About
BRUCE YOST
About
BRUCE YOST
Welcome.
What started out as a way to document my travels turned into a three decades love of photography. I'm grateful to have had the freedom and the drive to travel as I have. For me, happiness is landing in a foreign country for a month.
Encapsulating 30 years of travel/adventure/magic moments and serendipity. A few highlights:
Starting out from Kathmandu in a Land Cruiser, crossing part of the Tibetan Plateau (High Mountain Asia) to get to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. A 6 day adventure (A sour note was the precise moment driving through the arch welcoming you to Lhasa, when 2 truckloads of Chinese soldiers drove out. The Chinese doing to the Tibetans what America did to the First Americans).
A 27 day high altitude trek in the Everest Region. Taking in Mt. Everest (Mother Goddess of the World) (Tibetan name is Chomolungma) from atop Gokyo Ri (18,000 ft.) along with Lhotse, Nuptse, Cho Oyu and Makalu. Annapurna from Pokhara in Nepal. Dhaulagiri from Jomson also in Nepal. And Kanchenjunga from Darjeeling in the state of Sikkim, India. Seven of these are the highest mountains on our planet. Climbing Cho La Pass, and taking in the views of Ama Dablam and Cholatse when we reached the top. Then sleeping below them for a night. I still marvel when it comes to mind at the quality of the soups/meals that our Sherpa made everyday on that trip.
The first visits to Yosemite, Monument Valley, Antelope Canyon, and Oak Creek Canyon in the fall. One of my all time favorites, Pt. Reyes in the Bay Area, my home for 33 years. And getting reacquainted with scuba diving in Jamaica 2024.
Thanks to the Napalese, Thais, Vietnamese, Bhutanese, Jamaicans & Rastafarians, Tibetans, and Sherpas for showing/teaching me what a textbook cannot.
My comrade, Geoff Bugbee, for your continued inspiration. Geoff is a photojournalist for Orbis, a flying eye hospital that travels the world helping the underprivileged.
A special thanks to all of my invaluable printers through the years in Berkeley CA.
Few notes: Painting with Light Gallery mostly shot with a Macro lens. Allowing a picture to be taken inches away from the subject. Seeing what the naked eye cannot.
The Vietnam & Jamaica Galleries are shot with an iPhone 14 Pro. All others shot on E-6 slide film (old school) without any digital manipulation. A few photos in the Vietnam gallery are taken in museums.
10% of sales will be donated to the American Himalayan Foundation and the Free Arts for the Children of Arizona.
What started out as a way to document my travels turned into a three decades love of photography. I'm grateful to have had the freedom and the drive to travel as I have. For me, happiness is landing in a foreign country for a month.
Encapsulating 30 years of travel/adventure/magic moments and serendipity. A few highlights:
Starting out from Kathmandu in a Land Cruiser, crossing part of the Tibetan Plateau (High Mountain Asia) to get to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. A 6 day adventure (A sour note was the precise moment driving through the arch welcoming you to Lhasa, when 2 truckloads of Chinese soldiers drove out. The Chinese doing to the Tibetans what America did to the First Americans).
A 27 day high altitude trek in the Everest Region. Taking in Mt. Everest (Mother Goddess of the World) (Tibetan name is Chomolungma) from atop Gokyo Ri (18,000 ft.) along with Lhotse, Nuptse, Cho Oyu and Makalu. Annapurna from Pokhara in Nepal. Dhaulagiri from Jomson also in Nepal. And Kanchenjunga from Darjeeling in the state of Sikkim, India. Seven of these are the highest mountains on our planet. Climbing Cho La Pass, and taking in the views of Ama Dablam and Cholatse when we reached the top. Then sleeping below them for a night. I still marvel when it comes to mind at the quality of the soups/meals that our Sherpa made everyday on that trip.
The first visits to Yosemite, Monument Valley, Antelope Canyon, and Oak Creek Canyon in the fall. One of my all time favorites, Pt. Reyes in the Bay Area, my home for 33 years. And getting reacquainted with scuba diving in Jamaica 2024.
Thanks to the Napalese, Thais, Vietnamese, Bhutanese, Jamaicans & Rastafarians, Tibetans, and Sherpas for showing/teaching me what a textbook cannot.
My comrade, Geoff Bugbee, for your continued inspiration. Geoff is a photojournalist for Orbis, a flying eye hospital that travels the world helping the underprivileged.
A special thanks to all of my invaluable printers through the years in Berkeley CA.
Few notes: Painting with Light Gallery mostly shot with a Macro lens. Allowing a picture to be taken inches away from the subject. Seeing what the naked eye cannot.
The Vietnam & Jamaica Galleries are shot with an iPhone 14 Pro. All others shot on E-6 slide film (old school) without any digital manipulation. A few photos in the Vietnam gallery are taken in museums.
10% of sales will be donated to the American Himalayan Foundation and the Free Arts for the Children of Arizona.