This is a catalog, of sorts, of my travel photography exhibit at Icebox Gallery in Minneapolis, March 25-July 29, 2017. Hours are Thursday-Friday from 10-6, and Saturdays from 12-5. The gallery is also open by [...]
Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha In this second annual round-up of the books I’ve read and the beds I’ve slept in, I gotta admit I’m cutting corners on the reading list. Every year, I [...]
It was a bit of an odd year for us in 2016. While we did some trips around the Midwest in the first half of the year (and Kris went to Baja California by herself) [...]
The Potala Palace is the erstwhile home of the Dali Lama and the holy of holies of Tibetan Buddhism. We got a lot of shots of the outside of the palace, but unfortunately, no photography [...]
The Shanghai skyline at night: a scene from Blade Runner–the original version. Note the face on the building on the right. If you can stand all the pushing and shoving of the millions [...]
Watching Shanghai's accelerated growth, as seen from the World Financial Center (the bottle opener) with the striking Jin Mao Tower in the foreground. Shanghai is frequently described as the New York City of [...]
You want Saturday Night Live? Try the Bund in Shanghai. More people walking around than the entire population of New York. The view from the Fairmont Hotel, Shanghai, down the river promenade known [...]
Rainbow over Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet Among our group of more than two dozen, we could feel the heightened attention as we landed at LXA, Lhasa Gonggar Airport in Tibet. This side trip [...]
It’s complicated summing up a trip like our recent travels to China. When people ask, How was China?, or What did you think? a little voice tells me they are looking for an answer as [...]
The view of the financial district from the Hyatt Hotel. Just a taste. The best way to get a feel for the immensity of Shanghai is to get a look over it. We [...]
