.
Along the way my landscape photographs won several national awards for photography, including one from the popular national publication Frommer's (Venice Gondoliers in the Europe section of this site).
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NATIONAL PARKS & NAVAJO TRIBAL PARKS
NORTH AMERICA
AFRICA
EUROPE ASIA and AUSTRALIA
EUROPE ASIA and AUSTRALIA
EUROPE ASIA and AUSTRALIA
MY FAVORITES!
MY FAVORITES!