I have made a decision to suspend all my photographic endeavors for the moment. Why? Two big reasons:

1. Not enough time investment. I have been very busy at work as software engineer, and out of work I have been a public speaker in social events and workshops. I have also been a part-time musician (with the arrival of my keyboard from Jakarta last night, my circle of instruments is complete - guitar, saxophone, and keyboard), and I am also taking care of the teenagers' camp project this year, at my local church.

2. Not enough financial investment to stay up-to-date. I own a manual ratchet-driven camera that costs me $10 per 24 shots. Not that I don't like it, but in the advent of digital revolution, my set of old tools just can't support the current paradigms that I am embracing, such as going green and reducing the amount of garbage. I would really like to get myself a dSLR, but right now it is not a priority item on my shopping list.

I don't write here often either. If you want to read my personal journal, go here: [link]

A group of friends and I are on our initial work to start a non-profit organization supporting the education of children through ART therapy and development, here in Denpasar, Bali, entitled "Yayasan Sumber Seni" (trans.: Source of Arts Foundation).

This foundation will serve as a larger umbrella for a number of non-profit Balinese art organizations, including Bali Christian Art Association

We are raising funds!

PLEASE BUY MY PRINTS! All sales profits from August 15 to December 31, 2008 will be dedicated towards this fundraising. More prints will be available on a daily basis!

ALL proceedings will go towards the cost to develop and run www.sumberseni.org.

We aim to have a working website by the end of October 2008. Please pray for us and support us through your donations!

Once again PLEASE BUY MY PRINTS! Support our cause!

Thanks to those who have donated:

I haven't been active here for a long time. I've been busy creating websites and other software projects for other people that I haven't spent much time taking pictures.

It's a shame, too, that I live in Bali but rarely enjoy its beauty. I don't lug my camera around any more. I got caught up in the drive to become "financially independent". Whatever that means.

Funny what time and place does to people. I only do what I naturally would do: adapt to the new situation. But at the same time, part of the soul I once had seem to have run away.

I'm not entirely sure where I'm being brought by life... but I do know that at the end of this journey lies a great meadow full of flowers. I know... because God promises me.