My Work: The Buddha's Apprentices

Here's an audio slideshow based on the Soundslides flash platform featuring photographs of novices (and nuns) in various monasteries in Bhutan titled The Buddha's Apprentices.

The photographs of slideshow were made during my Land of the Druk Yul photo expedition this past October.

The ambient audio was recorded in monasteries during prayer ceremonies, using a M-Audio Micro-Track, while the images were processed in Lightroom 2.2

The Big Picture's Photographs of the Year

Photograph © REUTERS/Kareem Raheem
One of the better photo blogs is "The Big Picture" launched by the Boston Globe, and compiled by Alan Taylor, who credits the old Life magazine, National Geographic, Mediastorm and MSNBC for his inspiration. The Big Picture joins the fray with its Photographs of the Year Part 1 using its high-quality large images.

One of the photographs chosen by the Boston Globe is the one above of a man carrying the body of a child recovered from the rubble of a destroyed house after an air strike in Baghdad's Sadr City in Iraq on April 29, 2008.

When talking about the motive of the Iraqi journalist in throwing a pair of shoes at him during a press conference in Baghdad; a gesture of utmost contempt in the Middle East, George W. Bush said that he didn't know what the journalist's "beef" was. Well, he should be shown this photograph...perhaps it'll jog his faulty memory.