one year ago today – bangkok red shirt protests
I just realized that today is May 19. A year ago today the Thai government broke up the demonstrations that had occupied Bangkok the prior two months. It was pretty memorable for me as I spent the day amongst many of the protestors. This was the scene on Rama 1 Road (or is it Ploenchit …..
why running has been such a pain
I enjoy running and I finally found out why it has been such a pain the past few years. After a couple four to six week rounds of physical therapy, immobilizing my foot for six weeks, periods of not running/resting the foot – all over the past few years – I finally visited a new …..
squid fishing in the andaman sea – not the deadliest catch: episode 2
Each night the lights of squid fishing boats line the horizon of the Andaman sea. I assumed the boats were part of a fleet that formed a line and trolled nets through the water. I was totally wrong. Most boats are individually owned. They don’t form a line – it just appears that way …..
american windsurfing tour/awt day 3 – waddell creek, california
A few pictures from day 3 of the American Windsurfing Tour/AWT at Waddell Creek California, just north of Davenport and about thirty minutes north of Santa Cruz. I stopped by for a couple of hours early in the day – not a big wave day at Waddell but these guys sure know how to make …..
waddell creek day two – american windsurfing tour
May 6, 2011 – Day two of the American Windsurfing Tour at Waddell Creek, California – just north of Davenport and about 30 minutes north of Santa Cruz. I stopped by the AWT Waddell for a couple of hours today and shot a few photographs. Most the images are of Francisco Goya, who has a …..
Cherche, Ukraine – September 2010
My father’s parents and some of his sibblings come from a small village named Cherche in western Ukraine. Small enough to not appear on most maps, Cherche is a few kilometers from Rohatyn which is about eighty kilometers southeast of Lviv, a small city. My grandparents immigrated to the U.S. around 1920. I visited …..
where has my iPhone been?
You probably heard about the iPhone storing the location of where ever it has been and then uploading that information to iTunes. You can read all about it in the NY Times. I download an application written by a fellow named Pete Warden that reads the location data from iTunes and plots where you or …..
Isaan Thailand Tobacco Harvest – March 2011
My last visit to Nasadao in northeast Thailand (Isaan) was at the end of the rain season and during the rice harvest. Everything was lush green. I visited again this past March, 2011 during the dry season. The landscape was pretty barren and dry, similar to non irrigated parts of California during the late summer and …..
dogs at crissy field – saturday morning, april 9, 2011
Another nice Saturday morning at Crissy Field. Of course I took the dogs with me and a camera/flash as well. A few picks from the morning are below or you can click here for a flash slideshow that includes more pictures/photographs of dogs having fun at crissy field. Now for a small rant: Crissy Field is part …..
the best camera in the world is the one in your pocket
There’s a saying the goes something like “the best camera in the world is the one in your pocket”. Here’s testament to that – a set of images from Libya by photographer Michael Brown.
not the deadliest catch – episode 1
Walking along Klong Muang Beach Thailand sans camera, we noticed a bunch of guys unloading fish from a couple of boats pulled up close to shore. Approaching the boats, we saw that they were unloading stingray – there were about 50 or so fish between the two boats. The fish were being sold to a …..
iPhone polaroids from Thailand
A set of pictures, some polaroids, from southern Thailand around Krabi province, Ko Yao Noi, and Khaolak. All were shot with my telephone. Most of the pictures were taken with ShakeItPhoto , a cool 99 cent iPhone application that mimics a polaroid camera. hover over the image for screen …..
dogs having fun – feb 5, 2011
Since early January the weather in the San Francisco bay area has been fantastic – much warmer and drier than a “normal” winter and in some places it is warmer than summer. Today was no exception, so I put the dogs and a camera in the car and drove over to Crissy Field for the …..
not too bad for January 20 – stinson beach, california
I often think of moving somewhere less expensive but when there’s a string of saturated days like this mid-winter, it makes me think twice. All of the pictures are at Stinson Beach, just north of San Francisco in Marin County, were shot with my Canon S95 pocket camera and saturated, to match the day, in …..
pictures from Isaan ( Nakon Phanom province Thailand) – September 2010
Isaan, also known as Isan, Isarn, Issan, or Esarn is the northeast region of Thailand. For the most part it is a rural agricultural area. I spent some time in the region – starting in Udon Thani and heading east to Nasadao, a village that’s not on the maps but close to a larger village …..
christmas week 2010 in arizona
I spent Christmas week at my parents place in Mesa Arizona. Here are a number of pictures from the week, some shot at my parents house in Mesa, around their neighborhood, and at my sister’s place in Scottsdale.
at the point isabel dog park, richmond california
Jimmy, on the left, aspires to be a big dog. Shot and processed with photoshop on my telephone.
Mahout and elephant camp panorama – near Chiang Mai, Thailand
When I was photographing the “elephant camp” we ran across near Chiang Mai, I knew the pictures wouldn’t do the place justice. I decided to shoot a bunch of portrait frames and stich them together into a panorama. Here’s the result of ten overlapping frames. It still doesn’t do the scene justice. In hundsight, I …..
Pictures of my parents
Whenever I travel for a few weeks I have to find a place for my dogs to stay. A lot of the time they stay at my parent’s place in Mesa, Arizona – near Phoenix. The last time I went to Mesa I threw a couple of lights, stands, and backdrop in my car to …..
pictures from Lviv, Ukraine – September 2010
I’ve visited Lviv, Ukraine a few times – it’s near the area that my Ukraine ancestors are from. It is a very old city, dating back to the 1300′s I think, and some say it’s what Prague used to be. The core of the city is old Europe while the outskirts show more of a …..
Mahout and their elephant- Chiangmai, Thailand
Riding a motorbike in the hills about one hour southwest of Chiangmai, Thailand I noticed a bunch of elephant in what looked like an aborted subdivision – a few short paved roads going into a pasture. We pulled a U-turn to check it out. There were about ten young men (I’m not sure if all …..
Amman Jordan Full Moon
I have a long layover in Amman, Jordan and Royal Jordanian airlines offered me a free transit visa along with a ride to a hotel to kill some time. Never before has a customs agent stamped my passport and shoed me away so quickly, not what I expected. The hotel was a dive and I …..
