Travel & Humanitarian Photos
Following up from last week’s post and slideshow about photographing the Wai Kroo Tattoo Festival in Thailand, here are a few reflections on the day. I’d seen photos of the Tattoo Festival before attending this year but nothing can really prepare you for the unpredictable nature of the event when it’s in full-flow. I guess [...]
I’m excited to announce a group photo tour to Bhutan later this year. I will be hosting a photo expedition during which we’ll photograph the autumn tsechus (festivals). Our group will convene in Bhutan at the end of September for a two-week tour, visiting some of the most colourful and lively festival celebrations in the [...]
It’s been a case of going from the sublime to the ridiculous this week. I left the tranquility of Ko Samet and returned to Bangkok in order to photograph the annual Wai Kroo Tattoo Festival at Wat Bang Phra. Devotees gather at the Wat, about 90 km outside Bangkok, every year to pay respects to [...]
I fear that this post might not do much to dispel the myth that travel photographers have it easy. Those who know no better assume that we swan about on tropical beaches, stumbling over the occasional shot before retiring to sip piña coladas beneath palm-fringed canopies with the warm, turquoise water lapping gently at our [...]
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Adobe have released Lightroom version 2.3. The upgrade includes several bug fixes including a memory leak that could cause Lightroom to seize up when processing files with local adjustments, which I think I’ve experienced, and rids the software of the bug that produced artifacts when processing EOS 5D II sRAW files. It also rectifies the [...]
Bangkok’s Moddy restaurant is situated in a quiet street near Ari BTS. If you were walking up Ari Soi 4 at the weekend you would have doubtless been intrigued by the lights coming from a two-storey building, a little beacon in the gloom. Saturday saw the final night of the “Picture from my Mind” art [...]
I was sorry to hear that Don McCullin has recently suffered a stroke and is currently recovering in hospital. Don was expected to speak at the Travellers’ Tales Festival this month but won’t now be able to. Regular readers of this blog will know that I hold Don in great affection and he is, in [...]
Your free desktop wallpaper for March comes from a blue-skied Castlegregory in Ireland. This old fishing boat was quite a long way from the sea, goodness knows how it arrived at this bucolic location. More puzzling though, given it’s decrepit state, why did the prow look freshly-painted. Faeries, I shouldn’t wonder. Downloads for various screen [...]