The beast within

Kecak dance, Uluwatu Temple Bali, Indonesia The Kecak dance is especially intense, involving chants, yelling, fire (can’t help but hear Beavis and Butthead say that word), and a hypnotic ambience. The setting for the dance couldn’t be more perfect: atop a cliff 250 feet above the crashing ocean below, with a backdrop of the most dramatic Balinese Hindu temple in Bali. All of this happening as the sun dips below the horizon; one flame extinguished, another is born. It’s allRead more

1600 photos later…

I’ve returned from Bali with 1600 photos and a sore butt. Before you crack the jokes – the soreness is from Waterbom’s water slides. I must have gone down the slides at least 30 times, bruising my arse to a nice deep azure. 1600 photo in 5 days seems excessive surely, but this is one of the first times in all my trips to Bali that I had a chance to focus so much time and energy into taking pics.Read more