The delights of the Cotswolds
This weekend just gone, my wife and I took the opportunity for a well overdue weekend away and headed down to the Cotswolds for a couple of nights. As usual, it was beyond my abilities to travel without a camera, so in the interests of marital harmony I travelled light – just my Billingham 550 [...]
Revisiting Vietnam
Short and sweet today. I shot my first and dare I say it, last wedding on Sunday which, as it lasted all day, means that my week is already a little out of kilter. I’ve also had hammered home this week the importance of key-wording, captioning and rating images as I go. I’ve had to [...]
Vilamoura, Portugal
I’ve only been back in Blighty for a few hours, so whilst wading through mountains of dirty laundry and the usual chores on returning from a break away I’ve had little time to focus on much of anything. I did manage to edit a few images on the flight back though and here are a [...]
A musing on contrast and change
A couple more images from my most recent trip to Malta. Amazingly I’ve nearly caught up with processing of these – not the greatest turnaround time as they were made nearly 6 weeks ago but as it was a speculative trip and no client on my back desperate for them, I can afford to take [...]
Marsaxlokk, Malta
I spent another hour or so this evening going through some more images from my last trip to Malta. I’ve not managed to edit them all by any means and in fact I seem to have found myself editing them backwards…….. These are from the final day at the market in Marsaxlokk (pronounced Marsha shlock). [...]
Maltese motors
Another Maltese based post… Friday’s topic will not be, in case you’re getting a little sick of them….. Whilst out there on my last trip I was asked to shoot some cars. Not just any old cars mind, but three classics. The Maltese are big to the point of fanatical on old British motor cars. [...]
Maltese streets
One of the most important aspects of travel photography is maximizing your shooting time, especially if you’re only there for a short time and it’s a speculative trip rather than an assignment. It all comes down to planning and on this last trip to Malta I had one, sketchy in places, but a plan nonetheless. [...]
Another trip to Malta
I’ve finally got round to processing some of my images from my most recent trip to Malta. The top and bottom images were shot in the medieval walled town of Mdina or “Silent City” as it’s often referred to. Mdina was first inhabited around 700BC and is one of the highest points on the island [...]
LowePro S&F Modular Carrying System – quick review
In the past I’ve generally used all sorts of different methods to schlep my gear around, but mainly assorted rucksacks (depending on the amount and type of gear required) and an old cotton Hasselblad photography vest (which I’ve dyed to make it look slightly less khaki). But I’ve never really hit upon a solution that [...]
Golden Bay, Malta
As you may or may not be aware, I’m not long back from a few days shooting some travel imagery over in Malta. Time was tight so armed with a fairly decent shot list, my plan was to hit the ground running as soon as my flight hit the tarmac. Always in the back of [...]
11 Travel photography tips
Click here to purchase a print or license a digital copy of this image. Having just arrived back from a short shooting jaunt to the sunny island of Malta, I thought I’d put together a short list of dos and don’ts for those wanting to better capture their vacations or break into a little [...]
More from Malta and Selected from the web for April
Click here to buy a print or license a digital copy of this image. Happy Friday y’all. I had penned an extended blog post on the subject of cable releases and tripods in advance yesterday only for BlogPress to eat it, and I’m afraid that I just couldn’t face trying to extract it from [...]
More from Malta 2
Click here to buy a print or licence a digital copy of this image. Once again the top image is a hand-held 5 frame HDR. (See this post for more info)
Malta street scenes
In an attempt to improve my SEO, and to show off a little more of my work, I’m going to to try and move up to a bi-weekly posting schedule. No, that doesn’t mean I’m going to start posting on transgender topics! So as part of my new schedule, here’s another couple of images from [...]
Malta in HDR
Click here to buy a print or licence a digital copy of the above image Don’t believe everything you read about HDR techniques! Whilst on a whistle stop tour of Gozo in Malta last week, I shot quite a few street scenes but as this was a family trip I decided not to take a [...]
So long Vietnam. Good morning Cambodia
This trip feels like so long ago now, a dim and distant memory. Well almost….. From Saigon, we did the 90km 3 hour drive to visit the city of Tay Ninh. Bypass the background, click here. The centre of Caodaism, founded in the early 20th century, is an indigenous faith that includes the teachings of [...]
Silky water shots – it’s not that hard!
Several people have asked me how I created images such as this one of Khounagsi waterfall, about 30km from Luang Prabang. How did I get such a silky effect to the water? What did I do in Photoshop? Well the answer to the latter question is nothing. This image has never been near Photoshop. The [...]
Saigon or “London on steroids”
One of the biggest challenges I found on this trip was to try and maintain some sense of focus. Often the sights, sounds and smells were so prolific and intense, and the desire to try and photograph “it all” left me completely at a loss compositionally speaking. The “Big” Chinese market in Saigon was a [...]
Next stop Sa pa
After Ha Long Bay we blasted back to Hanoi, stopping on the way to shoot some farmers in their paddy fields, and jumped on the overnight sleeper to Lao Cai. The journey takes around 9 hours, but the train only covers around 200-250km, so as you can imagine it just trundles and bumps along at [...]
And onto Vietnam…
For the next part of the trip we left Luang Prabang, Laos and flew back to Hanoi, Vietnam from where we did the long drive up to Ha Long Bay in readiness for a dawn shoot and a trip round the bay at first light. We arrived well after dark so it was tricky assessing [...]
Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam trip – the intro
You will have guessed from my previous post that I’m not actually in the UK at the moment. I’m on a workshop with MM Photo Tours and guest pro Adam Barker and it’s been so full on and short of decent internet connections that my posts have backed up a little. I set off from [...]
Greetings from Luang Prabang
Finally, day 5 and we finally have some usable internet access. We’ve just arrived in Sapa after our overnight train journey from Hanoi to Lao Cai. It’s pouring down but we’re off out shortly to take a look around. So this is just a quick post with a couple of images from earlier in the [...]
