Kyle Obermann Photography

Blizzard in Brooklyn - 2.23.2026. New York hasn't seen a winter storm like this in 10 years. Feeling really lucky to be here today and able to get out there this morning. It was a really magical few hours.

Now, who wants to take bets whether I will make my flight to Anchorage from LGA tomorrow?

More frames from the NYT story on domestic, feral, and free-ranging dogs in the Himalaya. A whirlpool of interlaced systems - religion, tourism, military, and climate - have brought Lakdah's wildlife to the brink by the new apex predator that has been allowed to thrive here, and elsewhere across the trans-Himalaya (so China, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan too).

More frames from the story of domestic, feral, and free-ranging dogs in the Himalaya. A whirlpool of interlaced systems - religion, tourism, military, and climate - have brought Lakdah's wildlife to the brink by the new apex predator that has been allowed to thrive here, and elsewhere across the trans-Himalaya (so China, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan too).

Trying to capture all of these different causalities for this story was a challenge, one that often lacked oxygen (my favorite types), and rolled out over many months and two years of visits to India.

Hidden corners of Yunnan: when asked me to come to China and film some her story, I knew this was the project I wanted to cap of my year with. I couldn't have asked for anything more.

We covered quite a lot of ground: Wuhan, Dali, & Lijiang in a week, and I left wishing we had just a bit (or a lot) more time. But this spot in particular blew my mind. I had first seen it from a car window 10 years ago. I haven't been able to stop wondering about it ever since. Of course everyone in China knows the Tiger Leaping Gorge now, but when we finally travelled to this little corner, we found no tourists and unfettered access down to the banks of the Yangtze. It was a dream come true and felt like an entrance into another world - an affirmation that curiosity still opens the door to places in China few know about, even when they exist in nearly plain sight.

Now, of course, the editing.