Vlog #9: A long way home.
Here is your latest installment of my video blog. We are up to number nine. This week I share with you my travel plans – I think this is a record for for me. The longest actual flight time, as in time in the air, I have logged in one trip – and a few [...]
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 [...]
Angkor Photo Workshop
I am currently in one of the most amazing places on the planet, Seim Reap, Cambodia, the home of Angkor Wat. I am staying at the wonderful FCC hotel – classic French colonial mansion restored to make a comfortable, classic and luxurious place to stay. But, as with so many of the places I travel [...]
Philippines
This week I am taking some personal time and going to the Philippines to visit my family. Actually, I have not visited my in-laws in a few years. It is always a great time of eating, driving and more eating. Eating, as I swear it is the Filipino national pastime and driving, in that the [...]
Review: Delsey Cross Trip Rolling Duffle
I hope to bring you several reviews of products that made it on to my packing list for this past trip to Tibet. The first of such reviews is of the Delsey Cross Trip rolling duffel. I had high hopes for this bag. It was spacious, colorful (so I could see it [...]
Durbar Square, Kathmandu
Yesterday, we walked a few hours through Durbar Square in Kathmandu. Again, not really like I remembered it. But certainly better than Tamel and it’s hippies. Baktipur is what Durbar Square in Kathmandu could be. Kathmandu is trying, but it is going to take time. Freak Street and it’s hippies dominate and influence Durbar [...]
Confessions of a Seasoned Traveller
A few iPhone shots along the way to our hotel. The only part of Vietnam we have seen yet. It could have gone worse, but I am not sure how. The day started with forgetting my iPhone at my house and having to have the taxi turn back around. This put us a little behind [...]
When Culture Collides With Your Camera
I received this email yesterday from Victoria, a student in my Introduction to Photography class held here in Penang. I thought I should share it with you as a great reminder how traveling photographers need to be aware of the culture around them and always try to be sensitive to the local norms and traditions. [...]
Iphone App Review: Packing Pro
One of the worst parts of travel is packing. The only thing worse might be the unpacking (I am not very good at putting things away). For some of you packing is no big deal. You are very organized people. Bless you, I wish I was that way, but I am not. If truth be [...]
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 [...]
Checking in from Ladakh
Just checking in. We have had a great time with a very diverse team and some very talented photographers. Just got back from Lamayuru today and heading out tomorrow morning to the mountain lake of Tso Moriri. The net has been almost impossible. So it is all I can do to even post this small [...]
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. [...]
A Culture of Strangers
by Shiloh Lane I grew up in a very small town in Kentucky; I went to college in another very small town in Kentucky; and when I went to “the big city” to go shopping, I really just went to a slightly larger small town in Kentucky. It suffices to say that I didn’t meet [...]
A Whiff of Progress and Pad Thai
MB: I want to introduce to you a young lady who will be guest blogging here every so often; Shiloh Lane. I started reading her blog and realized this young lady had a talent and passion for words. I think you will become a fan of hers as I have. A Whiff of Progress and [...]
Guest Post: I'm going to let you into a little secret…
…it is this: “I sometimes get others to say what I cannot put so well myself because of the weakness of my language, and sometimes because of the weakness of my intellect.” Of course, that’s not my quote, it was penned by Michel de Montaigne, who, Wikipedia tells me, was one of the most influential [...]
The destructible, indestructible North Face Base Camp Duffle.
North Face Base Camp Duffle The Base Camp Duffle after two trips. I have wanted a North Face Base Camp Duffle for a long, long time. Almost since they came out. One reason is they just looked cool. The other and the main reason was they seemed indestructible. The PVC coated nylon looked as if [...]
Packing List Revised for iPhone
David Duchemin just posted his packing list for the Lumen Dei workshop and his time in Nepal. The pdf file is HERE. I took his list and went one step further. I transferred his list over to Lists.Zenbe.com. Zenbe is a online list that syncs with your iPod Touch or iPhone through the Zenbe List [...]
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. 
