Let the Rain Help Your Photography
November 2, 2011 
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Rain is the enemy of a photographer, right? Wrong. Rain can be your friend and make your photos pop. Find out how.
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Tag Archives: Travel
How Different Lenses can Help You See Creatively
August 7, 2011 1 Comment
Learn how your lenses ‘see,’ and improve how you make imagery. Different lenses can help you see creatively. Here’s five ways how.
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So You Want to be a Travel Photographer…What’s in it for you?
July 6, 2011 1 Comment
So you want to be a travel photographer…what’s in it for you?
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Three Simple Tips for Sharper Handheld Photography
June 29, 2011 1 Comment
What if you can’t use a tripod?
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Shoot Themes When You Travel
April 26, 2011 3 Comments
Spice up your travel photography tip # 5: Use themes to shoot your travel stories!
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Eat Lots of Colors
April 25, 2011 1 Comment
Spice up your travel photography tip # 4: Eat a lot of colors!
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A Changing Story
March 19, 2011 2 Comments
Tell a story tipsy with content and brimming with beautiful imagery.
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Photography Doesn’t Fix Everything
March 3, 2011 4 Comments
Light doesn’t change things, just how they look.
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Taking Home the Intangibles
February 28, 2011 0 Comments
Travel is encountering a landscape of intangibles. Travel photography is an attempt to take them home.
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Photo Equipment Part 2: What’s in the Bag
January 13, 2011 0 Comments
Some people take photos because they travel. I travel so I can take photos.
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Desert Lines
October 13, 2010 1 Comment
Their chatter sounds like a hypersonic version of the ghazals I’ve heard on CD—literary in its cadence, almost like a song, with whispers of a prayerful love. I bask in the poetry of noises I do not recognize but strangely, understand with my heart.
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The Man at the Window
October 11, 2010 3 Comments
To get the shot: I zoomed the lens as wide as it could get and angled the shot so that the wood would distort. I saw the planks at the bottom of the shot, leading to his hand. I abstracted the window by cropping it above and on the right, so his face would float in the dark background. To get the colors to pop, I used Aperture priority and compensated for exposure by underexposing three quarters of a stop.
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A Small Place to Meander
August 22, 2010 4 Comments
You will also see some interesting sari-sari stores, or stores selling all kinds of retail items such as bags of Tide detergent hanging on a string alongside chicharon, or pork rinds. There are also some very picturesque old wooden houses in Daro, especially in morning light. You may, like me, be distracted into taking photographs here.
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Is RTW right for you?
July 28, 2010 6 Comments
Sometimes when I completely fall in love with a place, I want to stay indefinitely. Standing in the Sunday market in Bac Ha, Vietnam, my senses are overwhelmed by the colors. My camera is on overdrive. I am in heaven. But I spend exactly one day in Bac Ha, leave the North of Vietnam, fly [...]
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