Place: Southern Gate entering the Angkor Thom temple complex Location: Siem Reap Province, Cambodia Visited: February 2006  

Place: Ramses II Statue at Abu Simbel Location: Abu Simbel, Egypt Visited: November 2007 Zoom burst is a photographic technique, attainable with zoom lenses with a manual zoom ring. Using the technique involves zooming while the shutter is open with a relatively slow shutter speed, generally below 1/60th of a second. For this reason low [...]

Place: Temple 33 at the Mayan City of Yaxchilán Location: Border of Mexico & Guatemala along the Usumacinta River Visited: August 2006 Perched on the western bank of the Usumacinta River, Yaxchilán (“the place of green stones”) lay along the trade route between the two great Maya sites of Palenque and Tikal. But today it [...]

Place: Khafre’s Pyramid, Giza Plateau Location: Cairo, Egypt Visited: November 2007  

Place: Acropolis of Rhodes, Temple of Apollo Location: Rhodes, Greece Visited: April 2010 Greece was never even on my radar when I had been planning my trip to Turkey. But as I walked around the streets of the town of Pamukkale and saw a number of signs advertising the boats from Marmaris to Rhodes. I [...]

Place: Guardian mythical demons or Yaksha supporting the base of a golden Chedi at Wat Phra Kaew on the grounds of The Grand Palace Location: Bangkok, Thailand Visited: February 2006