I am a #photographer who lived for most of my life in #Beijing. I offer #fineart prints of my photography from my time living there and traveling around #China. I also have been working as a #webdev since moving back to the #USA a few years ago.
Continuing my #icmphotography trend I've been on for the past week... here's one from Angkor Wat. I was waiting for the sunrise but realized it wasn't going to cut through the haze and give me that sunflare I was hoping for. So I started making some ICM & zoom bursts while still hoping conditions would improve.
Saw a friend's post about needing to create art when the world goes crazy. My feelings resonated with that desire so I went to my archives looking for something and found this. Calling it 'Hope' and this is my way of chasing back the darkness
'Lake of Glass' prints are available from my photography store. This is one of the first images in this personal project that I began around #bellingham in 2023. This project started out as a combination of two of my favorite things in life: photography and biking. It turned into something so much more and I'm very proud of this ongoing project.
'What Divides Us' will be in an art exhibition this coming Tuesday in Toronto, ON. If you'd like to stop by the gallery, I've included a link below as well as the story/motivation.
@timkmak keep up the good work Tim. I was in a cafe the other day and a couple of regulars were ranting about how no one talks about the Ukraine war anymore in the news. I tried to find an opening to encourage them to put in some effort or subscribe to your newsletter but they seemed more keen on ranting and moved on to Trump's 83 million
That is AS400 from IBM. Although discounted by IBM, it is still in production in many places running mission-critical apps. It's far better than the stuff people write today. This is how reliability looks. Why break it when it works?
@nixCraft software, like most of what is built today (phones, cars, computers, etc) seems to be hastily built with the intention of you paying to replace it for a more expensive product. Was driving around with a photography friend yesterday in his 15 year old car and you wouldn't have noticed it was that old.
Well #lions, you saw your destiny, and you shit all over it. 27 unanswered points and a pending loss in a championship game is a humiliation worthy of your legacy. You now have 3 minutes to redeem yourselves. #GLWT
More shots from my Wat Phnom visit during my trip to Cambodia. Love how calming and relaxing this Wat was. I really enjoyed just taking in the little details here.
As I continue to work through my Cambodia pictures, I’ve decided if a picture strikes me, I’m going to edit it and share it on its own.
While scouting locations at Angkor Wat, we kept finding these beautiful, bare trees. Maybe it’s because I’m a LOTR nerd but these reminded me of the White Tree of Gondor. The fact that there were also a lot of silver, bark trees that reminded me of the Two Trees of Valinor.. yeah, I’m a dork. (;
There’s something about the fragility of somewhat bare trees beginning to bloom that strikes me. If you’ve been following my work for a while, you’ll recognize this theme in my ‘Forbidden Tree’ image. Let me know what you think? Thanks!
I really loved walking around this Wat in Phnom Penh with Tanya. It was such a peaceful combination of nature and beautiful buildings. I have always enjoyed being able to combine these elements in my work and this was such a great place for that. Of course, there were also the Great Hornbills that were fascinating to see. But they will begin a later post (:
Good morning... still one of my favorite shots of the Great Wall. My best friend and I would bike to this section of the wall on a regular basis. It became our 'Blue Remembered Hills' and we have often quoted the Housman poem to each other as we missed this life we had been blessed to live.
As a photographer, one of my favorite things to do is be able to revisit a spot and get to know it better with each visit. When I’m traveling, I don’t always get that opportunity. But when Tanya and I stayed in Phnom Penh, we were close enough to the Independence Monument to be able to get there pretty regularly. As long as it wasn’t blocked off by visiting delegates, it wasn’t pouring buckets or traffic wasn’t a crawl. (;
As I get more and more into ICM & abstract, I wish I had been making these images when I was still living in Beijing. So, I've decided to create pieces that evoke how I feel about these places from 'normal' images from my time there.
This is still one of my favorite winter pictures. In Beijing during the pandemic, one of the few places you were allowed to go to in public were there many parks. So when it snowed, I asked a friend what was open and would look good in the snow. He was a local tour guide I had been teaching photography to and said the Summer Palace was open. So, hoped in a cab (no subway at that time) and met him.
