(Right Click to download the October wallpaper here) I’m on the road for the next two weeks, so I’m posting October’s wallpaper while I still have a decent internet connection albeit a day earlier. Last year we had a great time our or Lhasa, Everest, Nepal Overland tour. I’ve been holding back this background for…
Nepal
Thamel is one of my favorite places in Nepal. Thamel is a network of streets in downtown Kathmandu that is one continuous winding bazaar of sorts. Though it’s crowded with tourists and upper-class hippies desperately trying not to make eye contact with each other for fear of looking unoriginal , spending the time talking to any of the locals…
People always make an impression on me. I visit a lot of places but it’s always the people that define that place for me. I’m too much of a people person to not be a portrait photographer at heart. Don’t get me wrong, but put Mount Everest infront of me and I’m going to be…
Close to 360º pano of EBC. Click for larger view It’s hard to do Everest justice with a photo. The mountain is just too big, too unreal, and much too temperamental to simply hand out good images. My previous experiences with Everest only left me with memories of an annoying disappearing act – only seeing the summit ever…
Very few things in the world compare to stepping off of an airplane onto the Tibetan plateau in Lhasa. Going from just above sea level to around 13,000 feet, coupled with landing in the famous Yarlung Valley surrounded by 20,000 foot peaks, literally takes ones breath away… mostly from lack of oxygen. Try to walk…
We are 6 days into Matt and I’s photo workshop – halfway to Mount Everest. Arguable the middle of nowhere (yet I’ve found internet). Tomorrow we get our first glimpse of Everest and the day after that we get to visit the mountain itself before we drop off the plateau onto the subcontinent. I have…
Corny jokes aside, it’s good to get our 2011 Tibet, Everest, Nepal Overland tour started. It’s been a busy last few days for me getting tons of stuff ready for the trip that kicks off this evening. The good kind of busy. I’ve been able to enjoy a true spring in Chengdu over the last…