Lumen Dei Tibet: The Heart of Kham
Today I am excited to announce a new Lumen Dei workshop lead by yours truly. It’s the trip dreams are made of: Tibet! How cool is that!
This summer, June 18- 29th, I will be leading a tour/workshop that focuses on the Tibetan people of Kham. Kahm is the southeastern portion of the Tibetan Plateau and [...]
Lumen Dei: Kumbh Mela, India
Gavin Gough and I are thrilled to announce that we will officially start taking applications for the 2010 Kumbh Mela Lumen Dei photo workshop and tour. Now, I could wax eloquently about the tour for hundreds of words. But, Gavin has such a nice English lilt I will let him tell you all about our tour and workshop. Gavin if you please?
“It’s difficult to measure the excitement with which Matt Brandon and I are announcing this photo tour. Off the scale probably.
Lumen Dei 2010 dates announced!
I am excited to announce that Lumen Dei 2010 will be held September 12-25 in Kashmir and Ladakh, India. It will be another adventurous trip this year that you will not want to miss. The thing that I’m most excited about is that we are going back, after a two-year hiatus, two Kashmir. Lumen Dei [...]
Exposed: Risking the Winnowing
This was not an easy photo for me. My first inclination is not to shoot directly into the sun. The day before, I shot some similar images but with the sun behind me. They came out flat and lifeless. I had been watching Amy Vitale shoot for the past week and there were several times [...]
November Wallpaper
I know I’ve been quiet for the past few weeks. I’m not sure why the creative writing juices are not flowing, as a result it’s been a rather dry time. As I wrote yesterday, Gavin Gough flew in for a quick visit. While here we both confessed we are slackers and slapped each others hands [...]
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 [...]
Homeward bound…sort of.
Leaving Prayers.
Lumen Dei 2009 is officially over. A great time was had by one and all. The participants seemed to learned a lot as well as having a blast. And why not?From motorcycle rides over an 18,375 ft pass, to shooting photos of bactrian camels on the sand dunes of Nubra, it was [...]
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 [...]
Travel Plans
It is 4:10 Am. I could not sleep. It’s been that way for much of this month. Maybe I have a lot on my mind with Lumen Dei starting in just a few days, and looking at what amounts to almost a month of travel before me. I really don’t like being gone from my [...]
August 09 Wallpaper
Wow what a CRAZY week. My 17″ MacBook pro is on it’s last few days, literally. I tried to order a new 13″ but nobody in all of Malaysia has one. So I had to put an order in and hope my current MacBook holds up. It has been crashing every 10 minutes, no kidding. [...]
July's Wallpaper
I was walking in the mountains while in Kashmir and was delighted to see the wild flowers everywhere. Even though I am not a flower photographer I could not resist shooting these wild daisies. They make a nice soft desktop image for July. Simply click the image above and view it larger. For Windows user [...]
Back to Delhi.
A Shikara paddle in the grass. Dal Lake, Srinagar Kashmir.
I leave tomorrow for Delhi after two wonderful weeks in Kashmir. It has been a fun time of visiting friends and shooting some new images. I spend a lot of my time working with my old company Frontier Treks & Tours. We are looking at some [...]
Kashmir through my eyes
Greeting from Srinagar, Kashmir (India). I have been having a great reunion with friends here in the Valley of Kashmir. It has been fun to watch my daughter reconnect with her long time buddies here. I have also had some time to shoot an image or two. In fact I have been able to do [...]
More India…
Much more my traditional stuff. But hey, it is me after all. click on the thumb to view larger.
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March 2009 Wallpaper
Here is the wallpaper for March. I took this way back in 2004. It was a frosty, foggy winter’s morning and I was out driving around Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir looking for things to photograph. I drove by this old dunga (a small Kashmiri canoe) and saw this.
Yes, this images has had some tweaking done [...]
January Wallpaper
Better late than never, I always say. Maybe becasue I am often late. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this image. I shot it early one morning during a trekking trip in the Indian Himalaya, at a small lake names Vishansar. I had gotten up early with my wife and daughter to go trout fishing [...]
Lumen Dei '08 Video posted
With the announcement of Lumen Dei Ladakh 09 fully sold out, and the new Lumen Dei Thailand now taking applicants, I thought it would be nice to show you a peak of what a Lumen Dei trip is all about. This video is actually a Lightroom slide show that David Duchemin put together throughout the [...]
A Conversation With Ami Vitale
I first met Ami a few years back in New Delhi. We both were getting our Macs worked on at, what was then the only Mac repair place in North India. Not sure how we started chatting but I found out that she had just returned from Kashmir. I told her I lived up there [...]
Lumen Dei '09 – Special guest instructor Ami Vitale.
David DuChemin and I are thrilled to be announcing plans for next year’s Lumen Dei tour. We’re still working out details like budget and itinerary, but we’ll have that up and on the site soon. Here are the broad strokes. September 2009. Ladakh. Special guest instructor Ami Vitale. That last part should make you very, [...]
Guest Post: Wedding Clothes
When Matt asked me to write a guest post on his blog, I think he said I could write about anything I wanted provided I don’t mention anything about my favorite baseball team, the Chicago Cubs. Oops.
Related to Matt’s recent posts about culture, I’ll just share a story of a cultural learning experience I’ve had [...]
Gone – But Not Forgotten
As I am gone all week I have enlisted a few friends to help fill the day’s post as guest authors. Be checking back later this week for post by David Duchemin and Gavin Gough. I am really excited to see what these guys come up with.
The next blog post is by a longtime friend [...]
November Wallpaper
Here is your November wallpaper. These are “mani stones” found all over Ladakh, India. This wallpaper is a bit more tricky to download. You will have to right click it in Windows and ctl (control) click it on a Mac to open it in a new window. Then just do your thing to make it [...]
Ladakh – Mulling Things Over.
I returned to a house full of company. It has been fun, old friends from the US and my daughter’s home school from India. All very welcome friends. It has been hard to post and it has taken time to get the two new galleries up from Lumen Dei. But they are up and running. [...]
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. 
