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…
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I spent the last 7 days hoping between meetings, countries, and shoots. Last Tuesday I had a meeting in Hong Kong to research possibilities for a future lighting/fashion/city-based workshop there with some awesome instructor(s). Was an amazing trip filled with good food, some new friends, and just a whole lot of doing what I love…
On Thursday I threw up a post about scouting out our local Tibetan market. I was excited to find that these markets have these old plexiglass roofs that have changes to all sorts of interesting colors. I wanted to shoot the modernizing Tibetan culture in a place surrounded by the ancient. Things rarely, if ever, go the…
You might have seen this shot earlier in my post about “Do What You Want with What You Have.” It’s a nice shot with lots of little compositional things I would have changed; some lighting changes, posing suggestions, framing the shot differently, etc. However, that’s not the point of this post. I’m actually really proud…
So I love portraits. Since I’ve moved into a new complex and the locals are getting used to us, the culturally relevant and respectful portrait opps have been sparse. So what do you do when there is no one to shoot and your creative juices are flowing? In my case, the self portrait. I love…
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