This is one of my favorite photos. I took it in 2002 with my first ever digital camera, the Canon S30, which I still have (but haven’t used in eons). But what I like about this photo is the visual cacophony of the subway station. I wish I had done a video clip – these [...]
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…
The flight from Saigon back to Seattle is brutal. It’s an overnight flight to Tokyo, then an 8-hour layover before another overnight flight on to Seattle. Rather than sitting in the comfy executive lounge at Narita, I decided to jump a train and spend a few hours walking around the city. In a daze.
But [...]
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.
These folks were crowded around a window display of Japanese watches. Just normal watches.
Nanking Rd., Shanghai, 1979.
Scanned from Kodachrome 64 on an Epson V700 using Silverfast.
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 [...]
This is why I visit Vietnam every several months. I run a small software development company. It’s a lot of work but we all sit together at the same table, in all senses of the word. We work together in a villa. We take our meals together. I sleep in the office, to save money [...]
Located in the middle of the French Quarter of Shanghai, this park is full of retirees from the generation that knew the opulence, decadence and culture – of the British and French colonial period.
I was lucky to see Yasin Farid during his first ever visit to the U.S.
Yasin is the country manager in Afghanistan for PARSA, an NGO that is run by Fran’s sister Marnie. They showed a short documentary made about their efforts to educate children in Afghanistan in the shadow of the Taliban (who don’t [...]
I can’t believe I have three daughters who have graduated from college. Looks like my investment may have paid off…
Oh. Almost forgot to mention. Here’s the gorgeous graduate:
Markets are not just about things. They’re about people.
Here are some of the vendors – and a few customers – of yesterday’s “local market” by Remodelista in the Georgetown area…
Lacrosse is known as the fastest sport on two feet, because a transition from one end of the field to the other can take less than three seconds, and a shot on goal can rip at over 100 mph.
One way of ‘capturing’ the speed of the sport is by actually [...]
Okay, let’s just do a little poll here. Which do you prefer? Shorts or longs?
These were both taken at the Lakeside School over a span of 32 years…
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 [...]
It’s that time of year, the lacrosse season is upon us. Lacrosse is arguably the fastest sport on two feet. It’s also the only popular sport that was created by indigenous North Americans. If you think it’s hard for a pro baseball player to hit a 90 mph fastball from 18 meters away, imagine what a high [...]
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…
