Despite spending a week in Antarctica recently and loving it, I am not a cold weather person. Give me a hot, sunny day anytime over a snow storm.  So on this night when a major blizzard is starting to howl outside of my study window, I am consoling myself with thoughts of the warm country I will be visiting in fewer than two weeks--Cuba!!

Once again I will be traveling with Strabo Tours, and my photography mentor and friend Nancy Ori, as well as several of the people I went to Ireland with several years ago. I am so looking forward to this trip--not only because Cuba will be warm and I can get back into shorts and polo shirts, but because it appears to be such an interesting and mysterious place.  It is also, by all accounts, a photographer's paradise--especially for a street photographer.  Unlike Ireland where scenery dominates, or Antarctica where wildlife and ice are the stars, in Cuba the stars are people, architecture, and old cars. From the pictures I have seen, I think there will be an endless number of great images to capture, such as old vs. young, new buildings vs. old, young people vs. older people, and the great American yacht-like cars I remember from childhood. It will also be awesome to photograph a county that has changed little in the last 50 years--but promises to change greatly very soon.

To capture these images I will be taking a bit less gear than when I went to Antarctica--no binoculars, tripod, tele-converter, Speed Light flash or heavy clothing. I will take my Nikon "Trinity" of lens (14-24, 24-70 and 70 to 200), two Nikon bodies and my filter assortment. Even with the recent thaw between the US and Cuban governments, communication is still spotty, so I don't expect to be in touch with anyone until I return--which should be different.  But I do promise that when I return I will offer an assortment of what I hope will be memorable images of a fascinating land and its people during an amazing period of change.