Asia

Phi phi island in Phuket

Paradise

The Andaman sea is paradise. They filmed The Beach right around the corner from here. Just look at that water. ‘Nuff said. 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 link to www.ethancrowley.com and give credit […]

Hippies in Phuket

Hippies in Phuket

Maybe it’s possible to find good, old-fashioned hippies just about anywhere—but I was slightly surprised to find a contingent in Phuket. Sure, one might expect an encounter with quantities of beach bums, or a stray loafer with dreads and a surfboard, but I thought the hippie lifestyle went out of vogue years ago. This particular […]

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 […]

Tampuan girl with striking, light-colored eyes

Nearly Sharbat Gula

She had the most striking eyes; she’s one of the few Asians I’ve ever seen with this shade. I’ve seen other Tampuans with striking eyes, but normally for how intense and dark they are. She almost reminds me of Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed Afghan girl of National Geographic fame. Please feel free to share my […]

the post-stormy evening sky over taro plants

Sky after storm

As the rains begin in earnest, the swollen overtakes this spot. But for now, as the season transitions, it’s a beautiful area, right in the center of town. I love the taro plants in the foreground. Please feel free to share my images—they are meant to be seen! Use them for your non-profit, on your […]

two buddhist monks driving a boat in Cambodia

A Holy Vessel?

Two Buddhist monks riding a boat in Vensai, Ratanakiri. I’d never seen this before; I didn’t know that monks were allow to drive anything. But then, I guess a boat doesn’t require much actual work to pilot. Who knew! I’d imagine that boat has loads of good karma…. Please feel free to share my images—they […]

Sandals, Etc – ‘បែច ជើង

Can you imagine the barbarism of walking into a house (or in this case, a church building) with your shoes on? When it’s my turn to discard my flip flops and climb the stairs, I always try to stick my shoes off to the side, or kind of hide them under the steps of the […]

clouds and sky after a monsoon rain in banlung, ratanakiri

Clouds after rain….

After a good afternoon rain, the sky is always incredibly beautiful here. Just stunning. This is a 9 image HDR vertorama. I tonemapped it in Photomatix, and then pulled in into Photoshop to add an adjustment layer of Levels to increase contrast, an adjustment layer of Curves to make the colors pop, and an adjustment […]