Travel & Humanitarian Photos
Tickety Boo Firstly, many thanks for all the kind wishes and “get well” messages that you’ve sent over the last week. It’s been immensely cheering and I’m in no doubt that the cumulative effect of so many positive thoughts must have been restorative. So much so that I have been able to tunnel out of [...]
Onion soup. Half a banana. I’ve always thought that following a detox regime would be beneficial but never had the self-discipline to do so. Until this week. Towards the end of a photo workshop last week I started feeling a pain in my side. It refused to subside and I thought I might not be [...]
So, last week I was in Vietnam photographing as part of a media delegation. As guests of the Vietnamese National Tourism Authority we were treated especially well and although I’m generally happy as long as I have a warm bed and some means of boiling water for tea, the opportunity to stay in five-star luxury [...]
For those of you who found the Lightroom Greyscale/Grayscale gradient to be a useful tool when running Lightroom on a laptop, here’s version 2.0. Thanks to Sean Phillips for noting that the graphic needed a way to identify the end of the scale, hopefully this mirror-image graphic does that. Here are the instructions for installing [...]
This postcard from Vietnam completes, rather nicely – I think you’ll agree – a trio of similar postcard postings. Matt Brandon’s been visiting his own personal Angkor in Chiang Mai, David duChemin is in Chiang Rai and I’m reaching the tail-end of a trip to Vietnam. Rumours that I left Thailand when I heard that David [...]
The free desktop wallpaper for August 2009 comes from Wat Si Saket in Vientiane, Laos. Vientiane is a lovely, peaceful city situated on the banks of the Mekong. It’s easy to forget that you’re in the Laotian capital city when you’re there. When I first went visited Vientiane, several years ago, it was so quiet [...]