..without reservation, Ray's work exceeds the industry's highest standards for cinematography and editing, script writing, sound recording or editing..... --National Geographic Society, March 2002

Fortunately for us armchair travelers, someone has elected to go out in the world's wilderness armed with only a 16mm camera, a child's sense of curiosity, and a superb understanding of diverse cultures. That person is Rick Ray, who is to travel videos what James Bond is to spy thrillers: the goods. --Randy Pitman, Video Librarian Magazine

What sets Rick Ray's travel tapes apart from the competition is a few simple but not easy to achieve qualities: 1) he is a grand storyteller, 2) he looks for the unusual and interesting - rather than merely replicating the boilerplate sights of a hundred similar travel guides, and 30 he knows that the true story of a given culture lies not in the architecture but in it's people... --Video Librarian Magazine