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Myanmar Part 1: Yangon and Bago

Greetings from Yangon. We’ve just arrived from Inle lake. The main tour is just ending today and the optional extension starts tomorrow morning, yet this is the first opportunity that I’ve had to blog about this trip! I have over 100 images from the trip to share with you, so I better get some uploaded […]

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Southeast Asia Photo Tour 2014: Part 3

Here’s the last post from the Southeast Asia Photo Tour, starting with a few shots of the waterfalls outside of Luang Prabang, moving to Phnom Penh, Cambodia and ending with a group shot in Siem Reap, at Ta Phrom temple. Thanks to all participants for coming along and thanks to all of you for following […]

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Southeast Asia Photo Tour 2014: Part 2

Greetings from sleepy little Luang Prabang Laos! After leaving Bangkok, our group headed to northern Thailand’s Golden Triangle where we made photographs in rice paddies along the Mekong river, explored local temples and monasteries and observed monks chanting at a hilltop retreat. We even made a quick foray into Myanmar, to experience the profound differences […]

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Southeast Asia Photo Tour 2014

My apologies for the long hiatus during the holiday season, I was taking some much needed time off.  Now that 2014 is in full swing, I’m back to blogging, starting with my annual Southeast Asia Photo Tour. Southeast Asia has long been a favored destination for adventurous travelers. This trip is what I’d call our […]

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India Photo Tour: Black and White

In keeping with tradition, each year during the India photo tour, I post a selection of black and white images. In the process of shooting these images I didn’t actually set my camera to black and white, but rather I shot them in color and then afterwards, looked for ones that seemed like they might […]

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India Photo Tour: Random Images From The Last Few Days

Our group left Pushkar with empty batteries and full memory cards after an amazing two days of living “in-tents” and doing some “intense” shooting . I had a few left over images from the day before we arrived to Pushkar fair and a few images from the day after, so thought I’d slap together a […]

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India Photo Tour: Pushkar Fair

Pushkar Mela (or Pushkar Fair) is an annual camel and livestock fair, held in the town of Pushkar in the State of Rajasthan, India. Thousands of camels are traded each year at the fair which has been going on for three centuries. The Pushkar Fair draws thousands of camera toting tourists, camels and livestock traders.  […]

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India Photo Tour: Jaisalmer to Manvar

We spent the night at Fort Khejarla last night and today we’re on our way to Pushkar, the centerpiece of our India experience. Please stay tuned to the blog, as ” I’ll be updating with images of the Pushkar Fair in the coming days. Meanwhile, with a fairly good internet connection here in Khejarla, I’m […]

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India Photo Tour 2013: Jodhpur to Jaisalmer

After an amazing 2 days in the blue city of Jodhpur, we headed north and west towards the Pakistan border to Jaisalmer.  Jaisalmer is named after its founder Maharawal Jaisal Singh, a Rajput king in 1156 AD. “Jaisalmer” means “the Hill Fort of Jaisal”. Jaisalmer is sometimes called the “Golden City of India” because the […]

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2013 Pushkar Photo Tour Day 2: Jodhpur

Jodhpur is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The city is known as the “Sun City” for the bright, sunny weather it enjoys all the year round. It is also referred to as the “Blue City” due to the vivid blue-painted houses around the Mehrangarh Fort. The old city circles the […]

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Holiday Gift Guide for the Traveling Photographer

With the holidays right around the corner, you might be wondering what to purchase that special traveling photographer in your […]

Republic of Guinea: Education Development Center, 2004

The Republic of Guinea lies on the West coast of Africa between Guinea Bissau to the north and Sierra Leone to […]

Angkor Photo Workshop 2016 Part 2

After finishing one week of intensive work doing photo assignments in Siem Reap, Angkor Photo Workshop participants headed to Cambodia’s […]

World Malaria Day, April 25, 2016

Today, April 25th is World Malaria Day, but in reality, for half the world, every day is malaria day. Statistics show us […]

Hidden Cambodia: In Search of the Stone Elephant of Srah Damrie

Lonley Planet, Trip Advisor, Rough Guides, CNN, BBC and National Geographic have all listed Angkor Wat as one of the […]

Harvard University Exhibition: A Common Humanity

On March 7th, I received some unexpected correspondence from Harvard University, requesting my participation in their annual International Relations Week […]