This blog post isn’t nearly as titillating as the title might suggest. David Cheung, who owns and runs ScubaCam in Singapore, was in Tokyo today, and we managed to hook up and hang out.
This was David’s first visit to Tokyo. Since the city is really big, with lots of different and unique areas, I […]

先日僕はカメラマン福田幸広さんと初めて会いました。以前福田さんの写真集で非常に可愛い北海道のリスの写真を見て、会いたいなとずっと思っていたら、念願が叶いました。
ちょうどPNG Japanの山辺さんとManateesの山崎さんと食事をしている時に、福田さんの新しい写真集の話になった。その場で、山崎さんが連絡を取ってくれて、福田さんが来てくれました。
福田さんは主に陸の動物の撮影をしていますが、マナティーが大好きで、今回写真集「マナティー・人間と遊ぶゆかいな仲間」二見書房・１３００円税別を出版されました。とっても愛らしくまたCrystal River に行って直接マナティーに会いたくなるような写真集です。
詳細は福田さんのHPを見てください。

I was in Bangkok recently sitting with Aey and Mean from FiNS Magazine when a “tink!” sound on Mean’s computer signalled an incoming email. Lo and behold, Gunther Deichmann was also in town on his way back from conducting a photography workshop in Cambodia.
Of course, chance meetings like this call for a celebratory […]

Some time ago, I received an email from Montana Black, an artist who lives in Colorado, asking for permission to use one of my photos as reference for a painting. She saw my photo on Flickr, which is a great photo sharing site.
“What a great idea!” I thought, and wrote back to her […]

One of the really cool things about doing what I do is having the opportunity to meet kindred spirits all over the world. By “kindred spirits”, I mean people who’ve lived unusual lives and been through extraordinary experiences, and who voluntarily do crazy things on a regular basis.
I met Mark Thorpe a few […]

After having heard so much about him, I finally had a chance to meet Wetpixel’s video guru Drew Wong recently in Bangkok. And of course, I hounded him with questions about existing and upcoming HD cameras, but sadly, there wasn’t sufficient time to absorb enough, so I’ll have to find another occasion to harass […]

Craig Dewit, owner and captain of liveaboard MV Golden Dawn in Papua New Guinea, was in town for a day. His plane was supposed to arrive from Brisbane at 19:35, but due to Qantas’ plane difficulties (something to do with a misbehaving fuel solenoid and the consequential inability to transfer fuel from one side […]

I’ve been wanting to visit the Solomon Islands for a long time. My good friend Eric Cheng is headed there in September this year aboard the Bilkiki, which is great for him but a real bummer for me because it conflicts with other plans I’ve made. There simply aren’t enough months in a year.
If […]

I recently came across the text from a lecture that Michael Crichton gave a few years ago. Crichton’s discussion pertains to rationality, in particular as applied to the modern-day phenomenon of “science by public consensus”, which is of course not science at all, but mob rule by another name.
Crichton takes the unpopular and un-politically […]

My friend Gunther Deichmann has recently published a new book of images from his travels around the world. In short…it’s stunning. I spend so much time looking through images, both my own and those that other people have taken, that it really takes a lot for an image to make me stand up and […]

Eric Cheng is on his way to go diving in PNG, and had a few hours’ layover in Singapore. We managed to hook up at the airport, and of course, true to form, Eric ended up working on his laptop…
Note the white phone he’s carrying too. It’s a Netgear skype phone. You can make […]

キヨミさんがまさか本当にシンガポールまで来ると思わなかった。
明日から僕はマナドへ出発するけど、昨日から行けばよかったな〜
相変わらずよく喋り、何を言いたいのか分からない時がある。
今日から４泊５日のシンガポールの旅が始まるみたい。僕はいないけど、恵美子は犠牲者だ〜〜〜可哀相に