Let There be Light at the Edge of Darkness - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

Dark clouds rolling,
angry waves crashing,
making every sound louder than the last one.

The bright daylight that was omnipresent a second ago rapidly diminished, receding farther into the horizon. Only glimpse of rays peeked from time to time through the cracks that the clouds occasionally failed to seal up.

I remember this scene vividly as if it was yesterday. We were on the west coast of Noto Peninsula in Japan, en route to Wajima city.

The recent earthquake on the New Year’s day in Japan brought unfathomable devastations to the area, Wajima being the hardest hit - roads ruptured, buildings toppled, houses reduced to debris, and lives, lives that were forced to come to a screeching halt, alive, lost or unaccounted for …

My heart aches for the many that are displaced, not knowing where their loved ones are and dealing with no water or power, and no shortage of harsh winter weather.

I pray that this image would offer an ounce of comfort in that there is light at the edge of darkness, because with light, there is hope.

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
— Desmond Tutu

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Beautiful travel pictures from Vietnam and Cambodia to be slowly released - Los Angeles Photographer

OK, I'd have to admit that I'm a little behind on posting pictures.  The truth is, as many of us are familiar with the moment of clicking the shutter, the pictures taken usually go through a digital processing that, in my opinion, takes much longer time than the time of photo shoot.  Plus, the end results are an art, the generation process of which is not anywhere near the ones that involve 1+1 = 2. So anyway, this sort of explains why my travel photos have a lagging time while I'm painstakingly working on each individual for a way of presentation/expression that I feel good at the time.  And all this is going on while I have the clients' pictures in the "front burner".  If you haven't figured out that I'm the type of photographer that falls in love with her clients' photos before the client even has a peek, you'd know that I go through the same "perfectionist" type of process with my client work.

So, finally, I feel good about releasing one picture from my Vietnam and Cambodia trip.  While I'm in the process of making a book with the incredible scenery, history, culture and people of these countries, I will make a calendar with a selective few.  And I think that this picture will make the final cut.  What do you think?

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