Matt Brandon and myself are excited for our next workshop. We announced Plateau Photo Tours annual Lhasa, Everest, Nepal Overland Tour and workshop a while back. 2012’s tour is rapidly filling up with only a few spots left! Last years tour was a ton of fun. We continue to call this trip a ‘bucket-list’ trip because, well,…
Workshop
OVERVIEW Foundations workshop is focused on strengthening your abilities to see and create images that utilize an advanced understanding of where we start out with our cameras and vision. The all-day workshop moves beyond just learning how to make your camera work, and into an area that emphasizes producing images that marry our abilities and…
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…
I have to apologize. I haven’t been around for a few weeks. The Chinese version of the flu and my firmly American immune system got into a cage match. The Chinese flu won in what will go down as one of my immune systems weakest performances. After 17 solid days of being sick and a…
“Going to the Mountains Is Going Home” – John Muir No – I’m not cutting corners. Not much happened for me on day 4. Infact, I took less than 100 pictures that day. Why? Well, part of leading a tour in central Tibet is the dirty work – the business side. Keeping our workmates happy…
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…