Travel & Humanitarian Photos
The free desktop wallpaper for October comes from Wangdichholing Dzong in Bhutan. By the time this appears our group will be in Jakar, enjoying the annual festivals (tsechus) and photographing the enchanting temples (dzongs). We’ll be hoping to find opportunities like this, where a novice monk invited me to see the classrooms on the upper [...]
Shot in locations within a few minutes’ walk of each other, these photos illustrate my theory that a great number of India’s population are involved in a conspiracy to provide visiting photographers with the most eye-catching, colourful photo opportunities possible.
Exuberant: adjective, filled with or characterized by a lively energy and excitement I don’t think you could find a much better visual definition of “exuberance” than when the school children of Delhi were set home earlier this week after constant rain left floods across much of the city. Whilst the rest of us huddled beneath umbrellas and [...]
I’ve always found that the difficulty of using flash, or strobe, lighting in the field is that it can be difficult to achieve a look that isn’t artificial. Natural light is everything in the work that I do and I’ll base my working day around the times of day when I expect the light to [...]
Here’s a couple of pictures that I took yesterday in Old Delhi. Chandni Chowk is inevitably high on the photographer’s list of “must-see” places in Delhi, as is the Djamaa Masjid, the largest mosque in, I think, the Indian sub-continent. Of course, I can’t resist the panning technique in places like Chandni Chowk, where the [...]
We announced our November schedule of classes at the Bangkok Photo School this afternoon and the response has exceeded our expectations. We will be running three classes on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings. There will be two ‘Beginners’ courses for those new to photography and an ‘Intermediate’ course for photographers with more experience. Each course will [...]
The free desktop wallpaper for September comes from Wangdue Phodrang Dzong in Bhutan and shows a scene from the annual tsechu (festival) that takes place there every autumn. September brings with it great excitement as I’ll be leading a group of ten photographers on an expedition to photograph in Bhutan this month. We hope to [...]