Dear Santa, Here are my top 5.
I thought about calling this post my Black Friday Lust List. Ok, I admit it – neither title is great. Anyway…Here is my holiday wish list. Some photographic and some travel related. Not in any particular order but here goes: Tissot T-Touch II – This is one of those watches that should never be called [...]
Multimedia: Lumen Dei participant, Yves Perreault
While in Ladakh, I lead a short spur-of-the-moment workshop on Soundslide Plus and the basic concepts of a photo essay. We had several participants express their interest in trying their hand at it. I told each of them, if they got it to me I would gladly post their work for others to see. Here [...]
Multimedia: The Prophet gave us a way.
My intent in this post is to foster peace and understanding. This post today expresses the views of one man, who is in the minority in his town. He is a Muslim man named Faisal, and he is a minority in Buddhist Ladakh. Many of my readers know that I am a member of a [...]
Lumen Dei 2010
I am sitting in Singapore on my way to India for three weeks. I will be co-leading the 2010 Ladakh Lumen Dei with my buddy David duChemin. David and I started this workshop/tour back in 2007 and it has become something of tradition. We were told, we could never pull it off. The nay sayer [...]
December's Wallpaper
For December I though we needed a wallpaper with snow. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find snow 5º north of the equator? So, I hope this image shot last September during the Lumen Dei workshop in Ladakh will do. It is on the road to the Kardung La. We were [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ju-ley!
Ju-ley is the Ladakhi equivalent of “Aloha”. It means hello, goodbye, thank you and many other things. So, Ju-ley from Leh, Ladakh, 11,000 + ft and a very slow internet cafe. This has been a great trip. I have stated it once before, we have a group of very talented photographers and they are “snapping” [...]
Day two: Nizamuddin
Had a great first full day of Lumen Dei 08. Pretty tiered. So without going into a lot of details, here are a few shots from today’s shoot. By the way we have a lot of very talented photographers in this group. I am looking forward to posting some of their images in the future. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. 
