Masai Village, Serengeti, Tanzania
© 2012 Brian H Neely I’m rushing to get this written, and thinking about three other things, so I don’t have a lot of creative writing in me this morning. When we traveled in Tanzania, we didn’t get...
View ArticleYellow & Pink Houses, Esztergom, Hungary
© 2012 Brian H Neely In Hungarian cities, and possibly elsewhere in Central Europe, houses and buildings are built attached to one another. You’ll go a block or more, past five, six buildings with...
View ArticleTime Tickin’ in My Head, Budapest, Hungary
© 2012 Brian H Neely Researching this post required a visit to youtube.com to watch both Anthrax and Joe Jackson versions of the song “Got the Time.” I’d never heard the original version, so I thought...
View ArticleA Story from the Tea Factory, Darjeeling, India
This story requires several photos, but I don’t think you’ll mind. When you stay at a tea estate, one of the crowning moments for the proprietors is showing you their facilities, doing a tasting, and...
View ArticleIn the Village
When you don’t have a car, you tend to live fairly close to work. It makes life much easier, and we could learn something from that. Imagine only having to walk a few hundred yards – your commute would...
View ArticleChele La Pass
Standing above Chele La Pass in Bhutan, at an even 4000 meters (13,123 ft), the wind screams with a full-throated spirit. It almost feels as though a malevolent force wants to knock you off your perch,...
View ArticleThe Hardest Thing I Do
I’m going to try something new for me, and tell you about my business. This idea came to me yesterday, as I was somewhere between 18 and 19 miles into a 20-mile run. See, I’ve signed up for my second …...
View ArticleYak Butter Tea, Paro Bhutan
For me, one of the great joys of traveling is to eat weird food. What I like best about it is that at some point, some of it stops being weird food and becomes something that I occasionally cook...
View ArticleWhat the Heck Is a Puttony, Anyway?
Hungarians, like many people, love their traditions. If you’re a fan of sweet Tokaji wines, you’ve probably seen references to three, four, five, or even six “puttonyos” classifications. This refers to...
View ArticleWine Glasses, Pannonhalmi Apátsági Pince, Pannonhalma, Hungary
Of course, the second best thing about doing a wine project is drinking wine. This particular winery, part of the Pannonhalma Abbey, has been in operation since 996 CE. It was briefly interrupted...
View ArticlePhoto from Everywhere: Cho Hom, Hanoi
Over the past few years, I’ve worked at returning color to my wardrobe. When I was a teenager and into my 20s, as I explored my personal image, I wore a lot of color. I even had a couple women’s …...
View ArticleLesson: Sorting out Quan Chuong City Gate
This post looks much longer than it really is. It’s about editing, or sorting, your pictures. Sometimes, if you’re me, you shoot a lot of frames of one subject. In today’s example, I shot 124...
View ArticlePlaces We Live: Rynek Głowny, Krakow
When considering photos for my Places We Live series, I ask whether the piece would ask a question of me, or fulfill a need. The questions they ask cover a broad range – “Could I live there?” or “Would...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Kashgar Animal Market
Kashgar, China, just south of Kyrgyzstan, west of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, near the Pamir Plateau, is a beautiful, dusty desert oasis town. And it’s old. Older than Paris. Maybe as old as Athens and...
View ArticleLessons: Framing
People often ask about composition, and how to take “the best” picture of a scene. And the answer I give is not very satisfactory to many people, because there are many “best” pictures of a scene. What...
View ArticlePhoto from the World: An Hour at Ba Dinh Square
Last fall, I had a chance to visit Hanoi, Vietnam. I loved the place. I would happily live there for a while, and maybe for a long while. It’s surprising for many reasons – I don’t like crowded,...
View ArticlePhoto from the World: Dancing with Lenin
One of the great things in Hanoi is public dancing. People listen to Bach and Mozart and Strauss (and don’t make me list all of them), and they waltz, foxtrot, tango, and so on, and they do this in...
View ArticleBeautiful: Ardbeg
This picture is from the end of a long morning of whisky tasting on the Scottish island of Islay, in the Hebrides. It’s famous for the smoky, smoky whiskies. We were staying in Port Ellen, and Ardbeg...
View ArticlePhoto from the World: Tre Macchiati
I don’t have a lot to say about this one. My wife and a friend and I went to a little café in Rome for macchiati. My wife’s had cacao in some form on it rather than milk foam. It … Continue reading →
View ArticlePhoto from the World: Bird of Prey
This is completely not going to be what you’re expecting, unless you love a nice plate of gagh every so often. A few years ago, staying in the village of Paje on Zanzibar’s east coast, I went for a...
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