Weekly Photo Challenge: Blur

Drums in Maldives, loud and blurry just as they should be. You can find more entries for this week’s photo challenge here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange

Orange: vibrant, shocking, happy and succulent like a tangerine. It’s my favorite color! Here’s a gallery for this week’s photo challenge, composed of images from Southeast Asia. Orange you happy it’s the weekend? Enjoy!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity

I still remember this morning vividly, though it was five years ago. I strapped on my snowshoes and went out to explore the wonderland created by Mother Nature just hours before I took this photo. Three feet of fresh powder muffled my steps as I trekked along summer’s 17th fairway. I stopped to take in the view. The fury of

Regarding Everest

After seeing Mani Rimdu and an enjoying an overnight stay near Tengboche, we trekked farther up the Khumbu Valley toward Dingboche. The terrain relaxed into high altitude farmland, where rock walls delineated plots of land used to farm buckwheat, barley and potatoes. It seems unlikely that at 4,300 meters (14,000 feet) there would be much of anything worth farming but

Weekly Photo Challenge: Minimalist

Minimal view, maximum danger in Sri Lanka. Yala National Park displays a robust ecosystem full of predators and prey. With leopards and crocodiles, and even the occasional angry elephant, it doesn’t take long to understand why you should never set foot outside your safari vehicle, no matter how beautiful the view. All entries in this week’s photo challenge are posted

Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction

Light is an integral part of experiencing Singapore’s Esplanade. When the sun sets the cityscape comes alive with all kinds of illuminated details, made doubly cool by the reflections on the bay. The Helix bridge, along with the distinctive forms of Marina Bay Sands and the lotus flower shape of the Art+Science Museum, make this part of the city eternally

Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouettes

Hornbills in the wild, in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka — a favorite trip and a favorite country. Sunset in Bagan, Myanmar — a place unlike any other, with hundreds of temples across the landscape as far as the eye can see. Sunrise on top of a volcano, Gunung Agung, in Bali, Indonesia — back in 2002 when I was

Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture

Meet Cris, a Bronchocela Cristatella from Borneo — otherwise known as a crested green lizard. He’s a resident of the fountain at the Nanga Damai homestay near Kuching. We hung out for about an hour. We stared at each other, made funny faces and I took lots of photos. At one point he ran off and caught an insect, then