Quick Book Review: “Fake Photos” by Hany Famid

This is an informative little book photographic forensics, namely, how to tell whether a photograph has been altered. The book is published by MIT Press, so it’s no surprise that the book goes into a lot of technical details. The details are complicated, and it practically turns the book into a technical manual. The author does describe several court cases…

Quick Book Review: “Leave the World Behind” by Rumaan Alam

I’m not sure what to make of this book. A middle-aged white couple and their two teenage kids are vacationing at a secluded Airbnb in the Hamptons. Unexpectedly, the black owners of the home knock on the door, telling the guests that the power on the east coast is knocked out, presumably due to some nebulous national incident. They’d feel…

Photography and Shots from our Trip to Peru. Pt. 6 – Aguas Calientes, Cusco, Paracas

Quick Book Review: “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” by Olga Tokarczuk

This might be the best novel I’ve read all year. This book is a combination of fairy tale, murder mystery, and philosophy book. Who has the right to live? Who has the right to kill? Who determines who is sane or not? It’s the tale of an intelligent, quirky old woman living in a remote Polish village near the border…

Quick Book Review: “The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution – The Photography of Jim Marshall” by Joel Selvin

Not surprisingly, I loved this book. I love photography, and I’ve been enthralled by the Haight-Ashbury era and the music coming out of that scene for years. Jim Marshall was a spectacular photographer who not only took iconic photos of musicians (he’s the guy responsible for the photo of Hendrix setting his guitar ablaze at Monterey Pop, Johnny Cash famously…

Photography and Shots from our Trip to Peru. Pt. 5 – Machu Picchu

Continue to Part 6 of our Trip to Peru

Quick Book Review: “Little Bee” by Chris Cleave

This was a pretty intense novel. It tells the tragic story of Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee, and Sarah, a young widow in England. The lives of these two women intersected violently on a Nigerian beach years before the novel opens, and their reunion brings forth a devastating tale that haunts you long after the book is finished. The author…

Quick Book Review: “New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography” by Grant Scott

The role of photography in the world today has gotten tougher to assess, given that everybody has a camera with them at all times. The author argues that photography should be reassessed, and be thought of as a visual “language”. To do this, we need to discard the pre-conceived notion that successful photography is defined by a single successful image…

"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one." - Confucius

For a business owner who worked fanatically five or six days a week and who absolutely relished the weekend, I’m suddenly now a leisure commando, raiding cities across the globe and indulging in whatever leisure activities are on offer there. I no longer live for the weekend; life is one continuous weekend. Join me on these escapades as I try to make sense out of the world.

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My Future Plans

Volunteer my time to local and international groups that I support (especially Mission Rabies).
Continue to practice and improve my photography.
Travel! Upcoming plans: Amsterdam, Rehoboth Beach, Peru, St. Martin, Anguilla, St. Barts, and Guadeloupe.
Try to achieve inner peace and mindfulness through meditation.

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