My Teary-eyed Gratitude To Popular Mural Artist Goodloe Byron For His Original Painting Of My Recently

True Romance

A plump Super Pink Moon rises, casting its warm glow over the cool Atlantic Ocean. This image reminds me that we each have our own beauty, and when we engage with another beautiful soul the results can be magnificent.

"I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos." — Tom Hanks

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My Float Space

Am I #shark bait here?? Coolness settles into my wetsuit as I snap photos of our #survey team's boat activities. I can't help taking a moment to appreciate that my office today is the crisp clear and ultra-salty water of Italy's Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Life In A Water Town

Idee Montijo, explorer photographer, takes you to the floating city of Belen where the Amazon River's annual floods drowns the streets.

What's life like for people living along the Amazon River in a town known as the Venice of South America? I invite you to visit my short travelogue of my time in Peru during the monsoon season.

Slow the World: Water.falls

A video clip series to sooth your soul. By exploration photographer Idee Montijo.

A deep plunging waterfall hidden away in the wilderness of New England slows down for a time. Watch the drops and streams leisurely drape over the jagged rock face. Draw in a full breath. The finest mist coats and cools your skin as your ears fill with soothing water sounds.

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In dead darkness, bone-chilling winds, and all things that give fright in the night, I wish you and your goblins a wonderfully spooky Halloween‼️🎃✨

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ENDURANCE FOUND - Shackleton's Famous Ship Discovered

Idee Montijo Exploration and Photography. Blogging about visits to fields afar.

Announced today, March 9th 2022, intrepid expedition team Endurance22 in the Weddell Sea, carrying The Explorers Club flag, uncovered the resting place of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance. Find out why this discovery's’ timing has such a poetic twist! 

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Chasing Waterfalls

Image by Idee Montijo

Waterfalls - those hidden sites where Earth's jagged landscape is no barrier to rushing water's journey to its final destination. Be the water, take the plunge, go #relentless 🌊

When was the last time you took a dip in "wild water"?

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Valley Dusk

From the Sun Valley Sunset Collection by Idee Montijo.

That time of day as warm yellow daylight yields to twilight's cool blue tones, yet in wildfire season as smoke causes the light to fade from orange to gray, hazy smoke diffuses the ridgeline details. This image reminds me that we must clear the smoke to see what's truly in front of us. So.. let's clear the air on why we have such difficulty in beating climate change.

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The Raven

Photo by @idee-montijo | Kilimanjaro National Park, 2013. I really like how the natural light picks up an iridescent blue in the raven's black feathers. We all bear a beautiful light, even in our darkest features.

Live that expedition life with Idee Explores - Idee is an expedition photographer documenting discovery and field science with a focus on conservation and sustainability. Find her portfolios here.