Travel & Humanitarian Photos
How much would someone have to pay you to drink the water on the left? This is the question posed by the NGO “a child’s right” in their Clean Water Challenge. When you consider that the glass on the left is highly likely to contain water bearing some of the contaminants that kill over 3 [...]
It’s a Processing, Uploading and Admin weekend here at Gough Towers and whilst those big ol’ files are making their way to the Photoshelter servers and the upload clock ticks slowly around, I’m taking a quick look at some of the images that remain unprocessed from trips earlier in the year. This one comes from [...]
A list of camera gear being prepared for a trip to India and Nepal
Many visitors to Nepal take the opportunity to see Pashupatinath. A stone’s throw from Kathmandu, Pashupatinath is home of one of the country’s most important Shiva temples. More often known in Nepal as Bhairab, Shiva is the destroyer and also the creator. The temple stands on the banks of the holy Bagmati river, a place [...]
Bonhnath, or Boudha, is the site of one of the world’s largest Buddhist stupas. The local Tibetan community refer to it as Boudha, Tibet, such are the numbers of Tibetan exiles living in the area, yet it is only a few miles from central Kathmandu. Adherents circumamulate the stupa from before dawn to beyond dusk, [...]
So, I’m walking along the road, minding my own business – which makes a change – and my foot kicks something lying on the pavement. I catch sight of a metal object skittering along the ground in front of me. Brass perhaps. Dented and scuffed, it comes to rest in the gutter. A lantern. A [...]
I teach a number of photographic workshops in Asia which are invariably good fun and I tend to get as much out of them as I hope my students do. However, one of the techniques that I can’t teach on a workshop is the “wait and watch” technique. It’s served me very well over the [...]
Bhaktapur is about a forty minute drive from Kathmandu. It’s one of the places I visited on my first trip to Nepal, nearly a decade ago and holds fond memories. I also went to nearby Changu Narayan on that trip and would liked to have returned there this time but, sadly, it wasn’t to be [...]
Photographers. We love the good light. The golden light. We’ll set our alarm clocks at ridiculously early times in the hope of seeing the first amber rays of the day and we’ll hang around a place long after the sensible people have gone home. We’re like bees. Motordrives buzzing as we sniff out the honey-coloured [...]
Today, I’ll be mostly flying to Kathmandu. For anyone not familiar with ‘The Fast Show’ and ‘Jesse’s Diets‘ that reference will be lost. Whilst in Nepal, I hope to re-create the manly pose favoured by these two rugged individuals. This shot of me and my good friend Matthijs taken at Annapurna Sanctuary in 2004. Taken [...]
If I had a blog category for “Miscellaneous” then this post would surely fall under it. But “Miscellaneous” always seems a bit vague to me so we’ll go with “Travel” although this post is a quick catch-up on several things I’ve been meaning to share. 2008 – My plans for the remainder of the year [...]
Today’s Guardian reports news to bring golf courses, heli-skiing and paragliding to Nepal’s Annapurna region. It is news that will send a shudder of disbelief through anyone who has ever been to the region. Perhaps it is inevitable that the area, currently reachable only on foot or by air, will soon have road links that [...]