R. GETTY PHOTOGRAPHER
Fishtail Mountain, Annapurna Range, Nepal
In the Fog, Central India
Dredging for Sand, Maharashtra, India
Fishing Boat, Diu Island, Maharashtra, India
The Leap of Faith, Fewa Lake, Nepal
Waiting for the Dalai Lama, Diskit, Ladakh, India
Photography is a place where dream and reality interact, a place where light and shadow rule. Seizing the moment and preserving it gives me great pleasure. Travel and photography have become symbiotic obsessive compulsions which fuel my psyche.
These dual obsessions give me good reason to wander. I enjoy bad roads leading to places I can barely pronounce where I often meet people I will never forget. Places where magnificent ancient temples rise up out of the landscape and speak of distant more glorious eras of history. I feel the magnetic attraction to the back roads of Asia and Latin America. To be able to return alive after a six month journey with some decent photos is icing on the cake for me. Photography is my drug of choice, a sweet addiction.
Basically, I'm a thrill seeker who enjoys going to far away places where things move slowly. Places where humans have been living off the land since before the days of Genghis Khan. Occasionally when travelling by motorcycle, boat or cargo truck I've been able to reach remote places where people have never seen ice, never tasted ice cream. I'm attracted to places where people live much like they have for centuries. I try to enter into a calm state of mind, into the "eternal now" where the camera becomes an extension of my eye.
If you you have any questions or comments I can be reached via e-mail at: tropicalboogie@yahoo.com
Thank you for your kind attention.
Sunset, Diu Island, Gujarat, India
Waiting for the Dalai Lama, Ladakh, India
Fishing Boats, Diu Island, Gujarat, India
Pushkar Sunset with Camels, Rajasthan, India
Cattle Egrets, Gorkana, Karnataka, India
Fishing in Nepal, Fewa Lake
Cattle Egret, Gorkana, Karnataka, India
Stilt House, Tonle Sap Lake, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Siri Lankan Crow
A Stroll by the Lake, Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi, Viet Nam
Mother and Child, Rishikesh, India
Monkey in a Tree, Pushkar, India
Loading the Net, Maharashtra, India
Hurricane Season (collage)
Rajasthani Goat Herder, Pushkar, India
Egrets, Maharashtra, India
On the Overlook, Sapa, Viet Nam
The Call of the Wild, Pushkar, India
Fewa Lake, Nepal
On the Banks of the Ganges, Rishikesh, India
The Lotus People, Cambodia
The Sand Man, Maharashtra, India
Me and a Friend (near Qinglong, Yunnan, China)
The Colors of Goa, India
Skyline, Huangpu River, Shanghai, China
Sedan de Ville, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Birds on a Boat, Diu Island, Gujarat, India
Christo Rey Church, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Bamboo Man, Central Burma
In the Fog, Maharashtra, India
Two Egrets at the Fish Drying Plant, Gorkana, Karnataka, India
Fishing in Burma, Inley Lake
Sunset on the Ganges, Rishikesh, India
Hauling Water, Gorkana, Karnataka, India
On the Street, Kathmandu, Nepal
The Bed Delivery Guys, Uttarakhand, India
Working in the Salt Mines, Gorkana, Karnataka
Think Different, New York City 1997
Chile Merchant, Bali, Indonesia
Departures (collage)
Crows, Gorkana, Karnataka, India
Tree, Rishikesh, India
Buddha, Patan, Nepal
Boat Work, Ranong, Thailand
Outside of Leh, Ladakh, India
Thai Fishing Boat with Burmese Crew
Early Riser, Amritsar, Punjab, India
Sunrise, Hampi, India
Buddha, Kathmandu, Nepal
Visitor at the Doorstep, Rishikesh, India
Egrets, Gorkana, Karnataka, India
The Eternal Conversation, Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Monkey, Karnataka, India
Home Theater, Santa Fe, 2002
Hauling Firewood, Lumbini, Nepal
Birds on a Boat, Gujarat, India
Cambodian Lotus
Bright Boats in the Harbor. Nepal
Double Exposure, Burma, 1990s
Contact Sheet, Double Exposures, Burma, 1990s
Freedom
The Young Buffalo Rider (Burma)
Blue City
Self Portrait, Thailand
In the Rice Paddy
Smile for the Camera
Egrets, Gokarna, India