Category: Travel
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From 9-5 Office Job to Traveling Photographer: Benefits of Living Abroad
An interview with Tim Conley from the Foolish Adventure Show I love listening to interviews when I’m editing photos. Maybe it’s the whole right brain / left brain thing, but when I’m doing something totally visual then I can still concentrate on spoken word. Lately I’ve been listening to independent podcasts because there’s no restrictions…
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Perfect Day for the Beach at Bingin
Nothing much better than a beautiful beach in Bali and a perfect Indian Ocean swell rolling over the western horizon. This gallery covers the highlights of an amazing afternoon of shooting surf photos at Bingin Beach.
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Tubbataha’s Island Atolls: Exploring Palawan’s UNESCO Reef
Exploring Palawan’s most beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Site with park manager Angelique Songco and the Tubbataha Park Rangers.
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Finding the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala: On the Path to Enlightenment, Smelly Feet
Getting inside was the easy part, I’m holding the aspiring Buddhist’s equivalent of a backstage pass. The monk at the entrance to the Dalai Lama’s Tsuglagkhang Temple takes one look at the little saffron-colored book with the title “Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva” stenciled in silver lettering on the cover and wordlessly waves me through…
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Tiger Sharks in the Dark: The Scariest Night Dive I’ve Ever Had
“Another one,” I thought to myself as a three-legged sea turtle swam lopsidedly past. Its birdlike eyes warily scanned a sunlit expanse of coral garden on Tubbataha’s South Island atoll in the Philippines. The crippled green slowed cautiously as it approached the edge of the reef wall plunging cliff-like into the indigo depths below. This…
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Downloading Dave Matthews’ 12 String Guitar from the Internet
Dave Matthews needs a guitar well beyond the average because it is his tool for making a living, and not a bad one at that. I too dreamed of owning a guitar that would knock a few ceiling tiles from Carnegie Hall with it’s room-filling sound, but now that I am a Peace Corps volunteer…
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Beach Camping in El Nido: Sea Kayaking to Helicopter Island
Kris and Kristen bought a small traditional Filipino boat known as a bangka to take on short trips to the islands surrounding El Nido. Preston and I borrowed their little boat one day to take an overnight trip to Dilumacad Island which is located about 4 or 5 miles from El Nido. We didn’t have…