Steep Steps
Description: A pair of monks share the load climbing the very steep steps of the Punakha Dzong. The steps were intentionally built this steep to make the fortress more defensible. Continue Reading →
Monk On A Bridge
Description: A Buddhist monk looks out across a river on a covered bridge. Title: Monk On A Bridge Location: Punakha, Bhutan, Asia – Join a Photo Tour to Nepal or Bhutan Continue Reading →
Meet The Yak At Its Level
Description: A guest on one of my photo tours to Bhutan is seen getting low and close enough to a grazing yak in Bhutan’s Phobjikha Valley. Title: Meet The Yak At Continue Reading →
Hand-Scale In Action
Description: No need for an electric scale when what you have been using for decades still works. This is a market in Punakha, Bhutan, where those red and green chili peppers Continue Reading →
Punakha Dzong And Its Rivers
Description: The Punakha Dzong is seen across the Mo Chhu River in central Bhutan while Buddhist prayer flags flutter nearby. It’s a beautiful site and one of the most scenic dzong Continue Reading →
Market Exchange
Description: Local street markets are the way most Nepalese shop for their daily food stuffs. Cash is still king. Title: Market Exchange Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Asia – Join a Continue Reading →
Wall Of Wheels
Description: Each morning people flock to Swayambhunath Stupa and while there, they will circle the stupa three times while spinning the prayer wheels and releasing their prayers to the world. Title: Continue Reading →
Flags Before The Peaks
Description: Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags stand on a line before the distant Himalayas. Title: Flags Before The Peaks Location: Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal, Asia – Join a Photo Tour to Nepal Continue Reading →
Prayer Wheels Sent Spinning
Description: Panning blur is a wonderful technique to use when things are moving in various directions and speeds. Title: Prayer Wheels Sent Spinning Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Asia – Join Continue Reading →
Surviving Statuary In Bhaktapur
Description: The 2015 earthquake in Nepal was devastating to a county heavily dependent on brick and stone work (and until recently, without a lot of rebar or seismic consideration). Some of Continue Reading →
First Full 360 Client Finished
It’s the baby steps time of my 360° Virtual Tour development and I’ve got my first client shot, posted and happy. In this case, it’s a place called The Tender Continue Reading →
Zooming Prayer Flags
Description: A fun technique when the light is low or your have an ND filter on your lens. Set the shutter to 1/10 of a second or slower and then Continue Reading →
Sunrise in Kathmandu
Description: Sunrise in Kathmandu with the bathed in haze. Title: Sunrise in Kathmandu Location: Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia – Join a Photo Tour to Nepal or Bhutan in 2022! If Continue Reading →
Los Angeles National Cemetery 360° Virtual Tour
I’ve been working on my 360° photo skills and it’s a work in progress. Next week I’ll be imaging one of UnCruise’s boats and in prep, I’ve been practicing. To Continue Reading →
Book Reviews From April, 2021
Welcome to the April Book Review. I know it’s May, but these were the books I finished in April. I only got through 7 instead of my planned 8, but Continue Reading →
Monks Feed The Pigeons
Description: By the looks of it, the pigeons in Trongsa, Bhutan, get feed fairly often. Title: Monks Feed The Pigeons Location: Trongsa, Bhutan, Asia – Join a Photo Tour Continue Reading →
Time And A Chemical Fire
Description: No, this isn’t an actual chemical fire. It’s good old white gas. But it’s a lot of fun to play with in Lightroom and Photoshop. This is also from a Continue Reading →
Playing Around With Depth Of Field And Aperture
Change your camera’s aperture and you’ll change the depth of field (among other things). How can you use that to your photographic advantage and what do the results look like? Continue Reading →
Burning White Roses
Description: As a creative person, it’s often a lot of fun to work with creatives in other fields because the energy is so different than when I’m out taking photos of Continue Reading →
Typing & Talking About Camera Focus Modes
If you’ve been following my 40 Photography Experiments over on peterwestcarey.com, you may notice new videos popping up. I’m working to make all the experiments and then lessons in the Continue Reading →
Bhaktapur Backstreets
Description: Colorful flags line the backstreets of Bhaktapur, Nepal. Title: Bhaktapur Backstreets Location: Bhaktapur, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Asia – Join a Photo Tour to Nepal or Bhutan in 2022! If you Continue Reading →
Surviving Statuary
Description: After the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, there was a lot of damage to a number of UNESCO World heritage sites, include the temples in Bhaktapur, pictured here. Luckily these statues Continue Reading →
Ringing In Sunrise
Description: Each morning people flock to Swayambhunath Stupa for exercise, for worship, for reflection. Title: Ringing In Sunrise Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Asia – Join a Photo Tour to Nepal Continue Reading →
Organize Your MicroSD Cards
If you have problems organizing your MicroSD cards while on the go, I have a quick and easy solution for you. SDcardholder.com makes a variety of card holders, including a Continue Reading →
Experiments in 360° Video
For this post you will want to go full screen, ideally on a computer but a phone will work too. Recently I purchased a 360 action camera and it was Continue Reading →
Hand-dipped Pottery In Bhaktapur
Description: The heat of the Kathmandu Valley is an excellent source of drying for the hundreds of hand-thrown pots that come out of Bhaktapur each day. Title: Hand-dipped Pottery In Bhaktapur Continue Reading →
Lunch Time For The Rhino
Description: To start with, I just love the One-horned Rhino’s scientific name: Rhinoceros unicornis. Sure, it makes sense from a scientific standpoint, but it also makes the rhino just a little Continue Reading →
It’s Time To Experiment!
Some of you might be familiar with my photography series (seemingly never finished) that includes a number of photography experiments. I’ve decided to capture video explanations of these experiments that Continue Reading →
Funky Sunrise In Pokhara
Description: The sun has a lot of layers of particulate to cut through in Pokhara, Nepal. This view from Sarangkot, a hillside rising directly from Phewa Lake, offers tremendous views of Continue Reading →
Inside Kopan Monastery
Description: Located in the hills outside Kathmandu, Kopan Monastery is an active Buddhist teaching campus where full courses and shorter retreats are offered. This is the view inside their main temple. Continue Reading →
Gharial Scale Close-up
Description: Gharials are interesting looking critters and their scales are no different. They are a long-nosed crocodile found in southern Nepal and parts of India in freshwater rivers and are Continue Reading →
The Tippy Top Of Everest From The Trail
Description: Remember that post two days ago about Phortse? You can juuuust barely see it in the left of this trail photo as two of my guests take photos of the Continue Reading →
Aerial Footage That Sold In Quarter 1 Of 2021
For those curious about flying drones and making money…..I’m not fully onboard with releasing actual sales figures. BUT!! I will tell you what has sold in the first three months Continue Reading →
Gokyo Lake And The Machermo Range
Description: Truth be known, there are five lakes up the valley where Gokyo sits and they are often called First Lake, Second Lake, etc… But as this lake is the lake Continue Reading →
Theo vs. Squeaker
This weekend’s entertainment is light and easy. It’s Theo ripping into a squeak toy in near record time. Maybe. For him at least. But then Pebbles, the marauding vulture, attempts Continue Reading →