The Coming Storm

The Coming Storm
April 2005 at Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia

The winds picked up and whipped around palm fronds in the temple as the jungle�s profile swayed against the distant horizon. I was scrambling to put away my camera and meander through the courtyards to get out of the temple complex before the darkening sky released its hold on the coming storm. I knew if I didn�t act quickly that I�d be drenched in one of the Cambodian rainstorms I had heard the locals reference. As I exited through the main entrance doorway for Angkor Wat, I glanced to the left where a spot of orange caught my eye. On the river�s bank three monks were sitting. The beauty of the moment was immediately evident as they watched the storm coming across the moat to wash over Angkor Wat. I smiled as the sense of my being present in the moment crystallized for me. Instead of rushing away with fear about being rainsoaked, I chose to take out my camera -- slowly -- with the intention to retain the lovely Zen state surrounding me. Then I watched -- and truly appreciated -- the coming storm.

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* Half of the profit will be donated to assist with ongoing tsunami relief efforts in Thailand.

The profit will be determined by taking the overall proceeds from the sales and subtracting the expenses for film processing and framing the images for the shows. The funds will be provided to specific individuals I met on my trip (not organizations) who are still in the Thailand area helping with recovery projects. The individuals receiving the funds are charged with finding locals in need of the funds and dispensing them accordingly for relief projects. [For example, contributions I personally provided to one of these individuals went to paying for school tuition for the daughter of one of the shopkeepers whose store was destroyed in the tsunami. Other such private donations have bought engines for fishing boats, books to replace those lost in the tsunami, etc. My personal experience while in Thailand was the funds being doled out by volunteers who had direct exposure to individuals, in the communities hardest hit by the tsumani, were those funds being best allocated. The volunteers would accompany the tsunami survivor to pay the school fees to the school directly or to buy the engine directly instead of money being handed out.]