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# StevenHiggs.com

Fifty Years of Words and Photographs

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- [INTIMATE LANDSCAPES -- Colombia’s Upper Amazon River: Leticia to Puerto Nariño and Lake Tarapoto](https://stevenhiggs.com/intimate-landscapes-up-colombias-upper-amazon-river-from-leticia-to-san-martin-de-amacayacu-mocagua-puerto-narino-lake-tarapoto/) - I led my family to San Martin de Amacayacu some 40 miles up the Amazon River from Leticia in search of Eliot Porter-inspired Intimate Landscapes.
- [INTIMATE LANDSCAPES -- Charles C. Deam Wilderness - Wildflowers](https://stevenhiggs.com/intimate-landscapes-charles-c-deam-wilderness-wildflowers/) - Here’s a sample of wildflowers I captured in the Charles C. Deam Wilderness in the early 1980s for a slideshow and 35 years later for a couple book projects .
- [PHOTO ARCHIVE - Hickory Ridge Lookout Tower, Hoosier National Forest - 2013-2026](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-archive-hickory-ridge-lookout-tower-hoosier-national-forest-2013-2026/) - If the 360-degree view from the Hickory Ridge Lookout Tower isn’t the most spectacular on the Hoosier National Forest’s 204,000 acres, it’s the most expansive.
- [PHOTO ARCHIVE: Hoosier National Forest - Waldrip Ridge - 2013-2026](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-archive-hoosier-national-forest-waldrip-ridge-2013-2014-2016-2017-2025-2026/) - Here’s the lead to Waldrip Ridge: The Place No One Knew: “Waldrip Ridge may be the most beautiful and historic place in Southern Indiana no one ever heard of.
- [PHOTO ARCHIVE: Backyard Deer - Bryan Park, Bloomington, Ind. - 2015-2026](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-archive-backyard-deer-bryan-park-bloomington-ind-2015-2026/) - My relationships with urban deer began in my Herald-Times staff writer days in the late 1980s, when I discovered a New York Times Magazine article titled Rats with Hooves. I first encountered white tail deer on the streets of Bloomington circa 2010 by the old Sarkes Tarzian estate, now called Deer Park. Legend has it that the town father imported a deer herd, which was the custom of the fabulously wealthy in the mid-20th century. By 2015, their progeny had migrated to my back yard and were urbanized enough to pose for photographs. I put this photo archive together after discovering a spotted fawn standing less than 10 feet behind me while I hand sanded a wood project.
- [A Rainy Day Driving for Pleasure Through the Charles C. Deam Wilderness and Wildlands](https://stevenhiggs.com/a-rainy-day-drive-for-pleasure-through-the-charles-c-deam-wilderness-and-wildlands/) - I broke my two-week post-North Pole Photo Fast on a rainy day drive through the Deam Wildlands with two of my three oldest friends, guys I’ve known since 1969.
- [An Undreamed Trip to Villach and the Austrian Alps](https://stevenhiggs.com/retirement-travel-trifecta-austria/) - Exploring the Austrian Alps wasn’t a goal that ever made my bucket list. Neither was traveling through Europe, for that matter.
- [From the Austrian Alps, to the Adriatic Sea, to the Upper Amazon River, to the ...](https://stevenhiggs.com/travels-with-my-nikons/) - The first two chapters for my Retirement Travel Trifecta began a half century ago when I journeyed through Colombia in search of handicrafts to export to the US
- [The Hoosier National Forest's Buffalo Springs: Andy Mahler’s Last Stand](https://stevenhiggs.com/buffalo-springs-andy-mahlers-last-stand/) - Andy Mahler's stand against U.S. Forest Service plans to log, burn, & chemically spray 30,000 acres of the Hoosier’s Orange County woods called Buffalo Springs.
- [Lunch in Santa Rosa, Peru -- Or is it Colombia?](https://stevenhiggs.com/lunch-in-santa-rosa-peru-or-is-it-colombia/) - Santa Rosa, Peru is an island situated a 10-minute river crossing from Leticia, Colombia’s only port city, on which some 3,000 mostly Ticuna Indians live.
- [From the Adriatic's Trieste to Duino; from James Joyce to Miramare Castle to Rainer Maria Rilke](https://stevenhiggs.com/blog-from-the-adriatics-trieste-to-duino-from-james-joyce-to-miramare-castle-to-rainer-maria-rilke/) - Trieste Italy is a seaside, Medieval city with some 200,000 residents, with narrow streets, one of Europe’s largest seaside squares, and a rich history.
- [Speech Preview: Andy Mahler and Me](https://stevenhiggs.com/speech-preview-andy-mahler-and-me/) - I knew from the times we spent hanging, walking, and talking that Andy Mahler was the most remarkable human being I had ever encountered.
- [Sunset on the Amazon River: Tabatinga, Brazil; Mirador Komara](https://stevenhiggs.com/amazon-river-sunset-tabatinga-brazil-mirador-komara/) - Tabatinga’s Mirador Komara may be the best place for sunset over the Amazon River. The club on the southern outskirts of the Brazilian city would make any list.
- [Hoosier National Forest, A Half Century Detour to the Amazon Rainforest](https://stevenhiggs.com/hoosier-national-forest-a-half-century-detour-to-the-amazon-rainforest/) - steven higgs journey hoosier national forest amazon river rainforest lake monroe iu school of journalism colombia brazil photography leticia manaus andy mahler
- [To the Amazon River: Plan Colombia – Part 1, Wall Hangings and Cartegena](https://stevenhiggs.com/to-the-amazon-river-plan-colombia-74-wall-hangings-and-cartegena/) - Steven higgs trip to amazon river cartegena colombia to buy wall hangings barranquilla in 1974
- [To the Amazon River: Plan Colombia – Part 2, San Jacinto, Barranquilla, B&W Photography](https://stevenhiggs.com/to-the-amazon-river-plan-colombia-74-san-jacinto-barranquilla-bw-photography/) - Amazon River: Plan Colombia '74 – San Jacinto, Barranquilla, B&W Photography
- [Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National – Project Update, Limited Edition 250](https://stevenhiggs.com/andy-mahler-and-the-hoosier-national-project-update-limited-edition-250/) - Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National: The Folk Hero and the Forest He Loves, will be a Limited Edition of 250 copies.
- [To the Amazon River: Plan Colombia, Part 3 -- Hilario, Barrio Simon Bolivar, Bucaramanga, Bogotá, High Fashion Leather and Amazon Basketry](https://stevenhiggs.com/to-the-amazon-river-plan-colombia-part-3-hilario-barrio-simon-bolivar-bucaramanga-bogota-high-fashion-leather-and-amazon-basketry/) - Plan Colombia Part 3 buying wall hangings, leather bags, Amazon Indian baskets. San Jacinto Barrio simon bolivar barranquilla bucaramanga bogota
- [Remembering Carp Combs](https://stevenhiggs.com/remembering-carp-combs/) - I just learned that Bloomington's Perry Township Trustee Carp Combs passed this morning.
- [Up the Upper Amazon River: San Martín de Amacayacu, Ticuna Indians, and Colombia's Amacayacu Natural National Park](https://stevenhiggs.com/up-the-upper-amazon-river-san-martin-de-amacayacu-ticuna-indians-and-colombias-amacayacu-natural-national-park/) - San Martín has neither roads nor vehicles. In all directions inland, it is surrounded by 1,650 square miles of the Amacayacu Natural National Park..
- [PROJECT: Back to the Charles C. Deam Wilderness: A Half Century Later](https://stevenhiggs.com/project-back-to-the-charles-c-deam-wilderness-a-half-century-later/) - I will be returning to my roots in 2026, hiking through and photographing the Charles C. Deam Wilderness for a Limestone Post series of Limestone features.
- [NEWS ARTICLE: Deam Wilderness: Midwest’s Largest Block of Undisturbed Forest Targeted for Enhanced Protection](https://stevenhiggs.com/deam-wilderness-midwests-largest-block-of-undisturbed-forest-targeted-for-enhanced-protection/) - Deam Wilderness: Midwest’s Largest Block of Undisturbed Forest Targeted for Enhanced Protection
- [BACK TO THE DEAM WILDERNESS: First Steps -- Panther Creek Hollow, Almost](https://stevenhiggs.com/back-to-the-deam-wilderness-first-steps-panther-creek-hollow-almost/) - Back to the Deam Wilderness: First Steps -- Panther Creek Hollow, Almost
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Bushwhacking the Deam Wilderness with Jeff Stant - Mt. Carmel Fault, Almost](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-deam-wilderness-bushwhacking-to-the-mt-carmel-fault/) - Photo Album Bushwhacking the Charles C. Deam Wilderness with Jeff Stant - Mt. Carmel Fault - Hoosier National Forest - Charles C Deam Wilderness
- [BACK TO THE DEAM WILDERNESS: Revisiting the Deam Wilderness: A Hike to Panther Creek Hollow](https://stevenhiggs.com/revisiting-the-deam-a-hike-to-panther-creek-hollow/) - I chose Panther Creek Hollow for the initial steps into this Limestone Post series on my return to the Deam Wilderness for reasons beyond its wildness.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Deam Wilderness - Panther Creek Hollow, Crooked Creek](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-deam-wilderness-panther-creek-hollow-crooked-creek-updated-02-28/) - Panther Creek Hollow Crooked Creek area Hoosier National Forest first photo stop on Revisiting the Charles C. Deam Wilderness: A Half Century Later
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Italy - Venice and Venice Only](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-venice-and-venice-only/) - Venice and its 118 islands — connected by canals and bridges — marked my last experience with my now-Austrian friends before flying south to Yecla, Spain.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Spain - Yecla, Mirador del Santuario del Castillo, Paso de la Bandera, Basílica de la Purísima Concepción](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-spain-yecla-mirador-del-santuario-del-castillo-paso-de-la-bandera-basilica-de-la-purisima-concepcion/) - A Steven Higgs Photo Album from Yecla Spain Santuario del Castillo, Mirador del Paso de la Bandera, Basílica de la Purísima Concepción
- [To the Scandinavian Arctic in the Midnight Sun, via Europe and the Upper Amazon River](https://stevenhiggs.com/to-the-scandinavian-arctic-in-the-midnight-sun-via-europe-and-the-upper-amazon-river/) - We’re venturing to the Scandinavian Arctic to explore the Lapland wilderness and Alta, Norway. I will capture the Arctic Ocean in the Midnight Sun
- [PHOTO ALBUM: In search of the Hoosier National Forest's Miller Ridge Old Growth](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-in-search-of-the-hoosier-national-forests-miller-ridge-old-growth/) - Miller Ridge looms 300 feet above Panther Creek Hollow and is home to a stand of old-growth hardwood upland forest that is rare in the Hoosier National Forest.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Deam Wilderness -- Brooks Cabin, Tower Ridge Road, Todd Cemetery, Terrill Ridge Trail](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-deam-wilderness-brooks-cabin-tower-ridge-road-todd-cemetery-terrill-ridge-trail/) - The mission for this drive across Tower Ridge Road is was to discover if the Road Closed Ahead sign was real. I had minimal expectations for sun or color.
- [BACK TO THE DEAM WILDERNESS: Unexpected Light on the Charles C. Deam Wilderness, Human History](https://stevenhiggs.com/unexpected-light-on-the-charles-c-deam-wilderness-human-history/) - The mission: get to the woods and see if Road Closed Ahead sign on Tower Ridge Road was real. I planned a stop st Brooks Cabin and capture an image or two.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Monte Arabí, UNESCO World Cultural Site, Yecla, Spain](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-monte-arabi-unesco-world-cultural-site-yecla-spain/) - 3,500 feet above sea, Monte Arabí is a UNESCO World Cultural Site for petroglyphs. Limestone mountain with cup-shaped rock formations, rugged hollows, cliffs.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Maikuchiga Monkey Sanctuary, Mocagua, Colombia, Upper Amazon River](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-maikuchiga-monkey-sanctuary-mocagua-colombia-upper-amazon-river/) - We visited the Maikuchiga Monkey Sanctuary, a rehabilitation and reintroduction center for Amazonian monkeys rescued from domestication and illegal trafficking.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Deam Wilderness -- Terrill Ridge Trail](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-deam-wilderness-terrill-ridge-trail/) - The Deam Wilderness Terrill Ridge Trail offers a microcosm of the Charles C. Deam Wilderness’s human history: a pioneer cemetery, fire tower, and wildlife pond
- [Introducing Jeff Stant: At the Grassroots Forest Forum on the Roadless Rule  ](https://stevenhiggs.com/introducing-jeff-stant-at-the-grassroots-forest-forum-on-the-roadless-rule/) - On Saturday I will introduce Jeff Stant as the featured speaker at a Grass Roots Forest Forum at the Monroe Public Library to talk about wilderness in Indiana.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Barcelona - Beauty by the Mediterranean Sea, Las Ramblas, Arc de Triompf, Port Vell, La Sagrada Familia](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-barcelona-beauty-by-the-mediterranean-sea/) - Exploring Barcelona with Patricia and Luz as my guides was a magical experience, the only time the “girls” – whom I hadn’t seen in 46 years – were alone.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: With the Ticuna Indians in San Martin de Amacayacu, Upper Amazon River, Colombia](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-with-the-ticuna-indians-in-san-martin-de-amacayacu-upper-amazon-river-colombia/) - Staying in the village of San Martin de Amacayacu with a few hundred Ticuna Indians was a pinnacle life experience. No roads. No cars. Up the Rio Amacayacu.
- [Envisioning the Deam Wildlands with Jeff Stant](https://stevenhiggs.com/envisioning-the-deam-wildlands-with-jeff-stant/) - It doesn’t take 9 hours of bushwhacking through the Deam Wildlands to imbibe Jeff Stant’s passion for the wildest block of hardwood forestland in Indiana.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: On the Monroe Trail to Lake Monroe](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-on-the-monroe-trail-to-lake-monroe/) - I had hiked the Monroe Trail for more than 30 years but had never followed it to Lake Monroe. The lake was high and quiet, under a blue sky with cumulus clouds.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Indígenas Huitoto, Last Colombian Amazon Photo Stop](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-indigenas-huitoto-last-amazon-photo-stop/) - For our last Amazon adventure, our Ticuna guide led our family to a Huitoto Indiaqna village a half an hour or so north and west of Leticia into the jungle.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Valencia, Spain - Sunset on the Mediterranean, Good bye in Villena](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-valencia-spain-sunset-on-the-mediterranean-good-bye-in-villena/) - The 2.2-mile-long stretch of Valencia, Spain, Mediterranean beach includes three beaches: Playa de las Arenas, Playa de la Malvarrosa and Playa de la Patacona
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Valencia, Spain - Old City, El Carmen, Central Market, Street Art, El Estrecho (the Narrow One)](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-valencia-spain-day-2-old-city-market-street-art-el-estrecho-the-narrow-one/) - In Valencia, we explored the Old City, Central Market, world-class street art, the Medieval Serranos Towers, and the world’s once-second narrowest building.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Lapland Lake Region -- From Rovaniemi in Finland to the Torne River at Pello, Sweden](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-lapland-lake-region-from-rovaniemie-in-finland-to-the-torne-river-at-pello-sweden/) - Rovaniemi Finland, the Lapland Capital, sits a couple miles south of the Arctic Circle boundary line and was the launchpad into our journey to Alta, Norway.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Finland - Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-lapland-pallas-yllastunturi-national-park-finland/) - The first Photo Stop on our journey to the Top of the World was the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, where we hiked through Finland's third largest preserve.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Norway -- Kautokeino, Capital of the Sami](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-kautokeino-norway-capital-of-the-sami/) - Kautokeino, Norway, earned its place as a Lapland Photo Stop due to its status as the capital of Europe’s only indigenous people, the Sami, and its location.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Norway - Alta River, Alta](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-norway-altafjord-alta-river-alta/) - I chose Alta, Norway, for its status as the northernmost city in the world with 15,000 residents and its location on the Alta River and the Altafjord.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Norway -- Altafjord and the Scandinavian Mountains, Secret Arctic Paradise](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-norway-altafjord/) - I’m confident saying that the Altafjord and its Scandinavian Mountain coastline is one of the world’s most underappreciated natural and cultural wonders.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Norway -- A Sami Miracle in Alta](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-norway-a-sami-miracle-in-alta/) - The doors of the Northern Lights Cathedral opened and a parade of Sami in traditional wear streamed out and filled the sidewalks, happy to be photographed.
- [PHOTO ARCHIVE: Charles C. Deam Wilderness -- Terrill Ridge Trail, 2016, 2026](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-archive-charles-c-deam-wilderness-terrill-ridge-trail-2016-2026/) - Photo Archive of the Charles C. Deam Wilderness, Terrill Ridge Trail, Terrill Ridge Cemetery, Wildlife Pond, Hoosier National Forest 2016, 2026,
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Finland -- Helsinki Architecture, Street Scenes, Gulf of Finland](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-finland-helsinki/) - Perfect Helsinki weather illuminated the city’s architectural gems: Helsinki Cathedral, Uspenski Cathedral, Central Railway Station, statues, fountains.
- [Italy and Slovenia: Following History and the Soča River Valley Through the Mountains to the Sea](https://stevenhiggs.com/italy-and-slovenia-following-history-and-the-soca-river-valley-through-the-mountains-to-the-sea/) - The 114-mile drive from Villach Austria to the harbor town of Grado, Italy — by way of the Soča River Valley in Slovenia — is a photographer’s grail.
- [The Southern Indiana-Northern Finland Connection: The Sami and Native Americans](https://stevenhiggs.com/the-southern-indiana-northern-finland-connection-the-sami-and-native-americans/) - To connect any dots between Southern Indiana and Northern Finland, I had to trace back through 25,000 years to the Sami and Native Americans.
- [Alta, Norway: A World Class Photo Stop on Top of the World -- on the Altafjord](https://stevenhiggs.com/alta-norway-a-world-class-photo-stop-on-top-of-the-world-on-the-altafjord/) - I chose Alta Norway's Altafjord as the ultimate Photo Stop because its coast offers opportunities to capture world-class natural beauty in the Midnight Sun.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Norway -- Alta Museum Trail, 7,000-year-old Rock Art](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-norway-alta-museum-trail-7000-year-old-rock-art/) - The Alta Museum Trail encapsulates all that is world-class about Alta, Norway, its scenic natural beauty to rock art created between 7,000 and 2,000 years ago.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Valencia, Spain - Sunrise on the Mediterranean Sea, El Saler, the City of Arts and Sciences](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-valencia-spain-day-1-mediterranean-sea-el-saler-the-city-of-arts-and-sciences/) - The City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia Spain is the most magnificent, non-natural subject I’ve ever captured on film or in digital data.
- [PHOTO ARCHIVE: Charles C. Deam Wilderness -- Hayes Trail, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2026](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-archive-charles-c-deam-wilderness-hayes-trail-2015-2016-2017-2026/) - PHOTO ARCHIVE: Charles C. Deam Wilderness -- Hayes Trail, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2026, Hoosier National Forest
- [PROJECT: Remembering Bill Thomas: Nature Photographer, Author, and Educator Extraordinaire](https://stevenhiggs.com/project-remembering-bill-thomas-nature-photographer-author-and-educator-extraordinaire/) - As detailed in this four-part series, Bill Thomas is the one individual most responsible for the half century path that led me to Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National and Indiana University acquiring my professional archive -- 50 years of my nature images and my Bill Thomas files among them.Bill served as a mentor, friend, and muse from the moment we met at a camera store in downtown Bloomington in 1979 until I completed my half-century quest to photograph the Amazon in 2024 and am now planning a nature photo adventure to the Scandinavian Arctic in 2026.Along my journey into the past, I discovered that the Internet has precious little information about a man who, through his writings, photographs, seminars, and presentations on photography and nature touched untold thousands of lives throughout his 75 years on Earth.
- [Limestone Post Article: 'Andy Mahler: Folk Hero of the Forest'](https://stevenhiggs.com/limestone-post-article-andy-mahler-folk-hero-of-the-forest/) - Bloomington's Limestone Post magazine has posted an outstanding article by Anne Kibbler titled "Andy Mahler: Folk Hero of the Forest" about Andy and our book collaboration.Anne writes a compelling piece about the day she spent with Andy and I traipsing around the backwoods sections of the Hoosier National Forest in Orange County that the U.S. Forest Service calls Buffalo Springs, where they want to clearcut, burn, and chemically spray 30,000 acres.Here's her lead to the story."A journey through the Hoosier National Forest with Andy Mahler is a spiritual quest, a melding of a mind deeply attuned to the environment with the physicality and majesty of the surrounding trees."
- ['Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National' Available 9/26; Public Events in October, November](https://stevenhiggs.com/andy-mahler-and-the-hoosier-national-available-9-26-public-events-in-october-november/) - Thanks to the incredible interest and generosity of our friends, pre-orders of Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National will be delivered the week of Sept. 26.I have approved the final electronic proof. The presses are scheduled to roll on Sept. 23.While Andy sadly will not be joining me as we had hoped, I will be the solo guest at two public events in Bloomington following its release:- Morgenstern Books: Slideshow and talk, Oct. 28, 6-7 p.m. - Juniper Gallery, Book Club Author of the Month, Nov. 19, 4-5:30I will also be the featured speaker at the annual Heartwood Reunion in Orange County on Friday, Oct. 3.
- [Pre-order Copies of 'Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National'](https://stevenhiggs.com/pre-order-discounted-copies-of-andy-mahler-and-the-hoosier-national/) - It's with deeply conflicted emotions that I announce StevenHiggs.com is offering pre-orders of our latest book Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National: The Folk Hero and the Forest He Loves.Andy passed away on Aug. 30, 2025, two days before the 130-page product of our 15-month collaboration was ready for the printer. He did, however, gleefully embrace a copy of the second draft two weeks before he died.The 8.5x11, full color coffee table book is intended to spread the word about the equally remarkable stories of Andy's life and his career as a forest activist. The journey begins with his family's escape from Nazi Austria in 1938 and ends 87 years later with his passing at his home in the middle of the Hoosier National Forest.
- [Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National Book Unveiling August 15 in French Lick](https://stevenhiggs.com/andy-mahler-and-the-hoosier-national-book-unveiling-august-15-in-french-lick/) - I will publicly unveil StevenHiggs.com and my new coffee table book Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National: The Folk Hero and the Forest He Loves on August 15 in French Lick, Ind. The occasion will be the annual gathering of the Indiana Democratic Party, which will give Andy a Legacy Award for his lifetime of - Steven Higgs Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National Book Unveiling August 15 in French Lick
- [Welcome to StevenHiggs.com](https://stevenhiggs.com/welcome/) - As the About page explains, I cannot say exactly what this website will be, aside from serving as a repository for my ongoing, half century of work as an environmental photographer and journalist based in Southern Indiana’s Hoosier National Forest country. But there will be a heavy emphasis on the Hoosier National, which I began - Steven Higgs Uncategorized StevenHiggs.com As the About page explains, I cannot say exactly what this website will be, aside from serving as a repository for my ongoing, half century of work as an environmental photographer and journalist based in Southern Indiana’s Hoosier National Forest country.But there will be a heavy emphasis on the Hoosier National, which I began exploring, photographing, and writing about exactly 50 years ago.
- [Pursuing the Half Century Dream of Leticia, Colombia](https://stevenhiggs.com/the-dream-of-leticia-colombia/) - Leticia has occupied a magical place in my imagination for two thirds of my life – hard as that may be to believe. Colombia’s only port city on the Amazon River is neither famous nor glamourous. It has a population of 33,000 and occupies the northern third of a two-city complex with Tabatinga, Brazil. Much of Leticia’s charm lies in its status as Colombia’s entryway to South America’s Upper Amazon River, a photographic destination I’ve imagined for a half century.

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- [Photo Albums/Archives](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-albums/) - Photo Albums/Archives Steven Higgs
- [PROJECT: Intimate Landscapes by Steven Higgs](https://stevenhiggs.com/project-intimate-landscapes/) - Intimate Landscapes by Steven Higgs is a collection of photographic images inspired by Eliot Porter's 1997 book of the same title and his lifetime body of work.
- [Projects](https://stevenhiggs.com/projects/) - This page features a variety of ongoing nature and travel projects by journalist, photographer, and author Steven Higgs.
- [PROJECT: Back to the Charles C. Deam Wilderness: A Half Century Later](https://stevenhiggs.com/project-back-to-the-charles-c-deam-wilderness-fifty-years-later/) - Hiking and photographing the Charles C. Deam Wilderness for Limestone Post and a coffee table book on Jeff Stant and largest hardwood forest in Lower Midwest.
- [SLOVENIA: Bovec, Soca River, Kanal, Dobrovo, Smartno, Bled](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-slovenia-bovec-soca-river-kanal-smartno/) - PHOTO: ALBUM SLOVENIA: Bovec, Soca River, Kanal, Dobrovo, Smartno, Bled
- [PROJECT: Photograph the Upper Amazon River - Colombia, Peru, Brazil](https://stevenhiggs.com/project-photograph-the-upper-amazon-river/) - My mission to photograph the Colombian Amazon began at the same moment as my exploration of the Hoosier National Forest, exactly one half century ago – though the former took that long to actually materialize. Indeed, I’ve long said the estimated 10,000 photographs I have of my home state’s only national forest were mere practice - Steven Higgs PROJECT: Photograph the Upper Amazon River – Colombia, Peru, Brazil StevenHiggs.com My mission to photograph the Colombian Amazon began at the same moment as my exploration of the Hoosier National Forest, exactly one half century ago – though the former took that long to actually materialize. Indeed, I’ve long said the estimated 10,000 photographs I have of my home state’s only national forest were mere practice
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Amazon River Sunset; Tabatinga, Brazil; Mirador Komara](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-amazon-river-sunset-tabatinga-brazil-mirador-komara/) - Tabatinga, Brazil, Amazon River Sunset, Mirador Komara, Brazilian Beauty,
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Santa Rosa, Peru, Amazon River](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-santa-rosa-peru-amazon-river/) - BLOG: Lunch in Santa Rosa, Peru -- Or is it Colombia?
- [Photo Archives](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-archives/) - Photo Archives - Steven Higgs
- [Blogs](https://stevenhiggs.com/blogs/) - StevenHiggs.com A Rainy Day Driving for Pleasure Through the Charles C. Deam Wilderness and Wildlands I broke my two-week post-North Pole Photo Fast on a rainy day drive through the Deam Wildlands with two of my three oldest friends, guys I’ve known since 1969 and reconnected with the past few years: Tom Diaz and Pete Katsaros. I also - Steven Higgs Blogs A Rainy Day Driving for Pleasure Through the Charles C. Deam Wilderness and Wildlands I broke my two-week post-North Pole Photo Fast on a rainy day drive through the Deam Wildlands with two of my three oldest friends, guys I’ve known since 1969 and reconnected with the past few years: Tom Diaz and Pete Katsaros. I also
- [About](https://stevenhiggs.com/about/) - This houses Steven Higgs half century of award-winning work as an environmental photographer and journalist in Hoosier National Forest country.
- [PROJECT: Remembering Bill Thomas: Nature Photographer, Author, and Educator Extraordinaire](https://stevenhiggs.com/project-remembering-bill-thomas-nature-photographer-author-and-educator-extraordinaire/) - Nature Photographer Bill Thomas is most responsible for the half century career path that led me to my 2025 book Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National.
- [Pursuing the Dream of Leticia, Colombia -- and the Ticuna Indians](https://stevenhiggs.com/the-dream-of-leticia-colombia/) - Photographer Steven Higgs pursues half century dream to Leticia Colombia, the Amazon River, Ticuna Indians, Tabatinga, Brazil, and Santa Rosa, Peru.
- [PROJECT: Retirement Travel Trifecta](https://stevenhiggs.com/project-retirement-travel-trifecta/) - My Retirement Travel Trifecta is a project I launched after retiring from 27 years teaching journalism at Indiana University in 2022 that has taken me and my Nikon from the Austrian Alps to the Adriatic Sea to the Colombian Amazon to the Scandinavian Arctic in 2026. The first leg reunited me with some friends I - Steven Higgs PROJECT: Retirement Travel Trifecta StevenHiggs.com My Retirement Travel Trifecta is a project I launched after retiring from 27 years teaching journalism at Indiana University in 2022 that has taken me and my Nikon from the Austrian Alps to the Adriatic Sea to the Colombian Amazon to the Scandinavian Arctic in 2026. The first leg reunited me with some friends I
- [PROJECT: Explore and Photograph Scandinavian Lapland -- Finland, Sweden, Norway](https://stevenhiggs.com/project-explore-and-photograph-scandinavian-lapland-finland-sweden-norway/) - I completed the final leg of my Retirement Travel Trifecta when my family and I ventured over 12,000 round-trip miles to the Arctic Lapland in late May and early June 2026, reaching our final destination Alta, Norway, on the Norwegian Sea, surrounded by the Midnight Sun. Along the round trip we explored wild areas of Finland, Norway,
- [PROJECT: Photograph Europe: Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Spain](https://stevenhiggs.com/project-photograph-europe-austria-italy-slovenia-spain/) - While i would have never turned down and opportunity to photograph Europe, I had no burning desire to do so -- until my old Colombian friend Luz found me on Facebook in early 2023, shortly after I retired from 27 years teaching journalism at Indiana University.Since I last saw them in 1976, she and sisters Estella and Patricia had relocated to Austria and Spain.Luz invited me to visit. And in October that year, I spent three weeks with them traveling through Austria, Italy, Slovenia, and Spain, launching what has since become my Retirement Travel Trifecta.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Deam Wilderness - Panther Creek Hollow, Crooked Creek - Updated 02/28](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-deam-wilderness-panther-creek-hollow-crooked-creek-in-snow/) - Photo Album Deam Wilderness Panther Creek Crooked Creek in Snow
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Mocogua, Colombia](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-mocogua-colombia/)
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Colombian Amazon - Lake Tarapoto](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-colombian-amazon-lake-tarapoto/) - PHOTO ALBUM: Colombian Amazon - Lake Tarapoto, Amazon River, Puerto Nariño
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Colombian Amazon, San Martín de Amacayacu, the Ticuna Indians](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-colombian-amazon-san-martin-de-amacayacu-the-ticuna-indians/)
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Colombian Amazon, Puerto Nariño](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-colombian-amazon-puerto-narino/) - Colombian Amazon, Puerto Nariño, Upper Amazon, Amazon River, Natutama Interpretive Center
- [Remembering Bill Thomas: Nature Photographer, Author, and Educator Extraordinaire - Part 3](https://stevenhiggs.com/remembering-bill-thomas-nature-photographer-author-and-educator-extraordinaire-part-3/) - Bill Thomas Nature Photographer Author Educator Extraordinaire
- [Remembering Bill Thomas: Nature Photographer, Author, and Educator Extraordinaire - Part 2](https://stevenhiggs.com/remembering-bill-thomas-nature-photographer-author-and-educator-extraordinaire-part-2/) - Remembering Bill Thomas: Nature Photographer, Author, and Educator Extraordinaire - Part 2
- [Remembering Bill Thomas: Nature Photographer, Author, and Educator Extraordinaire - Part 1](https://stevenhiggs.com/remembering-bill-thomas-nature-photographer-author-and-educator-extraordinaire-part-1/) - Bill Thomas Nature Photographer, Author, Educator Extraordinaire,
- [Remembering Bill Thomas: Nature Photographer, Author, and Educator Extraordinaire – Part 4](https://stevenhiggs.com/remembering-bill-thomas-nature-photographer-author-and-educator-extraordinaire-part-4/) - Bill Thomas Nature Photographer Author Educator Extraordinaire
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Trieste, Miramare Castle, James Joyce, Duino, Rainer Maria Rilke Thinking Path](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-trieste-miramare-castle-james-joyce-duino-rainer-maria-rilke-thinking-path/) - PHOTO ALBUM: Trieste, Miramare Castle, James Joyce, Duino, Rainer Maria Rilke Thinking Path
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Andy Mahler -- Sierra Club Hike, Lazy Black Bear, Young's Creek, Hoosier National Forest](https://stevenhiggs.com/andy-mahler-sierra-club-hike-lazy-black-bear-youngs-creek-hoosier-national-forest/) - Andy Mahler, Hoosier National Forest, Hoosier Chapter Sierra Club Hike, Pioneer Mothers Memorial Forest
- [Project: Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National](https://stevenhiggs.com/project-andy-mahler-and-the-hoosier-national/) - Released Oct. 1, 2025, this 8.5×11, full color coffee table book chronicles the remarkable life and career of Southern Indiana forest activist Andy Mahler and one leg of his family’s two-generation journey from Nazi Vienna in the 1930s to a life surrounded by the Hoosier National Forest in the 2020s. Along the way, Andy helped organize concerned citizens in Indiana and the Central Hardwood region and ultimately got off-road vehicles banned on the Hoosier National and commercial timber harvesting shut down on millions of acres of national forest land, from Missouri to Pennsylvania to Alabama. The 120-page book […] - Steven Higgs Project: Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National StevenHiggs.com Released Oct. 1, 2025, this 8.5×11, full color coffee table book chronicles the remarkable life and career of Southern Indiana forest activist Andy Mahler and one leg of his family’s two-generation journey from Nazi Vienna in the 1930s to a life surrounded by the Hoosier National Forest in the 2020s. Along the way, Andy helped
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Andy Mahler, Vintage Family Photographs](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-andy-mahler-vintage-family-photographs/) - Part of the Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National project has involved digitizing vintage family photos provided to me by Andy and Linda. The photos that appear in this Photo Album were taken from old prints. None are dated and are not presented in any particular order.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-andy-mahler-and-the-hoosier-national/) - The photographs featured in this Photo Album were captured over the course of the year and half that Steven Higgs and Andy Mahler have spent collaborating on their upcoming coffee table book Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National: A Folk Hero and the Forest He Loves. - Steven Higgs PHOTO ALBUM: Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National StevenHiggs.com The photographs featured in this Photo Album were captured over the course of the year and half that Steven Higgs and Andy Mahler have spent collaborating on their upcoming coffee table book Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National: A Folk Hero and the Forest He Loves.
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Leticia, Colombia](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-leticia-colombia/) - StevenHiggs.com BLOG: Pursuing the Half Century Dream of Leticia, Colombia - Steven Higgs PHOTO ALBUM: Leticia, Colombia BLOG: Pursuing the Half Century Dream of Leticia, Colombia
- [Books](https://stevenhiggs.com/books/) - Steven Higgs is the author of five books, with his sixth -- Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National -- to be published Oct 1. Click here to order a book. StevenHiggs.com will donate $15 from each sale of this book to Heartwood, Protect Our Woods, Indiana Forest Alliance, or any other nonprofits the purchasers choose. - Steven Higgs Books Steven Higgs is the author of five books, with his sixth -- Andy Mahler and the Hoosier National -- to be published Oct 1. Click here to order a book. StevenHiggs.com will donate $15 from each sale of this book to Heartwood, Protect Our Woods, Indiana Forest Alliance, or any other nonprofits the purchasers choose.
- [PROJECT: Photograph Indiana Natural Areas](https://stevenhiggs.com/project-a-guide-to-natural-areas-of-indiana/) - From 2014 to 2019, I traveled Indiana’s back roads exploring publicly accessible natural areas for a pair of travel books I produced for Indiana University Press: A Guide to Natural Areas of Southern Indiana and a companion on Northern Indiana. The two books feature photographs, descriptions, and directions to 244 natural areas where the public - Steven Higgs PROJECT: Photograph Indiana Natural Areas StevenHiggs.com From 2014 to 2019, I traveled Indiana’s back roads exploring publicly accessible natural areas for a pair of travel books I produced for Indiana University Press: A Guide to Natural Areas of Southern Indiana and a companion on Northern Indiana. The two books feature photographs, descriptions, and directions to 244 natural areas where the public
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- [PHOTO ALBUM: Austrian Alps - Villach, Klagenfurt, Lake Worthersee, Pyramidenkogel Tower](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-austria-october-2023/) - Project: Retirement Travel Trifecta - Steven Higgs PHOTO ALBUM: Austrian Alps – Villach, Klagenfurt, Lake Worthersee, Pyramidenkogel Tower StevenHiggs.com Project: Retirement Travel Trifecta
- [PHOTO ALBUM: Italy - Lake Predil, Predil Pass Battery, Palmanova, Aquileia,Grado](https://stevenhiggs.com/photo-album-italy-lake-predil-predil-pass-battery-palmanova-grado/) - PHOTO ALBUM: Italy – Lake Predil, Predil Pass Battery, Palmanova, Aquileia,Grado Project: Retirement Travel Trifecta - Steven Higgs StevenHiggs.com Project: Retirement Travel Trifecta
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