CBT Photo Editor Jennifer Kettler is showing her work from Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands and India in a photo exhibit at Teller’s Wine Bar and Gallery on the corner of Ninth Street and Broadway. The show is on display through June 30, and will not only feature exotic travel photos but local art photography of Missouri as well. Kettler, a photojournalism graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, said, “There’s nothing I love more than living out of my backpack, ditching my cell phone and Internet connection and just discovering the world all over again.” The opening reception will be Monday, June 1 from 7:00 – 9 p.m.
I started my adventures in the Galapagos by taking a tour boat from Academy Bay on the main island of Santa Cruz. Located 400 miles off the coast of Ecuador, the unique islands have mystified researchers as to how the nearly barren landscape can support such a diversity of life. I marveled at the close encounters with seals and sea turtles, and even snorkeled with the only warm-water penguins in the world. The blue-footed booby, shown in the small photo, is perhaps the most famed bird on the islands. In every souvenir shop I saw shirts, hats and shot glasses that read “I Love Boobies.” Diving from great heights into the water to catch it’s prey, it will sometimes come up from under it’s prey in a sneak attack. During courtship it picks up it’s bright blue feet in a slow, dignified dance. The brighter blue the feet, the more desired he is by the ladies.I made this picture on one of the most dangerous roads in South America, near La Nariz del Diablo (The Devil’s Nose), a slope of nearly solid rock in the Andes Mountains, no less intimidating than the devil’s nose itself. The hair-raising descent on the rocky dirt road was enough to make even the toughest stomach tumble. The people of the Andes amazed me with their audacious farming techniques and ability to literally live in the clouds.
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