Within the Temples of Angkor Wat

I never did the backpacking-through-Europe thing before I started my career. And to some extent I always regretted it. So, when I moved with my company to Japan, I used my location as a launching pad for travel to interesting parts of Asia.

This photo was taken in Cambodia seeing what I think is one of the most awesome sights in the world, Angkor Wat. This photo could have been taken anywhere in the world, but trust me on this, it was taken in Cambodia. I liked seeing the sun pouring in on this large wooden support used to prop up the heavy cut-stones that are caving in. In fact Angkor is a city full of temples that are being destroyed by nature. It's an amazing place to see giant trees whose root systems are growing and enveloping walls. It's really a sublime place.

This shot does it for me only because of the natural framing of the darkened walls in the foreground set against a nicely positioned wooden support set at a slight angle.

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The 18th at Coronado

I'm a horrible golfer, but I'd like to think that golf can be time well spent, especially when you're witness to a spectacular sunset.

In 2002, a group of friends played a round of golf at a public course on Coronado Island in San Diego. We were approaching the green on the 18th hole when I noticed the deep colors of the sunset reflecting off the lake. Everything in the background was shadowed black, including the ducks. The only color was was the sunset and that light which reflected off the water. It was truly a nice moment.

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Cabo Cactus

This picture was taken in Cabo San Lucas of a lone cactus on a small sandy bluff overlooking the beach and the Gulf of California. I shot this picture in the morning and, like most of my shots, didn't do anything for me. I started playing around with the colorization and though that even though the blue sky behind it was so clear and deep...if I made that black and white and intensified the green of the cactus I might come up with some funky. Well, it certainly is funky. I think that's why I like it.

This trip to Cabo in 2005 was an incentive trip because Shelley and her sales district was one of the top districts in the company. Shelley was pregnant with Anthon at it was one of the last big vacations before I started my MBA and we became parents.

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The CN Tower of Toronto

In honor of me being in Toronto on business this week, I thought I'd post a picture I took of the CN Tower, one of the tallest structures in North America. The views from up top are spectacular. There's a section with a clcear, plexi-glass like flooring that allows you to see to the ground. Let me assure you, it takes a few seconds to assure your brain that you're not going to fall if you step on it.

I took this shot while I was on a month-long sprint through parts of Canada helping to promote a new mutual fund my company launched in April, 2006. I had some free time on a Saturday and, as you can see, the weather was perfectly clear.

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Sunrise along the Mediterranean

I remember this shot well. I had been up for hours watching the Presidential election coverage in our hotel room in Spain. It was like Christmas morning. Shelley wouldn't let me get up too early, but I just couldn't wait to see how the election results turned out. (By the way, election day television for me is the best television in the world.) I was up at 4:00 AM and quietly turned on the TV.

This shot was taken as the sun came up in Marbella, Spain - a Mediterranean coastal resort town. I'd never seen a sky so vivid with color. This picture was doctored a bit only to intensify the color of the sky and to completely blacken out the buildings in the foreground.

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