Let’s be honest. There are tons of eBooks or websites on the internet teaching you how to become a better photographer in just a few hours of reading. Some even claim they’ll teach you how to take great photos, retouch them in Lightroom or Photoshop and set up your own successful business in just 3 hours [...]
I had a friend visit me 2 weeks ago in Chiang Mai from France. As he is also a photographer, we decided to just walk around and take street shots in the market by the river. We never got further than a few steps when a crazy storm just popped out of nowhere and it started [...]
After working on my website offline for about 2 weeks, testing different themes, playing around with CSS and breaking/fixing things, I have finally reached a point where I am happy with the results. Canvas of Light ~ Travel Photography has now a brand new design. I first launched my Photography Blog in October 2008 on [...]
I wish I could be in this state more often but lately, since I came back from holiday, I’m more in a stressed-busy mode. Catching up with work, writing, editing, catching up with photos, friends, and waiting for good news.. I just can’t sit still! So instead of a photo of me jumping around, here’s [...]
During a bike tour from Bangkok to Koh Samui with Beyond Boundaries Travel, we stopped at a coconut farm near Hua Hin. It was interesting to see how coconuts were harvested and cleaned before being sent to factories/markets. Basically, to pick up coconuts from trees, they either send trained monkeys to climb and do the [...]
While driving towards the Rough River lake for a weekend, I managed to get this barn from the car window against the “Simpson Sky”. My girlfriend told me I captured what can easily represent Western Kentucky: Red old barns, vast green fields of corn, soya beans or tobacco, and blue skies with white puffy clouds [...]
Last weekend I took a break away from Internet and went relaxing at the Rough River Lake in Kentucky, USA. It’s a 51,000 acre man-made reservoir after a dam was built on the Rough River for flood control. We stayed in a beautiful cabin overlooking the lake, surrounded by nature. Main attractions here are chilling, [...]
A shot taken in the Sweihan area, near Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. We very often used to go camping in the desert or by the sea during weekends when I used to live in the UAE. It was a nice way to escape the chaos of the city and have some time [...]
I know I haven’t been posting much. Jet-lag, holidays and helping for a wedding (no, not my wedding) took most of my free time so I haven’t been able to work on photos and post anything interesting. I also had a lot of other work to catch up with. I am enjoying my time in [...]
I’ve been extremely busy lately and had to catch up with a lot of work, which is the reason why I haven’t posted much. While you’re reading this, I’ll be already on my way to the US for a month to enjoy some good time in rural Kentucky :) I’ll update with more information as [...]
Just a little “postcard photo” in black and white of a fishing boat patiently waiting during low tide in Chumphon, Thailand. This is the spot where you take the ferry boat to head out to Koh Samui, our last destination during our bike tour with Beyond Boundaries Travel to rest and unwind. These fishing boats [...]
Dusky Leaf Monkeys, also known as Spectacled Langur Monkeys are gentle primates found in the south of Thailand. We encountered some of these awesome wild monkeys on an interesting bike tour from Bangkok to Chumporn courtesy of Beyond Boundaries Travel (which I recommend). They were just sitting in the shade waiting for their primate cousins (that’d be [...]
There are times when you notice a beautiful scene, raise the camera to your eye, compose, adjust the exposure and click. Then you go home, upload your shot on your computer and stare at it.. And you find it just ‘perfect’ the way it is. I took this shot in the Netherlands, on a beach [...]
I really don’t enjoy Vientiane in Laos but I have to admit there are sometimes some good photo opportunities. I caught this photo by the Mekong river, on the new waterfront promenade. A monk was chatting with a tourist who seemed to be very interested in whatever he was saying. I imagined the wisdom-thirsty foreigner [...]
This babouche seller with his colorful stand is located in the old part of Dubai, near the creek. There is a nice old souq (market) over there with cheap items and the ability to bargain with the vendors. The population around that part of the city is mainly Asian, from Indians to Pakistanis and Filipinos. [...]
~~oOo~~ I wanted to post a different shot today, a different style of what I usually post. I have always been a fan of B&W shots, especially street shots in monochrome. I never really posted much (I do have some, check out the Black and White tag) but I was wondering if you people enjoy it [...]
A little cliché shot of windmills in the Netherlands. I spent some time shooting in Alkmaar, a nice little town with a very laid back atmosphere and canals and windmills all around, like many places in Holland. There was a huge storm coming while a few friends and I were walking around for some photos. I [...]
A minimalistic shot of a Koh Samui seascape I took at the end of my bike tour in the South of Thailand with Beyond Boundaries Travel.
Well, not exactly from the clouds, but from an airplane window, above the clouds. I got this nice view of Krung Thep (the real name of Bangkok in Thai, short version) while flying from Koh Samui to Chiang Mai. I was on my way back home after a week of biking tour in the South [...]
I took this shot of an old lady preparing flower bouquets before selling them in the streets near the Ping River in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I also like the contrast between the old working woman and the young men napping in the background (it was around 10am). I am wondering if I shouldn’t just continue [...]
Pink up your life in the pink shop.
Beautiful Arabic Calligraphy on the walls of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
A beautiful shot of the setting sun behind the mountains around Chiang Mai in Thailand.
Ghostly visitors roaming around the stalls in Chiang Mai’s Warorot market, Thailand.
