https://www.kriskoeller.com/ Kris Koeller's Travel and Photography Blog en-us Copyright 1999- kriskoeller.com Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:44:48 +0000 https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2026/2026-album-05-2026-family-photos.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2026/2026-album-05-2026-family-photos.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Three frames from a single afternoon in May. The light was doing what late-spring light does — long and a little gold, not yet summer. Family, close in, the way you only catch them when they're not thinking about the camera.

See the full album: May 2026: Three Family Portraits — 3 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2026/2026-album-04-hawaii.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2026/2026-album-04-hawaii.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Seven photographs from Hawaii's Big Island in April 2026. The early afternoon light turned the lava rock almost amber—the kind of low, warm sun that makes or breaks a day of shooting. Most frames didn't survive the edit. These seven did.

See the full album: Oahu, Spring Break 2026 — 7 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2026/2026-album-tokyo-tokyo-disney-and-disney-sea.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2026/2026-album-tokyo-tokyo-disney-and-disney-sea.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Three days in Tokyo in March, split between the city and both Disney parks across the bay. The cherry blossoms were just open, and the light under them was soft and pink in a way that made everything feel slightly unreal. A young girl in a ball gown stood in front of Cinderella Castle like she had been there before in some other life. Twenty-four frames.

See the full album: Tokyo, Tokyo Disney and Disney Sea — 16 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2026/2026-album-03-taiwan.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2026/2026-album-03-taiwan.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Twenty-eight photographs from eight days in Taipei. Slow mornings at breakfast counters, long walks through Da'an District, a quiet afternoon up at Maokong watching the city disappear into the haze. Steam, narrow streets, and the particular light of a Taiwanese spring.

See the full album: Eight Days in Taipei: Da'an, Maokong, Breakfast Counters — 27 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2025/2025-album-06-the-statue-of-liberty.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2025/2025-album-06-the-statue-of-liberty.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Fourteen photographs from an afternoon on Liberty Island. The ferry crossing, the statue from multiple angles, and the harbor light that caught Kris off-guard after years away. The water and sky were cooperating.

See the full album: Liberty Island and New York Harbor, June 2025 — 14 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2025/2025-album-04-bridgehampton.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2025/2025-album-04-bridgehampton.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Nineteen photographs from two trips to Bridgehampton in spring 2025. Beach walks before sunrise, gardens in full leaf, restaurants in town. The same sequence repeated across early April and May — sand, flowers, and a table by the window.

See the full album: Bridgehampton, Long Island, 2025 — 19 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2024/2024-album-05-portugal.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2024/2024-album-05-portugal.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Seventy-seven frames from Lisbon and Comporta in May, when the afternoon light comes in low and flat off the Tagus. Most of what caught my eye was small — a green door, a kid at the bridge railing, a man framing his own shot in a tiled doorway. The city moves at its own pace and doesn't ask you to keep up.

See the full album: Lisbon & Comporta, May 2024 — 77 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2023/2023-album-the-arizona-desert-emerging-from-winter.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2023/2023-album-the-arizona-desert-emerging-from-winter.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Seven photographs from March at the Grand Canyon's South Rim and red rock country south of Las Vegas. A winter storm moved in fast, dropping light and pushing dark clouds over the canyon walls. Between the drama — a butterfly on a leaf, a quieter desert doing its own thing.

See the full album: March in Arizona: Grand Canyon & Red Rock in Winter Storm — 7 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2022/2022-album-jackson-wyoming.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2022/2022-album-jackson-wyoming.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Forty-five photographs from five days in Jackson at the end of August 2022. The light drops low and golden across the Tetons even at midday, catching the valley floor and the edges of town in that particular late-summer angle. The air already carried a hint of what was coming—the first whisper of fall.

See the full album: Jackson, Wyoming: August Light and the Tetons — 45 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2021/2021-album-11-fall-photo-shoot.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2021/2021-album-11-fall-photo-shoot.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Twenty photographs from a November morning shooting family portraits in upstate woods. October light was warm and soft, the kind that turns bare branches gold. The kids stayed cooperative through the whole session—a minor miracle.

See the full album: October Family Portraits in Upstate Woods — 20 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2020/2020-album-10-fall-colors-in-upstate-new-york.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2020/2020-album-10-fall-colors-in-upstate-new-york.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Thirty-nine photographs from a October 2020 trip to Schunemunk Mountain in the Hudson Valley. Kris walked the same loop twice on the same day — once through morning fog that muted the reds and oranges, once in afternoon sun that brought them back to life. The maples were at peak color.

See the full album: Schunemunk Mountain: October Foliage in Morning Fog and Afternoon Sun — 39 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2020/2020-album-06-the-night-sky.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2020/2020-album-06-the-night-sky.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Twenty-seven long-exposure photographs of stars and constellations shot between June and November 2020. Most frames were made in complete darkness with the shutter held open long enough to gather light invisible to the naked eye. An orange crescent moon tilts low across one frame—the kind of detail you miss if you head inside too early. The rest is pure stars.

See the full album: Night Sky Photography 2020: Long Exposure Stars — 27 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2020/2020-album-01-new-york-city.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2020/2020-album-01-new-york-city.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Four frames from a walk through Manhattan in early 2020, before the city emptied out. Street light, storefronts, the particular grain of winter sidewalks.

See the full album: Four photographs from Manhattan, 2020 — 4 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2020/2020-album-01-hawaii-oahu.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2020/2020-album-01-hawaii-oahu.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Seven days on Oahu in January, running from the North Shore down to Diamond Head. The light that month sits low even at midday, turning the water over the volcanic rock at the shoreline a shade of green you don't expect. 125 frames from reef breaks, resort mornings, and the ridge above Waikiki.

See the full album: Oahu Photography: North Shore to Diamond Head, January 2020 — 125 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2020/2020-album-01-taipei.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2020/2020-album-01-taipei.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

105 photographs from five days in Taipei at the turn of the year. The city runs on neon and night markets, fluorescent MRT stations, and crowds that thin to nothing on New Year's Eve. These frames trace the last hours of 2019 into the first days of 2020.

See the full album: Taipei New Year's Eve 2019–2020 — 105 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-11-the-kerhonkson-house.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-11-the-kerhonkson-house.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Sat, 09 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Twelve photographs from a November morning at a wood-sided house in Kerhonkson, New York. The light was flat and cold, turning bare trees and weathered siding into a study of winter dormancy. A single location captured between seasons, when the Catskill foothills go quiet.

See the full album: Kerhonkson House, Catskill Foothills — November 2019 — 12 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-09-sailing-under-the-brooklyn-bridge.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-09-sailing-under-the-brooklyn-bridge.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Forty-three photographs from a September afternoon on the East River. We sailed close enough to the Brooklyn Bridge to read the stonework on its towers, the water roughed up with late-summer chop. A few hours under sail, captured in full light.

See the full album: Sailing Under the Brooklyn Bridge - September 2019 — 43 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-08-sailing-around-manhattan.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-08-sailing-around-manhattan.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Thirty-six photographs from a three-hour circumnavigation of Manhattan by sailboat. The East River, Hudson, Harlem, and Upper New York Bay pass in sequence — bridges, towers, and waterfront warehouses rotate slowly against the sky. August 2019.

See the full album: Sailing Around Manhattan - 36 Photos from 2019 — 36 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-05-san-francisco.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-05-san-francisco.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Sat, 18 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Ninety-two photographs from three days in San Francisco, May 18–20, 2019. The fog rolled in thick each morning, burning off slow over the bay and leaving the city soft and diffused until midday. Streets, architecture, and the waterfront caught in that peculiar San Francisco light.

See the full album: San Francisco, May 2019 — 92 Photographs — 92 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-04-bermuda.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-04-bermuda.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Ninety-five frames from five days in Bermuda before the spring crowds arrived. Castle Harbor sat glassy most mornings, the water so clear you could watch parrot fish work the bottom from twenty feet up. Caves, colonial hallways, a banyan tree older than anyone could say for certain.

See the full album: 95 Photos from Bermuda, April 2019 — 95 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-02-french-polynesia-tahiti-&-tetiaroa.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-02-french-polynesia-tahiti-&-tetiaroa.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Sun, 24 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

252 photographs from two weeks in French Polynesia, February–March 2019. Tahiti's intercontinental hotels and morning views of Moorea, then five days on Tetiaroa, the private atoll where The Brando resort sits beside pale green lagoons and bicycle paths to the beach. Palms, outrigger canoes, and the flat light of the South Pacific.

See the full album: French Polynesia - Tahiti & Tetiaroa — 252 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-02-hawaii-kauai-maui-lanai-&-oahu.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-02-hawaii-kauai-maui-lanai-&-oahu.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

420 photographs across four Hawaiian islands in February 2019. Kauai delivered waterfalls and pink-edged sunsets over Princeville. Maui and Lanai filled the middle days—horses, black sand, the small-island quiet. We finished on Oahu with drinks at the Halekulani, the water right there.

See the full album: 420 Photos: Kauai, Maui, Lanai & Oahu, February 2019 — 420 photos]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/blog/2019/01-17-ski-videos-from-zermatt-and-andermatt.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/blog/2019/01-17-ski-videos-from-zermatt-and-andermatt.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Blog Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Ski footage from Zermatt and Andermatt in Switzerland. Watch action sequences from two Alpine resorts.

Read the full post: Ski Videos from Zermatt and Andermatt]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/blog/2019/01-17-four-hotels-berlin-zermatt-andermatt-bürgenstock.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/blog/2019/01-17-four-hotels-berlin-zermatt-andermatt-bürgenstock.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Blog Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hotel guide across Germany and Switzerland: Soho House Berlin, Mont Cervin Palace in Zermatt, Chedi Andermatt, and Bürgenstock Resort with Alpine Spa.

Read the full post: Four Hotels: Berlin, Zermatt, Andermatt, Bürgenstock]]> https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-01-switzerland-zermatt-andermatt-&-lucerne.htm https://www.kriskoeller.com/photos/2019/2019-album-01-switzerland-zermatt-andermatt-&-lucerne.htm kris@kriskoeller.com (Kris Koeller) Album Mon, 07 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

221 photographs from three Swiss towns in January. Zermatt's ski runs and Matterhorn views, Andermatt's ridge hotel overlooking the lake, Lucerne's church spires. The light after fresh powder is sharp and clean — the kind that stops you mid-run.

See the full album: Zermatt, Andermatt & Lucerne: January 2019 — 221 photos]]>