Before 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama, Ray had traveled the world for several decades and produced eleven travel documentaries including The Soul of India, Raise the Bamboo Curtain: Vietnam, Cambodia and Burma (narrated by Martin Sheen), Morocco, Jerusalem: Sacred and Profane and Lost Worlds of the Middle East.
In 2000, Ray founded DVArchive.com, an internet based stock footage library with the intent of making the imagery from his extensive travels available to a wide variety of film and media producers.
Ray's footage has appeared in such films as An Inconvenient Truth, Contact, the television series Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as the concert videos of Bruce Springsteen, Liz Phair Coldplay and Roger Waters, among others.
He has been a guest lecturer at hundreds of universities and has made seven appearances at the National Geographic Society in Washington D.C. Ray's most recent film The Road to Namibia was completed in 2020, just before the pandemic.
In recent years Ray has become a noted professional commercial drone flier producing aerials used in series such as Planet Earth and hundreds of other documentaries and feature films.