Category Archives: Photography
Great Ocean Road & Phillip Island
When I was visiting Melbourne, I did two tours to the Great Ocean Road and Phillip Island. Unfortunately, Melbourne was raining on the days that I planned to go around and do sightseeing in the city. I did not get any decent pictures of the city, though I can say that it is a really …
Blue Mountains, Australia [Photo Gallery]
The Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia (near Sydney) is a large plateau surrounded by ridges. The reason for the name is due to light being scattered by the terpenoids the eucalyptus trees emit into the atmosphere. A blue haze engulfs the entire area because of it. The eroding sandstone resulted in some rather …
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Sydney Opera House [Photo Gallery]
I really liked Sydney. The iconic opera house made it that much better. I never got taking photos of it—I think I took a couple hundred over the time I was there. In the evenings was the “Vivid” show that projected various scenes onto the opera house (and the museum building behind where I took …
Wat Pha Sorn Kaew, Phetchabun
On the way back to Bangkok from Songkran in Chiang Mai we decided to take a little detour to Phetchabun and see Wat Pha Sorn Kaew. Phetchabun is not visited very often by foreigners since it is off the normal tourist trail. Phetchabun is in the “mountains” of Thailand, so it is relatively cool and …
Yala National Park [Photo Gallery]
Yala National Park is the most famous national park in Sri Lanka. Located in the Southeast corner, it isn’t necessarily the easiest to get to, but the wildlife is worth the effor. I saw pretty much everything you could see with the one major exception of leopards. Yala is sort of famous for leopards, however …
Yee Peng, Chiang Mai 2013 [Photo Gallery]
Yee Peng is Northern Thailand’s festival to celebrate their version of Loi Krathong (they celebrate both, actually). I went to Maejo University to watch the big lantern release just like I did in 2011. While the lantern release was just as beautiful as it was two years ago, there are few things that have changed. …
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Tung Bua Tong [Photo Gallery]
Tung Bua Tong is a place in Mae Hong Son in Northwestern Thailand where wild Mexican sunflowers grow. Known as doi bua tong in Thai, or Bua Tong flower, the sunflowers were originally brought by missionaries and have since spread over much of Northern Thailand. They are especially prevalent along the sides of the roads, …
Thi Lo Su Waterfall [Photo Gallery]
Thi Lo Su Waterfall (Namtok Thilosu) is Thailand’s biggest and highest waterfall. Getting here isn’t easy. The drive to Umphang, the nearest town, is well over 10 hours from Bangkok across one of Thailand’s most dangerous roads. Known as the Death Highway (mostly because of the conflict in the area in the 1980s, but also …
Autumn [Photo Gallery]
These are just a few photos I took over the last weekend when I went to visit my dad in Eastern Washington. They were all taken on my iPhone, so not the best quality but still pretty nice. The weather has become cool a bit earlier than usual, so while I definitely feels like autumn …