Gallery Archive

e-Margaux celebrates travel, and what better forum for capturing and sharing travel experiences than photographs? Over the coming months we will begin to showcase some of the spellbinding destinations that invite you to wander, even if it's only briefly while sitting at your desk between tasks. Escape briefly into the exotic, the faraway, the beckoning world just waiting for you to venture abroad and discover it.

We invite you to consider sharing your own photographs. What do we have in mind? A destination. An overview. A sampling. Real. Inviting. Well photographed. The idea is to share a vision of a place so that website visitors will be able to easily imagine themselves there. If you think you have some images you'd like to share, feel free to contact us.

Featured Galleries Jaisalmer, by Nana Chen During a recent trip to India, my friend and I traveled by bus from Bikaner to Jaisalmer. We had been in Bikaner for only a few hours before voicing our reservations about getting our feet trampled by rats. It didn’t matter that they were holy rats from the Karni Mata Temple in Deshnok, just 30km away. They were still rats… Relief Ride through Rajasthan, India, by Alexander Souri Relief Riders International (RRI) announces its inaugural adventure ride through the Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India. Beginning on October 22, 2004, a maximum of fifteen riders will travel on horseback through rural India's unforgettable landscape delivering food, medical supplies and medical care, and goats to five remote villages. Relief Riders International offers participants not only an opportunity to see and visit places of extraordinary beauty, but the chance to make life better for the communities they visit along the way... Souri's Relief Riders in Rajasthan, by Preeti Verma Lal Let the eulogies and the travelogue wait; let’s begin with happiness and defiance. No, I am no Nietzsche defying God, I just want to defy litterateur Graham Greene who vociferously refutes that one man can arrange another’s happiness. “No one can arrange another’s happiness”: That’s ripped straight out of the sepia pages of The Heart of the Matter. Ah! Mr Greene, you stand corrected. Happiness can be arranged... Villas & Gardens of Florence, by George Davis Enjoy a private tour of some of the most spectacular gardens and villas in Florence in addition to the standard "must-sees" like the Villa Medicis Castello and the Giardino di Boboli. Join our group of about a dozen, but beware, you'll likely be planning a trip to Florence soon if you look through all of these photos... Valtournenche: An Italian Ski Adventure, by Mike Norman If you were to hear the name Valtournenche without previously knowing of its existence, what would you think it was? The latest SUV offering from Volkswagen? A traditional Andorran chicken and ham dish? Although it certainly does not make you think of the Alps the way Zermatt or St. Moritz does, it should… Veterans' Day in Paris, by Jim Carroll We took off from Burlington International Airport on Thursday night and made it to Charles de Gaulle airport around 10am local time. Getting on the RER was no big deal once I remembered where to go for tickets… Turks & Caicos: Point Grace, by George Davis Dive into the turquoise waves for a refreshing escape to Providenciales, Turks & Caicos. The rhythm of this ten day visit will inspire you to cancel your meetings, book the next flight south, and,... Okay. Sorry for the distraction. Back to reality. But first, a little more escapism... An Oolong Quest, by Jeff Fuchs The mists cleared long enough for me to glimpse terraces of green black tea fields. Then just as quickly the mists enveloped everything. Landscape had long since disappeared, mists and fogs played peek-a-boo. My little car rumbled up further into the hills, further into the dark. At over 2000 meters all was gray and wet on this volcanic island of Taiwan... Twelve Dawns in Trinyi, by Jeff Fuchs There was a soft tinkling and a slight shuffling. Everything was a blue black, the color of cold dawn, and I denied that it was time to move out of my warmth. The huge wooden doors to the prayer room opened and let in more dark air and cold mountain wind that plunged into the room. Ma muttered softly in Tibetan as she did every morning when all was dark... Santa Fe Photo Workshop, by Philip Douglis Digital photography may still be in its infancy, but in just a few short years it has already become a major factor in travel photography… The Whale's Gift, by James Dorsey I heard the Orca long before seeing them. On the flat waters of the Johnstone Strait sound skims along like a stone. You can hear a blow miles away. In late August salmon are in town and have set the upper echelons of the food chain in motion. Orca eat Salmon, and the Inside Passage is a twenty four-hour cafe. For those interested in whales, this is the place to be… Isla Guadalupe: Mexico’s Great White Sharks, by Patric Douglas This season Absolute Adventures-Shark Diver introduced 144 excited divers to the wild world of white sharks during our eight-week shark season. What we encountered there on our first expedition was nothing short of spectacular and began with an extraordinary introduction to one very wild great white that we quickly named “Shredder.” Ethiopian Outback, by Kevin Brown The sign in front of the African village’s barber shop actually read “abandon hope all ye who enter”. It is one of those strange anomalous fragments of Western culture that sometimes appears in third world countries, like an abandoned New York City taxi cab, a GAP tee-shirt, or a book of matches from the Ritz-Carlton… In Search of the Holistic Vasectomy, by Joshua Samuel Brown Lake Lugu, in China’s Northern Yunan Province; home of the aboriginal Mosuo tribe, the last purely matriarchal people left in China… Phi Ta Khon, Festival of Life, by Laura Siciliano It began innocently enough: an introductory speech, a line of brightly costumed children, local beauty queens smiling at spectators. But the parade lines blurred as the long procession of colorful revelers turned their attention to onlookers, teasing them with phallic swords or grabbing them for a dance. The giant masks of the Phi Ta Khon festival, artfully carved from the trunks of coconut trees, dominated the muddy street with their menacing, ghoulish grins and, if you looked a bit closer, the smiling eyes of the Thai people behind them… Motorcycles in Cambodia, by Laura Siciliano It was a place I never thought I would find myself: squashed between a hired driver and my impossibly full backpack on the surprisingly hard seat of a 250cc motorcycle…