Spent the afternoon today back out in Boudha, no photos this time, just having coffee with an ‘old hippie’ (hope you don’t mind me calling you that, B, it’s with all due respect!) and his beautiful Nepalese wife. Interesting to hear what the place was like in the 70’s, without the traffic, noise, pollution and with rice fields in stead of concrete buildings!

But back to business. Not withstanding all the trouble that the stock/editorial photography industry is facing these days, I’m finding it pretty hard to actually get work done here – as a photojournalist. My roles as a father, a husband, a dog owner, an old-house owner, a scribe and an observer with too much curiosity and too many side interests, and a registered expat, all in a third-world country without electricity half the time, no running water in daytime, strikes and traffic jams without end, and while we’re at it, the whole general situation without law and order, now Japanese enchiphalitis in Kathmandu, the notorious earthquake risk and, ohh my god… But at least the weather is pretty nice!

Have to find some time for doing some work again pretty soon. Surprised that I haven’t gone crazy living hear yet, 4 years in this third-world chaos. (Did I say that out loud? Who’s that following me? What’s that purple fish doing swimming around on the wall?)

So, just managed a slight improvement (hopefully) to my web site: Put up a photo slideshow on the front page: 6 photos, 3 in colour and 3 black and white. It’s always difficult to edit all my work down to half a dusin shots, but hope I did an ok job. Afraid there isn’t much of a unique style shining through, but decided to go for a bit of diversity in stead. And hopefully it gives an image of Nepal beyond the stereotypical ‘holy man-holy cow-Mt. Everest-poor folks in the hills-and an interview with Kunda Dixit’ formula that’s used so much to describe the situation here. But just in case I have lost it completely, let me know what you think!