http://michaelcsnell.com/blog michael c snell photography blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:19:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I took a walk through the old walled city of Chiang Mai, Thailand this morning just after sunrise. The place is littered with temples but many are tucked away -- out of view from the street. Walking was the perfect way to stumble across these jewels. The shot above is ... http://michaelcsnell.com/blog/2010/03/19/wat-tung-yu/ The busy schedule of the last few days has left me with little time to post but I thought I'd share a couple of yesterday's portraits of the Hmong people in highlands of the Mae Rim District of Chiang Mai, Thailand. http://michaelcsnell.com/blog/2010/03/17/hill-tribes-of-thailand/ I'm in Bangkok, Thailand, tonight with my first solid internet connection so I thought I'd share a shot from Dubai taken this morning. It's the Burj Khalifa (formerly the Burj Dubai) -- the tallest building in the world. Note to my mother: the observation deck is still closed so, no, ... http://michaelcsnell.com/blog/2010/03/15/like-visiting-the-future/ Since I'll be on the road for the next couple of weeks, and my ability to post may be hindered, I hated to leave you staring at a photo of my feet. Instead, I'll leave you with the first sign of Spring in our backyard -- the Witch Hazels that ... http://michaelcsnell.com/blog/2010/03/12/spring/ Sometimes that little bit of extra leg room makes all the difference. My travel schedule is just about to shift into high gear. I leave for Thailand in a few hours with a short stop in Dubai along the way. I've been busily making preparations for weeks: getting photography permits, researching ... http://michaelcsnell.com/blog/2010/03/12/air-travel-strategy/ Sorry. Bad pun. I'm posting a couple of photos from Chile today since there's been so much in the news since the earthquake last week. The shot above is from Valparaiso, on the coast west of Santiago. It and the following shot are from a trip I took to Chile ... http://michaelcsnell.com/blog/2010/03/06/chile-but-getting-warmer/ I had thought about a catchy title for this post like "shooting dead relatives" but decided that it might get me some strange Google hits. Winter grinds on in these parts and I haven't had any travel for the last few months. Instead I've been getting caught up on indoor ... http://michaelcsnell.com/blog/2010/02/26/copying-a-daguerreotype/ In my last post, I talked about my desire not to look back on a year and see time wasted. In a funny coincidence I was alerted days later to one of my images appearing as a double-page spread in the new book, "Make the Most of Your Time On ... http://michaelcsnell.com/blog/2010/02/07/published-images-cat-update-etc/ Winding up my review of the the past decade... My first trip of 2009 was to Egypt -- a few days in Cairo, a flight to Abu Simbel and then a Nile cruise from Aswan to Luxor. Egypt is one of those places I had wanted to go to since childhood. ... http://michaelcsnell.com/blog/2010/01/27/decade-in-review-2009/ Continuing my review of the the past decade... More adventures in Canada in early 2008. This time it was a winter trip to Banff and Jasper in the Canadian Rockies. I had visited this area briefly in 2000 on my way to Vancouver. It had been in the spring of that ... http://michaelcsnell.com/blog/2010/01/24/decade-in-review-2008/