Vietnam bridal shower – how Hanoi can surprise
On my third day in Hanoi, I has retraced my steps down to the Old Gate at the southern end of the Old Quarter, determined to escape the tourists, 4x4s incessant scootesr and give Hanoi’s old quarter a chance to surprise me. When I usually go out on my own with no specific brief I [...]
Has Hanoi’s old quarter lost its mojo
I’m in Hanoi trying to find my photographic muse again after what can only be described as a brutal, painful 2011. My own Annus Horibilis if you will. What better way to put that right than being in photographic Hanoi with nothing to do and no-one else to worry about? I remembered reading a great [...]
Using the iPhone HDR feature to get non HDR images
Those that know me or follow my feeds, know that I travel more than most. One of the things I always travel with is my iPhone – so useful on so many levels. Recently I have been playing more and more with the camera and its built in HDR function. I make sure that I [...]
Same old Chicago but perhaps a different voice
Chicago is one of those cities that I feel very much at home in. The combination of culture, lake, beach, architecture, great restaurants and some dear friends make it a joy to visit time and time again. But it can also make it a challenging place for me to shoot in, as it is a [...]
3 pictures but 1 voice
I can’t remember who said it – was it the eponymous David duChemin? – that there were 3 pictures that happened every time you shoot an image: the one you conceive in your head (the masterpiece); the one you actually take with the camera and the one you process. Experience and skill is of course [...]
England vs India cricket match at Fatehpuri Masjid Delhi
Located at the western end of the oldest street of Delhi, Chandni Chowk, Fatehpuri Masjid was built in 1650 by Fatehpuri Begum, one of Shah Jahan’s wives. The mosque is built with red sandstone on a large scale and is surmounted by a single dome.
Huge Pans and Panning in Chandni Chowk Delhi
The long, wide Chandni Chowk street which is flanked by narrow alley ways, small markets and stalls selling everything from books to saris, is perhaps one of Old Delhi more famous attractions.
Flanked at one end by the majestic Red Fort, who size and unusual red stone make it an imposing destination in its own right and at the other by the less substantial but equally bewitching Fatehpuri Masjid – an old Mosque and Madrassa – it is a location rich in cultural diversity, opportunity and local colour.
The Genocide and Tyranny of Cambodia’s Pol Pot
As a former Soldier and someone who has witnessed what man’s inhumanity to man can do – and which indirectly led me to found Focus for Humanity - I wanted to experience the museum and memorial, partly out of respect but partly to draw my own memories of those 1970s news reports and my misconceptions of this otherwise charming country to a close.
Back to School in Cambodia
About 45 minutes outside Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, lies Koh Dak or “Silk Island” – a dedicated community of Khmers who hand weave the silk and other materials that are so popular within (and outside) Cambodia.
Suburban Shanghai’s other face
I wanted to escape the Shanghai that everyone sees; I wanted to explore the every day Shanghai of the 20 million inhabitants that provide the “fuel” for this great engine of Chinese growth. This is the Shanghai of those who have been relocated to make way for the new city; the Shanghai of those who get around on electric scooters or the Shanghai of the pensioners content to play majhong or sit all day in the street and chat.
Filtering the fun in Chicago
I am back in Chicago. It feels a different city since I was last here with Sabrina Henry, Mark Olwick, Sue Ables and Start Sipahigil, despite barely a fortnight having passed. Their companionship, sense of fun and shared passion for photography made the last visit so memorable. It s funny how emotions effect how you [...]
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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