Swimming on a hot summer day

Swimming on a hot summer day

It has a name! The Masungi Rock Formation

Masungi rock formation

Lassi and racism

Samosas and pistachio lassi

New, but old

When life was slow and, oh, so mellow

self-portrait

Monday morning in U.P. Los Baños

I know it’s been too long since we last visited UPLB because we got lost on the way to DTRI. We passed a map of the campus but we didn’t stop to check our location thinking we’d know by instinct where to go and we’d land in DTRI without issue. But we were wrong. We ... (more)

The difference that five years make

kapok tree in U.P, Los Baños

When I was a child, I spoke as a child…

Almost an antique wall clock

antique style wall clock

An afternoon in Phuket’s Patong Beach

When people ask how I found Phuket, I always say I loved the food. The truth is, the food is just about the only thing that I liked about Phuket. Which is not to say that it’s a terrible place. It’s just not the kind of place for me. For purposes of this article, when ... (more)

Walking along Patong Beach

Framing the subject in photography

When you say “framing” in photography, it usually means composing the photo so that the subject is the focal point and all the clutter in the foreground and background are excluded. But “framing” has another meaning in photography. It is also a technique by which the subject is positioned inside a border. The border, instead ... (more)