National Geographic Around the World by Private Jet 2013 Cambodia, China & Tibet

October 23, 2013 in National Geographic |

A woman from a western Tibet village I photographed in the Sera Monastery of Lhasa Olympus OM-D E-M1 75mm f1.8

Wow, these trips go fast! Because we’re moving rapidly from one place to the other, I’ve gotten a bit behind on this blog. Now sitting in the Oberoi Amervilas Hotel in Agra, with the Taj Mahal sitting outside my window.

We just flew in from Lhasa, Tibet, having spent a couple of nights in that incredible place. Cool weather in Tibet has been tempered with 93-degree temperatures in India.

Since the last blog from Australia, we’ve made our way to Cambodia to visit Angkor Wat–then to Chengdu, China and onto Tibet. The pace of the trip is fast, but one never feels as though it’s rushed. Local experts are brought on, and the depth of information provided is astonishing. When asking a question about a place, the expert’s answer is never a recorded response. Instead, the answer is from a place of passion within that person, wanting to share their experience and depth of knowledge with the traveler.

Photographically, this is a tour of “greatest hits” with one iconic location following another. I keep thinking ahead, “I’ll keep the shooting down in the next location,” then the density of incredible photographic potential opens up, and all holds are off.

One really couldn’t replicate what National Geographic provides the traveler, such as shooting the Taj Mahal in the morning then whisking them to Tanzania to watch a wildebeest migration that afternoon. Tiring, yep. But the rewards are incalculable, especially for the photographer wanting to immerse themselves in one amazing photographic opportunity after another.