xmas pictures
made more of an effort to photograph her this holiday. sometimes i feel like the more the photograph her, i can slow down childhood somehow because we’re both enjoying it so much.
darjeeling
i hadn’t plan on going to darjeeling originally. as much as i love tea, it wasn’t all that exciting for me to see a tea farm. to be honest, i feel that way most of the trip. I think i wanted more to cling on the concept of going to India to feed my ego that i am a ‘world traveller’. Combine that moivation with wanting to take a nice long break from orange, it was sufficient to push me over the edge to check india of my list. it’s a terrible motivation to say the least […]
Goa
by the time i got to goa, i was very much ready to just sit on the beach and do nothing. and that’s pretty much what i did. finished reading a bunch of books, ran on the beach, got a ok massage and wrote a bunch more in my journal. goa reminded me with vietnam a bit. very tropical and packed with tourist (esp Russians).
mansion of a diamond trader
beautiful sunsets are not uncommon here.
Sikkim
Sikkim is in the north east corner of india and it would probably taken at least 3 days to travel by train/bus. I decided to fly into sikkim from delhi and i was glad i did. the closest airport city to sikkim was only about 50 miles away but it took close to 5 hours by jeep. geographically sikkim isn’t that large in square miles but because it’s all in the hills/mountains, it took some serious mountain driving on dirt roads to get some major area to another. I hadn’t taken any trips on shared jeeps up […]
Free Speech in Tibet
I did a photography project for Tibetan Human Rights Watch while I was in Dharamsala and I rather enjoyed the experience. It was a nice excuse to stop people on the streets and photograph the variety of people in the city. By this time i suspect my passion for travel photography had wane quite a bit but after doing this mini project and interacting with people, i came to the full realization that i was more interested in the portraiture. It’s been over 10 years since i discovered photography through travelling and in the past years […]