Yosemite part II (springtime!)

Enjoy more of the photos!

Vernal Falls along the Mist Trail and rainbow


Half Dome




View from the meadow


Mirror Lake (appropriately named!)

Yosemite!

It's hard to visit Yosemite and not be inspired to take some photos. A map with the geocoded photographs can be found here. Enjoy the winter shots from Jan., spring ones are on the way...

View from Inspiration Point




Bridalveil Falls


Scenes along the Merced River in Yosemite Valley...

Puri fishermen scenes

These are from one of the rare mornings where I actually woke up at sunrise to catch the fishermen before they set out to sea. Definitely picturesque scenes.



Going out...


Waiting for the catch...


Coming in...


Sorting the nets...

Some more shots of Radjasthan

Additional shots from the western Indian state of Radjasthan.

There's something to be said about children flying kites from rooftops. You just don't see that type of low-tech toy in the US anymore.


This little girl's job was to beat away the cows who would try to take a snack from the produce her family was selling. I like how her grandfather is napping.


Jodhpur gateway to the market


Sunset among the desert dunes outside of Jalsaimer.


A musician inside the Jalsaimer fort. Everytime I see this photo, I can "hear" what he's playing, one of my favorite shots.

Calcutta/Kolcata redux

More scenes from Calcutta (previous posts 1, 2), this time shot from the medium format camera.

Nope, not terrorist training for young kids, but a street game shooting balloons with a pellet gun.


As large of a city that Kolcata is, it's one place that I refused to take rickshaws around. I don't know of any other places in the world that still have humans pulling around other people, but I just wasn't comfortable with it.



Ice cream, delivered fresh from the streets of Calcutta

Darjeeling revisited

Over the holidays I finally got around to scanning in my medium format film. A friend saw the ones from a sunrise and asked me if I took them while on an airplane flying through the mountains. I might as well have been, I don't think I've ever seen so many shades of blue before.

Darjeeling monestary






Truly a tranquil place. Of course at 5:30am, there aren't going to be a whole lot of people milling about anyways.

Yosemite and geocoding photos

So lately I've been having fun playing with an x-mas present to myself, a nifty GPS unit. One of the great things you can do is geocode photos. A map can display the location of the photos, as well as the hiking path taken. Take a look at some recent shots from Yosemite! If you have Google Earth (click to download), download and double click on this file and you can zoom in on the trail taken and photos. It looks like the screenshot below.



Of course, if you don't have Google Earth, you can always check out the slightly less nifty Yahoo map on the Flickr site. http://flickr.com/photos/tlo/map/

Enjoy the jellies

It's been awhile since my last entry, more to come... In the meantime, enjoy the jellyfish. The jellyfish exhibit at the Monterey Bay aquarium has to be nature's equivalent of the lava lamp.

Laos in infrared

While I was in Vang Vieng in Laos, I shot some photos in color infrared. Infrared doesn't capture "heat," but it changes color according to the amount of infrared reflection being given off by an object. Green leaves turn red, and the military used the film to spot camoflauged objects from real foliage.


Schoolboys


Schoolgirls

Deja Vu?

So you might be wondering why the photo above looks a lot alike the photo from one of my earliest post. Instead of moving out, I'm moved back in. Yep, that's right, my long trip ended exactly where it began... Berkeley, California (Go Bears!). I've actually been back in school for a couple of weeks now, but I'll be posting some new photos from time to time. I still have a couple of hundred more shots to scan still! And who knows where I'll end up next, there's always an international project waiting for my thesis, hah!

Farewell for now...

Scenes from Hanoi

Ah Hanoi, what a beautiful city. Great food, and fantastic scenery.

Huc Bridge to Ngoc Sam Temple


Old men playing chess at Ngoc Sam Temple. Have to love a place where people gather to play games and talk with friends.




The Temple of Literature was founded in 1070 as a Confucian temple. The first university of Vietnam was established within the temple, and it educated Mandarin scholars for over 700 years.

Woman fanning herself selling water and incense.



The gift shop inside sold these water puppets. Creeps me out with all these beady eyes staring at you.


There's something to be said for simple photographs.


Black and white entrance to the courtyard