This shallow bay holds 42 islands in the Strait of Malacca. It flows between the island of Phuket and the mainland of Southern Thailand’s Malay Peninsula. About 10,000 years ago, when the sea level was lower, it would have been possible to walk from Phuket to what is now Phang Nga Bay. I converted what was originally a drab color image made under rainy skies, into an abstracted sepia impression. A Thai boat, its prow moving towards us in the center of the image, is dwarfed by the landscape that fills the background. The huge limestone monoliths rising from the waters of Phang Nga Bay were made over thousands of years by the passing of time itself. Meanwhile my camera stops time here, as this small boat towards us from out of the misty mountainscape. The sepia tone gives this image the air of a early photograph. It easily could have been made in the 19th century, when photography was still a primitive medium. A light mist rises behind the island on the left hand edge of the frame, adding a touch of atmosphere that flavors the image. The washed out gray sky is exactly the same kind of sky that once filled the landscape photographs of that era. This image, which was among the last photographs I made on this, my final overseas photo shoot, offers an appropriate ending to this gallery.