Category Archives: Photography
Dambulla cave temple
One consistency on our few week trip in Sri Lanka was that nearly every stop ended up being better than we expected. That’s certainly a nice aspect of taking a trip that you let someone else put together for you. Menaka Arangala arranged our trip although we never met him. Our driver, Ashoka did a …
Negombo, Sri Lanka fish market
We arrived in Sri Lanka late on Friday the 21st of December. Our driver – Ashoka – picked us up at the airport and drove us to our hotel in Negombo. Jay and Shannon had arrived the previous day. Jay had chilled some beer to celebrate our arrival. Making things sort of strange was that …
Winter break highlight: Leopards in Yala National Park in Sri Lanka
Instead of going through our winter break day by day as I have for some trips in the past, I plan to highlight some specific parts of the trip that were highlights. One of the things I was really looking forward to during our two weeks in Sri Lanka was a safari in Yala National …
Przewalski’s horse – Equus ferus przewalskii – Tahki
We went to Khustai National Park west of Mongolia’s capital in Ulaanbaatar and stayed at a ger camp a few kilometers away. On Saturday morning we loaded in a bus and a little way into the park lucked out and saw a group of Przewalski’s horses. They were extinct in the wild from 1966 until 1992 …
Photos of airplanes taking off at sunset
During our long layover in the Beijing airport we watched the sun begin to set and then create the perfect backdrop for pictures of airplanes taking off. Here are some of the pictures I captured. This is very typical of the sky in Beijing – except you can see the sun. There is a constant …
Some graffiti in Mongolia
Every now and then I see some graffiti here in Ulaanbaatar. Actually, I have been seeing more and more of it. Even the view from my living room window had new paint just last week. Here are some that we have seen – and bothered to photograph. Here is one Pepper shot while we were …
Ulaanbaatar playgrounds
I have been fascinated by the diversity, strangeness, quantity and condition of Ulaanbaatar’s playgrounds. There are a lot of them. As a former Certified Playground Safety Inspector (yes, I could have had “CPSI” after my name on business cards) many of the playground are textbook risks. Look for swings made of metal and wood, fall …
Snowshoeing up Raven’
On Sunday we woke to quite a bit of fresh snow. We decided to rent snowshoes and go for a hike. We didn’t make it too far up Raven’s trail because we were having to “break trail” which is pretty tiring when you sink down up to 8 inches into the snow but we got …
Flickr front page pictures
I’m usually signed into Flickr so don’t often see the image on the front page. They rotate and seem to have quite a few that will show up on any given day. This was one that showed up today. I saw that and thought, “I know that place, and I have a better picture of …
DIY Disaster to use one of my photos
While i was in China I received this message through Flickr. Hi Ryan, My name is Chad Swift and I am the Associate Producer for a show coming out on the Do It Yourself netowork (DIY) called “Disaster House.” The premise of our show is we recreate accidental or natural home disaster to a house …
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