Eye on Malaysia

After a morning of rest from my exhausting trek to Taman Negara rainforest, I spent the afternoon in Kuala Lumpur (KL) being a tourist. Of course there is never a vacation from taking photos and the camera was predictably in tow. One of my last images of the day was made at an attraction known [...]

The Rainforest at Night

As an armchair biologist – sitting at home watching Discovery Channel or National Geographic – it was easy for me to watch the aerial, helicopter views of sweeping rainforests shrouded in mist and a dense, green canopy. What I didn’t realize is that the rainforest is so much more than a panoramic place, but an [...]

Tea Plantation

Arriving back on the mainland, a spur of the moment daytrip opportunity came up and was seized. Carpe diem right? In truth, the “day trip” became a 2-day trip but was well worth it. An avid tea drinker (iced and hot) it was pretty cool to visit two of the largest tea producing plantations in [...]

Pulau Langkawi

Not far from the Malaysian-Thailand border lies an island approximately 35 miles off the west coast in the Andaman Sea. The island is Langkawi and while popular with the locals for a quick getaway, as a visitor from the US, I feel like I’m as far away from everything as humanly possible. I suppose that [...]

Silver Leaf Monkey

Also known as Silvered Langurs, I found this species to be very mellow and fun to watch. As I was waiting for the sun to go down so that I could photograph the fireflies, I spent some time watching these guys hang around the trees.

Journey of the Fireflies

As the last light of the sun disappeared from the sky replaced by a crescent moon, the wooden row boats were prepared by a Muslim woman who would be taking me out to witness one of the greatest – and rarest – spectacles on earth. Just after dark, along the banks of the Selangor River [...]

Malaysia

As the sun set this evening, the air was cooler than usual but still thick with humidity that bordered on almost raining. With little time to spare, the gray clouds hanging overhead all day broke just soon enough to let a little ambient light in and giving me a just enough juice to compose a [...]

Channel Islands National Park

One of the greatest aspects of photograpy is that despite boundless amounts of planning you never really know what to expect. Sure, sometimes we think we’ve thought out every angle, every situation including the possibility of the unknown.  Perhaps you’ve even day dreamed little fantasies of idyllic situations or maybe catastrophic – and despite their [...]