Category: Asia
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197 | Palaces and Stuff :: Tibet, 2014
The Potala Palace used to be the political center of Tibet, and the abode of the Dalai Lama, before the current Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959. It sits majestically atop the Red Hill in the center of Lhasa Valley, and is named after the home of Bodhisattva Chenresi (or Guanyin). Of all the palaces…
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193 | Lights :: Shanghai, China, 2013
At my favorite rooftop bar in Shanghai, a lit bottle against a lit skyline. This city never understood how to be understated.
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192 | Light :: Kusama Yayoi, 2014
A brief moment inside Kusama Yayoi’s Infinity Room in Shanghai. The magical world she creates mesmerizes and inspires, and I can see why they limit the time you can spend inside this room, because it takes you into a place of your imagination where you can just keep going and going. Also I can only…
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191 | Light :: Bagan, Myanmar, 2014
My one and only semi-successful attempt at light writing, one night when we were bored in Bagan 😀
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181 | Shadow :: Yangshuo, China, 2013
It’s hard to find friends who stay. Sometimes you find out they were not who you thought they were. Sometimes you realize you weren’t that compatible as friends after all. Sometimes you just grow apart. There was this girlfriend, who helped me through a difficult time in my life. Then we went on a trip…
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179 | Tunnel Vision :: Taipei, Taiwan, 2016
A pretty epic post wedding hash party through Taipei. Shanghai Hash House Harriers calls itself a drinking club with a running problem, and it is probably true that half of the people do have a drinking problem. It’s hard to describe a hash, you honestly just have to try one out to understand. There’s a…
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176 | Tunnel Vision :: Xiamen, China, 2014
I think it was due to a canceled trip, or a broken heart, that made me tag along a capoeira retreat to Xiamen. Since I was not there for the capoeira, I spent one day visiting all the touristy places in town, and wandered into this tunnel at Xiamen University. It took me a while…
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169 | Just Pretty Things :: Yangshuo, China, 2013
A small corner in a store. I love how these little things brighten up everything.
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161 | Self Portrait :: Everest Base Camp, 2014
The view from base camp was gorgeous. The clouds had just cleared so you can actually see the peak of Everest. It was hard to garner that feeling of reverence though, given the noisy crowd surrounding me, people clamoring to get close to the weathered and humble sign that said “Mt. Qomolancma Base Camp, Elevation…
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160 | Self Portraits :: Shanghai, China, 2014
Getting ready for a friend’s S&M themed birthday party. Behind me are three of my best girlfriends in Shanghai, putting on this look that really wasn’t something we are familiar or comfortable with. In fact, my entire party centric life in Shanghai was something that I wasn’t familiar or comfortable with, but I’m glad I…