Beautiful and Surreal Sossusvlei, Namibia
I have been fortunate to travel to many of the world’s major deserts such as the Sahara and the Arabian Desert. All of them beautiful in their own way. But far the most scenic desert that I have experienced is the Namib desert in Namibia,…
Photographing Washington DC
Continuing on my series of posts from major sites to photograph … I arrived in Falls Church (just outside DC) last night. Falls Church is where I could find a reasonable hotel room but be on the DC Metro for easy access. Finding parking in…
Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi
For a long time I have wanted to take this shot at the Sheik Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi. The mosque is typically referred to as the Grand Mosque. I have been to the UAE many times and have been to the Grand Mosque several…
Peak Design Everyday Backpack: Review (part 2)
This is the follow-on report I promised when I wrote the original blog post some months back. I have now lived with the Everyday Backpack on multiple continents and taken several trips with it. So I feel I have given it enough time to give…
Clock tower at Cape Town Waterfront, now and then.
This clock tower was the original Port Captain’s office at the Cape Town harbor, built in 1882. The clock itself was imported from Edinburgh and placed in a gothic style tower. An amazing fact is the red color of the tower is exactly the same…
Reaching new heights – Clingman’s Dome
Over 11 million people can’t be wrong! That’s how many people visited the Great Smokey National Park in 2016. Only the Blue Ridge Parkway (close by the Smokies) and the Golden Gate National Recreational Area receive a higher number of visitors. The Smokies cover a…
Fountain and Light Show, Dubai Mall
Everything about Dubai is artificial. Apart from the sand in the desert areas. Like Las Vegas, everything is man-made and man-centric. That is not to say it’s bad. It is actually amazing what they have managed to create out of a desert in such a…
The Indonesian Archipelago
I recently traveled to Indonesia for my work and went to a part that I had never been to before. Indonesia is made up of thousands of islands, the exact number of which depends on the definition and sources you use. But it is safe…
Phewa Lake at Pokhara, Nepal
No, I haven’t been to Nepal recently. In fact, this photo dates back to 2012. Pretty crazy how time flies. What has happened is that I have decided to go back and “rework” some of my old images using the experience I have gained over…
Santa Maddalena in the Dolomite region of Italy
On a recent trip to Europe I had to travel from Stuttgart to just north of Venice. I decided to take a day extra and explore an area of northern Italy that I have always wanted to see, the Dolomites. It turned out to be…