So, yesterday my friend and journalist colleague, Rishi Dhamala, was released from prison here in Nepal. He’d spent a couple of month on charges of involvement in terrorism(!) but in the end the police didn’t produce a shred of evidence! He’s always blamed the Maoist government to be behind his (political?) arrest, said it was [...]

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 [...]

In between changing diapers and rocking her to sleep, I sometimes manage to sneak out of the house for a couple of hours! Usually I head to Boudha if I don’t have anything special to do. Great place for walking around with the camera! So this is turning into a little project, I suppose. Taking [...]

The last few days, whenever I’ve had some time, I’ve been sitting here at the computer, tightening up my keywords on Alamy (stock photo agency). Man, not the most interesting thing to be doing. But Alamy offers a lot of behind-the-scenes statistics for it’s contributors and, how I read it, I can still improve my [...]

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Chinese Massacre of Tibetans in Lhasa in 1959, protests were today held throughout the world. Here in Kathmandu, it was a relative low-key affair, not nearly as violent as last year. One notable new tactic was used by a British activist who tried to scale the [...]

Our daughter was born yesterday morning in Patan Hospital. Mother and child are both fine. For friends and family around the world, here’s a few snapshots (click to see big):
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