Driving to Akaroa Akaroa is a little French town on the coast of the south island of New Zealand. While in Christchurch, this was the #1 spot people told me I had to visit! It's not a long drive at all, and it was a great destination for sure.Along the way, we passed these perfect little hills and water inlets ... - Trey Ratcliff Read the rest, including news on the new eBook, here.

Magical Fog in San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge I recently drove across the bridge and up this little mountain road to try to find this shot. I started driving up a road I knew well, but it was closed. Closed! So I parked, got out my tripod, and hiked about a mile up this hill to get to this spot. It was a very cool night, but there was some strange inversion happening. Almost anywhere I stood on the side of the hill was a stead hotel-room 72-degrees. And there was zero wind. It was a perfect night, and just when I arrived, the fog really started pouring over the bridge, so I set up for this shot...- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

Over the Top of Iceland When I am by myself for weeks on end, I think I probably make bad decisions. I lose all sense of perspective and what is "normal". I can't decide if this is a good or bad thing... I guess some of both. Anyway, I was driving along the coast in NE Iceland along the fjords. It was about 11 PM and the sun was setting. I was about to lose it behind the mountains, and then I saw a dirt road that went right up one of the mountains ... - Trey Ratcliff Read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.