Random Observations (in America)
This blog almost is as much about culture as it is about photography. As such, I felt this was a great little post to share with you – my well traveled reader. I have a good friend that lives in India who is, at the moment, back visiting friends in the United States. Yesterday he posted [...]
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 [...]
Lowepro
PhotoTrekker II
by Matt Brandon Photo Trekker AW II (As with any blog entry, if you want to see larger versions of these images, just click on them.) Just about a month back Lowepro sent me the Photo Trekker AW II. My first impressions were “Wow, its big!” It is big, about the size of what we [...]
Goodbye Kitty and Goodnight or O! Ye of Little Faith.
My daughter has been bugging me ever since we left Kashmir, and had to give away our dog ((Her name was Lady and she was a German Shepherd.)), to get another pet. I told her that once we got settled in to Penang we would talk about it. How is that for parental non-committal? Of course, she has not let me forget the “we will talk about it” part. We have been talking about it. I have talked about a monitor lizard, an iguana, she keeps talking about a dog or a cat or even a sugar glider of all things. So we settled, finally, on a kitten a friend found. I will admit it was cute. Did you catch that, “was”?
Steve McCurry Sharp
One of the fun and quite frankly, thrilling things that digital imaging has been able to deliver that film never did, is the ability to give you truly razor sharp images. Yeah, we had sharp images in the film days, but not like what we can get now. With the digital cameras ability to grab [...]
Vitale Video
If there is one thing I have learned over the past few years of shooting images and visiting with some world class photographers, it’s most of the very talented photographers are nice, really nice people. One of the more pleasant photographers to come down the pike in a long while is Ami Vitale. You’ve seen [...]
Old Delhi Take Two
David taking a break in Chandni Chowk. Click any image to view larger. We went into old Delhi once more to today to see if the Metro was running and what obstacles we might in counter after the Delhi bombings. That sounds crazy even writing it! I really felt off my game, so to speak. [...]
Blasts Rip through Delhi.
“I am sorry but we might have to delay the talk a few minute. Seems there were some bomb blasts in the city and traffic is a mess.” These matter of fact word came from Maninder Kohli our host at the Indian Himalayan Club talk tonight. David and I did go on to speak and [...]
Off to India.
I leave today in just a few hours for India. I will be gone around two weeks. Posting will be sparse at best. My guess is I will be able to post over the next few days, but once we leave for Leh the bandwidth will be such that it will make posting images difficult. [...]
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 [...]
Twofer Wallpaper.
This September I am offering you what we call in the States a “twofer.” Two wallpapers for the price of one. Wow! Half price, what a deal! Ok, ok half price of nothing is…well, nothing. But you still get to wallpapers this month. Both are of Ladakh, India. By now you know that the Lumen [...]
My Kashmir Book on Amazon.com
Just got word that my book Kashmir: The Mystery is online with Amazon.co.uk So run over there and check it out. Not much to see. If you have an UK Amazon.com account you can review it and add and image to the preview. So grab this image and feel free to paste it in for [...]
Kashmir Out – Ladakh In
You might be wondering why I have not been blogging much this week. Well, I have been busy rewriting our Lumen Dei itinerary. Maybe you have been reading some of the news coming out of Kashmir over the past summer. Kashmir has been in it’s normal turmoil and more. Earlier this summer, the Kashmir state [...]
Back from Bali.
Back from Bali. Only two things to say about Bali. One, it was cool. I don’t mean a really neat place to shoot and a fun place to hang out, it was that, but it was physically cool. I think the average temp was somewhere in the 75º f, it was sweet! Second, I was [...]
In The News
I am sorry it has been so long in posting. I have been up to my gills in setting up house, getting insurance and finding transportation. I should have a phone line with in 7 days with significant internet speed, or so they tell me. It had better be for price I am paying. I [...]
"Your book has seen the light of the day."
Front Back Those were the words in the subject line of the email I received today from my agent in India. Amazing as it seems, if you have been following the saga of “Kashmir, The Mystery”, it seems the day has arrived. The book is out! The email went on to say: “The book is [...]
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 [...]
April Wallpaper
(Silly me, I forgot to give you the location of this shot. This is taken on the edge of Dal lake in Srinagar, Kashmir. Right in front of my favorite coffee shot “The Ice Fern” see the map below.) View Larger MapI know, I know you are amazed! Not at the image, but that it [...]
Ami Vitale's Kolkata's Rickshaws
One of my favorite photographers is Ami Vitale. We met in a small shop in Delhi. I did not know who she was at the time and wondered what this petite American girl was doing in Delhi at an out of the way Anything Mac store. Later when I wrote her about her website, she [...]
Catch Up Monday
I want to apologize for the lack of movement on this blog this past two weeks. Yikes! Has it been that long? Some of it is busyness, as I am frantically trying to get ready to leave for Sumatra. Some of it is other work. Some of it is just writer’s block. First off, I [...]
February Wallpaper & Geotagging Photos
Hazratbal Shrine, Srinagar, Kashmir, India Here is February’s wallpaper. Please feel free to download it or, if you have a Mac running Leopard, (and if it still works after loading the Leopard OS, LOL!!!) just click on it, then once it loads in the browser, ctrl click (aka right click) and you will have the [...]
A Leopard in My Nightmares
I just upgraded our family’s two Macs to the Leopard OS. It started out smooth enough with my wife’s little 12″ G4. No problem, the upgrade went without a catch, slow but without any issues. My massive 17″ MacBook Pro on the other hand was/is a nightmare. A word of advice that I know you [...]
Great Story… Just not factual.
You hear it all the time, all the time. People reading an article resulting from a recent interview they did and are amazed that the information they gave during the interview is so different from what they see in print. This past week I was interviewed by the Temple Daily Telegram. Nice lady. The story came [...]
January 2008 Wallpaper
I returned from the Philippines and Thailand Saturday night late. It is 5:30 am on Monday morning and I have been up two hours. This is a typical post trip schedule. Many of you who travel know what I mean. Click the image above then drag it to your desktop to download. I have been [...]
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. 
