Our Travels
Bon Appetit: Foix and the Niaux Caves– a Study in the Southern French Mountains
As world travelers and photographers, Henderson Productions joined forces with our friends from Poggio Amorelli B&B to explore culinary France. Master Chef contestant Angela Perkins contacted chefs in five distinct regions and asked us to design and document the...
Bon Appetit: A Goat Farm in the Pyrenees is a Perfect Fairy Tale Retreat
As world travelers and photographers, Henderson Productions joined forces with our friends from Poggio Amorelli B&B to explore culinary France. Master Chef contestant Angela Perkins contacted chefs in five distinct regions and asked us to design and document the...
Inspirations
Tips from a Kiwi Local in Christchurch
In the spring of 2016, Henderson Productions took an extended do-it-yourself driving tour of New Zealand. We’re excerpting portions of our trip in this blog. Both a book and plan-it-yourself itinerary are available for sale in our Shop on...
Fiji Essence of Water is Life Lesson
In the spring of 2016, Henderson Productions took a big self-directed trip to New Zealand. Our research told us to check out the Fiji Air flight offering an overnight in Fiji to breakup the travel time from the west coast. This is a...
How to Get Started
Putting it Together
There's a very famous song from Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George titled "Putting it Together" where the artist George Seurat sings about how he paints and sells a work. You can check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-836TtoF_5I Why...
People, People, People – An Artist’ Eye
by Sue Henderson Do you ever find yourself looking through pictures you’ve taken and find you have a trend? It’s happened to me often enough I’ve started intentionally filing them in specific category folders. One such folder in my...
Backstory
A New Mindset for a New Year
Two things happened in early November that really changed my mindset and approach to both photography and my business. And while it might be too early to gauge success, sometimes your gut tells you to choose the path less traveled. A typical road sign in Bhutan. A...
Accents and Foods in New Zealand
In the spring of 2016, Henderson Productions took an extended do-it-yourself driving tour of New Zealand. We’re excerpting portions of our trip in this blog. Both a book and plan-it-yourself itinerary are available for sale in our Shop on...
Recent Posts
Tanzania 2019 in a Nutshell
Dar es Salaam means “haven of peace” in Arabic. As the largest city and commercial center of Tanzania I’m not sure I would characterize it as peaceful but it was certainly comfortable and commercial. Visits to the National Museum, Village Museum and...
The Kati Kati Mobile Camp on the Serengeti
The Kati Kati Camp is decidedly and delightfully rustic but EXACTLY as early planners had requested, and I love it! Had a nice welcome with a few rules like: do NOT go outside your tent if it’s dark; If you want to come to the main tent, wave your...
Tingatinga Art in Tanzania
One of the more popular souvenirs of Tanzania is the school of painting known as Tingatinga after, Edward Said Tingatinga. Born in 1937 in southern Tanzania, he arrived in Dar es Salaam in 1955 looking for work. He had come across brightly colored...
In Search of the Leopard
On our full day in the Serengeti plain, our guide, Johnson was intent on finding us a leopard as he was sure we could complete the Big 5 later in the week in the Ngorongoro Crater. But by sheer luck we first came upon a lioness with three cubs mere yards...
Personality vs Physical Beauty Bias on Safari
What’s up with maligning the reputation of the poor hyena and warthog? Watching them in action on the Serengeti plain got me to thinking about how we think about them in such a negative fashion. And fashion was very much also on my mind as I...
A Visit with the Maasai
While on safari in northern Tanzania (and also in Kenya) guides might make the recommendation to stop at a traditional Maasai village. GO! Say “Yes, please”. The Maasai inhabit central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They are...
Notes on East African Slave Trade
One of the most beneficial aspects of travel is perspective and learning how little we know from our own backgrounds. While I didn’t intend to delve into a complete history lesson while on a recent trip to Tanzania, on multiple occasions I was presented with so much...
Native Hawaiian Foods
As we were traveling with chefs who were intentionally searching for authentic culinary experiences, the island of Oahu provided plenty of opportunities. While there are many to choose from – here’s some vignettes on our favorites. Crackseed Stores –...
The Wilder Home on Airbnb
In the early morning cloud bank on our mountain overlooking Honolulu all we can see is the rounded tops of the acacia trees shaking their narrow leaves in the trade winds like the feathers of an uli uli gourd teasing the ear and eye. The old house creaks with the...
Hawaiian Dreams
I dreamt one night of a little animated bee cartoon. I’m sure it was a rare combination of complete comfort with my surroundings and the activities of the previous day. Later that evening we were blessed to attend the Hawaiian Symphony in...
An Ono Ahi Journey – Part 3 – The Recipes
Our culinary exploration of Oahu’s fish auction and farmer’s market sent us homeward bound to our big kitchen in an historic home on the hill above Honolulu (now an Airbnb rental.) We were blessed by our bounty and promptly made the best of it with Chef...
An Ono Ahi Journey – Part 2 – The Farmers Market
On a recent search of all things local in Honolulu, Chef Debbie Thomas of Dinner is Served RI joined us for a visit to the Honolulu farmer’s markets to see what was fresh for our planned hook-to-table ahi dinner. Having already determined the main...
An Ono Ahi Journey – Part 1 – The Auction
Look out Charlie, your more glamorous sister, Ahi, is taking over! The Honolulu Fish Auction was the perfect place to meet her and learn all about maximum traceability as Hawaii leads the charge to understand the tons of fish consumed and sold in the state. We were...
Behind the Scenes at Duma Meats & Farm Market
One arrives at the Duma Meats and Farm Market from any direction after driving through bucolic Ohio farm country with barns and livestock littered in picture-perfect fields. Near Canton, the market has grown from a small butcher shop set up by...
A Culinary Escape Weekend
Sage fettuccine drying before dinner at Poggio Amorelli Bed and Breakfast Who doesn’t like a weekend full of culinary masterpieces, snuggly accomodations and laughter? The search for a new location to gather with friends for a nice weekend reunion landed us in...
Ohio’s Chocolate Buckeyes
No trip to Ohio is complete without a sample of a Buckeye and there’s no better place to check them out than Waggoner Chocolate in North Canton where the delectable peanut cream treat was born and raised. Just like the tree for which their famous candy was named, Joe...
Fruit and Curlers and Potato Chips
What do we see differently when travelling that we don’t notice at home? Do you see laundry flapping or notice farm workers in the field when driving to drop kids off at school or to the grocery store? Maybe it’s actually in our neighborhoods and backyards but I...
The Top of the World and Chicken
In the summer of 2016, Henderson Productions and Poggio Amorelli B&B set off for a culinary and photographic journey through British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and Alaska. Stories of the Road is a series of snippets of that journey. Stay tuned over the...
The Klondike Highway and Dawson City
In the summer of 2016, Henderson Productions and Poggio Amorelli B&B set off for a culinary and photographic journey through British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and Alaska. Stories of the Road is a series of snippets of that journey. Stay tuned over the...
On the Way to Dawson Creek and the Alaska Highway
In the summer of 2016, Henderson Productions and Poggio Amorelli B&B set off for a culinary and photographic journey through British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and Alaska. Stories of the Road is a series of snippets of that journey. Stay tuned over the...
Coal Mine Campground and the Yukon River
In the summer of 2016, Henderson Productions and Poggio Amorelli B&B set off for a culinary and photographic journey through British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and Alaska. Stories of the Road is a series of snippets of that journey. Stay tuned over the...
The Yukon
In the summer of 2016, Henderson Productions and Poggio Amorelli B&B set off for a culinary and photographic journey through British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and Alaska. Stories of the Road is a series of snippets of that journey. Stay tuned over the...
The Veteran
In the summer of 2016, Henderson Productions and Poggio Amorelli B&B set off for a culinary and photographic journey through British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and Alaska. Stories of the Road is a series of snippets of that journey. Stay tuned over the...
Anticipation: A Journey Before the Journey
In the summer of 2016, Henderson Productions and Poggio Amorelli B&B set off for a culinary and photographic journey through British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and Alaska. Stories of the Road is a series of snippets of that journey. Stay tuned over the...
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