Vanity Fair Annual Travel Edition, April 2010
The Vanity Fair Travel edition hits the shops with my photos from Bali
Happy Valentine’s Day & Chinese New Year
Here’s wishing you a very happy Valentine’s Day and all the best for the Year of the Tiger.
Bangkok Street Photos & Overcoming Resistance
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us
Bangkok 101 Mag features Pak Khlong Talat
Bangkok 101 magazine features my images from Pak Khlong Talat
Free Desktop Wallpaper for February from Vietnam
February’s free desktop wallpaper comes from Hoi An, Vietnam
Shooting for purpose – Double-page spreads
Shooting with a particular aim in mind will help you focus your attention
January Desktop Wallpaper & the New Year
Free desktop and iPhone wallpaper from England’s Lake District.
Free Desktop Wallpaper for November 2009: Bhutan Masked Dance
November’s free desktop wallpaper comes from the Wangdue Phodrang Dzong in Bhutan and was taken during this year’s annual tsechu (festival).
Masked dances play an important part of the annual tsechus and the traditions associated with them vary from village to village. The dances, or Chhams, are often performed with the intention of communicating an important [...]
The giggling schoolgirls of the Ura Valley, Bhutan
One of the highlights of our recent Bhutan Photo Expedition was a day trip to the Ura Valley. The Lonely Planet describes Ura Village as “Forty closely packed houses along cobblestone streets…giving it a medieval atmosphere”.
We had left the main Lakhang and were walking through the village, where we met five schoolgirls on their way [...]
Bhutan: Tourist photo theft and Gangrithang Primary School
One of the main aims of my photo workshops and tours is to encourage participants to appreciate the culture of the location that they are visiting. If travel photography, for want of a better term, is about anything, it must surely be about communicating an experience. Travel broadens the mind, anyone who has ever stepped [...]
Free Desktop Wallpaper, Oct ‘09: Wangdichholing Dzong, Jakar, Bhutan
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 [...]
Colourful India
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.
Delhi: Exuberance in the monsoon rain
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 ran [...]
Postcards from Delhi
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 hustle [...]
Free Desktop Wallpaper for September 2009: Bhutan Tsechu
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 [...]
Postcard from Vietnam
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 [...]
August Desktop Wallpaper, Matt Brandon & David duChemin
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 that [...]
Bangkok Photo Walk: My Photos
Here’s a selection of images taken during yesterday’s Photo Walk. The first guy was selling apples from a stall on Yaowarat in the heart of Chinatown. Cool hat, eh? He sold me some apples but apparently I couldn’t afford the hat.
Here’s an example of something that I teach in my photo classes: no matter how strong [...]
Images from Bangkok’s Chinatown
As promised, here’s a small collection of recent images from Bangkok’s Chinatown. If you’re joining one of the Photo Walks taking place here on Saturday then these may whet your appetite. Don’t forget: charge those batteries, format those memory cards and stoke up your creativity.
