Musician (mikekrauseandthethirdexpression.bandcamp.com/album/instru...), music educator (www.mkrause.com), hobbyist photographer, traveler.

 

Received recognition in photography via inclusion of work in the multimedia N.E.W. Show series at the Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC and as a winner in the Raleigh News & Observer’s 11th Annual Travel Photography Contest.

 

Main photographic interests: travel, street, urbex and fine art photography.

 

Places photographed:

 

Thailand, Laos, Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau, India (Calcutta, Orissa, Delhi, Agra, Rajasthan), Sri Lanka, Mexico (Oaxaca, Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan, Mexico), Hawai'i (Moloka'i, O'ahu, Big Island), US and British Virgin Islands, Barbados, Bahamas (Eleuthera), Puerto Rico, American Southwest (New Mexico, Arizona), United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland.

 

Places desired to photograph:

 

South America, Jamaica, Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Japan, Taiwan, Nepal, Tibet...

 

"Vietnam was just like the books, just like the movies, only better. The guileless generosity of strangers, waking up smelling those smells, seeing those sights. And having, once, one perfect meal, a confluence of everything good, a source of perfect happiness; I was almost ready to believe in God. But there was quite a big downside to all of that." His eyes are intently on me now, the background chatter receding. "I knew that my whole previous life was doomed. It was no longer going to be normal. I had seen that... Colour... and I knew that that had changed me, altered the way I would look at things. And the first time I went back to America, I found I was right. Everything was flat. Everything."

 

- Anthony Bourdain

 

"There is something about Indochina that has a lure,” he says. “It’s an obsession, an addiction.”

 

- Tim Page

 

“For whatever you’re doing, for your creative juices, your geography’s got a hell of a lot to do with it,” he said. “You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.”

 

- Neil Young

 

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it."

 

- Jonathan Winters