Our office here is just behind “Wedding Dress Street.” This particular shop caught my eye and I spent part of an evening waiting for the red-eye to Seoul, shooting people in the area…
A study of people outside the venerable Wing On department store on Shanghai’s Nanjing East Road – formerly named “Bubbling Well Road” during the British occupation of this quarter of the city.
A: You usually don’t.
See why it’s called the “Fastest Sport on Two Feet“…
Photo: Reynolds Yarbrough is the youngest goalie to ever start in a Washington State Lacrosse Championship game.
Sunday morning was cloudless – a rarety for Saigon – so I went out early and ended up coming across three markets: the local one by my villa, then the giant Phu Nuanh market, then the Tan Dinh one further down the road towards downtown. Here are a few of my favorite people from the [...]
Twice a year, Bainbridge has a very special event – an old-fashioned vintage style flea market held at the historic Seabold Community Hall on the north end of the island.
Liz Le Dorze, who founded “Seabold Vintage Market” in 2009, keeps it intentionally small with just 4-6 additional local vendors in [...]
The last in my series of yoga animals. I promise. Xena did, however, appear earlier on Qamera, and the second photo here is a reprint…
There’s no question that the rate of change is accelerating. Just this morning I was thinking, “My world was different from my parents’ world. But the world of our children – and the world they are creating – is far, far more different.” It’s a world that I can still sort of grasp but which, [...]
The red eye from Saigon arrived at 7:00am, and I had about seven hours before the connecting flight was to leave for Seattle. The weather was beautiful. So I ditched the airport and took the train in to my favorite part of Tokyo, Shibuya – “crowded valley” – popularized by the film “Lost in Translation. Those Japanese [...]
Ho Van Hue – the main street near our office here in Saigon – is filled with wedding dress boutiques. Paradoxically, it also has a more-then-average number of casket shops. Still, from one person’s viewpoint, you’re never too young to start wishing….
More photos in my Vietnam Gallery…
There’s something about the garish neon, the smoke, and the piety of prayer. I’m not sure what, but there’s something…
I was invited to a Vietnamese wedding here in Saigon and was expecting to see a traditional wedding but it turned out to just be the reception dinner in a fancy entertainment complex. Still, I managed to get a photo of the proud mothers of the bride and groom…
This delightful market is held four times a year. Here’s their web site: http://seaboldvintagemarket.blogspot.com/
It’s held at the Seabold Community Hall on Bainbridge Island, Washington and is one of the most popular vintage markets on the west coast. Collectors line up as much as an hour before it opens, to grab the best stuff.
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… there’s another theme going on through these photos, or at least most of them. Can you guess? Hint: it’s most obvious in this first photo…
The fashion center of Japan, where people go to see and be seen. I know it’s a cliche, but here the little kawaii (“cutsie”) girls dress in costumes, hang around Harajuku station and park, and even carry model release forms for photographers who want to shoot them…
Everybody travels by train. Everybody. In a country with an inhabitable size of New Jersey but with a population half that of the entire U.S., trains are pretty much the only option. But they are efficient.
…long live the cell phone.
When I lived in Tokyo in the 80′s and 90′s, people escaped into thick phone-book sized “manga” comic books. The kids had space-ship manga’s and the men had their soft-porn manga’s. Now, the world’s forests can breathe a sigh of relief as demand for manga has been replaced by cell [...]
This is the future and it’s not the American homophobe of individual, personal space capsules; it’s the embracing, sociable Asian open-air style of mass transit. Entire families ride these things. Couples, friends, even strangers ride alongside each other through the maelstrom, chatting with each other on the same bike or across to each other on [...]
On Sunday morning I took a double-decker tram across downtown to Causeway Bay, where people crowd even on Sundays to shop.
Behind a tram is the safest place in the entire city to ride a bike. Just be careful not so swerve!
Actually on Sundays it is even more crowded because that is a holiday [...]
I’m heading to Asia on a two-week trip. Thought I’d post a few pictures along the way. These are my first ones, just getting to the airport. All taken with my iPhone…
These cyclists are poised to get off the ferry as soon as it lands. I like the guy on the right, with none [...]
This picture has a few stories to it. I find the natural juxtaposition between the males and the females to be of interest…
Labrang is the largest Tibetan monastery outside of Tibet proper. Located in the highlands of Xiahe, Gansu Province, just a half day’s bus ride from Lanzou.
Scanned from 35mm. Oh yea – that’s me. The one in the blue shirt.
Those sunglasses are large enough that I can see myself in the reflection. And why did she pose for me, anyhow?
At the Forbidden City, Beijing
If you think English grafitti is difficult, try doing it in Chinese characters, in cursive! Now that takes some skill…
Actually I’m pretty sure this fellow was actually spraying white paint to remove the graffiti. Still…
Hong Kong taxi. I think the expression on the driver’s face underscores the meaning of the message on the side of his car.
By Katherine Jardine. And that’s what is interesting about this photo: she was holding her camera out in front of her to take the picture. We have no idea who the little guy was in back. Taken in Jaipur, India.
Actually there’s a story behind this. The feet belong to a baby-sitter and the child is with her in the back of the pickup. Outside the Seabold Vintage Market, which is held on Bainbridge Island four times a year.
“Okay, it’s getting cold in my hand, you can have it now.”
Annual Seattle Mudbug Festival (invitation only)
Okay I think this is where the word “majestic” is not over-used. Mt. Rainier and the Bremerton Ferry, viewed from Bainbridge Island.

