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 →
Category: Nepal
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Cacophony Of Motion
Description: Night markets in Kathmandu are a cacophony of motion Title: Cacophony Of Motion Location: Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Commercial Licensing (email)
Pile On The Incense
Description: In the pre-dawn hours, devotees burn incense at Swayambhunath Stupa. Title: Pile On The Incense Location: Swayambhunath, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Commercial Licensing Continue Reading →
Stars Over Ama Dablam
Description: At over 13,000′ above sea level, the lack of atmosphere and city lights brings about far more stars in the sky than you can ever hope to count. Capturing them Continue Reading →
Morning Light On Machermo
Description: Taken from the same location as Wednesday’s photo, this is the Machermo Range, for lack of a more cohesive name. On the other side and down to the left Continue Reading →
Clouds Over Everest
Description: The wind is undoubtedly howling a gale at the peak of Everest on the left. Those clouds don’t form in slower air. Title: Clouds Over Everest Location: Namche Bazaar, Sagarmatha Continue Reading →
Sunrise Over Everest
Description: Let’s stay in Nepal after yesterday’s return to the continent. I’m not actually there right now, but I am dreaming about returning (shameless plug: Join me in Nepal, this Continue Reading →
Can You Spot The Moon Above The Himalayas?
Description: Taking a break from last week’s mainly aerial imagery, let’s head over to the Himalayas because I’m excited for next year’s Far Horizon Photo Tours Nepal Adventure. Let me Continue Reading →
Machapuchare And The Annapurna Range
Description: You have to get up pretty early to catch the sunrise on the Annapurna Range of the Himalayas, but on clear mornings the stunning peaks are worth the need Continue Reading →
Double-crested Cormorant
Description: While cormorants are divers for their meals, they don’t have the oils to keep their feathers dry like a penguin. Thus you can find them sunning themselves to dry Continue Reading →
Photographing Buddha’s Birthplace
Description: You’re not allowed to take photos inside Buddha’s birthplace but you’re not missing a lot. It’s an open excavation back thousands of years that is often hot and muggy. There Continue Reading →
Spreading The Light
Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Commercial Licensing (email) Description: Butter lamps are a staple at Buddhist stupas and temples in Nepal. These are found outside of Boudhanath Stupa Continue Reading →
The Sun & The Shade – Photo Of The Day
Description: Way up around 12,913′, give or take 10′, the morning sun fights with a hidden cloud somewhere near the horizon before it strikes the Himalayas. Title: The Sun & The Continue Reading →
Kathmandu At Sunrise
Description: High up on Swayambhunath Stupa, you can catch the morning rays light up the city before it truly awakes. Title: Kathmandu At Sunrise Location: Kathmandu, Nepal Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Continue Reading →
Waiting For Customers
Description: There’s a small island in Phewa Lake with a Hindu temple that devotees flock to most every day. Before the day gets started, the boats the ferry passengers non-stop sit Continue Reading →
Announcing Spring 2022 Dates For Nepal Photo Tours
I’m happy (and just a bit ecstatic) to announce photo tour dates for Nepal in the Spring of 2022. Choose your own adventure: 18 day photo trekking tour. Fully supported Continue Reading →
Spin Drift Lightcatcher
Description: Getting up early is always worth it in the Himalayas. I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a dozen times. Title: Spin Drift Lightcatcher Location: Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal Photograph Copyright Peter Continue Reading →