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 →
Phortse In Morning Light
Description: I know I’ve mentioned on this blog multiple times that it’s worth getting up early in the Himalayas. Now I’ll say it again: It’s worth getting up early to catch Continue Reading →
One Of The Highest Airstrips In The World
Description: Way, way up in the Himalayas is an airstrip that is little more than compact dirt these days. Syangboche Airport sits above Namche Bazaar at 12,402’/3780m and would cause Continue Reading →
Freewell Light Pollution Reduction Filter Review
A company I have never heard of before, Freewell, makes some snazzy little filters for little cameras, like the DJI Osmo Pocket 2 I recently purchased. I happened upon their Continue Reading →
Kathmandu Streets At Night
Description: There is beauty to be found in every large city and it usually helps with the skies add a little color after the rains wash the streets. Title: Kathmandu Streets Continue Reading →
The Start Of Stuff
I’m jumping into the YouTube game because it seems like a good idea. I have a lot of media sitting on my computer that wants to get out and be Continue Reading →
Beautiful Bryce Canyon In Perfect Weather
Description: Every landscape photographer’s dream: Sun shine on a National Park with beautifully contrasting colors and puffy clouds above. It helped that the temperature was around 72°. Title: Beautiful Bryce Canyon Continue Reading →
Thor’s Hammer, Up Close
Description: It looks a little lopsided to be a good hammer, but if this is where the God of Thunder left it, so be it! Title: Thor’s Hammer, Up Close Location: Continue Reading →
April 2021 Goals Check-In
Trying to keep myself accountable by making goals public, it’s time for a check-in with my goals for 2021. Here’s the original post and February’s progress report. 2021 Goals Book Continue Reading →
Covid Vaccine Line Around The Block
Description: A little switch from Bhutan and Nepal photos to cover what’s going on around LA. In this case, the LA Fire Department-run Covid-19 vaccination operation at Pierce College. It was Continue Reading →
Hand Weaving In Bhutan
Description: Bhutan’s largest exports are hydroelectricity and tourism, but coming in a distant third is handicrafts still produced on hand looms as shown here. While Bhutan does not export large quantities Continue Reading →
Wide Open Spaces Of The Phobjikha Valley
Description: Pulling off the main (only) road across Bhutan, there is a quiet valley to the South called Phobjikha. When I first visited in 2011 there was no electricity wired into Continue Reading →
Painting Pots
Description: Just south of Bhaktapur’s Durbar Square, one of the Kathmandu Valley’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites you can visit on a Far Horizon Photo Tour in 2022, is a place Continue Reading →
Moon Over The Buggies
Title: Moon Over The Buggies Location: Algodones Dunes, California, USA, North America Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Commercial Licensing (email)
Evening Colors – Rain Clouds And Sunset
Description: A lucky evening a couple weeks back saw passing storms in the San Fernando Valley right at sunset. The colors were bedazzling. Title: Evening Colors – Rain Clouds And Sunset Continue Reading →
Traffic Snake Into Infinity
Description: Sometimes it seems the traffic in LA never ends. Title: Traffic Snake Into Infinity Location: Orange County, California, USA, North America Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Commercial Continue Reading →