Lightroom Plug-ins make Life a Breeze.*
*Ok, maybe that title is a bit of an overstatement. We all know Lightroom is powerful. Most of my editing is done and post processing these days, and no longer in Photoshop. In fact, I would say with the advent of Lightroom 2 and local adjustments (see my video HERE) 95% or more of my [...]
Arches of Old Delhi.
Today I am posting a few shots of Arches around Delhi, India. I don’t post images in the blog that much and thought you might enjoy them. If I get some feed back maybe I will post some more of other images. If you click any one of the thumbnail images in the post it [...]
James Nachtwey's story
Gavin beat me to the punch. I had this ready to use but wanted to get my Ladakh gallery up first. None of us know what this is about. Other than it is images from one of the worlds finest Photojournalist and it is suppose to be BIG! I first ran across it on TED. [...]
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. [...]
Winding Down
Only one more day left. This trip has been more fun than a person should be allowed to have! But, I will be truthful with you, if I don’t see another Gompa (a.k.a. Monastery) for a while, I won’t complain. But – with that said, I am really looking forward to doing this again next [...]
Nicole Gibson Brings Home a Guru!
A hearty congratulations goes out to Nicole Gibson for winning the Vincent Versace Award at Photoshop World Expo in Las Vegas. Nicole is a good friend and one of our participant in the 2007 Lumen Dei workshop in Kashmir. In fact, it was her image of a Kashmiri man viewed through a flock of pigeons [...]
Stuff to Shoot
Went out with Grungmann again yesterday and shot the photowalk route. I think there will be plenty of fun stuff to shoot if people keep their eye peeled as my daddy used to say. Click on one of the images to go to a small gallery of the images above. I sent out an email [...]
A Day of Shooting
Yesterday (MY time), I had the change to finally get out and shoot. To be real honest, I was a bit disappointed. Maybe with myself, maybe with the area I shot, I am not quite sure which. The day before Alou and I were in George Town (Is this city spelled with one word or [...]
Penang – A Culinary Paradise
I was browsing around the net (waking up too early yet again) looking for anything on Penang. I found this video on food. Apparently Penang is a culinary hot spot! In fact this was only one of dozens of videos on the topic of Penang food. Goody for me! I will eat just about anything, [...]
Inspiration Overload
Alexandra Boulat© Jerome Delay-AP This is old news but perhaps some new inspiration for you. In fact, I promise, if you click every link below you will have inspiration overload. Alexandra Boulat was an amazing young photographer who passed away back in October 2007. She shot for Time as well as many other top name [...]
PAI – Partner Aid International Video
I was asked to shoot images of the Earthquake in Kashmir back in 2005, by PAI and the BBC. You may remember that my family and I were in the quake. I had not started the blog back then. But you can see images from the quake in my gallery. Many of these images, though [...]
Sumatra Sample Gallery Posted
As is common on trips like this, I am up at 4 am – my mind spinning. I have some great news, besides the fact that I arrived home safe and into the arms of my loving family; I was able to retrieve the data from my corrupt Lightroom files. I had given up any [...]
One of Those Days.
Just arrived into Tokyo and am sitting in the lounge with a nice fast WiFi connection. I had hope to post a gallery online of some of the best images from this trip. But when I opened Lightroom it told me the catalog data was corrupted. Now what? Over 15 to 20 hours of work [...]
Homeward Bound
We leave Indonesia in just a few hours, arrive to Singapore and then the next morning fly home via Tokyo and SFO. I will try to post a gallery sometime over the trip home from Singapore or Tokyo. It was a great trip with good friends and we shot till we our trigger fingers hurt. [...]
It's Hip, It's Happen'n, It's Grunge!
It is very trendy. You see it everywhere. It is the grunge look that is so popular in advertising. Pick up most magazines and you will find an ad or an editorial image with this effect added to it. I never really thought it would be something I would add to my images, just to [...]
Philippines Gallery Posted
I have posted a few images from my most recent trip to the Philippines. Just go to the main gallery page and click on the link that reads “Philippines”, pretty simple. Enjoy.
Gallery Up and Running Again
I got this from the the folks at Evrium, the makers of my gallery software: Hi Matt, I hope you’re having a happy holiday season! Your website has been quickly fixed! Looks like there might have been a small server hiccup last time you were in your fluid galleries website admin area. It should be [...]
Web Gallery Down
My web gallery is down. Not sure why. I have not posted anything to the gallery for weeks, so I can’t imagine I did something to it. I contacted my host and they said, “Not our fault.” So I then contacted the folks that make the gallery software. I have yet to hear back from them. I [...]
Life in Kashmir
I have just added the text below as my description of the Kashmir section in the gallery. I thought it might be an interesting read here for someone. I was in Srinagar, Kashmir in the summer and fall of 1989 when all hell broke loose. The Kashmiri people had begun an armed struggle for independence [...]
A Site for Sore Eyes
© Photo by Mackenzie Rollins I was asked to come and speak at a banquet up in Minneapolis this last weekend. They put in a hotel room with a young man I had never met before. So as we started talking and getting to know each other, the topic of photography and travel came up. [...]
LUMEN DEI: Kashmir 2008
LUMEN DEI PHOTO TOUR & WORKSHOP, KASHMIR, INDIA A two-week photography tour and workshop like no other. Two weeks shooting in Old Delhi and Kashmir. A four day trek into the Himalaya to photograph the nomadic Gujjar people. Living on a houseboat on Lake Dal. Daily teaching from Matt Brandon and David duChemin. A tour [...]
Stuck in KL
Well, as I type this I am sitting on the floor in the Kuala Lampur International Airport with my wife and 10 year old daughter, Jessie, waiting for a new plane. Yes, the old one we were in broke on take off. It wasn’t really scary, just kinda odd. The pilot was throttling up for [...]
Back from Lumen Dei.
I returned Sunday night from India and the first ever Lumen Dei Workshop and tour of North India. I must say I had a sidesplitting time with David Duchemin. The guy is nuts! We hit it off pretty good, enough that we want to do this again. Thanks goes out to the Lumen Dei participants; [...]
3 New Images
Indiapicture.com has said they will be doing a feature on the saffron harvest using my images. They have asked for more images, so I have processed these three to add to the collection on the harvest. I hope you enjoy them. I have added them to the New Images folder in the Gallery. I would [...]
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. 
