Laos

ancient stairs into wat phou

Ascending an Ancient Staircase

Flanked by arboreal sentries, gnarled guardians of a bygone era, a 1000-year-old staircase at Wat Phou ascend into the mountain to a linga bathed in a freshwater spring. Please feel free to share my images—they are meant to be seen! Use them for your non-profit, on your blog, for fun and the like, but please […]

climbing the bolaven plateau

More photos from our Laos trip — ប្រទេស ឡាវ ឆ្នាំ ២០១៣

Here’s a few more photos from our trip to Laos last month. The country is so beautiful, mountainous and green I couldn’t help snap photos left and right, trying to (mostly unsuccessfully) capture the beauty and exotica around me. Our trusty Toyota 4-Runner faithfully bore us all over the Southern part of the country, with […]

The highilght of the bolaven plateau - Tat Katamtok Waterfall

Gorgeous Tat Katamtok Waterfall – Bolaven Plateau, Laos – ទឹក ធ្លាក់ នៅ ប្រទេស ឡាវ

On the way back from Attapeu, we took this shortcut through a gap in the ginormous Bolevan plateau; the road snaked through the absolutely gorgeous valley, before we crawled up some of the steepest dirt roads I’ve ever been on. Then right in the middle of a steep dirt curve, there was a little clearing […]

casting a net from a dugout canoe in Ratanakiri

Video: Northeast Cambodia 2013 – វីដេអូ:​ បង ប្អូន ខ្មែរ លើ នៅ រតនគីរី​ ។

So I put together a demo reel the other day, made up of some work from the first half of this year. It’s nearly all just video shot in Ratanakiri and Northeast Cambodia for my current job. Nearly all the shots feature Brao people, an ethnic minority group who live along the Sesan River . […]

Wat Phu near pakse

Old tree, ancient stone – ដើម​ ឈើ ចាស់, ថ្ម បុរាណ។

On a work trip to Laos last month, Emily and I took a morning to go see Wat Phu. Wat Phu’s an ancient temple on the banks of the Mekong in Laos. The temple’s pretty cool. It’s partway up a mountain, right at the base of some huge stone cliffs. And the whole thing has […]

Sekong River – Attapeu, Laos

Attapeu, Laos. Attapeu was interesting and pretty far off the beaten path. I spent a few days exploring south of the Bolevan Platteau, looking for minority villages. I found a vast HAGL rubber plantation and a lot of illegal lumber while I was at it…. HAGL has made news in England recently for its ties […]