A Sikh pilgrim bathing in the Golden Temple’s sarovar, a pool believed to instill spiritual and worldly rewards, Amritsar, 2012
A field of tea plants in Srimongal, the heart of the Bangladeshi tea industry, 2012
Blossoming lilies in the Mekong River Delta near Can Tho City, 2011
Steps leading to the Po Lin Monastery on Hong Kong’s western Lantau Island, 2011
Wat Si Saket, built in 1818 by King Anouvong, is the oldest temple in Vientiane and houses more than 10,000 Buddha images, 2011
Lauterbrunnen, near Interlaken, 2015
A stone carving at Ta Prohm. Many of the temple’s walls depict scenes from the Buddha’s life, 2012
Monks at a monastery outside Thonggok, 2012
Soldiers guarding the Grand Palace/Wat Phra Kaew (Emerald Buddha Temple) in Bangkok, Thailand, 2011
A rescued (and now retired) Asian logging elephant at work at the Elephant Village Sanctuary and Resort. The resort teaches mahut (elephant handler) courses near Luang Prabang, 2011
A crowded lorry in Sebaru, Lombok, Indonesia, 2011
Sunrise on the crater edge of Bromo Volcano. The crater is 300m deep and a sheer drop to its bottom where smoldering, Gunung Bromo (2329m) still churns, 2011
Ornate buildings surround the reflecting pool at the Golden Temple, the Sikh faith’s holiest site. Amritsar, Punjab, India, 2012
Laborer, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2012
Tourist flashlights illuminate Angkor Wat at sunrise, 2012
The border crossing between Laos and Vietnam, 2011
Worshipers at the Cao Dai Great Holy See Temple, a faith that blends Buddhism, Christianity, and Confucianism, 2011
Mrauk U’s agrarian landscape is dotted with Buddhist temples, 2012
Cowbells on display in Engstlenap, Melchsee-Frutt, 2015
A man searches the card catalog inside the Republic of Georgia’s national library, 2005
El Impossible Park, Northern El Salvador, 2004
Clouds seem to flow up the snowy mountainside along the Gosain Kund to Ghopte portion of the trail
Moti Mahal, the Pearl Palace, one of the oldest surviving rooms in the Mehrangarh Fort. This area was built in the 16th century by Sawai Raja Sur Singh as a hall of public audience, 2012
A restaurant’s mascot in Rishikesh, 2012
A weathered sign requesting aid for hungry children, El Salvador, 2005
Coal laborer, Yangon, Myanmar, 2012
Framed photos of revered monks in central Bangkok, Thailand, 2011
A traditional paddleboat photographed from Indonesia’s tiny island of Gili Air, with Lombok (and its active volcano) in the distance, 2011
Deep in the Caucuses Mountains where modern civilization ends, beauty begins. The view from Xinaliq, a rugged mountain town where residents live in stone structures carved into the mountainside, 2005