This past week has been a whirlwind :)  We drove up the west coast from San Francisco to Oregon and saw the total eclipse, and then a week later drove out to Yosemite National Park for a couple of days in nature :)  There are new additions to the Stars, Nature, Wildlife albums.  Also there's a new Macro album that I'm going to be expanding with my new 300mm macro lens!  Tiny adventures to come..

So as a very late update:  There are two new albums for Iceland and Cuba here.

In Iceland, I got the chance to revisit some of my favorite locations (Reyjyavik, Vik, Jokulsarlon the glacier lagoon, and various stretches of countryside along the way).  We spent 3.5 days there, and absorbed as much of it as we could given the weather (snow + overcast) and brief timespan.

In Cuba, we spent our honeymoon over the course of a week travelling through Havana, Trinidad, and Remedios.  We stayed with locals in AirBnBs and took almost every form of transportation that they had to offer.  It was fairly hot in late April, but we made sure to hydrate and stay out of the sun during peak times.  We met some of the nicest genuine people, ever, and will look forward to going back again in the future (as long as the borders stay open!).

Thanks for dropping by, and I hope that you enjoy the photographic journey. Classic car turns down old street in HavanaHere, an old American car turns down a street filled with old architecture and bustling tourists/locals

It was an insanely beautiful experience, with the most stunning views starting after we crossed the Canterbury plains on the way from Christchurch down to Queenstown.  It was overcast off and on, but we still managed to get great weather and gorgeous landscape/sky.  Unfortunately, the skies were not clear enough to catch any of the southern lights this trip.. next time!!!

Check out the "Series - Vermont" portfolio gallery for the shots that I was able to capture.  There are a few hiding in others, but this is the bulk of them.  Enjoy!

I attempted to resume this journey 2 years ago, when I was about to travel to Iceland for the first time.  Unfortunately, my newly purchased DSLR was lost on the way to the airport in DC.  I was deeply saddened by the loss of the opportunity to capture all of Iceland's majestic and vast beauty, properly.  I am still, to this day, saddened when I look back on the pictures that I did manage to get on my phone.  Even though they are fantastic, they do not even measure to the quality that I would have been able to achieve with a proper camera.

So, fast forwarding to the now, I relocated to the San Francisco Bay area in April 2015.  Since being here, I have been in constant awe of my surroundings.  I look around me almost 24/7 for new things to see and appreciate.  I have travelled to a few other countries and states, since then and shortly before.  I am starting to stack up the number of beautiful captures that I have been missing out on, all this time.

I finally re-purchased a DSLR about 2 months ago, and I've been on a non-stop shooting spree since then.  I'm determined to make up for lost time, and to develop my hobby, further, into a professional-grade craft.  It excites me to be able to capture exactly what I see, and sometimes what I don't see (things that only a lens can capture), and to save that for myself.  Now, I'm sharing some of that with you.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.