Mustagh Ata, the “Father of Ice Mountains,” towers nearly 25,000 ft above sea level. Further north, there is no higher mountain on earth (with the exception of its twin summit, Kongur). The Kirghiz muslims called it “Hazrat-i-Musa” and believed that white camels bore Mohammed’s body to heaven by ascending its staircase slopes. It is situated [...]
I had a short layover in Seoul, having arrived at 7am on the red-eye from Saigon and flying out at 7 in the evening. So I took the train into the city and wandered around. These shots were taken at Dongdaemon Market, Myeung Dong fashion area, and around Seoul Station.
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…
This is one of my favorite photos of all time. It was taken by a close friend of mine, Anthony Willoughby, on our expedition to Mustagh Ata, in a small town called Tashkurgan, high up on the Pamir Plateau in western China just near the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan. “Pamir” means “Roof of the World” [...]
The White Horse occupies a strong place in the Japanese psyche, somewhere near that of the unicorn. Perhaps that’s why the #1 Scotch Whisky in Japan is White Horse.
I spent the weekend in Las Vegas. On business. I promise. Armed with only my iPhone, I was determined not to take any photos of people gambling or acting stupid. Here’s what I came up with. One person acting stupid, and eight other snap shots.
This reminds me of the ‘peaceful’ days when we weren’t all running around staring into our Smart Phones. in China, there was no trash because there was nothing to throw away, and no packaging either. Life was simple.
Moscow, October 1978. Any store with a line, people jumped into it first and asked what was being sold later.
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.
Every once in a blue moon, we get three moons. I was fortunate to capture them from the top of the Space Needle. Maybe it was the champagne?
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…
I just love the views in this town. I’m sure if you live there, you gradually get used to them. But I don’t. So I can’t.
Saigon, Tokyo, Seattle, Sedona – in two days. Ooops, I forgot to take a photo in Seattle,which was covered in snow. I’m here to watch some films at the festival, and shoot some photos for a book.
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…
Usually the flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong arcs out over the Aleutians and down acrosss Kamchatka, but our “circle route” was much higher. Should have known. We dropped right over Siberia and into Beijing for a quick refuel before heading on to Hong Kong and then Saigon. Just an iPhone snap.
Okay these weren’t taken today, but J-E and I were there just a couple of years ago, so here’s joining the celebration…
This picture was taken at about the half-way point on a train trip from Singapore to Norway, at a place called Jiayuguan （嘉峪关） in western China…
I love this sign. Found it in the middle of the Wadi Rum desert in southern Jordan near the border with Saudi Arabia. Originally the train line was built to carry pilgrims to Jeddah, but it has long been abandoned.
We don’t have a lot of sun up here in the Pacific Northwest, but we do have some interesting combinations of weather and scenery. While the rest of the country is frozen or under snow, up here everything is verdant, lush, moist, spongy, misty – even sometimes mystical. And it somehow makes the morning coffee [...]
This looks like a Fedex ad. We had to do the drive, though, because my cousin George recommended it. And George knows every road in the American West. So we did it. And we were not disappointed. This is actually on I-70 west of Green River, just before it merges with I-15.
Moab is just a two-hour drive from the dizzying heights of Telluride. It’s a different world. View the entire “Rockies” road trip here. Click any picture to see full size (maximize your browser first).
Telluride lies several hundred miles southwest of Aspen – actually, it’s just over an hour’s drive from the Four Corners area where Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona all touch. It has one foot in the desert country, and one foot in the San Juan Mountains, an offshoot of the Rockies that is millions of [...]
Somehow, black & white seemed more appropriate. More photos in my gallery http://qamera.smugmug.com/Trips/Rocky-Mountains-Circle
I had forgotten how peaceful and serene horses are. That is, most of the time…and when you’re not on their backs…
I woke up early and drove into East Glacier. The wind was howling, blowing white caps on the lake and tossing clouds around the peaks.
Then I drove around on US2 and a bunch of small state roads to the East side. Wow. Talk about Aspens in full color…
Sunday morning after a long run, I drove around the West side of Glacier. The road across the middle was closed at the middle, so I just drove a few miles up but got a few fun photos. More photos in the Rocky Mountain Circle Gallery.
After passing through North Cascades National Park, the Palouse is an interesting change of geography in this inter-mountain region between the Cascades and the Rockies…
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Bremerton Ferry
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The 101
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oobleck
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if pigs could fly
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zen of ski
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14,000 ft up on the Pamir Plateau
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What's Going On?
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Something going on here...
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Mustagh Ata
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Courderoy
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Seoul in 6 hours
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Wedding Dress Street
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Buzkashi
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Temple Horse
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Morning in the PNW
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Las Vegas
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Pike Place Market
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All Hallowed's Eve
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A comparison of Nikon's 28-300 f/3.5~5.6, 24-120 f/4, and 16-35 f/4
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Sunrise, Taishan, 1980
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West Lake, China, 1979
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Gastronom, 1978
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Wings
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A Few Hours in Tokyo
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A Week in Saigon
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Jinjiang
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Wing On
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The Three Moons of Seattle
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Sky Dining
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Bumbershoot
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Old China
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Scanning Slides with the Epson V700
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Thunderbolt 102: As Advertised
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Q: How do you stop a point-blank shot at 95 mph?
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Forbidden City
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Harper Work Party
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Watching Time
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Thunderbolt 101
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Much Ado About Something...
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The First Commercial Billboard in China
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Barn House Market in Battle Ground
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Pei Mansion
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Things to do in Saigon during Rush Hour...
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Another Night in Saigon
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Saigon Sunday Streets
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Market People
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Rainy night in Saigon
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No City for Cars
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Happy Family
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Fuxing Park
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Things to do in Shanghai when you're retired...
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"Almost Mile Long" Parade
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Independance Day on Bainbridge Island
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First iPad Photo
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How I Use Lightroom - Part 1 - Basic File Stuff
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A Voice from Afghanistan
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Surprising restroom finds
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Happy Father's Day, Dad
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Three down, one to go
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Reach For The Sky
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Market People
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A day with daddy
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Lacrosse: Sometimes "Slow" is Fast
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Face-off Fashion
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Barn House Eggs
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Seabold Vintage Market
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Is this Lacrosse?
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Lax is here...
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Downward Cat
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Route 89a
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Sky Texture
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Downward Dogs
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Sedona
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My Generation
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A Change of Planes: A very short walk through Shibuya
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Wedding Dress Street
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Saigon Prayer
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Proud Mothers
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Over Siberia
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The Technology of Democratization
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Window to another world
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Images of Egypt
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Somewhere on the Karakorum Highway...
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Somewhere on the Silk Road...
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Human (vs) Nature
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Frigid
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Signs
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Sunday Morning
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Panama Limited
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The Lightning Bolt
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Magazine Street
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Just one more step...
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Telluride
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Rocky Mountain Circle
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Xena
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Desert Rain
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Across the Utah Desert
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No Aspens in Moab...
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Aspens of Telluride
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The Aspens of Aspen
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The Aspens of Vail
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Grand Tetons
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Yellowstone
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Important Message
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Livingston
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Horses in Montana
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Glacier: Morning
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East Glacier
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West Glacier
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The Palouse
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North Cascades Highway
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Seabold Vintage Market
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The Fall Sport
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Glaciers in the clouds
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Izzy & Joe
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End of Summer
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A walk through Shibuya
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Kamakura
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Tokyo Faces, and...
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Tokyo vignettes
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Harajuku
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Tokyo Trains
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The Manga is dead...
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Morning Market
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Sax 'N Art
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The Saigon Foodie
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Muine
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Night Ride
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Meet George Jetson
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A Visit to Nirvana
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Symphony Cacophony
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Trams and People
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To Victoria Peak
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Midlevels Escalator
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Hollywood Road
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Leaving Seattle
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Sunset on Alki
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iPhone food
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Meat Here
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Don't try this
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Wadi Rum
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Inventive Skylight
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Mendocino Light House
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Monks of Labrang
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Baguettes au Vietnam
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Frontier of the Empire
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Hazel in China
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Chinese grafitti
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Truth in Advertising
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Billy Was Here
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Meet the Pavement
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Runaway Train
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Tomahawk Twilight
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Things to do...
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Zurich Tram
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Artisans, Cortisans
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Obligatory Flower
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Sedona Vortex
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Family Fun
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Country Comfort
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Reflections
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Your ice
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Feather in cap
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Puget Sound
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Homecoming
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An unlikely couple
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Indian lawnmower
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Jaipur, India
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Tibetan Prayer Wheel
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Karakorum Highway
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Curious in Lhasa
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Fremont Troll
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Grand Canyon
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Jerash Jumper
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Hong Kong
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Negro Bill Canyon
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Saigon morning market
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Message from above
