the RAW and the Muse
On this trip to Sumatra, I did what I always do; I shot in RAW. RAW images files are fantastic, they give you the latitude to make changes to your images while processing that JPEG files just don’t allow. This, of course, is old news to most of us. Nate Watkins, the buddy I was [...]
Multimedia: Lintang Coffee Millers of Sumatra
Over the past week I have been up to my chest in tea plants and knee deep in coffee beans. I have slid muddy slopes on my butt down too many times to count and dug dirt out of my camera more than I care to think about. But I gotta say, it has been [...]
South Sumatra #2
Just a quick note and a few photos from the past two days. The note is to say I have disabled the geotag feature. Great for clients, not so hot for blogging. Tonight I am in the middle of nowhere in Southern Sumatra. The people are still amazingly friendly and a pleasure to photograph. Here [...]
South Sumatra #1
Had a good first day of shooting. I am reminded how wonderfully friendly the Indonesian people are. The men and women are both so willing to have their photos taken. In fact, almost incessant at times. It has been raining every afternoon and thus the weather has given us some great opportunities for dramatic images. [...]
Multimedia: The Camel Market of Cairo
Over this past two weeks of reconnoitering for an Oct 2011, Cairo/Nile photo workshop I was able to see and visit some amazing places. Places, that if I didn’t have the job that I have, I might say were once in a lifetime kind of places. Last Friday was once such place. My ever gracious [...]
Egypt: Aswan Nubian Village
We travel in 52c (125º) heat, across the Nile and reached an isolated Nubian village visited by few foreigners. It was like nothing I have ever seen. The walls of the home where bright blue, deep red and mustered yellow. The people, the most friendly we have met in Egypt and the light was perfect; [...]
Egypt Post #1
I am with my wife and daughter on a working vacation…of sorts. Marco Ryan of Focus for Humanity fame, is hosting our family here in the wonderful land of the pharaohs. Marco and I are doing a “recce” as he says, for a possible Egypt photo tour and workshop. There certainly is no dearth of [...]
My First Malay Wedding
I don’t do weddings. I don’t like the pressure. I don’t like being bossed around by mother-in-laws. I just don’t like weddings – that is, photographing them. But when Brian Hirschy decided to visit this last weekend and at the same time my buddy Hariman invited me to help him photograph a Malay wedding, I [...]
Sadhu Portrait #1
While walking around Haridwar exploring the Kumbh Mela last week, Gavin Gough and I walked into a rather non-discript ashram. An ashram, for lack of a better description, is kind of like a Jewish Kibbutz. Travelers or “seekers of truth or enlightenment” might come and stay at an ashram while on their journey. They might [...]
Culture Stress: Can’t Win for Losing
The interview I had planned for today would be better as a Depth of Field podcast. So, left with a blank piece of paper, or screen as the case may be, I found myself musing about last week’s guest post from author Shiloh Lane. She ruffled a lot of feathers and, quite frankly, I was [...]
Halabja
I have made it back home. Back to my wife and my child and my bed. I am going to take a few days to try to reconnect and get my health better. I had rough case of bronchitis the whole time I was gone. Physically this was one of the hardest I have ever [...]
Update: Kirkuk
The Old Ottoman city of Kirkuk. Quick update. Yesterday I drove with Millennium Relief and Development Services (MRDS) to Kirkuk here in Iraq. I had not talked about it by name before for security reasons. The city is still tense and has US Army security forces though out the city. On my way out of [...]
Istanbul: Day two
The Ottoman architecture and art is reminiscence for Mogul architecture and art for me.
The Blue Mosque & The Ayasofya
It started snowing as our plain touched down at 8 am here in Istanbul. It has not stopped. In fact it has intensified. I had planned on going out and doing some site seeing, but with the lack of sleep and the blowing snow I only made it across the street to the The Sultan [...]
Adu Dhabi Do
I am now sitting in the Abu Dhabi airport and I gotta tell you I am unimpressed with the place. For such a fancy airport it seems poorly staffed and even more poorly marked with signage. The only transfer desk I saw was flooded with people trying to make new connections after a late flight. [...]
Multimedia: The Cheese Man of Kashmir
I have been quiet lately for several reasons. First, in the most responsible for my lack of communication is I have been working frantically at redesigning a whole new blog site. A brand-new theme that will eventually integrate with Photo Shelter. At this point, there still a few bugs, but I hope to be live [...]
A Brief Visit
It’s Thursday afternoon and I just put Gavin Gough in a taxi to the airport. My wife and I had a great time hanging out with Gavin as he breezed through town for a quick visit. We took him out for local food and after chiding each other for not posting on our blogs for [...]
2010 Calendar on sale!
Time to start looking for that next calendar. If you are like my family, we can never find the right calendar. It needs to be large, but not too large, and have plenty of space to write on the dates. Don’t you hate those calendars that are just numbers? How can you write things to [...]
I have been Shanghaied!
I am sitting in Shanghai International Airport wondering why I got routed this way. I got in at 7am and had to go through customs and immigration just to transfer, had I had bags I would have had to collect them and recheck in. As it was, I sat in front of an empty United [...]
Repetition
Repetition. Doing something over and over. Muslims will often repeat the 99 names of God over and over again. Not sure why. But it has something to do with blessing or “barkat.” Yesterday I returned with the group to Nizamuddin for the second time in this trip and my umpteenth time. Today we return yet [...]
Greetings from Delhi.
This is going to be a quick post as I am exhausted and heading to bed. I got in yesterday night early after I learned in Singapore that there was earlier flight to Delhi that I some how mess when I was booking my ticket. So with very little trouble I was able to change [...]
I shoot for mostly NGOs and nonprofits. I photograph images of the unknown, the forgotten and the helpless. These are often the stories that most people overlook. 
