bon voyage!

i leave tomorrow morning for southeast asia, and i'm much more excited than my last posting about this trip may have sounded. i have some new gear to toy around with, and am going to shoot my first video footage with the d90 and my new digital audio recorder (thanks for the xmas pressie, sebastien!). all the packing is done and all that's left to do is wait for itunes to update. which is taking forever.

to bide some time, i came across these stunning environmental portraits in vanity fair by swiss duo braschler/fischer.




they trek around the world with a large-format camera, portable strobes and soft-box. that's some hefty equipment to be lugging around, but the resulting photographs are crisp, beautifully composed, and immaculately staged. simply gorgeous.

enjoy the photos, and see you in the new year.

image by mathias braschler and monika fischer
courtesy of vanity fair online