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
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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

Taj Mahal at Sunrise

On the High Dive, Karnataka, India
New York City

Hindu Temple, Karnataka, India


Blue Mood in the Desert, Pushkar, India
