Helsinki 2008
In a quest to visit every country that ends in -land in English, I ended up in this lovely city on the Baltic on a gorgeous summer weekend.

Thornton-Lamp Wedding 2008
My ex-dance-partner, Kyle Thornton, married his partner of nine years, Michael Lamp, on July 11th in the beautiful San Francisco City Hall.

Cheryl Burke Dance Welcome Party 2008
Celebrating the opening of Cheryl Burke Dance in San Francisco, featuring a Salsa lesson by Cheryl Burke and her Dancing With the Stars partner, Christián de la Fuente.

San Francisco Tsunami June 2008 Show
The San Francisco Tsunami Sychronized Swimming Team shows their stuff in an exhibition before the big National Championships!

Alaska 2008
Freezing fun on Celebrity Summit in Seward's icebox at the Hubbard Glacier, Seattle, Juneau, Ketchikan, and Victoria.

Hampton Court Palace and the London Eye 2007
England, past and present, in the merrie month of May.

Costa Rican Orchids 2007
Heading north from the Panama Canal, we stopped in Puntarenas for the day and visited a spectacular commercial orchid farm.

Panama Canal 2007
Scenes from the amazing engineering feat that is the path between the seas.

Ireland 2006
Green and rocky, with high cliffs and skies that went on forever.

Bermuda 2006
Beautiful blue seas and skies, lots of boats and "cottages," in the Newport and Hamptons sense of the word.  Laura and her mom, Zoe, cruised there over Mother's Day 2006 aboard Celebrity's Zenith.

Davos 2006
A few scenic photos from Davos, Switzerland. Brian & Laura were there in January for the 2006 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.  Laura didn't feel comfortable taking photographs at the meeting itself, but she did keep a detailed blog.

Cambodia and Sri Lanka 2005
To avoid going to Burning Man, Laura took off to Cambodia and Sri Lanka. Her main objective: to see elephants. Between the working elephants at the Angkor temple complex near Siem Reap, Cambodia, the wild herd in Sri Lanka's Minneriya National Park, and the Pinnawela elephant orphanage located between Colombo and Kandy, she saw plenty.

USA Dance Nationals 2005
Random photos from the 2005 USA Dance National DanceSport Championships held in St. Paul August 12-14.

Galaxy DanceSport Festival 2004
Laura's first attempt at competitive ballroom and latin dance photography.

New Zealand 2004
Brian & Laura spent three weeks in New Zealand, mostly on the North Island, in August 2004.  Highlights of the trip included a visit to the "Hobbiton" set near Matamata, slipping in the mud, and taking the Lynx catamaran across Cook Straight to the South Island.

China 2004
After a drunken night in Tokyo in 2003, Laura decided that she wanted to learn to speak Mandarin.  Well, it made sense to her.  Fourteen months later she went to Beijing, Xi'an, Suzhou, and Shanghai China for two weeks in June 2004 to practice, and discovered that it was both more and less difficult than she imagined it would be.

Sequoia and Death Valley 2003
What a better way to spend Christmas than looking at huge trees and bizzare rocks? 

Tokyo & Mt. Fuji 2003
Sake, cherry blossoms, koi, and the shy Fuji-san.  Tokyo was way too much fun to be there for a mere six days.

Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia 2002
Temples, temples, temples, temples, including Ayutthaya, Bagan, and Angkor.