PHOTO GALLERY: Caye Caulker – Belize see photos of Caye Caulker here Caye Caulker is a small, beautiful laid-back island lying within the 185-mile-long Belizean Barrier Reef. It’s one of Belize’s most popular travel destinations. Located just one hour by high-speed ferry from Belize City, the island makes an easy weekend get-away for city residents …
My 10 Best Travel Tips of 2015 on LashWorldTour In 2015 my travels spanned half the globe. After exploring New Zealand’s South Island in January, I next flew to Australia for one month, then on to Bali and Malaysia in SE Asia for two months before crossing the Pacific to the USA. I ended up …
My 10 Best Photo Galleries of 2015 As many of you may already know, in 2015 I began focusing more seriously on travel photography. I enrolled in Matador U Travel Media School, where I joined two courses – Fundamentals of Travel Photography and Advanced Travel Photography. I learned tons of new skills, techniques and …
PHOTO GALLERY: 12 Views of Toliman Volcano at Lake Atitlan – Guatemala [ see photos of Toliman Volcano here ] This photo gallery represents my third take on the famous Japanese woodblock print series “12 Views of Mt. Fuji”, which showcases the nearly-symmetrical Mt. Fuji from 12 outstanding vantage points around the Japanese countryside. My previous …
10 Advanced Photography Techniques and Habits I Use This summer I immersed myself in two intensive travel photography courses at Matador U Travel Media School. Mat U is the educational branch of Matador Network, which is the world’s largest independent travel publication, with over 12 Million unique monthly visitors. That is HUGE! Even though I’ve …
PHOTO GALLERY: 12 Views of Agua Volcano – Guatemala (see photos of Agua Volcano here) Volcan Agua is the most prominent of three volcanoes visible from historic Antigua. It’s so prominent, in fact, that it’s used as Antigua’s main directional landmark, lying directly south of the UNESCO World Heritage City. The stunning, near-symmetrical volcano is …
14 REASONS I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY Working as a travel blogger during the past four years, I’ve noticed a distinct trend in my tendencies. Whenever I have to slough through the never-ending tasks entailed in running a website in this hard-core Google Panda-Penquin update world, I’ve noticed quite clearly certain tasks that make me say, “Ugh, …
NEWS: I Just Started Matador U Advanced Photography Course This summer I started my courses at Matador U Travel Media School. In late June I kicked off my training with Fundamentals of Photography. Wow, did I learn a lot in that course! In fact, I’d go so far as to say it took my photography …
PHOTO GALLERY: My Best Photos with Deep Depth of Field SEE PHOTOS WITH DEEP DEPTH OF FIELD One very desirable attribute of several genres of professional photography is a sense of spacial depth, referred to as a Deep Depth of Field. This is particularly true of landscape photographs. But it can also be important for …
My Latest Photography Skills – Update on my Matador U Photography Course I’m currently halfway through my first photography course at Matador U Travel Media School: Fundamentals of Travel Photography. All I have to say is: OMG! I am learning soooo much! Thus far, the course has taught me improved photographic skills, several new techniques (including …
Hi! I'm Lash, an American nomadic world traveler who's been traveling solo since 1998. I’m passionate about traveling the world nomadically and then sharing it all with you. I hope to inspire you to travel the world, to entertain you with tales from the road, and to help you reach your travel dreams. Welcome! 
