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Brrrrrrr…… Fox Glacier, New Zealand

26 Oct

Back in February, I took myself on a nice little vacation to Australia and New Zealand. This is when I had decided that photography was for me. I decided before getting on my flight to the other side of the world, that I was going to go away, take lots and lots of pictures, get inspired, and come back to Miami with one goal in mind; to make photography my job. As part of that mission, I started this blog. It is through writing and sharing my photographs with my blog followers that I feel I can best show the artist within to the rest of the world.
The photos below were taken on Fox Glacier in New Zealand. After a 10 minute helicopter ride to the top of the glacier, we (the group I was with) hiked around for about 4 hours. It was incredible… everywhere I looked there was ice. Lots and lots of ice. The patterns formed were beautiful. There were ice caves, ice pools, ice picks, ice hammers, ice boots. Everything icy! Just writing about this is giving me the chills…

Anyway, I was always at the end of the group because I was so busy photographing (surprise?) but the end result is one of my favorite unplanned photo-shoots!

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Cambodia – Phnom Penh

17 Aug

Day 1

I arrived in Cambodia 2 days ago, landed in Phnom Penh. What a dirty city! It was actually the biggest culture shock of them all. The first day there, we took a walk through a food market (right outside the hotel) to the city center market. The stench in the food market was beyond description. I want to say it was a mixture of rotting carcii (is that a word? if not it is now!) and rotting fish and rotting vegetables; case in and point it smelled rotten! I have to admit there was some gagging. Needless to say, it was worth the trek to get to the center market… Where you can buy faux designer anything for under a dollar!

Day 2

The morning started off really early with a trip to the Kheymar Cambodian Genocide Museum. Thats right, Genocide. After the museum, we went to the killing fields… I did not go in. Some things are just to much for even me to handle. I was shocked to hear that 30 years ago (so recent) there was a genocide in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge came into power. How is it that in all my studies of the holocaust, and knowledge of Darfur, or even Rwanda, I had never heard of the genocide in Cambodia. 75% of the population is 35 and under. 2 million people killed in a matter of 3 years… click here to learn more.

Later on that day, I went to the royal palace just a few blocks from the hotel. It was my first time in such a place. The architecture is really amazing! So colorful and different. It was like walking through Epcot.

The best part of this day was dinner. There was a wonderful performance at a restaurant to benefit the children of Cambodia. They were so cute these kids! I had a chance to speak with some of them after they performed for the group. It was nice to see children who are studying as opposed to begging on the street. You can learn more about what they do here.