Finding a new pastime

Summer weather has finally arrived here on the rock. We’ve had some glorious sunshine over the last couple of weeks and it has helped me keep a couple of promises I made to myself last year. The first promise was that following last years summer write-off due to my back problems, that I would try […]

Photograph of the Week: Farming in Vietnam

A truly random entry this week as simply opened Lightroom and span the mouse wheel to see where it stopped. I don’t really remember to much about the background to this, only that my notes say “on bus to Hoi An” which would place this around the central Vietnamese coast. From the looks of it, […]

Lazy Day

One of the niceties of island life is that your never very far from taking a few moments to chill out. It’s a fairly nice nice day out of the wind and to be honest I’m not really feeling the urge to do much. So I’ve taken a diversion on the way to the pool […]

People are people the whole world over

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain Like anybody else with even an ounce of empathy I […]

Photo of the Week: Winter Sun in Amsterdam

Sometimes you take a photograph that is all kinds of wrong according to the rules. Too dark, too bright, too sharp, too soft. But the thing about rules in photography is that we learn them so that we can break them. Sometimes that leads to a shot which you, and only you may really enjoy. […]

My strange and developing relationship with photography and writing

I love taking photographs when I travel. The simple action of holding a camera in my hand makes me slow down and look for details that would otherwise pass me by. My viewfinder acts like horse blinkers, shutting out the distraction of new and occasionally overpowering sights and to a degree, sounds. These simple acts […]

Closing the Circle

Six flights, one train, two coaches, three boats and one gondola later and I’m sat back where I started – home. It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks with what feels like a little bit of everything thrown in. I’ve been to three beautiful countries, each of which taught me a little something about keeping […]

Just Arrived

Many hours and a couple of flights later and I’ve just sat down in the worlds hottest hotel room. In 15 minutes I’m going downstairs to meet the rest of the people on this trip. Apparently there are 20 people, which is a little disappointing as its the high-end of the “6-20” they said they […]

Things that have been and things that are yet to be

A few changes to the site, some forced, some of my own choosing and a little bit of news about where I’m heading next.. Sadly the maker of my 360º Camera have recently gone bust, taking their website down and all my hosted images with them. I feel quite sorry for them as they made […]