2011 Portfolios: Travel

Offerings - Ubud Kaja, Bali
My favorite shots from the times I went out exploring in 2011.

Macaque - Ubud, Bali

Mt. Agung - Ubud Kaja, Bali

Before the Cockfight - Bali

Nyepi Eve - Ubud, Bali

Afternoon Light - Siem Reap, Cambodia

The Fountain of Youth - Bedulu, Bali

Ogah-Ogah - Ubud, Bali

Between the Clouds - Singapore

Early Angkor Morning - Angkor, Cambodia

Petronas Towers - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

At Prayer - Angkor, Cambodia

On the Street - Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2011 Portfolios: Editorial

Wake to Dream
I only had the chance to do a handful of projects in 2011, but I'm looking forward to doing much more editorial, commercial, and client work in the coming year. Get in touch if you'd like to work with me in 2012!

Wake to Dream

Wake to Dream

Wake to Dream

Wake to Dream

Wake to Dream

Wake to Dream

Wake to Dream

Wake to Dream

Wake to Dream

We Held the Summer In Our Hearts

We Held the Summer In Our Hearts

We Held the Summer In Our Hearts

Elsewhere in Cambodia

After seeing the temples at Angkor, we did a quick trip through the major spots in Cambodia. There was sleepy Siem Reap, dirty and bustling Phnom Penh, and the profoundly laid back beaches of Sihanoukville. There was so much more to the country that I didn't get to see, and I'm looking forward to spending more time exploring Cambodia one day.

Angkor

Angkor Wat, shortly after sunrise.
I started off my backpacking trip in Cambodia, paying a visit to the temple complexes of Angkor. There is simply no place like this on earth. The history, architecture, and beauty of the temples is endlessly fascinating, and the sheer scale of it all is incredible.

The serene stone faces of Bayon.
Ruins of Ta Prohm	Hiking up to Kbal Spean
Banteay Srei	View from the top of Bakong
Worshippers at Angkor Wat

The Great Railway Bazaar

Here's a peek at my recent travels, my first shot from Cambodia.
After months of flitting between Bali and nearby southeast Asian cities, I'm finally on a proper southeast Asia jaunt, backpack over one shoulder and camera over the other. Since Christmas I've been traveling around Cambodia with my brother. Now he's on his way back to America and I'm in Saigon. Tomorrow I head north on the night train, making my way to Hoi An.

I try to keep my travel expectations low to non-existant to avoid unrealistic disappointment, but the notion of riding the night train across a foreign land holds an unshakeable romanticism. After reading Paul Theroux's account of his voyage on this train, I have no chance of reigning in my imagination.

_{"'No one knows it,' said Cobra Two. No one in the States has the slightest idea how beautiful it is. Look at that -- God, look at that!'}

_{We were at the fringes of a bay that was green and sparkling in bright sunlight. Beyond the leaping jade plates of the sea was an overhang of cliffs and the sight of a valley so large it contained sun, smoke, rain and cloud -- all at once -- independent quantities of colour. I had been unprepared for this beauty; it surprised and humbled me in the same degree the emptiness had in India. Who has mentioned the simple fact that the heights of Vietnam are places of unimaginable grandeur? Though we can hardly blame a frightened draftee for not noticing this magnificence, we should have known all along that the French would not have colonized it, nor would the Americans have fought so long, if such ripeness did not invite the eye to take it."}

_{- Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
via Travelfish}