Tahiti & the French Polynesia is not a place I ever imagined I would travel to. In August of 2012, I won the grand prize in ISLANDS magazine’s annual photo contest. I don’t generally enter a lot of contests for various reasons, but when the prize is right, I will put the effort into getting [...]

Patagonia is one of those places that I’ve wanted to visit for quite some time now, and I was finally able to make the journey to Argentina and Chile to see the beauty of this incredible place firsthand. The landscapes and mountain peaks are simply incredible, and although Patagonia photography is a bit challenging at [...]

China is modernizing at a rapid pace in many ways, but the bicycle is far from dead. For many in China, pedal power is still the only source of transportation. When I arrived in the small village of Xingping, I was instantly attracted to all the really old bicycles that lined the streets. Photographing the [...]

This is a 7 minute SE Asia slideshow that I made for a recent presentation that I gave to the Cascade Camera Club in Bend, OR. The slideshow contains images and video from my recent travels to SE Asia… The Cascade Camera Club has been around for quite awhile, and my good friend Brent McGregor [...]

After spending a couple of weeks in China, and a few days in Malaysia, I was glad to be back photographing Bali Indonesia. I don’t know exactly why, but there is just something about Bali that makes it one of my favorite places on earth. I love the smell, the people, the food, the landscape, [...]

After sweating for 10 days in Guilin, we were off to Malaysia for a couple of days of much needed rest and then back to Bali. During out time photographing Malaysia, it was also pretty hot and humid, but nothing compared to what we had experienced in China. We chose to stay in the China [...]

After a short 3 hour flight from Bali to Malaysia, it would take another 5 hour flight to reach China. Photographing Guilin China has been on my list since the day I first saw Michael Anderson’s amazing images from the area. The topography of the area is marked by endless karst formations running along the Li river. [...]

After spending a few days at Mount Bromo, we were off to Kawah Ijen for the second time. Photographing Kawah Ijen is amazing and the ruggedness of the landscape combined with the sulfur mining, offers unlimited photo opportunities. During my first trip there last  year, I got a nice feel for the place, but it [...]

The last time I was photographing Mount Bromo, it was smoking quite a bit. When I was there in November of 2010, and just a week after my visit, it had a full eruption and a few more in 2011 that changed the whole area quite a bit. The last eruption was in March, 2011. [...]

Bigtimers, or self proclaimed “Professional Photographers” are popping up everywhere you look these days. They tend to be on every social media and photo sharing website you can find; always busy trying to promote workshops and print sales. For those that don’t know, I got my first DSLR in 2006, and got hooked on photography [...]