Why location, luck and gear is not enough
When I first started taking photography seriously about 18 months a go I naively thought that taking a powerful portrait – particularly travel or street portraiture – was really just because the fulltime photographer was always in an exotic place, with a great camera and of course in those type of locations you really just [...]
How fish can help cure jet-lag
One of the joys of jet-lag – and lets face it they are few and far between – is the opportunity that the ensuing sleepless night provide to explore a new city – a city that is seldom seen or known to even its local residents. I was in Singapore on Friday – afflicted by [...]
China – a land of opportunity
I’ve just landed in Malaysia after 5 days in China. And what a contrast! China was grey ,cold and damp, and Malaysia is sunny, tropical and warm – and finally I have unrestricted access to the internet and my blog again.Yet despite that frustration China is a fascinating place and for me this last visit [...]
We are what we repeatedly do
I am in Singapore at the moment on a business trip, but arrived a day early so that I could hook up with my friend Glenn Carter, to spend a day with him exploring the multiculturalism that makes Singapore such a diverse and fascinating city. Glenn had organized a day of Hindi temples, Buddhist temples, [...]
Dignity not poverty
Cairo is a bustling, polluted and noisy city with some 26 million inhabitants making it the second most densely populated city in the world (after Mexico City). It is a city of contrasts – one one hand the antiquity, the pyramids, the Nile and the charm of the locals yet on the other hand, the [...]
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