posted on Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
The road into my Mother’s neighborhood is the last road before the Salt River recreation area. Two popular activities in the area are tubing on the Salt River and boating on Saguaro Lake, especially on Memorial Day weekend. Bright blue skies, temperatures in the mid 90′s (34C) ,cool lake and river water, refreshments, perhaps some …..
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posted on Sunday, May 26th, 2013
A combination of volley ball, futbol, and gymnastics, takraw is a popular game in Southeast Asia. It’s really athletic – guys get all tweaked out. In Bangkok it’s easy to find a pick up game most evenings. Last winter when I was staying near Soi Suanplu a group of guys gathered most evenings in the …..
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posted on Monday, April 15th, 2013
It’s my 2nd 2013 New Years celebration in Bangkok this year – Songkran, the Thai new year. A tradition of pouring small amounts of water onto elder family member’s hands has morphed into full on water dousings. Certain areas in Bangkok are designated for wet celebrations. I spent an hour or so on Silom Road …..
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posted on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Better late than never. There are plenty of options for a night out on New Years Eve in Bangkok. When a small party took shape at the end of my soi (think small car free alley way) behind the old Suanplu market, I knew where I would spend the first part of the night. I …..
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posted on Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
I’ve been living in Bangkok since mid August and have neglected my website for some time. I haven’t made too many photographs either. I’m living in a renovated shophouse in a very traditional Bangkok neighborhood. Although I’m living in a nice modern space t’s very different than your typical high rise condo. Some day I’ll …..
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posted on Thursday, June 21st, 2012
I saw Irina Werning’s first Back to the Future series a couple of years ago and thought the idea was brilliant. The series became very popular – perhaps you have seen them. Irina takes an old photograph of someone, retouches it, reshoots the same image today, and then pairs the two. A new series of …..
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posted on Monday, June 4th, 2012
Another brief escape from Bangkok – one night in Bangsaen Beach. It takes a bit over an hour or a five to seven hundred baht (15$ – 22$) taxi ride to reach Bangsaen from central Bangkok. It’s not your postcard perfect Thai beach. Leave your snorkel, flippers, YSL hand bag and pretense at home. What …..
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posted on Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
A quick escape from Bangkok – two nights in Koh Yao Noi and a night in Phuket Town. It was mostly about sleeping, eating seafood, and a visit to my cousin’s place on Koh Yao.
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posted on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
You won’t experience this at the San Francisco Ferry Plaza farmer’s market, your local Safeway, or Whole Foods. I fell asleep really early last night and as a result I woke up very early today. Feeling well rested, I decided to grab a camera and visit Klong Toey market, which I’ve written about in the …..
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posted on Sunday, May 20th, 2012
There was a large rally in Bangkok yesterday, marking the two year anniversary to the end of the spring 2010 demonstration/occupation. Upwards of 45,000 people participated in the Ratchaprasong shopping district in central Bangkok. Personally, I’m not too familiar with the history of Thai politics and government, so I don’t have an informed opinion on …..
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posted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Sometimes you get lucky. That’s how I felt recently when I was hired to photograph a young lady and model named Xanny Disjad. A handful of pictures from the afternoon are below. There’s some minor nudity, so be forewarned.
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posted on Sunday, May 13th, 2012
Songkran, the Thai new year, is celebrated from the 13th to the 15th of April (at least in Bangkok). It’s known for large celebrations with lots of water and white face paste. But there is more traditional beyond the popular water celebrations and the same new year is celebrated throughout southeast Asia, but in different …..
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posted on Thursday, May 10th, 2012
People running – different shapes, sizes, suits, shoes and colors. My achilles has been preventing me from running most days but I still go down to the park for a morning or evening walk, camera in hand.
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posted on Thursday, April 5th, 2012
During a flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong I woke up from a nap and this is what I saw. Then I thought to shoot a few pictures. The ice flows reminded me of weather satellite imagery. Afterwards I turned on the flight map to see where I was – over the Okhotsk sea …..
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posted on Monday, February 13th, 2012
Board games and political debate are favorite pastimes along Prospect Svobody in Lviv, Ukraine. Walk through the area any weekend, holiday, or some evenings, and there will be small groups of older men, and a few strong ladies, participating in some pretty intense political debate. I’m told this pastime took root, at least in public …..
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posted on Friday, February 10th, 2012
Going through photographs of older guys playing chess and practicing political debate along Prospect Svobody in Lviv, Ukraine, I ran across this memory. It’s said that photographs of sunglass reflections are cliche. So be it.
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posted on Saturday, January 14th, 2012
Odds are you haven’t been to a market quite like Klong Toey (Toei) market in Bangkok, Thailand. It’s a place where you can get anything food related, and all of the food is very fresh - produce, fish, poultry, and meats, some of it arriving at the market alive. The market is popular with small …..
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posted on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
I doubt most people think of tall redwood trees when they think of Oakland but up in the hills there are plenty. Some time ago these were old growth forests, but were cut down for timber. Some of it could be in my old house. One hundred or so years later and it looks like …..
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posted on Monday, December 19th, 2011
What do you do when your are fourteen timezones from home, take a late afternoon nap but wake up after midnight, you aren’t going back to sleep anytime soon, and Anderson Cooper 360 is showing on CNN International?
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posted on Monday, December 12th, 2011
Sometimes a great time happens when you least expect it. Rohatyn is a small town about five miles away from Cherche, the tiny village where my ancestors are from. There are two hotels in town, about ten rooms each, inexpensive, and nice enough. I splurged and stayed at the fancier place, about twenty five dollars …..
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